$360 Regional Event Day 1b | 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Regional

01-16-2020 10:46 UTC-6

Day 1b of the 2020 MSPT Golden Gates $360 Regional Event Begins at Noon

HillKerby

Golden Gates chips (Image: Hayley Hochstetler)

Welcome back to PokerNews coverage of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Golden Gates $360 Regional Event.

One of four flights has been played to its completion and Day 1b is set to get underway Thursday at noon local time. The field size for Wednesday’s Day 1a saw more than a 33% increase from the 120 entries that were logged in November, 2019’s edition of this same event. The 161 entries from Wednesday’s flight will look to set the pace for increased field sizes all weekend long with the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool likely to be surpassed long before the final flight.

Seventeen players have already earned their seats into Sunday’s Day 2 with Luis Rosa (641,000) leading the way. Greg Geller (390,000) and Nate Zoller (251,000) are just a couple more of the regular faces at the Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour that also found a Day 1a bag, and another solid field is expected to turn up this afternoon to try and add their name to the Day 2 roster.

Like Day 1a, players receive 25,000 in chips to start. Levels are 30 minutes in length with 15-minute breaks at the completion of every four levels. Unlimited reentry is available until the start of Level 13 for this Regional Event, and play is scheduled to go 15 full levels unless 12% of the field is reached before that time.

Chips are sure to fly all tournament long and PokerNews will be on hand to catch all the action. Stick around for all the fun.

Tags: Greg Geller Luis Rosa Nate Zoller

01-16-2020 13:06 UTC-6

"All In on the First Hand!"

HillKerby

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

"All In on the First Hand!" screamed David Blankenship from one corner of the room. "Not me," he then added with a smile.

All of the chips were in the process of being sent to Matthew Stolmeier, who was under the gun with and had gotten stacks in against Niels Rikhof's from the cutoff.

The board read , giving Stolmeier top set and earning him a double on the first hand of the day. Meanwhile, Rikhof headed straight to the registration desk to get back in on the action with a fresh stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Stolmeier	50,300 50,300	50,300
Niels Rikhof	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: David Blankenship Matthew Stolmeier Niels Rikhof

01-16-2020 13:16 UTC-6

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HillKerby

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

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01-16-2020 14:13 UTC-6

Wilkie Joins the Party

HillKerby

Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Steve Wilkie, November 2019 MSPT Golden Gates Champion

Steve WIlkie has just been spotted at one of the most recently-opened tables in the Golden Gates Poker Parlour with a usual smile on his face. The English native and Arvada resident spent the second half of 2019 on an absolute tear, chopping the Colorado Poker Championship $1,100 Main Event heads up for $60,114 in August and then following it up with an outright victory at the $1,100 MSPT Main Event, also here at Golden Gates in November for a first-place prize of $85,149.

From there, Wilkie made his way up to Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN for the 2019 MSPT Season Finale and proceeded to finish in fourth place for another payday of $51,944. He hopes to pick up right where he left off at the end of last year.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steve WIlkie	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Steve Wilkie

01-16-2020 15:36 UTC-6

Mittleman Finds Quads on River To Double

HillKerby

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

"An all in was heard. And a call was heard," said the dealer in rapid succession. Action was heads up between Dave Mittleman in the hijack and Andrew Peragallo, who was on the button. The board read

Dave Mittleman:
Andrew Peragallo:

Mittleman had flopped a set but got all of his chips in the middle on the turn once Peragallo had improved to the current nuts. He would need the board to pair on the river and got just that, improving to quads as the river fell to score him the double at Peragallo's expense.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dave Mittleman	60,800 60,800	60,800
Andrew Peragallo	32,600 -20,900	-20,900

Tags: Andrew Peragallo Dave Mittleman

01-16-2020 15:59 UTC-6

Rooney Sends One To the Rail

HillKerby

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

The hijack opened the action with a raise to 1,500 and Branden Rooney three-bet to 3,500 on the button. Action made its way back to the hijack and he went all in for the last of his chips. Rooney quickly called.

Hijack:
Branden Rooney:

Rooney pulled even further ahead on the flop , leaving his opponent in need of running outs to either a straight or quads to fade elimination. The turn left Rooney's opponent drawing dead and the river completed the runout to give Rooney the knockout and the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Branden Rooney	57,000 57,000	57,000

Tags: Branden Rooney

01-16-2020 16:55 UTC-6

Kings Take it All

HillKerby

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Caleb Meyer had opened from early position and was three-bet by the cutoff before Greg Gius cold four-bet all in out of the small blind. The big blind also went all in, as did Meyer, sending the cutoff into the tank for about a minute before he folded, announcing he had folded two queens as the other three hands were tabled.

Greg Gius:
Big Blind:
Caleb Meyer:

The board ran out to leave Meyer's kings on top and earn him the double knockout and all of the chips in both pots.

Player	Chips	Progress
Caleb Meyer	85,000 35,000	35,000
Greg Gius	Busted

Tags: Caleb Meyer Greg Gius

01-16-2020 18:06 UTC-6

Keeline Toasted Again

HillKerby

Level 10 : 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Ben Keeline went all in for 25,000 in middle position and Greg Collins reraised all over him in the cutoff to isolate the rest of the players out of the pot.

Ben Keeline:
Greg Collins:

Keeline was unable to find help on the runout as it came to result in his elimination from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Greg Collins	110,000 40,000	40,000
Ben Keeline	Busted

Tags: Ben Keeline Greg Collins

01-16-2020 19:08 UTC-6

Zipprich Goes Greenstein To Double

HillKerby

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Patrick Suzuki opened the action with a raise to 7,000 in early position and action folded around to the player on the button who asked to see Suzuki's stack before throwing in chips to call. Stephen Zipprich was next to act in the small blind and announced he was all in for what totaled to be exactly 50,000.

Suzuki quickly folded and the player on the button thought for close to a minute before making the call for nearly all of his chips and the two were off to the races.

Stephen Zipprich:
Opponent:

Zipprich wasn't upset to see he was in a coin flip situation but neither the flop nor the turn were of any help to him, leaving him with just one chance left at staying alive in the tournament. Luckily for him, the river was exactly what he needed and he scored the double, bringing him over six figures in the process.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Zipprich	112,000 63,000	63,000
Patrick Suzuki	44,200 17,700	17,700

Tags: Patrick Suzuki Stephen Zipprich

01-16-2020 19:30 UTC-6

Gonzales Back in Action Before Last Break of the Day

HillKerby

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

The tournament is on its final 15-minute break of the evening. This is the last chance to register for this flight.

"That's all my f****g money," said Danny Gonzales as he walked away from the table with the tournament going on break. He had gone all in and was called just moments after rebuying from his previous elimination.

Danny Gonzales:
Opponent:

Gonzales had two live cards but they disappeared after the flop came , 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 .

"Straight!" said Gonzales with a fist bump to a nearby spectator before leaving the tournament area as a pile of chips were pushed to his seat and left unstacked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Danny Gonzales	56,500 31,500	31,500

Tags: Danny Gonzales