2014 Card Player Poker Tour Foxwoods Main Event Beats Guarantee By Nearly $200,000A Total of 340 Entries Built A $494,700 Prize Pool With $113,435 Going To Eventual Champion |
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A total of 340 entries were made in the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Foxwoods $1,650 no-limit hold’em main event, building a total prize pool of $494,700.
That means the event’s $300,000 guarantee was surpassed by just under $200,000! The top 36 finishers will make the money, with a min-cash being worth $3,858 while the eventual champion will take home $113,435 for the win.
Despite relatively heavy snowfall throughout Saturday the turnout for day 1B was impressive. There were 261 total entries today, with that number being comprised of 197 unique players and 64 re-entries. There were plenty of players firing multiple bullets in this event including 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion John Dibella (3), Vinny Pahuja (3), Roland Israelashvili (4), Michael Dentale (4) and Tom Dobrilovic (4).
At the end of the day only 84 players remained the chip leader was Brad St. Vincent with 268,000. Other notables who finished the day with big stacks include Vinny Pahuja (146,800), former card Player tournament reporter and current poker pro Jameson Singer (119,600), Chris Tryba (114,500), 2012 WSOP main event finalist Michael Esposito (98,000) and Ryan Eriquezzo (78,200).
Some big names that turned out but didn’t survive the day include John Dibella and two-time Oscar nominee James Woods.
Day 1B survivors will combine with the 22 who made it through day 1A to make a field of 106 returning on Sunday at 11:00 AM local time for day 2. Make sure to check back here for more live coverage as we try to play down to a final table.
Here is a look at the chip counts of the survivors of day 1B:
Rank | Player | Chip Count |
1 | Brad St. Vincent | 268,000 |
2 | Bob Skinner | 220,000 |
3 | Gennadiy Kostrov | 194,700 |
4 | Mathew Silberzwieg | 187,000 |
5 | Nick Cyr | 185,100 |
6 | David Kluchman | 181,800 |
7 | Ben Bianco | 171,200 |
8 | Jason Calnan | 165,000 |
9 | Tom Thomas | 154,400 |
10 | Vinny Pahuja | 146,800 |
11 | Daniel Pignataro | 142,200 |
12 | Patrick Kelly | 135,000 |
13 | Jordan Ludwick | 129,800 |
14 | Ryan Mostafa | 126,000 |
15 | Jameson Singer | 119,600 |
16 | Chris Tryba | 114,500 |
17 | Greg Konrad | 112,000 |
18 | Chris Schonbach | 110,900 |
19 | David Espinola | 109,500 |
20 | Bob Ricciuti | 100,000 |
21 | Nick Bennett | 100,000 |
22 | Micheal Esposito | 98,000 |
23 | Mark Beamly | 94,000 |
24 | Jeff Einsidier | 93,300 |
25 | John Andrews | 92,700 |
26 | Lucian Cazzello | 92,500 |
27 | Ryan Methia | 89,200 |
28 | Mike Vely | 88,700 |
29 | Bryan Leskowitz | 87,300 |
30 | Bill Cunningham | 87,000 |
31 | Jessica Wuerz | 86,800 |
32 | Rohan Long | 84,300 |
33 | Spyros Malkotsis | 83,600 |
34 | Omar Saaed | 82,600 |
35 | Ryan Eriquezzo | 78,200 |
36 | Adam Bitker | 76,800 |
37 | Roger Palombizio | 72,000 |
38 | Stephen Jurket | 71,800 |
39 | Frank Flowers | 70,900 |
40 | Derek Chin | 70,500 |
41 | Roland Israelashvili | 69,300 |
42 | Mike Jarvela | 69,200 |
43 | Matthew Zola | 67,700 |
44 | Tom Dobrilovic | 66,500 |
45 | Kevin Boesel | 62,000 |
46 | Michael Dentale | 61,100 |
47 | James Campell | 58,700 |
48 | Robert Allain | 57,800 |
49 | Kim Schinco | 51,600 |
50 | Anthony Zinno | 51,300 |
51 | Craig Sklar | 50,900 |
52 | Aaron Smith | 50,100 |
53 | Hilary Dombrowski | 49,000 |
54 | Jim Clark | 47,400 |
55 | Christopher Papa | 46,300 |
56 | Arthur Ohannessian | 44,200 |
57 | Keith Herskowitz | 43,800 |
58 | Paul Francis | 43,100 |
59 | Ramy Ibrahim | 43,000 |
60 | Richard Jordan | 42,800 |
61 | Philip Knezevich | 42,700 |
62 | Philippe Casciola | 42,100 |
63 | Gordon Eng | 41,800 |
64 | Rory Anderson | 40,800 |
65 | Alex Ortiz | 40,000 |
66 | Guisseppe Rubio | 38,800 |
67 | Ken Silberstein | 37,600 |
68 | William Wachter | 36,800 |
69 | Khoskou Gholamreza | 36,300 |
70 | Sean Cleary | 35,400 |
71 | Jon Iacovelli | 28,700 |
72 | Mark Awatt | 28,500 |
73 | Kamar Russell | 26,000 |
74 | Corwyn Canedy | 25,200 |
75 | William Lewis | 22,500 |
76 | Terry Grimes | 21,600 |
77 | Robert Gilber | 21,200 |
78 | Maurice Paradis | 20,100 |
79 | Frank Schino | 19,900 |
80 | Giuseppe Pizzolato | 18,500 |
81 | Jonathan Sorsohen | 17,100 |
82 | Jim Miron | 14,700 |
83 | Jamie Flynn | 14,000 |
84 | Ben Rosado | 12,700 |