The stage is set for the final day of the 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Golden Gates Casino $600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 456 entries were made in the event, building a total prize pool of $237,120. Day 1A saw 243 entries while Day 1B added 213. Now only 107 players remain, with 55 advancing from day 1A and another 52 from day 1B.
The overall chip leader played on day 1B. Andreas Ramadanis ended the day on a massive upswing, winning a few big hands in the final levels to surge into the lead with 564,000. The final hand saw Ramadanis eliminate two players with a turned set of sixes, which had outrun the pocket eights and pocket tens of his two all-in opponents.
Other big stacks from day 1B included Mark Manges (398,000) and 2017 World Series of Poker Circuit Harvey’s Lake tahoe main event winner Max Young (378,000). Young won a massive hand late in the day with pocket aces all-in preflop against an opponent’s AK that helped propell him up the chip counts.
Day 2 begins at 11:00 a.m. local time and will continue until a new CPPT champion is decided.
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Here’s a look at the top 10 chip stacks heading into day 2. Click here for the full list.
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Andreas Ramadanis | 565,000 |
| 2 | David Levy | 435,000 |
| 3 | Scott Craft | 432,000 |
| 4 | Johnny Lopez | 417,000 |
| 5 | Mark Manges | 398,000 |
| 6 | Jacob Schroeder | 383,000 |
| 7 | Max Young | 378,000 |
| 8 | Vincent Moscati | 367,000 |
| 9 | Daniel Lim | 365,000 |
| 10 | Garrett Patrick | 355,000 |
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There are also plenty of dining options in the area, whether it’s a casual lunch at the Bourbon Street Café or Full House Café, or drinks at the Jester’s Bar or Masquerade Bar. Even breakfast is covered with an on-site Dunkin Donuts.
The Golden Gates Casino is located at 261 Main Street, Black Hawk, Colorado 80422, less than an hour west of Denver. Click here or call 303-582-2600 ext. 3519 for more information. You can follow the poker room on Twitter @gates_poker.
The Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates Casino attracted a record 510 entries to Black Hawk, Colorado to compete for their share of a $494,700 prize pool. On Sunday, the final 87 players returned to the famed poker parlor to battle down to a winner. After 13 hours of play, Phanora Prom emerged as the last man standing to collect the $123,180 first-place prize.
Prom, who hails from nearby Denver, had $75,744 in live tournament earnings before the win, which included a ninth-place finish in the MSPT's visit to Black Hawk back in March 2014.
Final Table Results
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| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phanora Prom | $123,180 |
| 2 | Sammy Aweida | $69,258 |
| 3 | Aaron Thomas | $44,523 |
| 4 | Don Angstead | $35,370 |
| 5 | Ben Keeline | $27,730 |
| 6 | Michael Sanders | $22,755 |
| 7 | Dave Kohnke | $18,056 |
| 8 | Ross Reichert | $14,098 |
| 9 | Corey Zedo | $9,839 |
| 10 | George Clark | $6,431 |
When the day began, 33 players needed to hit the rail to make the money. Among those to leave empty handed were MSPT Grand Falls champ Alan Curl, Kevin '1sickdisease' Eyster, World Poker Tour One to Watch Jose Serratos, Colorado poker pro Bryan Devonshire, MSPT Team Pro Nick Pupillo, and defending champ Kane Lai, who began the day with a ton of chips but ultimately picked the wrong spot to shove.
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With 55 players remaining, David Gutfreund opened for 23,000 from early position and Igor Balaban three-bet to 40,000. When action reached Ben Marsh on the button, he four-bet jammed for 141,000, and Gutfreund shoved all in over the top, which inspired Balaban to fold.
Marsh:
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Marsh was in big trouble, and it got even worse when Gutfreund flopped a full house on the flop. A third on the turn meant Marsh could chop if the fourth lady appeared on the river, but it wasn't in the cards. Marsh exited as the bubble boy in 55th place, ensuring the remaining players a minimum $1,979 payday.
From there until the final table was set, the in-the-money eliminations racked up and included reigning World Series of Poker Millionaire Maker champ Adrian Buckley (50th - $1,979); the last woman in the field Norelia Austin (35th - $2,474); MSPT Golden Gates $360 Regional champ and start-of-the-day chip leader Bobby Sanoubane (32nd - $2,474); MSPT Team Pro Matt Alexander (20th - $2,721); and two-time WSOP bracelet winner David Warga (13th - $4,947).
When the final table of 10 was reached, Don Angstead led the pack, but with the blinds so high it was really anyone's game. The short-stacked George Clark was the first to go after running into Michael Sanders' pocket queens, and then Corey Zedo exited in ninth place after losing a race to Ben Keeline.
Day 1a chip leader Ross Reichart was the next to go after running pocket jacks into the queens of Prom, and then Dave Kohnke saw his go down in flames to the of Aaron Thomas.
From there, Sanders was crippled after running king-jack into the pocket aces of Prom, and then busted a hand later to Thomas. One hand after that, Keeline shoved with the only to run into the of Prom.
Prom then eliminated Angstead in fourth place – the former's holding against the latter's in a blind-versus-blind battle – and took a big chip lead into three-handed play.
Prom then eliminated Thomas in third place after turning trips, and finished off Sammy Aweida in just two hands of heads-up play. In the first hand, Prom shoved the button and Aweida folded. in the second hand, Aweida shoved and Prom called.
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Prom:
Aweida:
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Aweida held the better kicker with his ace, so he was primed to double in those instances there wasn't a chop or Prom got lucky. However, Prom spiked two pair on the flop, and neither the turn nor river helped Aweida, who fell in second place for $69,258.
The MSPT will now head to Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells in Baraboo, Wisconsin for the penultimate stop of Season 6. That $1,100 Main Event will kick off Friday, and you can find out all the details here.
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