PokerStars North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Main Event -- Day 2Only 81 Players Remain In Hunt For $725,000 First-Place Prize |
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Day 2 of the PokerStars NAPT Los Angeles main event was, for lack of a better term, fast and furious. There have been numerous examples over the years of tournaments that played just a bit quicker than the escalating blinds dictated, but the field at the Bicycle Casino somehow managed to make all of those look like a turtle trudging through wet cement.
To give you a better idea, here’s a look at the numbers. A total of 314 players began the day and just seven levels later, the field had reached the money and called it a night with 81 survivors. That amounts to losing a player nearly every two and a half minutes.
You may think an absurd blinds structure was the culprit, but all the returning players will start day 3 with an average of over 43 big blinds. The tournament moved so quickly that there wasn’t even enough time for hand-for-hand play when the money bubble approached at 105 players.
Instead, Carter King managed to lose roughly 350 big blinds to bust just shy of the money, making his 104 colleagues at least $7,500 richer. King’s elimination hand was the most talked about hand of the day and had many players and observers shaking their heads with bewilderment.
Micah Raskin raised preflop to 11,000 and got action from both the small blind and King in the big blind. The flop came down 8
65
and Raskin continued with a bet of 15,000.
The small blind folded and King raised to 40,000. Raskin then made it 100,000. King responded by moving all in for a total of 175,000. Raskin snap called and amazingly turned over A
10
for ace high.
Even more incredibly, King had the worst hand with 109 for a straight flush draw. Both players rose to their feet and the turn and river fell 83, giving the enormous pot to Raskin and sending King to the rail as the official bubble boy. Raskin rode the success of that pot to an end of the day stack of 515,500, good enough for sixth place overall.
Joining Raskin among the leaders are Tom Middleton (519,000), Bryn Kenney (586,000), Team PokerStars Pro Anh Van Nguyen (614,000), Travis Pearson (835,000) and the chip leader, Jimmie Guinther (894,000).
Other notables remaining in the field include Jason Mercier, Phil Laak, Matt Affleck, Mike Sowers, Michael Binger, Ty Reiman, Mike Leah, Gavin Griffin, Christina Lindley and Card Player Player of the Year leader Tom Marchese. Also still in the hunt are identical twins Aaron and Derek Lerner who are hoping to coast to a 1-2 finish.
Here’s a look at the chip counts of the remaining 81 players.
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Count |
| 1 | Jimmie Guinther | 894,000 |
| 2 | Travis Pearson | 835,000 |
| 3 | Anh Van Nguyen | 614,000 |
| 4 | Bryn Kenney | 586,000 |
| 5 | Tom Middleton | 519,000 |
| 6 | Micah Raskin | 515,500 |
| 7 | Tom Lee | 509,000 |
| 8 | Nicholas Verkaik | 495,500 |
| 9 | Mike Sowers | 481,000 |
| 10 | Michael Binger | 474,000 |
| 11 | Joseph Melancon | 467,500 |
| 12 | Mark Ader | 452,500 |
| 13 | Ryan Welch | 448,000 |
| 14 | Paul Kuzmich | 435,500 |
| 15 | Jacob Toole | 424,500 |
| 16 | Tomas Elexhauser | 421,000 |
| 17 | George Lind | 407,000 |
| 18 | Fabian Holling | 399,500 |
| 19 | Phil Laak | 377,000 |
| 20 | Ray Henson | 349,000 |
| 21 | Alan Myerson | 335,000 |
| 22 | David Sesso | 331,000 |
| 23 | Nick Grippo | 322,500 |
| 24 | Robert Reyna | 320,500 |
| 25 | Rep Porter | 316,000 |
| 26 | Matt Affleck | 307,500 |
| 27 | James Casement | 298,500 |
| 28 | Tim Begley | 295,000 |
| 29 | Al Grimes | 288,800 |
| 30 | Larry Lipman | 281,500 |
| 31 | Mike Leah | 280,500 |
| 32 | Derek Lerner | 276,000 |
| 33 | Steven Goosen | 271,000 |
| 34 | Joe Tehan | 267,500 |
| 35 | Chris Klodnicki | 265,000 |
| 36 | Garrett Thompson | 252,500 |
| 37 | Robert Acton | 252,000 |
| 38 | Christopher Demaci | 247,000 |
| 39 | Eric Haber | 246,500 |
| 40 | Carlos Watanabe | 233,500 |
| 41 | Steven Karp | 219,000 |
| 42 | Brian Zimcosky | 218,500 |
| 43 | Romulus Segal | 210,000 |
| 44 | Jonathan Gagnon-Villeneuve | 194,000 |
| 45 | Thomas Young | 191,000 |
| 46 | Carl Beliveau | 188,500 |
| 47 | Jonathan Dull | 185,000 |
| 48 | Anthony Nardi | 181,500 |
| 49 | Niko Deininger | 172,500 |
| 50 | Aaron Lerner | 162,500 |
| 51 | Jason Mercier | 158,000 |
| 52 | Mark De Faria | 153,000 |
| 53 | Aaron Donovan | 149,500 |
| 54 | Bahador Ahmadi | 148,500 |
| 55 | Lawrence Hyman | 146,500 |
| 56 | Romik Vartzar | 146,000 |
| 57 | Gavin Griffin | 143,500 |
| 58 | Blake Kelso | 138,000 |
| 59 | Tyler Hamade | 131,000 |
| 60 | David John | 128,000 |
| 61 | Sebastian Saffari | 126,000 |
| 62 | Ty Reiman | 125,500 |
| 63 | Jared Bleznick | 125,000 |
| 64 | Steve Stolzmann | 124,000 |
| 65 | Alexander Fitzgerald | 119,500 |
| 66 | Ronaldo Bochi | 116,000 |
| 67 | Josh Brikis | 103,500 |
| 68 | Zohair Karim | 96,000 |
| 69 | Wayne Lewis | 96,000 |
| 70 | Carter Gill | 92,500 |
| 71 | Cary Katz | 77,000 |
| 72 | Christina Lindley | 76,000 |
| 73 | Isaac Crow | 76,000 |
| 74 | Joe Ebanks | 75,000 |
| 75 | Peter DeBest | 74,500 |
| 76 | John Bunch | 68,000 |
| 77 | Sameer Aljanedi | 67,500 |
| 78 | Prakai Satong | 55,500 |
| 79 | Thomas Marchese | 54,000 |
| 80 | Shane Schleger | 49,000 |
| 81 | Michele Koerner | 32,500 |
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