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2017 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $5,000 Main Event Draws 688 Entries

Prize Pool Swells To Nearly $3.2 Million With $655,847 Going To The Eventual Champion

by Erik Fast  |  Published: Jul 20, 2017

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The 2017 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $5,000 buy-in no-limit main event drew a massive field of 688 players, building a $3,199,200 prize pool that blew away the $2,000,000 guarantee. The tournament’s two starting flights drew 539 entries, with an additional 149 entries made on day 2. This marks an impressive growth of nearly 28 percent in field size over the 2016 running of this event, which drew 537 entries. As a result of the huge turnout, the champion of this event will walk away with a first-place prize of $655,847. The top six-finishers will all cash for six-figures.

By the end of day 2 the field was narrowed to just 95 players, with the top 72 players set to make the money on day 3. The chip leader at the end of the night was Troy Quenneville with 451,200.

John DolanThe 2016 WPT Caribbean Poker Party main event winner has some pretty big names hot on his heels, including former November Niner John Dolan (442,100), 2011 Little One for One Drop winner Paul Hoefer (440,000), 2016 WSOP $5,000 no-limit bracelet winner Ankush Mandavia (438,000) and three-time World Poker Tour main event winner Chino Rheem (401,300). And that’s just the top five stacks.

Other accomplished pros in the top 25 include Matt Giannetti, Sergio Aido, Dylan Wilkerson, Dylan Linde, Barry Hutter, David Sands, James Obst, Brett Richey, Ravi Raghavan, Ryan Laplante and Byron Kaverman.

While the remaining field is stacked, plenty of notables did hit the rail on day 2, including 2016 CPPT Venetian champion Jon Turner, poker triple crown winner Mohsin Charania, Michael Mizrachi, Jake Schindler, Scott Clements, Liv Boeree, Card Player Publisher and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Barry Shulman, 2001 WSOP main event winner Carlos Mortensen and 2015 Card Player Player of the Year Anthony Zinno.

The final 95 will return at noon on Thursday to (attempt) play down to a final table, which will play out on Friday.

Here is a look at the chip counts and seat assignments heading into Day 3:

Rank Player Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Troy Quenneville 451,200 3 6
2 John Dolan 442,100 5 3
3 Paul Hoefer 440,000 6 9
4 Ankush Mandavia 438,000 6 1
5 Chino Rheem 401,300 2 6
6 Matt Giannetti 393,700 13 1
7 Sergio Aldo 356,000 1 2
8 Dylan Wilkerson 354,700 3 3
9 Daniel Perkins 346,700 5 5
10 Artem Metalidi 333,800 14 8
11 Dylan Linde 324,300 14 7
12 Barry Hutter 317,000 5 9
13 David Sands 307,700 15 4
14 James Obst 307,500 16 7
15 Dan DiZenzo 306,400 16 2
16 Jimmy Guerrero 300,000 2 1
17 Brett Richey 296,500 1 9
18 Jimmy D’Ambrosio 284,700 3 2
19 Ravi Raghavan 281,200 3 1
20 Vladimir Dobrovolskii 276,900 3 7
21 Ryan Laplante 275,000 15 6
22 Petr Bortagov 267,000 13 6
23 Byron Kaverman 255,700 2 3
24 Felix Schulze 253,200 1 3
25 Eyal Al Revah 251,800 6 4
26 Tsang Yan Shing 242,800 5 2
27 Tamer Kamel 237,500 3 4
28 Thu Nguyen 236,000 3 8
29 Danny Noam 227,100 16 6
30 Renick Patterson 227,000 5 4
31 Dimitar Danchev 221,500 6 8
32 Chris Tryba 214,900 6 3
33 Bobby Suer 214,800 17 3
34 Oliver Price 213,500 15 2
35 Jesse Sylvia 200,800 15 5
36 Fabian Ortiz 197,500 4 3
37 Jake Schwartz 197,200 2 2
38 Pfizer Jordan 185,500 14 3
39 Adrian Mateos Diaz 184,500 16 3
40 Paul Volpe 179,500 1 7
41 Kurt Fitzgerald 175,000 15 8
42 Jose Gonzalez 175,000 17 4
43 Eugene Katchalov 168,500 1 8
44 Paul Martinez 163,500 6 2
45 Alex Rocha 163,000 6 6
46 Craig Varnell 162,400 4 7
47 Jared Hamby 156,300 4 1
48 Nabil Mohamed 152,200 17 2
49 Martin Jacobson 151,900 13 2
50 Will Berry 149,600 6 7
51 Daniel Merrilees 149,500 5 8
52 Jordan Meltzer 148,400 2 7
53 Shane Delaney 144,000 15 9
54 Dan Hicks 141,200 17 9
55 Mohsen Mousaui 138,600 13 3
56 Matt Affleck 138,600 17 1
57 Toan Trinh 136,800 5 1
58 Christopher Staats 130,200 16 9
59 Joseph Drory 127,900 13 7
60 James Cavanaugh 123,100 5 6
61 Arnold Spee 122,200 14 4
62 Ardavan Yadzi 121,100 3 9
63 Cate Hall 121,000 4 8
64 Javier Gomez 110,300 14 1
65 Dung Nguyen 110,300 17 8
66 Justin Zaki 110,200 16 8
67 Ben Palmer 99,700 17 6
68 Eric Blair 96,900 2 9
69 Thomas Gabriel 96,500 2 8
70 Shannon Shorr 93,500 4 6
71 Jon Cohen 93,000 17 5
72 Ryan Phan 92,900 14 6
73 Anthony Diotte 90,200 15 7
74 Kristen Bicknell 90,100 2 4
75 Zhaoxing Wang 86,600 15 1
76 Ognyan Dimov 80,300 14 2
77 Theodoros Tsianos 79,100 14 5
78 Craig Mason 76,400 16 4
79 Layne Flack 72,300 4 4
80 Anthony Spinella 67,300 6 5
81 Benjamin Reinhart 66,700 4 9
82 Stephen Chidwick 66,300 1 1
83 Eric Baldwin 64,400 17 7
84 Samuel Bernabeau 64,000 14 9
85 Jimmy Tran 59,900 1 6
86 Andjelko Andrejevic 51,600 13 4
87 Joshua Ladines 50,700 16 5
88 Nicholas Petitti 50,000 5 7
89 Brian Okin 44,700 13 5
90 Robert Lofazo 42,800 13 8
91 Tommy Chen 40,000 1 4
92 Vito Recchimuro 39,700 16 1
93 Roman Valerstein 37,900 15 3
94 Kevin Calenzo 37,700 13 9
95 TJ Thondup 28,600 4 2
 
 
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