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2019 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean's 11 San Diego Classic: Recap of Flights 1E and 1F

677 Entries Were Made During The Six Starting Flights With Day 2 Direct Entry Still Available

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All six starting flights have come to a close in the April running of the 2019 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic. A total of 677 entries made over the past three days, with day 2 entry still available for those looking to get in on the action. Flight 1E drew 168 entries while flight 1F added another 125. As a result of the strong turnout, the prize pool currently sits at $135,400, a number that will continue to grow as day 2 entries are made.

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, Apr. 28 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 can re-enter once before the end of the second level on day 2.

From the 293 entries made in Saturday’s two starting flights, only 43 players made it through to day 2, joining the 57 survivors from flights 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D. After the completion of all six starting flights, Raymond Dayawon ended up being the overall chip leader with 452,500.

Mike EskandariThe second largest stack heading into day 2 belongs to 2014 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker main event runner-up finisher Mike Eskandari. The Southern California tournament regular has more than $2 million in career earnings, with his highest finish in a Card Player Poker Tour coming when he placed second in the 2014 CPPT Westside Poker Championship.

Other big stacks include Veronica Daly (210,300), Donald Pennington (199,000), Jay Chavkin (199,000) and Richard Chun (198,500). Daly finished third in this same event in July of 2018, earning $21,385.

There are 96 players that will return to day 2, not including those who will buy in directly. A total of five players have qualified twice: Shawn Daniels, Daviel Illingworth, Howard Cornbleth, Jimmy Ong and Teri Chavkin. They will all be taking their largest of stack forward.

Here is a look at the chip counts of the remaining players:

Rank Player Chip Count
1 Raymond Dayawon 452,500
2 Mike Eskandari 309,200
3 Veronica Daly 210,300
4 Donald Pennington 199,000
5 Jay Chavkin 199,000
6 Richard Chun 198,500
7 Michael Knight 195,300
8 Bernadeta Wisniewska 191,600
9 David Leese 180,500
10 Beth Miller 177,500
11 Jim Baek 174,200
12 Albert Wallake 173,000
13 Jonathon Kollath 171,000
14 Bryan Campbell 164,500
15 Chang Han 162,000
16 Alan Marks 159,500
17 Katrerina Grishakova 158,000
18 Noam Fliegelman 154,500
19 Pearce Frank 153,300
20 Scott Murrie 146,400
21 Chester Burnett 144,600
22 Brian Comestro 141,700
23 Jospeh Odea 140,700
24 George Mutashoba 135,000
25 Kirk Chui 134,800
26 Stephen Winters 130,300
27 Ali Salehi 126,500
28 Richard Vasse 126,500
29 Daniel Illingworth 124,300
30 Frank Benchanan 123,500
31 Mahmood Mahdavi 121,500
32 Richard Furfaro 120,900
33 Cheng Xu 118,000
34 Brian Orrico 117,600
35 David Glendenning 115,500
36 Dennis Bell 114,300
37 Shawn Daniels 113,700
38 Adam Martel 112,500
39 Richard Cimicata 111,800
40 Joseph Zeller 111,200
41 Jeff Wright 110,000
42 Jimmy Ong 107,000
43 Ron Novini 105,400
44 Eric Jeffries 103,000
45 Cameron Sinclair 102,900
46 Kyle Ravreby 102,000
47 Donovan Lucas 97,500
48 Eric Bartolowits 96,400
49 Keith Morgan 96,400
50 Pierre Poulin 95,100
51 Brigitte Spiteri 93,000
52 Payam Adhami 92,900
53 Mike Piellucci 92,200
54 Jason Cohen 91,400
55 Luis Rodi 84,000
56 Harris Rappaport 83,700
57 Kenneth Sullivan 81,000
58 Vladimir Medrinsky 79,500
59 Lucy Hargett 78,000
60 Rip Fritzer 75,100
61 John Conway 73,500
62 Brendan Richards 73,200
63 JayJay Castro 71,000
64 Ray Watts 70,000
65 Charles Fisher 69,000
66 Kevin Dooley 67,700
67 Micah Lambert 62,000
68 Jack Strachan 61,200
69 Steven Brouillette 59,000
70 Gabriela Marks 58,000
71 Howard Cornbleth 57,200
72 Eric Harnish 56,500
73 Derek Gardner 56,000
74 Atrayon Trevino 54,000
75 Ramsey Carlton 53,000
76 Afzal Atta 51,900
77 George Picerne 51,000
78 Ysmael Segundo 50,100
79 Josh McHone 49,500
80 Kevin Pound 47,800
81 Celalettin Korman 46,000
82 Emily Olmstead 42,500
83 Mark Muller 42,500
84 Yumi Bui 42,500
85 Reza Roozitalab 38,500
86 Eugene Goom 36,500
87 Henry Soriano 32,100
88 Teri Chavkin 32,000
89 David Woodworth 29,000
90 Bill Lowrey 27,000
91 Andy Meibaum 22,400
92 Cam Nataro 20,300
93 John MitSakos 18,500
94 Peter Augustine 17,300
95 Dane Linn 15,300
96 Christopher Smith 12,700

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, Scott “Brian” Blount, David McCaw, Seth Brown and Matthew Welch, who defeated a field of 823 entries this January to win $41,300. For more information on this event, please visit the CPPT homepage.