$1,100 Main Event Day 1b | 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Canterbury Park

02-22-2020 16:38 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladyslav Tkachuk	25,000
Mark Bloomberg	25,000	25,000
Gary Loeffler	25,000	-10,500
Kou Vang	25,000	25,000
Jesse Rockowitz	25,000	25,000
Mark Jaroslawski	25,000	25,000
Dara Gault	25,000	25,000
Fredger West	25,000	25,000
Michael Schneider	25,000	25,000
Alan Carty	25,000	25,000
Thai Dinh	25,000	25,000
Leo Fussy	25,000	25,000
Nizom Abdukadyrov	25,000	25,000
Xong Lee	25,000	25,000
Joe Ebanks	25,000	25,000
Erick Wright	25,000	25,000
Bob Van Syckle	25,000	25,000
John Pierce	25,000	25,000
Jay Philips	25,000	25,000
Matt Hamilton	25,000	25,000
Blake Whittington	25,000	25,000

There was over 25,000 in the middle of a heads-up pot on a board reading and the small blind had checked to Gary Loeffler, who was on the button and leaning forward to set a tower of his remaining chips onto the felt. The chips toppled over after he let them go.

"How much is it?" asked the small blind. Loeffler reached forward again and stacked the chips to display one T5,000 chip and four stacks of T100 chips each 10-tall aligned in the shape of a box. One more T100 chip sat on top of the stack to bring his total to 9,100.

The small blind thought for another 40 seconds and then opted to send his cards to the dealer, earning Loeffler the pot and bringing him up to

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Loeffler	35,500	35,500

Tags: Gary Loeffler

02-22-2020 16:21 UTC-5

Early Arrivals

HillKerby

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Sadowski	25,000
Yer Vang	25,000
Paul Eidem	25,000
Mark Abboud	25,000
Muneer Ahmed	25,000
Reg Powell	25,000
Roger Britton	25,000
Kent Battles	25,000
Sammy Aweida	25,000
Jonathan Kim	25,000
Rob Wazwaz	25,000
Dana Isaacson	25,000
Jodene Jensen	25,000
Ben Larson	25,000
Andy Tran	25,000
Adam Dahlin	25,000
Jeff Maas	25,000
Scott Setering	25,000
Vladyslav Tkachuk	25,000

02-22-2020 16:08 UTC-5

Update Your Own Chip Count Using the PokerNews MyStack App!

HillKerby

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

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02-22-2020 16:01 UTC-5

Play Underway on Day 1b

HillKerby

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

"One hundred-one hundred-one hundred. Good luck everyone, cards in the air!"

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 100

02-22-2020 13:57 UTC-5

Welcome to Day 1b of the 2020 MSPT Canterbury Park $1,100 Main Event

HillKerby

Welcome back to Day 1b of the 2020 MSPT Canterbury Park $1,100 Main Event.

Friday’s Day 1a drew 223 entries with 26 players advancing, and another perfect day for poker should see an even larger field show up Saturday for the second of two starting flights to obliterate the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool here at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN.

Cards are set to fly at 3 p.m. local time with players receiving 25,000 starting stacks. Levels will last 40 minutes, beginning at 100/100 with a big-blind ante in play all tournament long. Because Day 1a reached the 12% figure needed for a hard stop before the 15 scheduled levels were played to completion, Day 1b is now scheduled to stop with 28 minutes remaining in Level 15 (3,000/5,000/5,000) unless 12% of the field is reached sooner.

There will be 10-minute breaks at the completion of every three levels with no dinner break. Late registration will remain open through the final break of the night, closing at the start of Level 13 (2,000/3,000/3,000) at approximately 11:40 p.m. local time, and one re-entry is allowed for anybody who is eliminated from the tournament.

All players will be chasing Day 1a chip leader Brandon Waalen (567,000), the only player thus far with over a half-million. How many more will join the 26 to have already advanced and will any of them surpass Waalen? Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out.

Tags: Brandon Waalen

$1,100 Main Event

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