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Card Player Poker Tour: Tryba Going For Title, Raymer Still Alive

The Main Event Crushed the $300,000 Guarantee

by Diana Cox  |  Published: Feb 07, 2015  |  

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Chris TrybaA 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 RaymerGreg 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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Tags: Poker Tournaments,   Card Player Poker Tour,   CPPT,   Foxwoods,   Mashantucket,   Connecticut
 
 
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