Welcome to Day 1a of the 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates $360 Regional
It’s a new decade and the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) is hitting the ground running after surpassing $100 million in total prizes awarded at the end of 2019. Day 1a of the 2020 MSPT Golden Gates $360 Regional Event is first up for the year and cards are set to fly at noon local time.
The MSPT had two $360 Regional Events at the Golden Gates Poker Parlour in 2019. The first was in April and a familiar face to Black Hawk in Aaron Frei claimed victory via a three-way chop for $36,968. He then successfully defended his title in November, earning another $36,607 to come out on top of a four-way chop in wire-to-wire fashion after claiming both the Day 1a and overall Day 1 chip leads prior to Sunday’s Day 2.
This tournament features starting stacks of 25,000 and a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000 and offers four initial starting flights from Wednesday through Saturday. Levels will be 30 minutes in length for the entirety of the tournament and there will be 15-minute breaks at the completion of every four levels. Late registration will remain open until the beginning of Level 13.
Unlimited reentry is available and players may join as many flights as they wish. However, any player who advances can only enter a subsequent flight if they forfeit their stack. Play is scheduled to continue until whichever comes first between the end of Level 15 (3,000/5,000/5,000) and the field reaching 12% of its total entries for the day, at which point all remaining players will bag and tag their chips for the night. All players to advance across the four initial flights will then return Sunday for Day 2 to play down to a winner.
Will Frei be able to make it three in a row, or will somebody else claim the first MSPT Regional title of 2020? PokerNews will be on hand all tournament long until that very question has been answered. Be sure to stick around and find out.
with five players in the pot. Action had checked to Johnny Ambrosio in middle position and he threw out a bet of 1,000. The players on the button and in the blinds all folded and the final player left in the hand called from under the gun. 
. Both players checked and the river came 
. The under-the-gun player checked once more and Ambrosio fired out a bet of 1,000, which was called.
for jacks up and his opponent sent his cards to the muck, resulting in the pot being sent Ambrosio's way.
and action checked to the cutoff, who bet 1,500. All but one player called, which was the early-position caller. 
and all four players checked, bringing the river 
. The under-the-gun player went all in for about 15,500 and Taylor announced he was all in over the top. The cutoff and player on the button quickly folded and it was time for a showdown.
for Broadway and the all-in player shook her hed, tabling 
for a rivered two pair that was no good and quickly scooped up and mucked by the dealer. Meanwhile, Taylor now finds himself with over two stacks early in Level 3 and is one of the largest stacks in the room.
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and river 
completed the runout in a safe fashion, scoring him the double knockout and the massive pot along the way.
and river 
completed the runout with his pair of aces remaining second best to spell his elimination at the expense of Arnold.
and Pineda checked. Shenefelt was next to act and put out a bet of 6,500, which the cutoff called before Pineda folded.
, giving Collins a set of jacks on the turn to score him the improbable double.
