Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main Event: Richard Collins Leads Final 59The $1,600 Buy-In Drew 458 Entries To Create A $650,360 Prize Pool |
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A total of 217 entries completed the field on day 1C of the $400,000 guaranteed Card Player Poker Tour main event at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas, putting the final total size of the tournament at 458 with the total prize pool settling in at $650,360. The final 28 players advanced tonight to join the remaining survivors from all three starting flights tomorrow. All 59 will cash for at least 11:00 am on Sunday when cards get back into the air. The eventual champion will take home the top prize worth $116,238.
Each player began with 40,000 in chips to play with today as 40-minute blind levels played throughout the flight that clocked in at 12 hours. Late registration and re-entry were available through the start of level 13. The final hand saw Dylan Linde become the unfortunate bubble boy for a second night in this tournament after going out in the last hand in day 1A as well when his pocket queens couldn’t hold against the A-K of Valentyn Shabelnyk on a board that brought two more kings.
The player at the top of the counts to end play was Richard Collins (pictured above) with a stack worth over a million to pace the field as the overall chip leader tomorrow when he comes back with 1,008,000. Collins has a good shot at scoring his largest tournament score ever tomorrow to go along with his previous $64,527 in tournament results.
Close behind him is Shabelnyk with 975,000 thanks in part to taking out Linde on the end of day and money bubble to bring things to a close tonight. The 2019 CPPT Venetian main event champion from Ukraine is well-positioned to add a second CPPT title and a substantial cash to his career earnings, which are already above $1.3 million.
Other top stacks in the flight were held by Yavine Brewer (517,000), Dan Ciltan (478,000), Mario Colavita (468,000), Rick Green (446,000), and Alex Abariotes (402,000). But today was really a tale of the two outlier stacks at the top separating from the rest of the field.
Shabelnyk is not the only former CPPT Venetian winner still in. 2021 champion Ankush Mandavia ended day 1C with 318,000.
Notables who took a seat on day 1C, but were unable to bag included all-time Venetian money leader Eric Baldwin, Shannon Shorr, Mark Seif, Louis Cheffy, Francis Anderson, Carl Oman, and WPT Venetian champions Qing Liu and Ben Palmer.
There was 13:45 left remaining in level 17 (4,000-8,000 with a big blind ante of 8,000) when play concluded.
Tournament play continues with Day 2 beginning Sunday, Feb. 18 at 11:00 am local time. The remaining contenders will play all the way down to a champion tomorrow, so stay tuned for all of the action from the final day of this CPPT main event.
Here is a look at the chip counts and seat assignments for the final 59:
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
| 2 | 4 | Richard Collins | 1,008,000 |
| 13 | 9 | Valentyn Shabelnyk | 975,000 |
| 14 | 3 | Anselmo Villarreal | 669,000 |
| 11 | 9 | Scott Ball | 632,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Evan Sandberg | 571,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Yavine Brewer | 517,000 |
| 2 | 9 | Yaron-zeev Malki | 506,000 |
| 1 | 1 | Jeremy Becker | 493,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Ryan Laplante | 482,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Dan Ciltan | 478,000 |
| 12 | 8 | Mario Colavita | 468,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Daniel Auckland | 466,000 |
| 13 | 8 | Daniel Sepiol | 449,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Francis Harvey Alegado | 449,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Richard Green | 446,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Patrick Truong | 431,000 |
| 14 | 9 | Brandon Wittmeyer | 428,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Rommel Liscano | 410,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Alex Abariotes | 402,000 |
| 14 | 2 | Andrew Rodgers | 387,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Charlie Tang | 386,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Edward Holstein Jr | 358,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Matthew Hunt | 332,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Peter Hengsakul | 319,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Ankush Mandavia | 318,000 |
| 11 | 7 | Zichuan Huang | 307,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Kristen Deardorff | 297,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Ori Elul | 288,000 |
| 11 | 3 | Ivan Ruban | 281,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Michael Rangel | 273,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Timothy Reilly | 242,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Michael Khan | 227,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Jonathan Stephens | 217,000 |
| 12 | 7 | Reid Walker | 215,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Zachary Schwartz | 214,000 |
| 3 | 9 | Graham Mathews | 212,000 |
| 11 | 6 | Brian Battistone | 197,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Lee Markholt | 188,000 |
| 14 | 4 | Neil Yekell | 184,000 |
| 14 | 7 | John Riordan | 181,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Gerald Morrell | 181,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Mark Walker | 179,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Aaron Massey | 176,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Robenito Roxas | 170,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Zachary Donovan | 168,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Mark Dube | 162,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Abhishek Panda | 153,000 |
| 12 | 6 | Dylan Yip | 148,000 |
| 1 | 9 | Esther Kim | 145,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Timothy Chang | 141,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Jesse Yaginuma | 138,000 |
| 1 | 5 | James Agate | 130,000 |
| 3 | 5 | James Romero | 120,000 |
| 11 | 1 | Farah Galfond | 115,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Michael Lang | 105,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Douglas Swinger | 90,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Mitchell Halverson | 74,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Augie Martinho | 73,000 |
| 12 | 9 | David Sutherland | 36,000 |
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