Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten: Mark Stephen Edwards Leads Day 1ADay 1A of the Inaugural Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten Main Event Drew 64 Entries |
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With the crisp ocean breeze blowing just outside the doors of Casino Royale and the sound of crashing waves mixing with clicking chips, Mark Stephen Edwards bagged the largest stack of the night on Day 1A of the Card Player Poker Tour St. Maarten inaugural $1,650 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee main event.
Edwards bagged 164,400 followed by Adam Friedman with 161,900 and Andrew Fair with 139,800.
The first of two starting days drew a total of 64 entries including Card Player’s own Barry Shulman, Mark Gregorich, former CPPT bestbet Jacksonville final tablist Yi Li and Carbon Poker online qualifiers Cole Macy, Andy Asnicar and Duane Mispagle.
Card Player’s Allyn Shulman, the only former CPPT main event champion in the field and the tour’s all-time money winner, survived Day 1A with 72,000.
Day 1B will begin Friday at 1:30 pm local time and live updates will be provided throughout the day on CardPlayer.com.
Day 1A Chip Counts
Rank | Player | Chip Count |
1 | Mark Stephen Edwards | 164,400 |
2 | Adam Friedman | 161,900 |
3 | Andrew Fair | 139,800 |
4 | Albert Balayn | 138,200 |
5 | Enrici Christophe | 118,900 |
6 | George Mull | 118,400 |
7 | Marvin Rosen | 109,500 |
8 | Wesley Bundy | 108,900 |
9 | Joel Lirot | 96,200 |
10 | Daniel Snowden | 94,200 |
11 | Myriam Mehnana | 87,700 |
12 | Adam Cedric | 84,200 |
13 | Benichou Paul | 83,800 |
14 | Mike Garcell | 74,600 |
15 | Allyn Shulman | 72,500 |
16 | Desmond Culbert | 61,700 |
17 | Albert Lunenberg | 45,300 |
18 | Cole Macy | 41,200 |
19 | Mark Gregorich | 40,000 |
20 | Duane Mispagel | 39,800 |
21 | Marko Merjjer | 38,000 |