Event #8: $1,600 Mystery Bounty
Day 1h Completed
2022 The Lodge Championship Series
Event #8: $1,600 Mystery Bounty
Days: 1h
Ian Tang Bags Close to a Million in Day 1h of Event #6
Level 15
: 4,000-8,000, 8,000 ante
Day 1h of Event #6: 1M GTD Mystery Bounty is through for the night after 11 hours of play. The final flight attracted 151 entries, which played down to just 19 players (12%) at the end of the day.
Bagging the chip lead was Ian Tang, who finished with a humongous stack of 964,000, which is the second-largest amongst all eight flights. He started to sun run late in the night as he took out several players and hit multiple huge value hands which his opponents could not beat, including one where he rivered queens full to crack flopped trip aces.
Day 1h Top 5 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Hometown | Chip Count | Big Blinds | |
| 1 | Ian Tang | Toronto, ON, Canada | 964,000 | 193 | |
| 2 | Chan Pelton | College Station, TX | 749,000 | 150 | |
| 3 | Brandon Lulov | New York, NY | 682,000 | 136 | |
| 4 | Jason Gooch | Vidor, TX | 675,000 | 135 | |
| 5 | Wojciech Barzantny | Kaiserslautern, Germany | 500,000 | 100 |
Second in chips at the day’s conclusion was Chan Pelton with 749,000. He won a key hand where his wheel straight took down the set of aces of Andres Abad to win a huge pot. It was not all bad for Abad however as he was still able to find a bag despite the cooler.
Sitting third in chips was Brandon Lulov with 682,000 and Jason Gooch was the only other player to eclipse 600,000 bar with his stack of 675,000 as his night included the elimination of none other than Doug Polk who decided to max late reg and ran his stack up to a decent amount before eventually succumbing to Gooch.
Of the nineteen players who bagged, Barbara Sargent was the only women to do so with a stack of 204,500.
Jonathan Pardy (43,500) and Leonardo Valenzuela (39,000) were the most relieved people in the room when the bubble was popped around 4 a.m. local time as they will be able to advance their few big blind stacks onto Day 2 in the money.
The nineteen players will move on to Day 2, on Sunday and join all the other advancing players to make for what promises to be a scintillating day of mystery bounty action. The prize pool, payouts, and seating chart will be posted prior to the start of play
PokerNews will be on hand for Day 2 of this event as well as for the first flight of Event #8: 750K GTD NLH
End of Day 1h Chip Counts (full)
Level 15
: 4,000-8,000, 8,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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964,000 | -1,000 |
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749,000 | -21,000 |
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682,000 | 272,000 |
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675,000 | 20,000 |
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500,000 | -80,000 |
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399,000 | 309,000 |
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306,500 | 16,500 |
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279,000 | 66,000 |
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265,000 | 120,000 |
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204,500 | -11,500 |
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202,000 | 112,000 |
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183,000 | -62,000 |
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174,000 | 49,000 |
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126,000 | -64,000 |
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91,500 | 13,500 |
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85,000 | -38,000 |
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63,000 | 3,000 |
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43,500 | -76,500 |
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39,000 | -66,000 |
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Manikos Bubbles Day 1h
Level 15
: 4,000-8,000, 8,000 ante
David Manikos was all in with the 
and at risk vs the 
of Salim Salem who was not covering Manikos by very much.
The flop sent Salem into the lead as it came 
, the turn was the 
and the river the 10s] to end the night and bring the field to its desired threshold number of 19.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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190,000 | 110,000 |
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Busted | |
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Tang Brutally Eliminates Harrington
Level 15
: 4,000-8,000, 8,000 ante
JB Harrington was all in for his tournament life, two away from the bubble with the 
vs the 
of Ian Tang.
Everyone was pulling for Tang to shrink the field by one more but the flop came 
to hit gin for Harrington. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
to give Tang the boat and brutally end the night for Harrington.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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965,000 | 405,000 |
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Busted | |
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Pelton Takes Heaps From Abad
Level 15
: 4,000-8,000, 8,000 ante
Chan Pelton was scooping a massive pot with the wheel as his 
was showing on a board of 
.
Andres Abad was carving away a huge portion of his stack as he claimed to have had for a brutal cooler.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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770,000 | 230,000 |
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90,000 | -225,000 |
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Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Three Table Chip Counts (full)
Level 14
: 3,000-6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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655,000 | 365,000 |
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580,000 | 78,000 |
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560,000 | |
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540,000 | -15,000 |
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415,000 | 265,000 |
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410,000 | 224,000 |
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315,000 | 45,000 |
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290,000 | |
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245,000 | 115,000 |
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233,000 | 118,000 |
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216,000 | 73,000 |
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213,000 | -97,000 |
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145,000 | -250,000 |
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125,000 | 82,000 |
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123,000 | 28,000 |
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120,000 | 60,000 |
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105,000 | -92,000 |
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90,000 | -175,000 |
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80,000 | -36,000 |
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78,000 | -7,000 |
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75,000 | 22,000 |
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65,000 | -18,000 |
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60,000 | -20,000 |
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55,000 | -65,000 |
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40,000 | -90,000 |
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Tang Tanks With Set to Tank Arnold
Level 14
: 3,000-6,000, 6,000 ante
Action was on the turn as the board read 
. Bryan Arnold made a big jam all in which sent Ian Tang into the tank. He thought for close to 30 seconds before he called.
Arnold tabled the 
to which Tang exclaimed "Yes!" and showed the 
set. The river was a harmless and Tang celebrated more. He later said that he had been worried that Arnold had a set of nines, hence the tank as he collected the big pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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560,000 | 270,000 |
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Busted | |
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Henricks Turns Stein Out the Door
Level 14
: 3,000-6,000, 6,000 ante
Action was picked up on the flop as it read 
. All the chips ended up in the middle as Jake Stein had the 
lead vs the 
of Garry Henricks.
But Henricks took the commanding lead on the turn as the 
came off. The river was the and Stein was busted.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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290,000 | 150,000 |
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Busted | |
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