Golden Gates Casino

Day 1C of the MSPT Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour Main Event saw 167 entrants hit the felt, bringing the total field to 354 runners. In the end, 23 players managed to achieve a Day 2 bag, with Brian Hou and his stack of 417,000 taking the overall chip lead into Day 2, ahead of Day 1A chip leader Brian Leitch (276,000) and Day 1B chip leader Ramiro Perez (353,000). Hou has three MSPT Main Event cashes to his credit, and managed a cash in November’s MSPT $360 Regional Event here at Golden Gates. Hou was also part of a four-way chop two weeks ago at a $400 DeepStack Showdown event at The Venetian for $19,000.

Other big stacks include Maury Solano (337,500), Umut Ozturk (236,000), Bradley Beetz (227,000), and Rich Dixon (204,000). Others to bag include Tom Bouziden (170,000), Nils Bardsley (156,500), Jesse Allen (107,000), Nader Wahdan (82,000), and Danny Gonzales (52,000).

Sadly, not everyone was fortunate enough to survive the day, and among those to fall short of a bag include former MSPT $360 Golden Gates Regional champs Adam Wilbur, Bobby Sanoubane, Stephen Zipprich, and “Money” Mike Maruna, and former MSPT Golden Gates Main Event champs Fred Garcia, Kane Lai, Jason Beasley, Michigan’s Cooper Wanty, Chase Bianchi, birthday boy Kanat Ozturk, and Kevin “1sickdisease” Eyster.

Day 2 will kick off tomorrow at 11 AM with 46 players returning (5 from Day 1A, 18 from Day 1B, 23 from Day 1C) and the field will play down to a winner. The final table will be streamed with hole cards on a fifteen-minute delay on both Twitch and right here at MSPTpoker.com. As always, all of the action can also be found right here on the blog, so be sure to tune in tomorrow to find out who will walk away with the MSPT Golden Gates Main Event title!

Players will play four more hands before bagging and tagging for the night. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day’s action.

Action folded to the lojack who opened to 7,000. Tom Bouziden made the call from the cutoff and the rest of the players folded.

The flop came down and the lojack folded to Bouziden who bet 10,000. His opponent called.

The fell on the turn and both players checked.

The hit the river and the lojack led out for 8,000. Bouziden made the call.

Bouziden:
Opponent:

Tom Bouziden - 127,000 (42 bb)

Raj Dhane raised to 7,500 on the button, and Nils Bardsley called in the big blind.

Bardsley checked a flop to Dhane, who bet 10,000. Bardsley called.

The peeled off on the turn, and Bardsley led out for 10,000. Dhane called.

Bardsley bet 30,000 when the hit the river, and Dhane folded.

Nils Bardsley - 210,000 (70 bb)
Raj Dhane - 50,000 (17 bb)

Jeremy Standiford opened to 7,500. Action folded to Karim Abuzar in the cutoff who shoved all in for 21,500.

Action folded back to Standiford, and he made the call.

Standiford:
Abuzar:

The flop would come down giving Standiford quads. However he still didn’t earn the check mark as Abuzar could go running aces to have a bigger quads.

The on the turn would in fact give Standiford the check mark and the KO.

Jeremy Standiford - 80,000

Steve Wilkie stopped by the MSPT Live Reporting desk to let us know about a bad beat that ended his chances here at the MSPT Golden Gates Main Event.

Wilkie raised to 10,000, and was met with a three-bet to 20,000 by a lone opponent. Wilkie jammed for around 50,000, and his opponent made a reluctant call.

Wilkie:
Opponent:

Wilkie’s opponent flopped a flush draw and turned the flush, and Wilkie was left with a bad beat story and hit the rail.

Steve Wilkie - Busted

Karim Abuzar open shoved all-in for his remaining 21,500.

Action folded to the cutoff who re-shoved all-in over the top.

Everyone else folded and they were heads-up.

Abuzar:
Opponent:

The board ran out and Abuzar would successfully double-up.

Karim Abuzar - 45,000 (18 bb)

Maury Solano opened UTG to 6,000.

He had a caller from middle position, before the big blind shoved all in for his remaining 150,000.

Solano made the call, while the other player saw his way out.

Solano:
Opponent:

Looking to fade an ace, Solano did just that on the board, and with that pot, Solano surges to the top of the leaderboard.

Maury Solano - 320,000 (160 bb)