Detamore Leads After Day 1a of HPO Columbus Regional Main Event; Moneymaker Advances | PokerNews

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Day 1a of the Hollywood Poker Open Columbus $1,115 Regional Main Event was within the books on Friday and Jeremy Detamore led the way.

Detamore hovered across the middle of the pack and didn't play many giant hands, but that was only until the last two levels. He started stacking an increasing number of chips and didn't decelerate until after he put an enormous dent in Eli Stepanovich.

Detamore was heads up with Stepanovich and shoved his last 76,500 in at the river. Stepanovich called with top two pair. Detamore had the most efficient of it with a collection of aces and stacked a pot of greater than 200,000.

J.J. Ura also won a pair big hands on the end of the day, including the hand that busted Stepanovich. Ura had against the of Stepanovich and hit a queen at the flop. Stepanovich didn't catch up, and Ura jumped into the second one spot, where he would finish at the leaderboard going to Day 2.

Andrew Barfield (199,500), Paul Kardules (195,500), and Greg Yeager (177,000) rounded out the highest five Day 1a stacks.

Click here to view the whole Day 1a chip counts.

Chris Moneymaker tweeted that his Day 1a was just like a roller coaster, and it rang true to the final hand of play. Josh Lowing opened and Moneymaker three-bet. The 2 ended up getting all in preflop, and Moneymaker held against the of Lowing. Lowing's tens held and left Moneymaker sitting 54,500 at the last hand.

The 16 returning players can be back Sunday at 12:15 p.m. local time for Day 2. They are going to be joined by the survivors of the Day 1b flight, which occurs on Saturday.

The field for Day 1b is predicted to be no less than twice the dimensions of Day 1a and there must be some familiar faces within the crowd. Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for the entire updates when Day 1b starts at 11:15 a.m. local time.

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