2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Regional

$360 Regional Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Regional

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
$53,048
Event Info
Buy-in
$360
Prize Pool
$326,100
Entries
1,087
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
138
Players Left
1

Matthew Frisch Eliminated in 12th Place; Behrouz Keshtavar Eliminated in 11th Place ($4,565)

Level 28 : 50,000/100,000, 20,000 ante
Matthew Frisch
Matthew Frisch

Matthew Frisch went all in on the button and received a call from Erasmus Morfe in the small blind.

Matthew Frisch: {q-}{10-}
Erasmus Morfe: {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts}

Frisch hit a queen on the flop but Morfe found three hearts on the board by the river to give him the nut flush and send Frisch home in 12th place.

Moments later, Behrouz Keshtavar got all in from the big blind in a blind-on-blind situation against Noel Diaz.

Behrouz Keshtavar: {a-Spades}{k-Hearts}
Noel Diaz: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}

Keshtavar was drawing dead by the turn as the board ran out {2-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{5-Spades}. He graciously wished the table good luck and made his way to the payout desk moments after Frisch.

Behrouz Keshtavar
Behrouz Keshtavar
Player Chips Progress
Noel Diaz us
Noel Diaz
8,800,000
1,835,000
1,835,000
Erasmus Morfe us
Erasmus Morfe
2,830,000
1,380,000
1,380,000
Matthew Frisch us
Matthew Frisch
Busted
Behrouz Keshtavar us
Behrouz Keshtavar
Busted

Tags: Behrouz KeshtavarErasmus MorfeMatthew FrischNoel Diaz

Alex Montoya Eliminated in 13th Place ($3,587)

Level 28 : 50,000/100,000, 20,000 ante
Alex Montoya
Alex Montoya

Alex Montoya saw action folded to him on the button and went all in for his last 180,000. Both Stuart Brown in the small blind and Ethan Lehrburger in the big blind called.

Action checked to the turn on a board of {10-Spades}{3-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} and Brown bet 200,000. Lehrburger folded and hands were tabled.

Alex Montoya: {a-Spades}{2-Spades}
Stuart Brown: {10-Clubs}{9-Spades}

Brown's flopped pair of tens was out in front and held as the river came {3-Spades} to spell elimination for Montoya in 13th place.

Player Chips Progress
Ethan Lehrburger us
Ethan Lehrburger
2,500,000
-200,000
-200,000
Stuart Brown us
Stuart Brown
2,415,000
-15,000
-15,000
Alex Montoya us
Alex Montoya
Busted

Tags: Alex MontoyaEthan LehrburgerStuart Brown

Danny Pham Eliminated in 14th Place ($3,587)

Level 28 : 50,000/100,000, 20,000 ante
Danny Pham
Danny Pham

Erasmus Morfe went all in from middle position and action folded around to Danny Pham in the big blind, who made the call.

Danny Pham: {a-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}
Erasmus Morfe: {a-Hearts}{4-Spades}

The two had a decent chance of a chop until the flop came {5-Spades}{9-Hearts}{7-Spades}. The turn came {3-Hearts} and the river fell {2-Spades} to give Morfe a wheel. Stacks were counted and Pham had 580,000. Morfe had over 600,000 and earned the knockout as a result.

Player Chips Progress
Erasmus Morfe us
Erasmus Morfe
1,450,000
760,000
760,000
Danny Pham us
Danny Pham
Busted

Tags: Danny PhamErasmus Morfe

Abhinav Parakh Eliminated in 16th Place ($3,196)

Level 27 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Abhinav Parakh
Abhinav Parakh

Abhinav Parakh saw action folded to him on the button and went all in for his last 190,000. Neil Warren reraised all in as well from the small blind and Alex Kotliarsky thought for a bit in the big blind before folding.

Abhinav Parakh: {q-Clubs}{8-Spades}
Neil Warren: {10-Spades}{10-Hearts}

The flop dropped {k-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{4-Hearts} to give Parakh a set and the turn {6-Diamonds} left him drawing dead. The river {7-Clubs} completed the runout and sent him to the payout desk in 16th place.

Player Chips Progress
Neil Warren us
Neil Warren
1,150,000
220,000
220,000
Abhinav Parakh us
Abhinav Parakh
Busted

Tags: Abhinav ParakhAlex KotliarskyNeil Warren

Joe Whitlock Eliminated in 18th Place; Ronnie Lamb Eliminated in 17th Place ($3,196)

Level 26 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante
Ronnie Lamb
Ronnie Lamb

Ronnie Lamb went all in under the gun for his last few chips and action folded around to Alex Kotliarsky, who called in the big blind.

Ronnie Lamb: {q-}{2-}
Alex Kotliarsky: {6-}{2-}

The board came {a-}{3-}{4-}{x-}{5-} to give Kotliarsky a straight and sent Lamb to the payout desk shortly after reaching the final two tables.

Shortly before that, Alex Montoya eliminated Joe Whitlock after stacks got in on the turn with two spades and two queens on deck.

