Main Event
Day 2 Started
Main Event
Day 2 Started
The Mid-States Poker Tour is ready to crown a new champion.
Day 2 of MSPT Golden Gates will begin at 11 a.m. local time with 88 players returning after surviving three Day 1 flights. Saturday had the biggest turnout, with a 176-player field pushing the total to 407 entries. Prize pool information should be available shortly and will be posted.
Favorites for the title at the moment include overall chip leader Jay Robb (470,000), Danny Dang (395,500), Jason Burruss (374,000), Chris Maxwell (346,500), Matt Bingel (316,500), MSPT team pros Nick Pupillo (311,000) and Blake Bohn (262,000), Kevin "Phwap" Boudreau (299,500), local favorite Danny Gonzales (274,500), and well-known pro Bryan Devonshire (205,000). Cards will be in the air shortly with blinds beginning at 2,000/4,000/500, and the tournament will play 40-minute levels until a final table of 10 is reached. At that point, levels will move to one hour until a champion is determined.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jay Robb | 470,000 | |
Danny Dang | 395,500 | |
Jason Burruss | 374,000 | |
Chris Maxwell | 346,500 | |
David Mathews | 329,500 | |
Jamal Sawaqdeh | 327,500 | |
Matt Bingel | 316,500 | |
Nick Pupillo
|
311,000 | |
Kevin Boudreau | 299,500 | |
Danny Gonzales | 274,500 | |
Blake Bohn | 262,000 | |
Jon Cohen
|
260,000 | |
Eric Maier | 231,000 | |
Max Chrisp | 213,000 | |
David Bybee | 206,500 | |
Bryan Devonshire | 205,000 | |
Richard Seale | 198,000 | |
Tyler Corbett | 195,000 | |
Kurt MacDonald | 186,000 | |
Brian Gallegos | 181,500 | |
James Hoeland | 170,000 | |
Andrew Peragallo | 167,500 | |
Tyrone Nagle | 167,500 | |
Gabriel Loya
|
166,500 | |
Chad Lousberg | 161,000 |
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Bryan Devonshire opened to 8,500 in the hijack and got calls from the cutoff and big blind. Action checked to the cutoff on the , and he bet 15,000. Only Devonshire called, and the got checked through. Devonshire dropped in approximately 30,000 on the river and got snap-called, spinning his cards into the muck when he was shown .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Devonshire | 220,000 | 15,000 |
Matt Bingel opened for 10,000 in early position and then called the 52,500 shove of Gene Gioia in middle position.
Bingel:
Gioia:
Gioia's king-high held unimproved on the run out. Bingel was one of the top stacks after ending as the Day 1a chip leader, but he's lost about a third of his stack in the early going.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Matt Bingel | 208,000 | -108,500 |
Gene Gioia | 116,000 | 66,500 |
Matt Bingel came into the day with high hopes and a big stack, but he was down to just over one big blind after running his into the of nemesis Gene Gioia, who again held unimproved. He busted the next hand.
At another table, Phillip Luong three-bet to 27,000 over a button open and saw the big blind jam for about 60,000. Luong called with and held against to bust his neighbor.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gene Gioia | 200,000 | 84,000 |
Phillip Luong | 160,000 | 37,500 |
Matt Bingel | Busted |
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
We found Ian Schwartz pushing all in for about 100,000 after an opponent bet roughly 70,000 on an flop. Schwartz was called and he showed to top his opponent's . The very next hand, Schwartz picked up again and busted a player holding all in preflop.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ian Schwartz | 319,000 | 215,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jason Burruss | 780,000 | 406,000 |
Jay Robb | 585,000 | 115,000 |
Max Chrisp | 390,000 | 177,000 |
Nick Pupillo
|
376,000 | 7,500 |
Nick Trimble | 360,000 | 246,000 |
Danny Gonzales | 335,000 | 60,500 |
Kevin Boudreau | 276,000 | -23,500 |
Danny Dang | 275,000 | -120,500 |
Will Givens
|
39,000 | -101,000 |
Jamal Sawaqdeh bet 13,000 on a flop from the cutoff, and Blake Bohn raised to 28,000 on the button. Sawaqdeh called, check-calling another 20,000 on the . He then came out betting with 20,000 of his own on the river, but Bohn snap-shoved for 79,500 more.
As Sawaqdeh thought, Bohn made the unusual move of asking the dealer to spread the pot when he wasn't the one to act.
"You're not calling," Bohn said. "Let's get going, we've got blinds."
"Or, you could be a hero," he added. "Bust this guy from Minnesota who comes down and tries to win your tournaments."
After another couple of minutes Sawaqdeh pushed forward calling chips, mucking when Bohn showed for a boat.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Blake Bohn | 327,000 | 65,000 |
Jamal Sawaqdeh | 153,000 | -174,500 |