Day 1B -- Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Championship EventJames McCarrel Leads Going Into Day 2 |
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With day 1B of the 2013 Card Player Poker Tour Wynn Las Vegas Championship in the books the official numbers are in. A total of 121 players took their seats today and when chips were bagged for the evening only 49 remained. Those 49 will return Tuesday at noon along with the 29 players who made it through day 1A and the race toward the money and the final table will begin.
When the tournament clock stopped James McCarrel had bagged the biggest stack of chips with 203,200 and will come back Tuesday as the overall chip leader.
“Steady chipped up and up most of the day but won a huge pot at my last table,” McCarrel said. “A guy raised under the gun with pocket kings, another guy flatted with fours and I flatted on the button with tens. The flop was Queen, ten, four, so I had set over set. It was a three-way all-in and about 150k in the pot.”
The top five chip counts from today belonged to McCarrel, Joe Serock with 177,800, Brad Booth with 176,000, Hein Nguyen with 160,000 and Ray Dehkharghani with 143,200.
A grand total of 207 entrants tipped the total prize pool just over the $1 million mark. The final 23 players will walk away with a portion of the $1,003,950 prize pool with $235,928 going to the eventual winner. Those who last through the money bubble will leave with no less than $12,047.
“We’re really happy to improve on the turnout year over year,” said Director of Poker Operations at Wynn Las Vegas Joe Vigurs, “We are excited to have built the prize pool to over a million dollars.”
As was expected, the field was not only larger for day 1B but also saw some of the best known names in poker today enter for a shot at the title of champion. Eli Elezra, David Williams, Scotty Nguyen, Nick Schulman, Chino Rheem, Eric Baldwin, Phil Collins and Olivier Busquet to name a few. Schulman, Nguyen, Baldwin, Collins and Busquet advanced to Day 2.
Jennifer Harman and Christina Lindley were the only two ladies among the entrants but with Harman’s post-dinner break elimination Lindley will be lone woman to return for Day 2.
Also still alive are former Wynn Classic champions Keith Ferrera and Tim West.
Here’s a look at the chip counts heading into day 2:
| Player Name | Chip Count |
| James McCarrel | 203,200 |
| Mars Callahan | 198,700 |
| Tom Marchese | 182,600 |
| Joe Serock | 177,800 |
| Brad Booth | 176,000 |
| Sam Stein | 173,200 |
| Andy Philachack | 165,000 |
| Olivier Busquet | 163,600 |
| Hien Nguyen | 160,000 |
| Ray Dehkharghani | 143,200 |
| William Schonsheck | 133,200 |
| David Nicholson | 121,800 |
| Randy Dorfman | 120,000 |
| Antonio Lafosse | 117,800 |
| Daniel Sindelar | 116,000 |
| Gary Sewell | 115,700 |
| Duey Doung | 115,000 |
| Eric Lozano | 114,200 |
| Mark Edwards | 109,100 |
| Mike Hack | 106,700 |
| Erick Lindgren | 104,500 |
| Marios Savvides | 103,900 |
| Kevin Calenzo | 102,700 |
| Christina Lindley | 98,800 |
| Trevor Pope | 95,000 |
| Gary Friedlander | 94,200 |
| Kirill Kruglov | 92,200 |
| WeiKai Chang | 91,400 |
| Georgui Martov | 90,200 |
| Soon Hwang | 88,000 |
| Steve Brecher | 86,200 |
| Tom Chae | 82,700 |
| Ray Qartomy | 81,700 |
| Roy Thung | 81,000 |
| Keith Ferrera | 78,900 |
| Steve Gross | 78,600 |
| Cary Katz | 76,500 |
| Jeff Frerichs | 76,200 |
| Dana Kellstrom | 75,400 |
| Evgeni Tourevski | 74,500 |
| Johnny Sova | 71,800 |
| Louis Crispino | 69,300 |
| Kane Lai | 67,100 |
| Frank Rusnak | 64,500 |
| Sorel Mizzi | 64,300 |
| KC Carlston | 62,300 |
| Garret Greer | 61,000 |
| Amnon Filippi | 60,000 |
| Brent Hanks | 59,400 |
| Raymond Saide | 57,800 |
| Loren Klein | 55,700 |
| Kaied Barkho | 53,500 |
| Barry Woods | 51,900 |
| Robert Kushner | 50,000 |
| Eric Baldwin | 47,800 |
| Andrew Pierz | 47,500 |
| Nick Schulman | 45,000 |
| Scotty Nguyen | 44,600 |
| Eric Hershler | 42,900 |
| Ben Palmer | 41,900 |
| Jimmy Tran | 41,000 |
| Michael Sinclair | 40,000 |
| Kenna James | 36,600 |
| Bruce Kramer | 35,400 |
| Michael Schwartz | 33,700 |
| Andrew Watson | 32,500 |
| Avinash Kataria | 32,300 |
| Ira Friedman | 31,700 |
| Ardavan Yazdi | 28,700 |
| Tony Gargano | 28,400 |
| Brock Parker | 27,400 |
| A.P. Phahurat | 25,800 |
| David Sands | 24,900 |
| Phil Collins | 18,900 |
| Tim West | 18,800 |
| Larry Wright | 16,800 |
| David Levi | 15,600 |
| Ray Davis | 11,700 |
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