Card Player Poker Tour Venetian DeepStack Showdown Main Event More Than Doubles $500,000 GuaranteeTrung Pham Leads Final 33 Players, Winner Takes Home $247,055 |
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An impressive 341 players in total entered the $3,500 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian DeepStack Showdown main event, creating a prize pool of more than double the $500,000 guarantee. The $1,074,150 prize pool represented a 45 percent increase over the 2017 field.
The drastic increase in runners was helped by day 2 late registration, which saw 83 additional players show up to the Las Vegas Strip cardroom. The top 36 players will finish in the money in this event, with $7,519 reserved for a mincash and top prize worth $247,055.
Leading the way heading into the final day of play is Trung Pham (pictured above), with 1,152,000. Pham scored the majority of his chips with a huge double up shortly before the money bubble when his pocket aces held against Griffin Benger’s A-K.
Nipping at his heels is Ryan Hohner with 1,147,000, and Julian Parmann with 1,118,000, who scored a double knockout earlier in the day when his aces held against pocket kings and pocket queens.
Also still in the field are former CPPT Venetian main event champions Jon Turner and Anthony Zinno. Turner, who won the July 2016 main event for $536,858, bagged up 572,000 for eighth place. Zinno, who won the July 2018 main event for $466,670, sits in seventh place with 699,000.
Other notables in contention among the 33 survivors include Mike Leah, Rob Salaburu, Manig Loeser, Eddy Sabat, Eric Blair, Harrison Gimbel, and Ian O’Hara, as well as Joe Kuether and Scott Clements, who both won preliminary events here during this DeepStack Showdown series.
The action resumes Sunday at noon as the field plays down to a champion.
Here are the overnight chip counts.
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Count |
| 1 | Trung Pham | 1,152,000 |
| 2 | Ryan Hohner | 1,147,000 |
| 3 | Julian Parmann | 1,118,000 |
| 4 | Mike Leah | 1,088,000 |
| 5 | Rob Salaburu | 866,000 |
| 6 | Joe Kuether | 761,000 |
| 7 | Anthony Zinno | 699,000 |
| 8 | Jon Turner | 572,000 |
| 9 | Corey Hochman | 541,000 |
| 10 | Dylan Wilkerson | 526,000 |
| 11 | Jason Xu | 508,000 |
| 12 | Scott Clements | 507,000 |
| 13 | Manig Loeser | 380,000 |
| 14 | Sami Shurbagi | 376,000 |
| 15 | Sulabh Choudhury | 341,000 |
| 16 | Ozgur Arda | 312,000 |
| 17 | Eddy Sabat | 309,000 |
| 18 | Eric Blair | 260,000 |
| 19 | Raul Manzanares | 231,000 |
| 20 | Michael Song | 204,000 |
| 21 | Qing Liu | 197,000 |
| 22 | Steve Song | 193,000 |
| 23 | Griffin Benger | 184,000 |
| 24 | Arsenii Karmatakii | 180,000 |
| 25 | Andrew Ostapchenko | 144,000 |
| 26 | James Rann | 144,000 |
| 27 | Viacheslav Fentisov | 140,000 |
| 28 | Harrison Gimbel | 132,000 |
| 29 | Cody Wiegmann | 129,000 |
| 30 | Eric Vallee | 118,000 |
| 31 | Ben Farrell | 102,000 |
| 32 | Ian O’Hara | 80,000 |
| 33 | Ekrem Bozkurt | 8,000 |
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