2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean's 11: Erick Lindgren Among Leaders After Flights 1A and 1B260 Entries Have Already Been Made With Four Starting Flights and Day 2 Direct Entry Still Available |
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The first day of the July running of the 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic has come to a close. This is the seventh time that the CPPT has made it’s way to beautiful Oceanside, California to for this $250 buy-in main event. The tournament will once again feature six starting flights spread out over three days (July 26-28). The event again features a $150,000 estimated prize pool this year but has previously drawn as many as 920 entries to create a prize pool worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Most recently this tournament drew 902 entries in April of this year, with David McCaw taking home $29,649 as the champion after striking a deal at the final table.
The summer running of this event kicked off on Thursday, July 26, with the first two starting flights of six getting underway. Flight 1A drew 121 total entries while flight 1B attracted 139. With 260 total entries so far the prize pool has already grown to $52,000 with four starting flights yet to go.
Players can also take advantage of the Quantum Tournament structure of this event and buy-in directly for $1,500 on Sunday, July 29 for day 2 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.
From the 260 entries in flights 1A and 1B, only 38 players survived from the two starting flights that ran today, with Hunter Moss in the lead with 298,000. The second largest stack at the end of the day was none other than two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erick Lindgren, who bagged up 251,000. The 41-year-old poker pro has more than $9.9 million in lifetime earnings and will be a huge threat for a run at the title in this event now that he has made it through to day 2.
Here is a look at the complete chip counts of those who survived flights 1A and 1B:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Hunter Moss | 298,000 |
| 2 | Erick Lindgren | 251,000 |
| 3 | Glenn Poole | 248,500 |
| 4 | Edward Stites | 186,500 |
| 5 | Matt Goddard | 162,500 |
| 6 | Robert Fortuno | 153,500 |
| 7 | David Kaye | 145,000 |
| 8 | Francisco Larre | 140,500 |
| 9 | Kevin Dooley | 134,500 |
| 10 | Greg Baron | 131,500 |
| 11 | Eric Jeffries | 126,000 |
| 12 | Christopher Marble | 122,000 |
| 13 | James Ford | 120,500 |
| 14 | Josh Vlahos | 116,000 |
| 15 | Kevin Gorham | 113,000 |
| 16 | Gabriel Habbaba | 101,500 |
| 17 | Cameron Sinclair | 98,500 |
| 18 | Dane Linn | 92,000 |
| 19 | Kyle Miholich | 85,000 |
| 20 | Erin Constantino | 85,000 |
| 21 | Rex Mendoza | 81,500 |
| 22 | Phue Nguyen | 79,500 |
| 23 | Ali Salehi | 74,000 |
| 24 | Tyler Huculak | 73,500 |
| 25 | Alex Kruglyak | 73,000 |
| 26 | Eugene Goom | 72,500 |
| 27 | David Leese | 69,500 |
| 28 | Raymond Gonzalez | 68,000 |
| 29 | Matek Cincotta | 58,500 |
| 30 | Emily Olmstead | 54,500 |
| 31 | Alex Chambosse | 49,500 |
| 32 | Emon Bakhtian | 48,500 |
| 33 | Steve Whitesides | 43,500 |
| 34 | Eugene Teibloom | 38,500 |
| 35 | Jason Elston | 31,500 |
| 36 | Marcus Tapia | 31,500 |
| 37 | Mark Muller | 26,500 |
| 38 | Edward Brodsky | 17,500 |
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.
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