Final Table Set In Card Player Poker Tour Caribbean Cruise Main EventNate Patten Leads Final Five, Barry Shulman Eliminated On The Bubble |
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Only five players remain in the inaugural Card Player Poker Tour Caribbean Cruise $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event, hosted by Card Player Cruises aboard the incredible MS Oasis of the Seas. Each of final five are in the money and guaranteed at least a $3,720 payday, but surely they all have their eyes on the title and the $13,200 first-place prize.
Nate "Big Country" Patten
Q and Shulman revealed the J
J
. The board ran out K
63A2, giving Patten the winning hand, bursting the money bubble and sending Shulman to the rail in sixth place.
Second in chips is Fred Samelian with 280,000. The 66-year-old construction executive is closely followed by Bob Deemer, a 42-year-old computer programer for ESPN who ended the day with 276,000.
The final two players are both below the average stack size of 258,000. Marie-Josee McDuff entered the day with as the second shortest stack, but the 32-year-old police officer from Montreal, Quebec ended up with 167,000.
Rounding out the final five is Matthew Burnitz, who ended days 1 and 2 as the chip leader. Although the Bear, DE resident will have the shortest stack with 130,000 in chips, he brings the strongest resume with $642,434 in prior tournament cashes including a runner-up finish in the 2012 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open main event.
The final five will return to hour-long blind levels tomorrow as they play on to determine who will be the first-ever champion of the CPPT Caribbean Cruise main event. Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for a recap and interview with the winner.
Here is a look at the chip counts for the final five:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Nate “Big Country” Patten | 437,000 |
| 2 | Fred Samelian | 280,000 |
| 3 | Bob Deemer | 276,000 |
| Chip Average: 258,000 | ||
| 4 | Marie-Josee McDuff | 167,000 |
| 5 | Matthew Burnitz | 130,000 |
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