2018 Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino: Said El Harrak Leads Day 1B FieldSecond Of Three Starting Flights Sees Nearly Double Turnout From Day 1A |
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The $500,000 guaranteed Card Player Poker Tour Big Poker Oktober $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event saw it’s second day of action on Thursday, with 143 players making their way to the Bicycle Hotel & Casino ballroom for day 1B.
That represented nearly twice the turnout from day 1A, when 72 players entered. After more than 14 levels of play, the field played down to 25 percent, or 36 players to bag up for the evening.
Leading the way for the day 1B survivors is Said El Harrak (pictured above) who amassed a stack of 307,000. El Harrak got going early on when he rivered the nut flush against an opponent’s flopped two pair. From there, he continued to put pressure on his tablemates, and took out several players to finish the day with 307,000.
His closest competitor on the day was Beau Winn, who surged late in the night for a stack of 284,600. Other big stacks at the end of play included Amnon Filippi and Michael Wasserman.
Other notables still in contention include Duey Duong, who has made the final table of this event twice in the last three years, finishing third in 2015 for $50,000 and fifth in 2017 for another $31,075.
Goswin Siemsen, who finished runner-up in this event last year for $93,705, also made it through the day, thanks to a lucky river card in a pot against Mike Nia. Mike Shariati, who won the 2015 WPT Legends of Poker main event at the Bike, also bagged up with slightly below average stack.
Players looking to get into the tournament still have time left to register. Players can enter day 1C on Friday, or even take advantage of the tournament’s Quantum structure which allows players to buy-in to day 2 directly on Saturday for $4,300 and receive an average stack of 120,000 to play with.
There are also two more ways to win your buy-in for this event at a discount, with a Quantum entry worth $4,300 in a $430+$20 mega satellite at 4 pm and 8 pm on Friday, Oct. 19.
In total, 54 players have so far advanced to day 2. Here’s a look at the overnight chip counts after day 1B.
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | William Wolf | 322,100 |
| 2 | Said El Harrak | 307,000 |
| 3 | Beau Winn | 284,500 |
| 4 | Sam Weiss | 229,300 |
| 5 | Amnon Filippi | 197,200 |
| 6 | Michael Wasserman | 196,000 |
| 7 | Jarod Einsohn | 191,000 |
| 8 | Julian Chung | 177,500 |
| 9 | Duey Duong | 165,400 |
| 10 | Vadim Baranovsky | 162,000 |
| 11 | Lawrence Ma | 160,500 |
| 12 | Ramiro Moran | 151,300 |
| 13 | Larry Quang | 149,600 |
| 14 | Benjamin Gilbert | 147,600 |
| 15 | Xiao Yu | 146,900 |
| 16 | Andrei Moldovan | 145,000 |
| 17 | Brandon Zuidema | 138,900 |
| 18 | Jason Warner | 137,600 |
| 19 | Cesar Torres | 132,000 |
| 20 | Adam Volen | 130,900 |
| 21 | Qing Lu | 128,300 |
| 22 | Adrian Moreno | 124,800 |
| 23 | Michael Nia | 124,000 |
| 24 | Nissav Quarashi | 123,500 |
| 25 | Michael Knight | 118,600 |
| 26 | Hamid Karimi | 118,000 |
| 27 | Timothy Acker | 117,500 |
| 28 | David Lilien | 114,400 |
| 29 | Marc Contreras | 113,300 |
| 30 | John Hulett | 109,600 |
| 31 | Steve Jun | 107,700 |
| 32 | Shawn Walker | 105,700 |
| 33 | Jared Griener | 105,200 |
| 34 | Mike Shariati | 98,300 |
| 35 | Josh Siegel | 97,600 |
| 36 | Joldis Cosmin | 94,900 |
| 37 | Suang Saetum | 94,800 |
| 38 | Ernst Aschacher | 91,700 |
| 39 | Mel Weiner | 83,000 |
| 40 | Goswin Siemsen | 78,900 |
| 41 | Joe Hindry | 71,500 |
| 42 | Richard Abarca | 66,800 |
| 43 | Kevin Chan | 60,200 |
| 44 | Benjamin Moon | 59,200 |
| 45 | Peter Hengsakul | 52,200 |
| 46 | Alex Massman | 46,500 |
| 47 | Bruce Buffer | 45,700 |
| 48 | Sameer Aljanedi | 40,800 |
| 49 | Ray Etniel | 38,500 |
| 50 | Hector Ziperovich | 37,000 |
| 51 | Fred Louie | 33,100 |
| 52 | Michael Merzian | 32,700 |
| 53 | Sam Muradyan | 28,600 |
| 54 | Pogos Simityan | 16,400 |
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