Joe Whitlock: {5-Spades}{4-Spades}
Alex Montoya: {q-Spades}{3-Spades}

Whitlock found himself drawing dead as his flush draw was up against a higher one and could not improve beyond Montoya's flopped trips.

Player Chips Progress
Alex Kotliarsky us
Alex Kotliarsky
3,500,000
1,760,000
1,760,000
Alex Montoya us
Alex Montoya
1,365,000
410,000
410,000
Ronnie Lamb us
Ronnie Lamb
Busted
Joe Whitlock us
Joe Whitlock
Busted

Tags: Alex KotliarskyAlex MontoyaJoe WhitlockRonnie Lamb

Konarske Finds Huge Triple

Level 26 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante
Eddy Konarske
Eddy Konarske

Erasmus Morfe went all in from middle position and Ronnie Lamb went all in for around the same amount on the button. Eddy Konarske called all in as well.

Eddie Konarske: {a-Spades}{k-Hearts}
Erasmus Morfe: {a-Spades}{q-Clubs}
Ronnie Lamb: {a-Hearts}{q-Spades}

A queen came on the flop {q-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{j-Clubs} but Konarske got the help he needed on the turn {k-Clubs} to pull back ahead. The river {k-Diamonds} gave him trips for the triple and left Lambe and Morfe both on fumes.

Player Chips Progress
Eddy Konarske us
Eddy Konarske
2,535,000
1,815,000
1,815,000
Erasmus Morfe us
Erasmus Morfe
255,000
-235,000
-235,000
Ronnie Lamb us
Ronnie Lamb
250,000
-1,075,000
-1,075,000

Tags: Eddy KonarskeErasmus MorfeRonnie Lamb

Peragallo Hits the Showers

Level 24 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Andrew Peragallo
Andrew Peragallo

Andrew Peragallo was standing up from his seat and gathering his belongings as his hand of {a-Hearts}{q-Clubs} was in the process of being mucked to spell the end of his tournament life.

Peragallo was on the button and had lost to Luis Rosa, who was in middle position and had the pot sent his way for his winning hand of {9-Clubs}{6-Clubs} tabled on a board of {5-Spades}{6-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{8-Clubs}, hitting a straight to take him over 2 million.

Player Chips Progress
Luis Rosa us
Luis Rosa
2,220,000
310,000
310,000
Andrew Peragallo us
Andrew Peragallo
Busted

Tags: Andrew PeragalloLuis Rosa

Keshtavar Trampling the Table

Level 22 : 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante
Behrouz Keshtavar
Behrouz Keshtavar

"All in, all in, all in," exclaimed the dealer to declare a three-way all-in preflop scenario. Ben Berman was in the small blind and all in for the main pot, with Dylan Johnson in the big blind and Behrouz Keshtavar under the gun also in contention for a side pot. Johnson covered both players.

Ben Berman: {a-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}
Behrouz Keshtavar: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}
Dylan Johnson: {k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}

The board ran out {j-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{6-Spades}{q-Hearts} to come clean for Keshtavar to win it all, bringing him just shy of a million in chips.

Moments later, he knocked out Ken Ledwos in a blind-on-blind battle when the two got stacks in on the turn with a board reading {k-}{8-}{2-}{8-}.

Ken Ledwos: {8-}{4-}
Behrouz Keshtavar: {8-}{6-}

Keshtavar faded the chop as the river {6-} gave him a full house and launched him even further up the counts.

Player Chips Progress
Behrouz Keshtavar us
Behrouz Keshtavar
1,440,000
1,055,000
1,055,000
Dylan Johnson us
Dylan Johnson
585,000
-25,000
-25,000
Ben Berman us
Ben Berman
Busted
Ken Ledwos us
Ken Ledwos
Busted

Tags: Behrouz KeshtavarBen BermanDylan Johnson

DeBolt Over a Half-Million

Level 20 : 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante
Craig DeBolt
Craig DeBolt

An all in and call were overheard and moments later Craig DeBolt's winning hand of {k-Hearts}{q-Diamonds} was tabled on a board of {2-Hearts}{q-Spades}{5-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}. His opponent's hand had already been mucked from the small blind and stacks were being counted.

The small blind had 264,000 clearly visible as the dealer exclaimed, "It's going to be close." DeBolt's stack was totaled to be 241,000 and the requisite amount was shipped his way.

Player Chips Progress
Craig DeBolt us
Craig DeBolt
577,000
302,000
302,000

Tags: Craig DeBolt

Wilkie Eliminates Goble

Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Steve Wilkie
Steve Wilkie

Alex Goble three-bet all in from the big blind over an open from Steve Wilkie, who was on the button. Wilkie called.

Alex Goble: {3-Spades}{3-Hearts}
Steve Wilkie: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}

The board ran out {10-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds} and Wilkie's bullets remained best.

"Nice hand, Steve," said Goble as he awaited a payout. Wilkie acknowledged and stacked the chips that were sent his way.

Player Chips Progress
Steve WIlkie gb
Steve WIlkie
237,000
70,000
70,000
Alex Goble us
Alex Goble
Busted

Tags: Alex GobleSteve Wilkie