Ames, Iowa's Josh Lyster has joined the group at the top of the counts with an early double.
His came through a two-hand series where he made quads versus a full house and picked off a player with pocket kings turning the Dolly into a boat of his own.
So far, Lyster is refusing to allow PokerNews to take his picture.
"You want to see my picture it's in every Post Office," he said, finally agreeing to allow his image to be captured on film should he move into the chip lead at day's end.
Chicago, Illinois' George Dietz has emerged as the chip leader here at MSPT Meskwaki, heading into the first break of the day.
He joined Lenard Adams in calling an early position preflop raise. The flop fell and after the raiser checked and Adams bet, Dietz slid in a raise.
The original raise then shipped it in with the nut-flush draw, Adams over-shoved with the queen-high flush draw, and Dietz called all in with the , holding top pair and a king-high flush draw.
"Turned out all I had was spade blockers," Dietz said. But those blockers helped, as no spade came and Dietz' pair of kings held, sending him into the chip lead, the original raiser home, and Adams back down to where he started the day.
Des Moines, Iowa local Brian Gonder appears to be having the kind of day poker players usually only dream of. Even when he folds, he winds up with what would have been the winning hand.
Gonder's found big slick three or four times already, making top pair once and getting all of one overeager player's chips when he put them in with a flush draw that never materialized.
"I've had a lucky two pair a couple times as well," he said. "I'm hitting everything and everybody wants to call. I'm just taking chips from the gamblers."
He's now on 80,000, in the lead, and praying to the poker gods this hot streak continues.
Peoria, Illinois' Anthony Yeh admits he's been doing it a little dirty all day.
First he took one opponent's chips completing a gutshot on the turn that made the other player two pair. Then he cracked aces with the old , flopping a queen and finding a seven on the river.
Just as they were on Day 1a, 2013 MSPT Iowa champ Terry Ring and 2013 MSPT Iowa runner-up and 2014 MSPT Iowa champ Nick Jivkov are seated at the same table.
Needless to say, it was not a successful day Friday and it has been a relatively slow start for both today as they now sit around the same 25,000 in chips.
However, Ring just moved up there and may have some momentum, having cracked with the when he flopped top pair and found a flush on the river.
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Dolly into a boat of his own.
and after the raiser checked and Adams bet, Dietz slid in a raise. 
, holding top pair and a king-high flush draw.
, flopping a queen and finding a seven on the river.
with the 
when he flopped top pair and found a flush on the river.
