Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville Main Event Prize Pool Exceeds $500,000The Third Annual CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Main Event Drew 390 Players |
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Day 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 |