Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw: Main Event Guarantee More Than DoubledThe Main Event Brought in a Prize Pool of $636,320 |
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One lucky player is going to leave Choctaw Casino Resort Sunday evening with $130,445 and the title of Card Player Poker Tour champion.
The fourth consecutive running of the CPPT Choctaw no-limit hold’em main event promised a $300,000 prizepool for the price of a $1,080 buy-in. But with a massive turnout of 656 players the guarantee was more than doubled, assuring the final 72 players will leave with a piece of the $636,320 prizepool.
The top prize of over $130,000 will be the largest first place payout of Season III of the CPPT and will put the winner at the top of the current leaderboard, besting Maxim Sorokin who took home $101,619 for winning the CPPT Wynn main event.
Day 1A chipleader Dan Lowery will lead the final 90 players with 501,500 when day 2 begins at 12 pm April 12. World Series of Poker bracelet winner Larry Wright will return to a stack of 264,500.
Defending champion Austin Lewis bagged 143,500 and former runner-up Gary Luther bagged 299,500. Miguel Hernandez, who finished second in this event in 2012, bagged 150,500.
Notable bustouts from day 1B included Jordan Morgan, Jordan Smith, La Sengphet, Nancy Nguyen, Mohammad Arani, Shawn Rice, Tyler Morris and Seneca Easley.
Live updates and a live stream of the final table will be provided on CardPlayer.com.
Day 2 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Dan Lowery | 501,500 |
| 2 | Mark Threadgill | 433,000 |
| 3 | Jim Carroll | 391,000 |
| 4 | Jason Allen | 317,000 |
| 5 | Gary Luther | 299,500 |
| 6 | Larry Wright | 264,500 |
| 7 | Daniel Jones | 262,000 |
| 8 | Matt Newcombe | 252,000 |
| 9 | Master Lynch | 249,500 |
| 10 | Pej Niyati | 247,000 |
| 11 | Rob Dreyfus | 245,500 |
| 12 | Tommy Vedes | 241,500 |
| 13 | Rickie Merritt | 234,500 |
| 14 | Abraham Araya | 228,000 |
| 15 | Herbie Montalbano | 221,000 |
| 16 | Robert Miller | 218,500 |
| 17 | Georke Ritacco | 215,000 |
| 18 | Brett Wells | 212,500 |
| 19 | Jarral D’Andrea | 208,500 |
| 20 | David Roepke | 206,000 |
| 21 | Cristobal Romero | 204,000 |
| 22 | Austin Peck | 200,500 |
| 23 | Gary Mumford | 192,500 |
| 24 | Chan Pelton | 192,000 |
| 25 | Paul Phillips | 190,000 |
| 26 | Justin Wainscott | 187,500 |
| 27 | Danny King | 186,500 |
| 28 | Jonathan Bloyen | 185,000 |
| 29 | Justin Kruger | 170,000 |
| 30 | Gregory Hyman | 170,000 |
| 31 | Brant Hale | 163,500 |
| 32 | T.J. Cloutier | 160,000 |
| 33 | Andrew Watson | 159,500 |
| 34 | Miguel Hernandez | 150,500 |
| 35 | Lyle Glover | 149,000 |
| 36 | Val Wood | 147,500 |
| 37 | AJ Reveile | 145,500 |
| 38 | Fadi Massaad | 144,500 |
| 39 | Katherine Bowen | 144,500 |
| 40 | Tyson Watters | 144,000 |
| 41 | Austin Lewis | 143,500 |
| 42 | Maria Lynn Simmons | 142,500 |
| 43 | Marcus Kwan | 138,000 |
| 44 | Chung Chin Chen | 136,000 |
| 45 | Danny Doucet | 136,000 |
| 46 | Chuck Barker | 136,000 |
| 47 | Emmanuel Ignacio | 125,000 |
| 48 | Orlando Romero | 125,000 |
| 49 | Scott Horvath | 124,000 |
| 50 | Andrew Youngblood | 121,500 |
| 51 | Thomas Krick | 114,500 |
| 52 | Richard Roberts | 114,500 |
| 53 | Srikanth Gottumukkala | 112,500 |
| 54 | Abdel Hamid | 111,500 |
| 55 | Grant Hackney | 110,500 |
| 56 | William Hundley | 108,000 |
| 57 | Daniel Hughes | 100,000 |
| 58 | Bill Pappas | 99,000 |
| 59 | Hend Matthews | 97,500 |
| 60 | Josh Evans | 97,500 |
| 61 | Zachary Hammons | 97,000 |
| 62 | Barry Barron | 96,500 |
| 63 | Lynn Samples | 92,500 |
| 64 | Sam Kim | 92,500 |
| 65 | Dennis Taylor | 90,000 |
| 66 | Ralph Westbrook | 89,000 |
| 67 | Shawn Hansen | 88,000 |
| 68 | James Stone | 87,000 |
| 69 | Pedro Rios | 86,500 |
| 70 | Gerald Kahl | 86,500 |
| 71 | Greg Carson | 73,500 |
| 72 | Robert Bennett | 73,000 |
| 73 | Caleb McCool | 72,500 |
| 74 | Chris Bowen | 70,000 |
| 75 | Daniel Ward | 70,000 |
| 76 | Sean Mates | 68,000 |
| 77 | Michael Raynor | 63,000 |
| 78 | Stephen Brown | 61,000 |
| 79 | Sammy Rosenzuels | 59,500 |
| 80 | Robbie Beck | 57,500 |
| 81 | Reitta Seidel | 56,500 |
| 82 | Wilfred Carrion | 55,500 |
| 83 | Chris Hight | 55,000 |
| 84 | Isaac Do | 50,500 |
| 85 | Ladd Gibke | 48,500 |
| 86 | Steve Ellis | 48,000 |
| 87 | Michele Lorett | 45,500 |
| 88 | Tim Ulrich | 43,000 |
| 89 | Michael Newport | 36,000 |
| 90 | John Scarpulla | 23,000 |
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