$360 Regional Event
Day 1d Completed
2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Regional
$360 Regional Event
Day: 1d
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1d
2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Regional
Buy-in
$360
Prize Pool
$326,100
Entries
1,087
Level
33
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Entries
400
Players Left
54
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
The field has been set for Day 2 of the 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates $360 Regional Event after Day 1d brought a record-setting 400 entries to the Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour to bring the overall total up to 1,087, a number that was both a record as well in addition to being the first ever tournament in Colorado poker history with more than 1,000 entries.
When all was said and done for the night, Rick Burleson (478,000) was atop the counts, beating his friend Alex Smith’s Day 1c count of 399,000 of whom he came with. The man from Rapid City, SD saw a rapid increase to his stack after becoming one of the last entries into the tournament. He found a couple doubles to break 100,000 before scoring a big knockout with a flush to get to near a quarter-million. A turned set of deuces that became a full house by the river cracked kings to take him over 400,000 near the beginning of the final level of the night, and he ascended from there to just shy of a half-million to take what will be a top-three stack into Sunday’s Day 2.
Day 1d was the largest field of the four and with it came even more big stacks. Bryan Wienhoff (403,000), Peter Shuldiner (394,000), Lorenzo Banuelos (387,000), and Jason Johnson (349,000) round out the top five. Just below them are two more formidable opponents in Kevin Eyster (341,000) and Schuyler Thornton (340,000), both of which also saw their stacks multiply through the final three levels of the night.
Others were not as fortunate. Ryan Dodson, Jason Vanstrom, David Blankenship, Ben Keeline, and Terry Harper were just a few players who came up the mountain Saturday after not advancing in one or more of the three earlier flights only to fall short once again.
In total, 138 players will be returning Sunday for Day 2’s noon start time. One hundred and seventeen of them will make it into the money and earn a first-level payout of $620, though players are sure to have their eyes set on the first-place prize of $59,525 that will be earned before day’s end.
PokerNews will be back on hand for the home stretch, so make sure to come back and see who reigns triumphant.
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Fifty-four players made it through the day with Rick Burleson leading the way after finishing the day with 478,000. Here are the official chip counts for all players from Day 1d. An end-of-day recap will be published in the near future.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
478,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
|
403,000 | |
|
|
394,000
394,000
|
394,000 |
|
|
387,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
|
349,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
341,000
121,000
|
121,000 |
|
||
|
340,000
-23,000
|
-23,000 |
|
338,000
-122,000
|
-122,000 |
|
329,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
|
311,000
311,000
|
311,000 |
|
309,000
309,000
|
309,000 |
|
|
303,000
303,000
|
303,000 |
|
297,000
-39,000
|
-39,000 |
|
290,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
265,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
251,000
251,000
|
251,000 |
|
248,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
234,000
234,000
|
234,000 |
|
208,000
152,000
|
152,000 |
|
|
196,000
196,000
|
196,000 |
|
192,000
-163,000
|
-163,000 |
|
|
192,000
192,000
|
192,000 |
|
181,000
71,000
|
71,000 |
|
177,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
|
|
176,000
176,000
|
176,000 |
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Play has finished throughout the room and players are putting chips into bags. Official chip counts and a recap of the day's action will be provided shortly.
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
The clock has reached 10 minutes left in the final level of the night and five more hands will be played to their conclusion on each of the remaining six tables left in play.
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Jason Vanstrom was just eliminated from the tournament after getting all in with ace-king and losing to pocket tens with around 15 minutes left in the day. This marks the second time he was eliminated near the end of the night, after he was eliminated on the second-to-last on Friday night's Day 1c.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Action folded around to the cutoff and he opened to 11,000. Karim Abuzar went all in for 106,000 and the cutoff called.
Karim Abuzar: 
Cutoff:
The board ran out 
to give Abuzar jacks up on the river to score him the unlikely double.
"It always happens that way," said his opponent as he shipped the chips over to Abuzar.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
222,000
222,000
|
222,000 |
Level 15
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Here are some emerging big stacks early in the final level of the evening.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
460,000
216,000
|
216,000 |
|
|
400,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
|
363,000
102,000
|
102,000 |
|
|
320,000 | |
|
|
280,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
260,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
|
|
254,000 | |
|
|
220,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
||
Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000