Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates

$1,650 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a3
Prize
$137,876
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,650
Entries
412
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
102
Players Left
16

Frei Doubles Through Nguyen

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 2,400 ante
Aaron Frei pictured at another event
Aaron Frei pictured at another event

Khoa Nguyen opened to 6,000 from middle position and was three-bet to 16,000 by Aaron Frei out of the cutoff. Action folded back to Nguyen and he called.

The flop fell {7-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} and Nguyen checked. Frei made a continuation-bet of another 16,000 and Nguyen check-raised all in. Frei instantly called.

Khoa Nguyen: {8-Spades}{9-Clubs}
Aaron Frei: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}

Frei's aces were ahead and in need of holding against Nguyen's open-ended straight draw. The turn came {q-Diamonds}, giving him one more card to sweat. The river then fell {3-Spades} and Frei's stack was counted out to be 70,500. Nguyen paid him off leaving himself just 1,500 behind as Frei now finds himself with a comfortable stack as play moves into the final two hours of the evening.

Player Chips Progress
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Aaron Frei
179,000
97,200
97,200
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Khoa Nguyen
1,500
-138,100
-138,100

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