2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean's 11: Recap of Flights 1A and 1B184 Entries Have Already Been Made With Four Starting Flights and Day 2 Direct Entry Still Available |
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The first day of the 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic is now in the books! This marks the fifth time that the CPPT has made it’s way to picturesque Oceanside, California to for this $250 buy-in main event. The tournament will once again feature six starting flights spread out over three days (Jan. 25-27). Though the event again features a $150,000 estimated prize pool this year, the event has previously drawn as many as 920 entries to create a prize pool of nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
This year’s event kicked off on Thursday, January 25, with the first two starting flights of six getting underway. Flight 1A drew 111 total entries while flight 1B attracted 73. With 184 total entries so far the prize pool has already grown to $36,800 with four starting flights yet to go. Players can also take advantage of the Quantum Tournament structure of this event and buy in directly for $1,500 on Sunday, Jan. 28 for day 2 and receive 100,000 in tournament chips. Players can also pay a $30 optional staff add-on and receive another 20,000 in chips. Players will only be able to directly buy-in for day 2 up to the start of play at 1:00 p.m. local time.
From the 184 entries in flights 1A and 1B only 28 players survived from the two starting flights that ran today, with George Ferentinos in the lead with 235,100. Here is a look at the complete chip counts of those who have made their way to day 2:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | George Ferentinos | 235,100 |
| 2 | Jody Cooper | 173,500 |
| 3 | Aaron Mergers | 158,000 |
| 4 | Kent McLaren | 147,500 |
| 5 | Eric Harnish | 141,000 |
| 6 | Robert Fortuno | 135,600 |
| 7 | Patrick Mitchell | 118,400 |
| 8 | Adam Demersseman | 115,600 |
| 9 | Mike Brady | 109,000 |
| 10 | Kao Saevang | 104,300 |
| 11 | Richard Spirra | 97,500 |
| 12 | Joey Castanieto | 91,100 |
| 13 | Patty Brown | 91,000 |
| 14 | Zewdie Wondimagegnehu | 89,500 |
| 15 | Alan Ho | 85,500 |
| 16 | Jake Scoratow | 84,500 |
| 17 | Eugene Goom | 84,500 |
| 18 | William Butler | 83,500 |
| 19 | Robert Campbell | 80,000 |
| 20 | Roberto Sanchez | 80,000 |
| 21 | Adam Martel | 78,500 |
| 22 | Keith Morgan | 67,800 |
| 23 | Jeff Chapman | 65,500 |
| 24 | Israel Veliz | 62,000 |
| 25 | Christian Waidelich | 61,000 |
| 26 | Terry Donath | 49,500 |
| 27 | Israel Veliz | 36,000 |
| 28 | Sarvesh Chinnappa | 20,100 |
Ocean’s 11 is the only casino in Southern California located along the Pacific Ocean on the Interstate 5 freeway, less than a mile from some of the area’s most picturesque beaches.
The property also boasts 50 tables of the best poker and table games found anywhere in California with all the favorite poker games, including no-limit and limit hold’em, Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, pot-limit Omaha, and crazy pineapple.
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