Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis Day 1B -- Ron Pease Leads Heading Into Final DayCPPT Foxwoods Champ Tops The Remaining 39 Players |
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Day 1B of the $1,100 no-limit hold’em Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis main event saw almost double the amount of players of Day 1A come out to take their crack at a guaranteed $125,000 prizepool.
117 players made their way to the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Saturday afternoon the second of the two starting days and after 10, one hour levels of play, only 27 remained. That leaves 39 players still alive heading into the final day
Ron Pease emerged as the chip leader at the day’s end with 155,300 in chips. That puts him as the overall chip leader in the tournament, just ahead of Damon Shulenberger who finished Day 1A with 142,100 in chips.
Pease, who failed to make it through Day 1A, fired another bullet at the event on Day 1B and had a much better showing. He is looking to become the first player in CPPT history to win back-to-back Main Events. Pease took down the CPPT Foxwoods main event in February, defeating Chris Tryba heads-up to take home $91,347.
“I just try to end every day as the chip leader,” said Pease with a laugh. Pease also went into the final day in Foxwoods as the chip leader.
Some other players who are near the top of the Day 1B chip counts are Erkut Yilmaz, Vincent Remmell, and Neil Blumenfield. They bagged 127,600, 127,400, and 125,500, respectively.
Not everybody was able to survive the day though. Joe Fernandez, Shawn Daniels, Candace Collins, and Ken Jorgensen were a few of the notable players here that were unable to make it through the day.
The 117 players that registered for the event on 1B brought the total field size for both starting days to 182 players, which generated a prizepool of $176,540. That surpassed the guarantee by more than $50,000.
The top 18 finishers will make the money, with a min-cash being worth $2,367 and $47,665 set to go to the eventual champion.
The remaining 39 players who are still vying for the first place prize money and the CPPT title will return to the Atlantis on Sunday at 1 pm and will play down to a winner.
Here are a look at the overall chip counts heading into the final day:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ron Pease | 155,300 |
| 2 | Damon Shulenberger | 142,100 |
| 3 | Erkut Yilmaz | 127,600 |
| 4 | Vincent Remmell | 127,400 |
| 5 | Neal Blumenfield | 125,500 |
| 6 | Dustin Fox | 116,800 |
| 7 | Joe Wirtz | 115,400 |
| 8 | Brandon Honig | 108,300 |
| 9 | Jon Patrick Rhamey | 95,500 |
| 10 | David Gallagher | 94,200 |
| 11 | Bobby Pham | 93,900 |
| 12 | Mike Harvey | 93,200 |
| 13 | Ron Gil | 76,600 |
| 14 | Greg Pincombs | 74,600 |
| 15 | David Lucchesi | 70,700 |
| 16 | Mitchell Cogert | 70,600 |
| 17 | Daniel Chamberlain | 70,200 |
| 18 | Dallas Elwell | 69,900 |
| 19 | Kuei Olson | 67,900 |
| 20 | Ravi Shanmugam | 66,300 |
| 21 | Aaron Easley | 63,800 |
| 22 | Daniel Schneider | 60,800 |
| 23 | Jed Hoffman | 60,000 |
| 24 | Alan Mastic | 57,500 |
| 25 | Gary Grover | 56,300 |
| 26 | Randy Gil | 54,600 |
| 27 | Tanya Kirk | 51,300 |
| 28 | George Kleinman | 45,000 |
| 29 | Vic Campana | 43,700 |
| 30 | Shawn Von Ashford | 42,500 |
| 31 | Bob Mather | 41,600 |
| 32 | Gerald Rahmn | 37,200 |
| 33 | Irvin Arquiza | 31,200 |
| 34 | Bill Watchman | 29,600 |
| 35 | Michael Blackwell | 25,100 |
| 36 | Trish Potter | 24,800 |
| 37 | William Chau | 24,500 |
| 38 | Rafael Ibaibarriaga | 14,500 |
| 39 | Ed Lamb | 12,600 |
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