2017 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean's 11 San Diego Classic: Recap of Flights 1C and 1D517 Entries Have Been Made Through The First Four Starting Flights |
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The second day of the 2017 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic has wrapped up and if today was any indication, this event is going to be massive! A total of 517 entries have now been made through the first four starting flights of this exciting tournament, meaning that the prize pool has already grown to $103,400 with two $250 buy-in starting flights and Quantum Reload day 2 direct buy-in still available.
The Quantum Reload option is for those who do not want to fight their way through day 1 qualifiers in this massive CPPT event. Players can enter on day 2 for $1,500 and receive an average chip stack of 120,000 with blinds starting at 1,000 – 2,000 that day.
Friday, July 21 saw flights 1C and 1D take place, with the former drawing 121 entries and the later attracting 140. The two flights added $52,200 to the prize pool, bringing the total into the six-figure range with a huge turnout anticipated for Saturday’s 1E and 1F flights.
From the 261 entries made on Friday, only 39 players made it through to day 2, with none other than Card Player columnist and poker triple crown winner Gavin Griffin bagging up the largest stack from either of Friday’s flights. Griffin, who has main event titles on the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour in addition to a World Series of Poker gold bracelet, ended the day with 263,000. Griffin finished 11th in this event back in April and is in good shape to improve on that performance with another deep run this time around.
Another big stack who has prior success on the Card Player Poker Tour is Maxx Dansky, who ended the day with 180,500. Dansky topped a field of 800 entries to win the 2012 CPPT Choctaw main event for $152,008.
In the four flights so far only one player has qualified for day 2 more than once: Reza Emtiaz. Players that qualify multiple times will take their largest stack forward and be paid $1,200 in lieu of any additional entry into day 2. In this case, Emtiaz will end up coming back to the 47,000 that he bagged up at the conclusion of flight 1A, given that he doesn’t qualify again with a bigger stack.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts of the players that have qualified for day 2, combining the survivors from flights 1 A-D:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | John Meekhall | 385,000 |
| 2 | Gavin Griffin | 263,000 |
| 3 | Shaun Davis | 248,500 |
| 4 | Steven Wendroff | 247,500 |
| 5 | Jolen LaPerna | 228,500 |
| 6 | Benjamin Jensen | 226,400 |
| 7 | Barry Seidman | 187,000 |
| 8 | Ryan Smith | 185,000 |
| 9 | Maxx Dansky | 180,500 |
| 10 | Ken Herold | 177,000 |
| 11 | Anders Wright | 176,000 |
| 12 | Sam Muhlmeister | 174,500 |
| 13 | Larry Conklin | 155,500 |
| 14 | Josh Mountain | 153,300 |
| 15 | Severino Cabrera | 144,000 |
| 16 | Christopher Black | 132,000 |
| 17 | Juan Vazquez | 130,500 |
| 18 | Steve Moshiki | 123,000 |
| 19 | Ori Kossonogi | 119,500 |
| 20 | Chris Ashtari | 116,500 |
| 21 | Micah Cade | 113,500 |
| 22 | Gary Fessia | 113,500 |
| 23 | Greg Baron | 112,500 |
| 24 | Bradford Lawn | 112,000 |
| 25 | Jerry Linn Holland | 111,500 |
| 26 | Hien Ly | 111,000 |
| 27 | Daniel Polerecky | 110,500 |
| 28 | Robert Ostler | 108,500 |
| 29 | Kevin Meyers | 103,000 |
| 30 | Jason Semo | 102,500 |
| 31 | Tony Gonzalez | 99,100 |
| 32 | William Berman | 98,000 |
| 33 | Stefan DeLorenzo | 97,500 |
| 34 | Willie Gardner | 91,500 |
| 35 | Russel Davies | 91,500 |
| 36 | Indo Nguyen | 91,000 |
| 37 | Vladimir Medvisnky | 89,300 |
| 38 | Stephen Winters | 84,000 |
| 39 | Charlie Quirmbach | 81,500 |
| 40 | Josh Virnick | 80,500 |
| 41 | John Sherfy | 79,500 |
| 42 | Chadd Cunningham | 78,000 |
| 43 | Daniel Mantini | 78,000 |
| 44 | Jonathan Persekian | 75,000 |
| 45 | Bryan Bui | 73,000 |
| 46 | Jose Cisneros | 72,800 |
| 47 | Rich Hendricks | 72,000 |
| 48 | Sebastian Triscar | 71,500 |
| 49 | Darryl Mann | 70,500 |
| 50 | Juan Marquez | 70,000 |
| 51 | Paul Miller | 68,800 |
| 52 | Jerry Hamilton | 68,500 |
| 53 | Brian Comestro | 66,000 |
| 54 | Rene DelLacova | 60,500 |
| 55 | Michael Velasquez | 59,000 |
| 56 | Manual Hernandez | 58,500 |
| 57 | Thomas Woodard | 58,000 |
| 58 | Kenneth Espinoza | 55,700 |
| 59 | Tin Pham | 52,500 |
| 60 | Alan Ho | 52,400 |
| 61 | Jose Araya | 51,000 |
| 62 | William Leunis | 50,500 |
| 63 | Robert Hoag | 50,000 |
| 64 | Chris Conn | 48,500 |
| 65 | Reza Emtiaz | 47,000 |
| 66 | Joe Stiglich | 41,500 |
| 67 | Everett Roff | 40,500 |
| 68 | Ebony Kenney | 39,300 |
| 79 | Michael Piellucci | 39,200 |
| 70 | Chris Marano | 36,600 |
| 71 | Charles Teplitz | 36,500 |
| 72 | Ed Tamura | 33,300 |
| 73 | Richard Furfaro | 32,500 |
| 74 | Israel Veliz | 30,000 |
| 75 | Josh Jackson | 29,500 |
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Previous winners of this event include Shawn Busse, Robert DeAgazio and Barry Knowlton. For more information, please visit the CPPT homepage.
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