Parakh Leads the Day 1b Field at 2020 MSPT Golden Gates $360 Regional Event
Another full day of action has played to its conclusion at the 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Golden Gates $360 Regional Event. The second of four flights drew 207 entries to bring the two-day total thus far to 368.
Of those 207 entries, 24 players remained when chips went into bags and Abhinav Parakh found himself atop the counts with a stack of 414,000. He was the only player above 400,000, but found four players hot on his heels with Roman Mai (392,000),Ian Glycenfer (390,000), Branden Rooney (386,000), and Zach Gutierrez (371,000) rounding out the top five.
Much like Day 1a, the final level of the night saw an onslaught of casualties, with players such as Steve Wilkie and David Blankenship among those to be eliminated shortly before play concluded for the night with chips flying all across the three remaining tables of play that led to a lot of players riding roller coasters with their stack sizes before becoming official for the evening.
Several other well-known players to the Colorado poker scene will also be joining the aforementioned five. Richard Seale[/b[ (282,000), [b]Greg Collins (240,000), Sammy Aweida (183,000) and Stephen Zipprich (137,000) are just a few more of the players to add their names to the Day 2 roster along with the 17 to have already advanced from Day 1a.
Among those not as lucky at the felt included Andreas Ramadanis, Kevin Kurtz, Ben Keeline, Bobby Sanoubane, and Ryan Dodson, and at least a few of them are likely to be seen back in action for one or more of the two remaining flights.
Play will resume Friday at noon for Day 1c with the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool likely to be surpassed early in the day. Keep it at PokerNews for updates as all the action unfolds.
with action heads up between Branden Rooney in the hijack and Keith Wright, who was on the button. Rooney check-raised all in for over a bet of 35,000 from Wright and Wright thought for a bit before announcing a call for the rest of his chips. 
to complete the runout and send him to the rail as the final level of the night was set to begin.
, leaving him with just four immediate outs at a gutshot to Broadway. The turn 
gave him two more outs at trips, but his first draw would be the one to fill up as the river fell 
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nor the turn 
to leave Meyer's kings on top and earn him the double knockout and all of the chips in both pots.
, leaving his opponent in need of running outs to either a straight or quads to fade elimination. The turn 
completed the runout to give Rooney the knockout and the pot.
to score him the double at Peragallo's expense.
