CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Mystery Bounty Main Event Draws 440 Entries

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The 2024 Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville $1,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em mystery bounty main event attracted a total of 440 entries across three starting flights, easily surpassing the $300,000 guarantee to build a final prize pool of $662,200.

While $442,200 of that prize money went into the main prize pool, $220,000 was set aside for the bounties which are to be awarded on day 2. Those which will range anywhere from $500 all the way up to $50,000.

Following the completion of day 1C, there are now 55 players remaining in the event, each of whom has officially made the money. They will all earn at least $1,765 for their efforts, with $87,820 going to the eventual champion. There were slated to be 57 players heading to day 2 based on the turnout, but two players managed to bag twice: Jessica Cai and Jose Reyes. They have both locked up a min-cash and a bounty pull for their shorter stacks, which will be taken out of play.

Cai, who finished fifth in the 2021 CPPT main event here in Jacksonville, will enter day 2 in 15th chip position with 316,000. She will be joined by her husband Zhen Cai (198,000), who finished sixth in the 2019 World Series of Poker main event. Incredibly, the Cai’s are not the only couple to move on to day 2, as both Angel (331,000) and Toby Boas (259,000) are among the remaining contenders.

Day 1C drew 241 entries, blowing away the 124 made on day 1B and 75 of day 1A. The chip leader at the end of day 1C is Kennie Garrison with 909,000. He won a big preflop coin flip on the final hand of the night, with his AK outracing the QQ of two-time CPPT bestbet Jacksonville main event final tablist John O’Neal. The 832A10 runout saw O’Neal knocked out on the bubble, while Garrison bagged up by far the largest stack of any player in the field.

Three of the top five stacks heading into day 2 came from the 1C flight, with Joshua Adcock (646,000) and Bryan Bennett (548,000) joining Garrison.

Other notables who are still in with a shot afrer day 1C, including Johnny Pham (334,000), 2023 fourth-place finisher of this event Alex Kimpel (322,000), 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Trifecta Series main event winner Kelly Joe Andrews (190,000), 2013 CPPT bestbet Jacksonville main event seventh-place finisher Eddy Mroczkowski (133,000), and Allison Hollander (119,000).

Plenty of big names hit the rail on day 1C, including former champion of this event Ben Scrogins, 2014 WPT Jacksonville bestbet Open winner Nabil Hirezi, 2019 WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble main event champion Josh Adkins, and 2015 MSPT bestbet Jacksonville main event champion Brian Arbaugh.

The final 55 will return on Sunday, Aug. 25 at noon to play down to a final table, which will be streamed on besbetLIVE on Monday.

Here is a look at the chip counts for the remaining 55 players:

The complete payouts are as follows:

Seat Draw:

15-1: Johnny Pham – 334,000
15-2: Alex Kimpel – 322,000
15-3: Kevyn Wellmann – 126,000
15-4: Juan Tellez – 112,000
15-5:
15-6: Scott Risi – 94,000
15-7: Danny Kaminsky – 62,000
15-8: John Christy – 144,000

59-1: Jessica Cai – 316,000
59-2: Steve Gerisch – 43,000
59-3: Reza Djahanchahi – 307,000
59-4: Anthony Pathman – 202,000
59-5: Kelly Joe Andrews – 190,000
59-6: Toby Boas – 259,000
59-7: Kyle Terrel – 180,000
59-8: Brian Senie – 71,000

61-1: Aaron Lucas – 63,000
61-2: Dennis Bergeron – 112,000
61-3: Chuck Clement – 7,000
61-4: Johnlewis Cascone – 67,000
61-5: Jose Reyes – 152,000
61-6: Kennie Garrison – 909,000
61-7: Nick Raio – 240,000
61-8: Joshua Adcock – 646,000

62-1: Netanel Brumand – 161,000
62-2: Gourg Khanchat – 175,000
62-3: Tyler Phillips – 353,000
62-4: Nicholas Chong – 316,000
62-5: Thad McNulty – 445,000
62-6: Fred Evans – 420,000
62-7: John Ho – 238,000
62-8: Ken Brosnahan – 587,000

63-1: Renee Bacherman – 117,000
63-2: Dante Cianfarra – 106,000
63-3: John Connors – 147,000
63-4: Esther Petiote – 94,000
63-5: Mervan Kizgin – 48,000
63-6: Christian Johnson – 239,000
63-7: Jeff Trudeau – 46,000
63-8: Zhen Cai – 198,000

68-1: Brian Dumaplin – 365,000
68-2: Bryan Bennett – 548,000
68-3: Cameron Miller – 315,000
68-4: Yi Chi Li – 289,000
68-5: Nikhil Sunku – 238,000
68-6: Steven Schott – 272,000
68-7: Angel Boas – 331,000
68-8: Allison Hollander – 119,000

69-1: Eddy Mroczkowski – 133,000
69-2: Zach Wood – 164,000
69-3: Dickie Malone – 258,000
69-4: Jared Reinstein – 269,000
69-5: Danny Clarkson – 355,000
69-6: Dustin Holladay – 525,000
69-7: Tommy Doyle – 98,000
69-8: James Leonard – 179,000

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