Card Player Poker Tour: Tryba Going For Title, Raymer Still AliveThe Main Event Crushed the $300,000 Guarantee |
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A mass of players swarmed the tournament area at Foxwoods Resort Casino beginning Saturday morning for the Card Player Poker Tour $1,650 no-limit hold’em $300,00 guarantee main event. The steady stream of players taking their seats continued throughout most of the day as the reentry period remained open and then a second starting flight got underway in the early evening hours.
Flight 1A amassed a field of 188 entries, nearly making the guarantee in its own right, and set the stage for the prize pool to swell far beyond $300,000. Flight 1B saw 94 players pony up the money, bringing the total prize pool to $410,310 and ensuring the winner will take home $94,084. In total, 36 players will make the money with payouts starting at $3,200.
Of the 282 players who started day 1, only 98 remained when chips were bagged for the night. Todd Mitchell picked up the overall chiplead with 285,300. Bart Guthie and Konstantinos Katkakis were not far behind with 235,400 and 213,500.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Chris Tryba might be a little hungrier for the win than the rest of the field as he came in second in this very event last year.
Greg Raymer, the 2004 WSOP main event champion and four-time Heartland Poker Tour champion, has the chance to add a CPPT title to his lengthy resume. But before either man can take home the trophy, they will need to last through another day and a field that also includes 2006 World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Open winner Victor Ramdin, David Stefanski, Je Wook Oh, Roland Israelashvili, Tom Dobrilovic and Stanley Lee.
Day 2 will begin Sunday at 12 pm EST and once again, live updates and videos throughout the day will be featured on cardplayer.com.
Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation. A complex of six casinos, the resort covers an area of 4,700,000 square feet. The casinos have more than 380 gaming tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker and have more than 6,300 slot machines. There are several restaurants within the casinos, among them, is a Hard Rock Cafe. Foxwoods has 2,266 hotel rooms and a two-story arcade for children and teens.
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into day 2:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Todd Mitchell | 285,300 |
| 2 | Bart Guthrie | 235,400 |
| 3 | Konstantinos Katikakis | 213,500 |
| 4 | Ryan Mostafa | 188,000 |
| 5 | Sean Kelly | 181,300 |
| 6 | Jay Feingold | 177,800 |
| 7 | Chris Tryba | 173,300 |
| 8 | Chris Manning | 167,300 |
| 9 | Aaron Shepard | 167,000 |
| 10 | Roland Israelishvilli | 165,700 |
| 11 | Bryan Leskowitz | 158,900 |
| 12 | Nicholas Palma, | 154,400 |
| 13 | Samuel Taylor | 139,700 |
| 14 | Ryan Eriquezzo | 138,600 |
| 15 | Fred Paradis | 138,000 |
| 16 | Pas Caruso | 136,100 |
| 17 | Stanley Lee | 136,100 |
| 18 | Steve Happas | 135,800 |
| 19 | Dilip Kumar Patel | 134,500 |
| 20 | Joseph Stiers | 131,700 |
| 21 | Raj Patel | 130,700 |
| 22 | Robert Mielcarek | 130,000 |
| 23 | Kevin Bieber | 128,200 |
| 24 | Rachel Kranz | 127,800 |
| 25 | Bharath Sreekanth | 127,500 |
| 26 | Michael Pizzarella | 125,700 |
| 27 | Paul Freedman | 116,600 |
| 28 | Tarun Gulati | 114,500 |
| 29 | Frank Sgambato | 111,000 |
| 30 | Long Tran | 106,500 |
| 31 | Chris Schonbach | 106,000 |
| 32 | Robert Holtz | 102,300 |
| 33 | Greg Raymer | 100,000 |
| 34 | James Rubin | 96,900 |
| 35 | Stephen Posa | 96,600 |
| 36 | Dusean Brown | 88,200 |
| 37 | Jeffrey Saunders | 88,000 |
| 38 | Sharman Oshan | 87,800 |
| 39 | David Doucette | 87,000 |
| 40 | Brian LeBlanc | 86,700 |
| 41 | Victor Ramdin | 84,600 |
| 42 | Jason Calnan | 84,200 |
| 43 | Michael Borchetta | 84,000 |
| 44 | Andrew Badecker | 79,600 |
| 45 | Chien Vo | 77,600 |
| 46 | James Magner | 77,300 |
| 47 | David Kurtz | 75,900 |
| 48 | Doug Jacoby | 73,100 |
| 49 | Nicholas Cyr | 71,600 |
| 50 | Bill Gagnon | 71,000 |
| 51 | Dionissios Panagopolous | 71,000 |
| 52 | Michael Nye | 70,500 |
| 53 | Paul Gileno | 69,500 |
| 54 | Brian Essenter | 66,100 |
| 55 | Bobby Corcione | 65,200 |
| 56 | Sam Haddad | 65,000 |
| 57 | Matthew Donovan | 64,300 |
| 58 | Sammy Wu | 63,400 |
| 59 | Jason Ruotolo | 60,700 |
| 60 | Billy Pappas | 60,500 |
| 61 | Patrick Kelly | 59,000 |
| 62 | Ehsan Ghops | 56,600 |
| 63 | Ben Chou | 55,600 |
| 64 | Bruce Beane | 55,200 |
| 65 | Patrick Donnelly | 55,000 |
| 66 | Anthony DiStefano | 52,300 |
| 67 | Muhammad Abdel-Rahim | 52,000 |
| 68 | John Andrews | 51,200 |
| 69 | Ken Rawlinson | 49,600 |
| 70 | Joseph Giulino | 47,200 |
| 71 | Matthew Wantman | 47,100 |
| 72 | Douglas Benedict | 46,500 |
| 73 | James Campbell | 44,700 |
| 74 | Bill Wachter | 44,500 |
| 75 | Shawn Beaudreault | 43,600 |
| 76 | James Frangelidis | 43,500 |
| 77 | Carl DiVoglia III | 40,800 |
| 78 | Tom Dobrilovic | 40,500 |
| 79 | Malik Curry | 40,000 |
| 80 | Ted Driscoll | 39,700 |
| 81 | Bryan Barrile | 38,900 |
| 82 | Steven Weeks | 38,400 |
| 83 | David Olshan | 35,000 |
| 84 | Dan Chakfour | 33,500 |
| 85 | Marsel Backa | 32,600 |
| 86 | David Stefanski | 31,300 |
| 87 | JeWook Oh | 27,200 |
| 88 | David Anderson | 26,900 |
| 89 | Siddharth Dutta | 26,100 |
| 90 | Mark Bramley | 22,600 |
| 91 | Dominick Pelli | 22,500 |
| 92 | John Babu | 20,800 |
| 93 | David Grandieri | 20,300 |
| 94 | Jennings, Bill | 18,100 |
| 95 | Carl DiVeglia III | 17,100 |
| 96 | Troy Emmi | 11,000 |
| 97 | Jimmy Nunez | 9,600 |
| 98 | Keith Romanovitz | N/A |
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