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2018 Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Hotel and Casino: Warwick Mirzikinian Leads Final 34 Players

Event Draws 2,180 Total Entries To Blow Away $500,000 Guarantee With Final Prize Pool of $675,023

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The 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Hotel & Casino main event drew a field of 2,180 total entries, with 153 day 2 direct entries. The prize pool swelled to $675,023 as a result of the massive turnout, blowing away the $500,000 guarantee. The eventual champion of this event is set to take home $123,418 for the win.

After 14 levels of play on day 2 the field was narrowed to just 34 remaining hopefuls. The chip leader coming into the final day of this event is Australia’s Warwick Mirzirkinian with 4,885,000. He surged up the leaderboard at the end of the day to just surpass Richard Chun, who lead for much of the last few levels and ended up with 4,770,000.

Adam VolenAlso still in contention is 2015 Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park main event champion Adam Volen (1,435,000), who has a chance to become the first player to ever win two CPPT main event titles.

Volen spent much of the day short stacked, but was able to climb to the middle ofthe pack by making quad aces holdeing the ASpade SuitAHeart Suit in a three-way all-in pot late in the day.

Plenty of notables were eliminated after the money bubble burst, including Owen Crowe (59th – $1,345), Ryan Lenaghan (97th – $650) and Bart Hanson (118th – $510).

The remaining 34 players are now all guaranteed at least $2,815 for their efforts in this event. They will return to play down to a champion at 1:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, July 15.

Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final day:

Rank Player Chip Count
1 Warwick Mirzikinian 4,885,000
2 Richard Chun 4,770,000
3 Cody Bell 3,110,000
4 John Marquez 3,005,000
5 Dany Georges 2,800,000
6 George Antonakos 2,490,000
7 Alexandre Novaes 2,310,000
8 Amir Ghazvinian 2,280,000
9 Kyle Cameron 2,040,000
10 Alex Rapoport 2,005,000
11 Alexander Fu 1,765,000
12 Agasi Ognanyon 1,760,000
13 Ilya Shpiner 1,635,000
14 Barrett Green 1,590,000
15 Thi Truong 1,540,000
16 Tom Trang 1,500,000
17 Adam Volen 1,435,000
18 Mike VaVerka 1,425,000
19 Ira Friedman 1,325,000
20 Nicholas Ronyecz 1,245,000
21 Mazen Abdalah 1,200,000
22 Miriam Lewcowitz 1,110,000
23 Daniel Wagner 1,025,000
24 Dung Nguyen 995,000
25 Alexander Beleson 965,000
26 Jeff Rogers 950,000
27 Gevorr Rasabyan 895,000
28 Chris Kay 865,000
29 Connor Hulse 855,000
30 Steve Henning 835,000
31 Haana Batshoun 585,000
32 Jacob Oelman 345,000
33 Ophir Atar 235,000
34 Thic Truong 170,000