Card Player Poker Tour: Young Oh Leads Day 1B Hollywood Park CasinoA Total of 94 Players Showed Up For Day 1B |
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Pocket jacks skyrocketed Young Oh to the chiplead on day 1b of the Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Westside Poker Championship.
In what shaped up to be easily the largest hand of the tournament since it began Oct. 23, Oh won a four-way all-in half-million chip pot to take the lead. Peter Hengsakul raised to 15,000 from the hijack seat and a player going by the name of DD re-rasied to 25,000 from the cutoff. Oh called from the small blind and Jon Statsinger moved all-in for 71,500 from the big blind. Hengaskul came over the top for 140,00 and DD called. Oh called and the players saw a flop of 8
7
5
. Oh then moved all in for 69,500 and DD called.
The hands were tabled with Oh showing J
J, Hengsakul with 1010, DD holding AQ and Statsinger with A9. Oh was ahead and remained there when the 2 fell on the turn. He then raked in the massive pot when the 8 opened on the river and when his chips were stacked, Oh was up to 620,000.
When chips were bagged for the nigh, Oh put away 604,000.
Brian Gorman, Derrick Mokedi and Marilyn Phillips each tried for a second time on day 1b, while Bicycle Casino tournament director Mo Fathipour, prelim winner Jason Mendelson, Michael McMillian, Jerry Mansfield and Hero Aquiluz were a few notables who showed up for the first time on day 1b.
Combined with the totals from day 1a, there are 196 entries so far with one more day 1 remaining.
Players across the three day 1s have until the start of level 9, roughly 4:15 pm each day to register for the tournament and re-entry is allowed an unlimited number of times during the registration periods. However, players can only qualify for day 2 one time and no best stack forward option will be offered.
All players who make day 2 will be in the money and once a final table is reached, a live stream will be featured on CardPlayer.com until a winner is crowned.
Return to CardPlayer.com each day for live updates on all the action straight from the tournament floor. Day 1c will begin at 12 pm.
Day 1B Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Young Oh | 604,000 |
| 2 | Brian Gorman | 522,000 |
| 3 | DD | 430,000 |
| 4 | Greg Wholey | 336,000 |
| 5 | Frank The Tank | 229,000 |
| 6 | Carolyn Murray | 201,000 |
| 7 | Jason Mendelson | 147,000 |
| 8 | Huy Pham | 145,000 |
| 9 | Paul Chung | 144,000 |
| 10 | Zhen Li | 62,000 |
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