Break
Level 17
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Players are on a 10-minute break.
2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Running Aces Harness Park
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Running Aces Harness Park
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$338,000
Entries
338
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Photos: MSPT Running Aces Day 2
Pates Doubles in Monster Pot Before Break
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Just before break, Ken Pates and Josh Dahlstrom got it all in on a flop of 
, with Pates at risk for more than 200,000 in a monster pot. Pates had flopped a set with , while Dahlstrom had elected to roll with his 
. No help came on the last two streets for Dahlstrom, and Pates is now the chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
535,500
|
535,500 |
|
65,000
-230,000
|
-230,000 |
Hand-for-Hand
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Play is now hand-for-hand.
Three Short Stacks Double
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
At one table, John Hayes check-raised all in out of the big blind on a board of 
and was called by Ervin Bjerga's 
. Hayes had it beat with 
for a boat though, and he doubled up.
Preflop all in was the word at two other tables, as Paul Cross hit a straight with 
all in for about 30,000 against Arlie Brandvold's 
. Meanwhile, Ben Marsh's overcards helped him as well when he hit a pair of aces with 
against Blake Warner's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
373,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
|
225,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
183,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
160,000
-2,500
|
-2,500 |
|
70,000
-40,000
|
-40,000 |
Cash Money
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
With the elimination of John Wilhelmy while Bill Perpich doubled up with against 
at another table, the tournament is now in the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Busto
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
These players scored min-cashes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Brandvold Busts Hartmann
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Tony Hartmann put in 85,000 under the gun, almost all of his stack. In the cutoff, Arlie Brandvold shipped it, and Hartmann called after the other players folded.
Hartmann: 
Brandvold:
Big slick for Hartmann, but he was in awful shape against aces, and he was dead by the turn on a 
community.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
585,000
385,000
|
385,000 |
|
Busted |