Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$410,000
Entries
410
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Break!
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Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
The players are now off on a 10-minute break. When they return for the start of Level 10, the registration and re-entry period will officially close.
Two Pair Beats One
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Minnesota's Kenneth Johnson has moved into the lead now heading into the third break after a massive hand played out moments ago.
Johnson called a preflop raise with the 
, going heads-up to a 
flop. His opponent bet 15,000 into a pot of about the same size and Johnson jammed it in for 66,625 total.
Johnson's opponent called with 
and did not improve on the 
turn or 
river, leaving Johnson with the massive pot and the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,500 |
Hodge Holds
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
MSPT Player of the Year contender Mark Hodge made it 1,800 from the cutoff and the button called.
The player in the small blind then shipped it short for 11,100 total. Hodge called, but after a minute to think, the button folded.
Hodge: 
Small Blind: 
The flop came down 
and the button immediately started screaming he'd folded pocket fours. The story got worse for him when the 
turn was revealed, a card that would have given him quads.
Finally , the 
river ended things, with Hodge felting the small blind to climb up to a high-water mark of 45,000 on the day and the button bemoaning his bad luck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000 | 24,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Gonder Cooled Off; MacDiarmid Leads
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
All of early chip leader Brian Gonder's chips are now sitting in Webster City, Iowa resident Ron MacDiarmid's stack after a massive cooler.
They got it in huge with MacDiarmid holding 
and Gonder on 
with a board reading 
in front of them.
It looked like an obvious chop until the river made MacDiarmid a bigger boat than the one they had shared.
MacDiarmid now moves into the lead and Gonder is gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 | 130,000 |
|
Busted |
Bullets Before Babes
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
There was an early position raise to 2,400 in front of him when Franklin, Wisconsin's Andrija Solovjen looked down at two aces.
He just called before 2015 MSPT Columbus champ Peixin Liu fired out a three-bet to 6,000. The original raiser called, but not Solovjen. He pushed in for a little over 38,000 instead.
Only Lui called, but his pocket queens were crushed and the board brought no miracles, allowing Solovjen to become the first player past the 100,000-chip mark and push into the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
101,000 | |
|
38,000 |
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
With nine cashes and an amazing six final tables on the MSPT over the past two years, MSPT Pro Nick Pupillo has quickly become a legend around these parts.
He may have even earned some respect at the table, as evidenced by a recent hand where he checked a 
board on the turn with 8,000 in the pot before managing to get a check-raise through.
Pupillo fired two bullets Friday to no avail, but is slowly and steadily climbing up the leader board here today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
37,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
The Sun(dine) Also Rises
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Boone, Iowa's Doug Sundine is so excited he can barely sit in his chair.
He'd better though, because it now belongs to the 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki Main Event Level 7 chip leader.
This due to the fact he flopped trips and got it in against Lenard Adams on an open ender. Sundine tuned a boat to sink Lenard and move up to the top of the current counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000 | |
|
|
Busted |