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Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville Main Event Prize Pool Exceeds $500,000

The Third Annual CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Main Event Drew 390 Players

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John DolanDay 1b of the Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville main event was a record setting day. For the third time in three seasons of the CPPT, the northern Florida card room has put on a $1,500 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee main event, but the numbers this time around surpassed all expectations. Accumulating a prize pool of $526,500 and 390 entrants, the tournament is now the largest CPPT bestbet main event to date.

The winner will take home $109,733, the second largest first place prize payout of the season this far. In all, 44 players will share in a piece of the prizepool. The runner-up with leave with more than $76,000 and the minimum cashers will take home no less than $3,135.

A total of 67 players survived over the course of two starting days with 2010 World Series of Poker main event 6th place finisher John Dolan leading the pack. Throughout day 1b Dolan amassed a stack of 306,700. World Poker Tour champion Aaron Mermelstein and WSOP Circuit winner Darryll Fish trail Dolan with stacks of 258,900 and 214,500 respectively.

Local legends Moses Clepper, Eddy Mroczkowski and Mark Stephen Edwards will return on day 2, along with former final-tablists of this event Yi Li, TK Miles, Erik Christensen and Jalen Coyle.

Day 2 begins at 12pm local time and live updates will be provided on CardPlayer.com throughout the day.

Day 2 Chip Counts

Rank Player Chip Count
1 John Dolan 306,700
2 Aaron Mermelstein 258,900
3 Ray Weaver 234,600
4 Rob Searles 229,300
5 Heng Zhang 222,100
6 Darryll Fish 214,500
7 Michael McDonald 210,400
8 TK Miles 209,000
9 Brett Silverman 206,200
10 Luis Torres 185,000
11 Richard Samonsky 180,700
12 James Brown 176,200
13 Joseph DiChiario 174,200
14 Brandon Miller 172,500
15 Derek Updegraff 170,900
16 Jalen Coyle 170,100
17 Henry Theiling 167,700
18 Hoi Ream 159,000
19 Jeff Flaschen 157,700
20 Talesh Patel 138,700
21 Keith Boatright 138,000
22 Enos Smith 132,000
23 Scott Kehr 129,700
24 Wilbur Augenstein 129,300
25 Collin Wilson 126,500
26 Rory McCoid 122,300
27 George Woofe 120,100
28 David Trager 117,100
29 Vincent Caruso 113,000
30 Carl McGowan 111,000
31 Antony Vidmer 107,200
32 Pete Tinnesz 105,300
33 Allison Hollander 103,000
34 David Yeazell 100,700
35 Andrew Dykeman 98,500
36 Matthew Wright 97,200
37 Jeff Klein 93,800
38 Robert Wesley 93,600
39 Jeff Trudeau 93,200
40 Tanner Martinelli 89,800
41 Lawrence Paden 88,300
42 Chad DeBerry 88,000
43 Andrew Lindenfelser 87,200
44 Daniel Cosmo 87,200
45 Kevin Baker 86,000
46 Willie Lawrence 83,100
47 George Levin 75,300
48 Toby Matthews 73,200
49 Willy Harris 73,100
50 Eddy Mroczkowski 65,000
51 Erik Christensen 64,100
52 Ben Carli 64,000
53 Moses Clepper 63,200
54 Matthew Zimmerman 58,000
55 Gary Parr 51,300
56 Diane Casino 51,200
57 Dalton Mills 50,800
58 Jonathan Cook 50,300
59 Yi Chi Li 49,800
60 Mike Heflin 48,900
61 John O’Neal 39,900
62 Raston Stakes 39,000
63 Richard Tredwell 26,750
64 Mark Stephen Edwards 22,000
65 Corbea Murra 21,900
66 Rusty Stowe 18,800
67 Stephen Cheski 14,500