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2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean's 11 San Diego Classic: Recap of Flights 1C and 1D

500 Entries Have Been Made Through The First Four Starting Flights

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The second day of the 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic has come to a close. A total of 500 entries have now been made through the first four starting flights of this exciting tournament, meaning that the prize pool has already grown to $100,000 with two $250 buy-in starting flights and day 2 direct buy-in still available. Players who would like to take advantage of the Quantum Tournament structure of this event can buy directly into day 2 for $1,500 on Sunday, April 29 and receive 100,000 in tournament chips. Players can also pay a $30 optional staff add-on and receive another 20,000 in chips. Players will only be able to directly buy-in for day 2 up to the start of play at 1:00 p.m. local time.

Friday, Apr. 27 saw flights 1C and 1D take place, with the former drawing 133 entries and the later attracting 124. The two flights added $51,400 to the prize pool. Saturday’s 1E and 1F flights are expected to draw the largest turnouts of the weekend.

From the 257 entries made on Friday, only 38 players made it through to day 2, with Malik Adawi being the largest stack to move on to Sunday from flights 1C and 1D, bagging up 353,000.

Here is a look at the complete chip counts of the 74 total players that have qualified for day 2, combining the survivors from flights 1 A-D:

Player Chip Count
Saad Pattah 563,000
Malik Adawi 353,000
Richard Aronow 249,300
Robert Gittleman 212,700
Hunter Miss 187,100
Roberto A.G. Tijuana 186,200
Amando Butalid 185,300
Joseph Brown 184,700
Jose Araya 183,400
Steven Wendroff 152,300
Carol Cianfarani 152,100
Jason Singleton 151,900
Emma Jones 148,500
Alan Marks 143,500
James Saracho 141,900
Jon Canlas 138,000
Steve Firestone 137,300
Eugene Goom 137,300
Britton Scheibe 127,500
Kevin Dooley 127,000
Craig Fouts 126,000
David Leese 122,000
Brian Householder 120,100
Timothy Mahoney 113,500
Lee Duncan 113,000
Richard Hausman 111,500
Don Tilly 111,000
Eugene Goom 109,200
Jerry Hamilton 106,000
Tom Czyszczon 101,500
Scott Aulds 99,500
Benjamiin Jensen 98,800
Michael Retz 95,800
Ryan Niemi 91,700
Keven Ron Haeri 91,700
John Sandberg 91,400
William Leunis 88,000
Phovieng Keokham 84,000
Afzal Atta 82,400
Alan Ho 81,900
Greg Baron 81,100
Bob Hoag 79,500
Adam Raichel 77,000
Seth Brown 73,700
Cordell Miller 70,500
Mike Piellucci 69,600
Mark Walker 67,700
Dan Polerecky 66,700
Jon Gunter 66,000
Michael Kern 65,500
Slava Fisher 65,400
John Chase 65,000
Shawn Englerth 64,500
Eugene Teibloom 63,800
Gail Czyszczon 60,500
William Lewis 59,200
Charles Lavin 58,900
Fred Mahjoob 58,500
Adam Martel 58,200
Bradford Lawn 56,500
Rich Hendricks 55,200
Behzad Javadzadeh 53,400
Elizabeth Krok 51,000
William Berman 50,100
Christine Blake 50,000
William Turner 48,000
Carlo Kalosian 45,100
Alan Lujan 43,300
Kent Mclaren 40,000
David Glendenning 39,000
William Santos 35,000
Amanda Canelakes 32,300
William Kelly 26,300

Ocean’s 11 is the only casino in Southern California located along the Pacific Ocean on the Interstate 5 freeway, less than a mile from some of the area’s most picturesque beaches.

The property also boasts 50 tables of the best poker and table games found anywhere in California with all the favorite poker games, including no-limit and limit hold’em, Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, pot-limit Omaha, and crazy pineapple.

Previous winners of this event include Shawn Busse, Robert DeAgazio, Barry Knowlton, Barry Seidman and Scott “Brian” Blount. For more information, please visit the CPPT homepage.