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Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw -- Day 8 Results

Plenty of Action At CPPT With Main Event Looming

by Erik Fast  |  Published: Aug 03, 2012

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With the excitement of the main event looming, day 8 of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw packed plenty of its own action, with great turnouts and the highest buy-in event of the series thus far in event 15. All told, the day’s three events had combined prize pools totaling $131,130. Here is a look at Thursday’s results:

Event 14 – $345 No-Limit Hold’em ($50,000 Guarantee)

Joshua Palmer

The guarantees just keep getting surpassed at the CPPT Choctaw, this time exceeding the promised prize pool by more than 40%. A total of 246 players posted the $345 buy-in to build a $70,110 prize pool.

In the end Joshua Palmer emerged victorious, flopping top set with pocket jacks on the final hand. For the win the Daphne, Alabama resident captured the $17,178 first-place prize and the CPPT winner’s trophy.

Only a day after winning event 13, James Astorino backed up his win with a deep run in this event, ultimately finishing 7th.

Here is the complete payout information from the final table:

Place Player Earnings
1 Joshua Palmer $17,178
2 Mesgana Tesfalidet $10,613
3 Clayton Bates $7,668
4 Jason Daly $5,643
5 Matt Bray $4,228
6 Quan Nguyen $3,222
7 James Astorino $2,496
8 Louay Aamer $1,965
9 Anthony Bogard $1,572

Event 15 – $1,080 Pot-Limit Omaha

Day 1 chipleader Justin Gardenhire

A total of 53 players posted the biggest buy-in yet at the CPPT Choctaw series in event 15, the pot-limit Omaha championship. After roughly 12 hours of play, 11 players remain to battle it out for the $50,350 prize pool and CPPT winner’s trophy.

A number of notables are still in the mix, including chip leader, and recent WSOP National Championship final tablist Justin Gardenhire, 2011 WSOP Circuit Choctaw main event champion Huy Nguyen and 2007 Ultimate Bet Aruba Classic champion Travis Rice.

Here’s a look at the table draw and chip counts of the returning players:

Table – Seat Player Chip Count
39-1 Kenneth Ellegard 35,600
39-3 Jon Bennett 28,300
39-4 John Reading 118,700
39-6 Pete Donnelly 53,100
39-8 Dagoberto Flores 75,200
39-9 Robert D. 94,300
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40-1 Travis Rice 34,000
40-3 Huy Nguyen 102,600
40-5 Justin Gardenhire 183,900
40-8 Brian Green 40,000
40-9 MJ Michael Cooper 23,300

Nightly 7 p.m. $125 No-Limit Hold’em

Andrew Sherard

A total of 110 players turned out for the nightly event, each posting the $125 buy-in to build a $10,670 prize pool. Play ended when the final four players came to a deal, with Andrew Sherard being awarded the win, having held the chiplead at the time.

Here is the complete payout information from the final table:

Rank Player Chips
1 Andrew Sherard* $3,201
2 James Compton* $1,978
3 Christopher Santorella* $1,409
4 Mike Tabaee* $1,023
5 Roland Deleon $758
6 Arturo Lopez $572
7 Mark Biberstein $440
8 Terance Traugott $345
9 Patrick Tiller $275

( * denotes that the player took part in the deal, and that payout does not necessarily reflect their actual winnings but merely what they signed for before redistributing the payouts.)

Stay tuned to Card Player for more coverage of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw.

 
 
Tags: Poker Tournaments,   CPPT,   Card Player Poker Tour,   Day 8,   recap,   prelims,   side events
 
 
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