14 Players Advance On Day 1A Of Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main EventTwo Starting Flights Remain In $500,000 Guaranteed Event |
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A total of 108 entries were made on day 1A of the $500,000 guaranteed Card Player Poker Tour event at The Venetian, which is part of the ongoing DeepStack Extravaganza poker festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
The $1,600 buy-in tournament features three starting flights in total, with 12.5% of the field making the money. That meant that 14 players would advance to day 2, guaranteed at least a min-cash for surviving the first starting day.
Each player started the tournament with 40,000 stacks, and blind levels were set to 40 minutes. Additionally, those who registered before the start of level 2 were given a discount on their tournament fees. Players could rebuy, however, until the start of level 13.
Craig Mason, who took second in the partypoker LIVE Caribbean main event for $1.2 million, was chip leader for most of the day before bleeding some chips away in the later levels. Mason got a huge boost towards the end of the night however when his A-J held against Sean Banahan’s Q-J on a jack-high flop.
It wasn’t long after that Thomas Coolidge found himself all in and at risk of bubbling with 8-7 against the A-6 of Mark Koeln. Coolidge found no help, and was eliminated just one spot shy of the money.
Mason finished with the biggest stack overall, bagging up 590,000. He was followed by WSOP Circuit winner David Richards (575,000), WSOP bracelet winner Ralph Perry (522,000), Koeln (511,000), and bracelet winner and WPT champion Dylan Linde (455,000). Other notables still in contention include Venetian poker standout and former Card Player Player of the Year Eric Baldwin and WPT champion Jordan Cristos.
Tournament play continues Friday at 11:10 a.m. with day 1B. Once again, players who enter before level 2 will receive a rebate on their tournament rake.
Those who want to win their seat at a discount can do so with a 7:10 p.m. $200 mega satellite on Friday night. There will also be a $200 turbo satellite on Saturday morning.
Here are the chip counts for day 1A.
Craig Mason – 590,000
David Richards – 575,000
Ralph Perry – 522,000
Mark Koeln – 511,000
Dylan Linde – 455,000
Adam Walton – 455,000
Jared Strauss – 340,000
Eric Baldwin – 308,000
Simon Taberham – 152,000
Jordan Cristos – 108,000
Hye Park – 98,000
Peter Mugar – 89,000
Ronnie Anderson – 66,000
Jeff Tanouye – 59,000
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