Four More Hands
Ten minutes now remain in Level 15 and the tournament clock has been paused. The floor has announced four hands will be played on each of the remaining tables to conclude play for the night.
Twenty-four players currently remain.
Ten minutes now remain in Level 15 and the tournament clock has been paused. The floor has announced four hands will be played on each of the remaining tables to conclude play for the night.
Twenty-four players currently remain.
Two eliminations occurred over the last four hands, meaning 22 players have advanced to Sunday's Day 2 from the initial Day 1a flight. James Rodriguez leads the field with a stack of 675,000.
Complete end-of-day chip counts will be posted shortly with an end-of-day recap to soon follow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
James Rodriguez |
675,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
||
Daniel Sandoval |
374,000
209,000
|
209,000 |
Rod Siegfried
|
342,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
Jordan Walker |
336,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Alex Kotliarsky |
285,000
118,000
|
118,000 |
Clay Wilson
|
235,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Ben Keeline |
227,000
134,000
|
134,000 |
Michael Wyporowich | 136,000 | |
Yohannes Ambaye |
131,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
David Mittleman | 111,000 | |
Steven Rule |
111,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
Juan Perez (CO) | 111,000 | |
Lawton Duncan | 100,000 | |
Allan Sease
|
88,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Aaron Thomas |
85,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
Phil Bujorian |
80,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
Jose Gonzales | 69,000 | |
Justin Shaw |
61,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
Caleb Pence |
58,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
James Eads
|
56,000
-36,000
|
-36,000 |
Toby Gebauer
|
55,000
-87,000
|
-87,000 |
Derek Scarborough | 46,000 |
The first of four starting flights to the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Black Hawk $360 Regional set quite the pace for what should shape up to be an impressive weekend, drawing 151 entries on a Wednesday afternoon. Fifteen levels later, 22 players remained with a familiar face to Bally's Black Hawk in James Rodriguez (675,000) bagging a massive chip lead.
"J-Rod" got through on one bullet for the day, joining before the first break of the day and quickly chipping up to more than double the 25K starting stack. Two hours later, he chipped up a bit more and then caught some heat to take one of the top stacks in the room into the dinner break.
From there, Rodriguez challenged the chip lead in the room before playing what wound up to be the largest hand of the night, eliminating Barry Faecher with pocket aces to king-queen on a king-high board in a blind-versus-blind battle. When the hand was finished, Rodriguez found himself with more than 700,000 and built that up a bit more before doubling up Yohannes Ambaye just before the end of the night to end with 675,000.
Daniel Sandoval (374,000), Rod Siegfried (342,000), Jordan Walker (336,000), and Alex Kotliarsky (285,000) rounded out the top five, with other notables such as Clay Wilson (235,000), Ben Keeline (227,000), and Aaron Thomas (85,000) also making it through.
Plenty of others did not advance, including Aaron Frei, Terry Wheeler, Greg Colins, Greg Gius, and Ryan Hopp. Along with all others not included in the Day 2 roster, they will have three more flights to take shots at finding their way into Sunday's Day 2.
Day 1b is next up at noon local time on Thursday. Big turnouts are expected, and increasingly so with each passing flight, so be sure to come up early and enter ahead of time. Registration will be open at 10 a.m. and PokerNews will be in to bring you action from the time cards are in the air until chips go into bags.
$360 MSPT ($150K GTD)
Day 1a Completed