Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Day 1b players are off on their first 10-minute break of the day with 179 entries tallied thus far.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Steve Wazwaz | 43,200 | 23,200 |
Ty Johnson | 41,200 | |
Peixin Liu | 32,400 | 7,400 |
Vic Peppe | 26,500 | 1,500 |
Mark Hodge | 25,000 | |
Jun Kim | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Jason Crews | 25,000 | |
Dennis Stevermer | 24,300 | -700 |
Beile Li | 22,300 | -2,700 |
Gerald Cunniff | 21,300 | -3,700 |
Tom Stambaugh | 19,800 | -5,200 |
Nik Stone | 19,200 | -5,800 |
Rob Wazwaz
|
12,000 | -13,000 |
There were five players who saw a flop for 800 apiece and action was checked to the button who fired out 2,500.
Only Erv Bjerga check-called to see the fall on the turn.
With three clubs on the board Bjerga led out for 3,000 and his opponent called bringing the on the river.
Bjerga continued with his aggression and fired out and uncontested 5,500 bet to win the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Erv Bjerga | 43,200 | 18,200 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Blake Bohn | 62,300 | 37,300 |
Jeff Grimes | 44,300 | 16,700 |
Pat Steele | 39,800 | 14,800 |
Bob Van Syckle | 39,200 | 14,200 |
CJ Peake | 38,700 | 10,100 |
Chris Moon | 34,600 | 9,600 |
Nicholas Anderson
|
29,800 | 4,800 |
Josh Bozarth | 28,700 | 3,700 |
Kitkat Klassen | 26,700 | 1,700 |
Aaron Johnson | 21,300 | -3,700 |
Paula Halata | 19,800 | -5,200 |
Michael Winter
|
13,200 | -11,800 |
Jonathan Garcia raised from under the gun and was called by Matthew Przybilla and David Lunde directly to his left.
The flop saw Garcia continue for 1,500 and Przybilla called only to have Lunde raise to 3,200.
Action was back on Garcia who three-bet all in for 13,300 and only Lunde called.
Jonathan Garcia:
David Lunde:
Lunde was ahead with his made hand of tens and board completed with the on the turn and river securing him the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jonathan Garcia | Busted |
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Level: 3
Blinds: 200/200
Ante: 300
There was heads-up action after a flop between Steve Wazwaz from under the gun and Nicholas Hammarstrom from the small blind.
A series of raises saw Hammarstrom get his 10,000 stack in the middle and Wazwaz was priced in for the call.
Nicholas Hammarstrom:
Steve Wazwaz:
Hammarstrom was ahead with his made hand of jacks and the turn followed by the river secured his double-up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Nicholas Hammarstrom | 22,400 | |
Steve Wazwaz | 20,000 | -5,000 |
While PokerNews is here offering live updates for the $1,100 Main Event, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about some of the side events that have taken place out over the past week for the Winter Poker Classic here at Running Aces Casino.
In Event #1: $360 NLH Mystery Bounty, 1,065 runners created a $318,000 prize pool that was paid out to the top 115 players.
Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were MSPT Hall of Famer Josh Reichard (11th - $2,969), Nik Stone (16th - $2,081), MSPT Hall of Famer Rob Wazwaz (26th - $1,214), Dan Bekavac (31st - $918), and DJ Buckley (39th - $707).
In the end, it was David Gonia who collected every chip in play to capture the MSPT Winter Poker Classic Trophy, along with a $38,606 payday plus bounties.
Place | Player | Prize | POY Points |
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1 | David Gonia | $38,606 | 627 |
2 | Tom Moran | $23,476 | 561 |
3 | Leo Fussy | $17,584 | 528 |
4 | Matt Wolff | $13,354 | 495 |
5 | Steve Knish | $9,949 | 462 |
6 | Brett Patterson | $7,622 | 429 |
7 | Hunter Quinlivan | $5,930 | 396 |
8 | Chris Murdoch | $4,661 | 363 |
9 | Jeffery Viergutz | $3,815 | 330 |