Tibor Nagygyoergy Leads Final 15 Players
Nov 13, '21
The 975-entry field in the Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 main event is down to its final 15 players and Tibor Nagygyoergy has the inside track to the $417,004 first-place prize as he brings a sizable chip lead into the third and final day of the event.
The remaining players will return Sunday at 11 a.m. to play down to a winner and will return to blinds of 30,000-60,000 with a 60,000 big blind ante. Levels will last 60 minutes until heads-up play, at which point levels will be cut in half. Everybody is guaranteed a cash of at least $20,850.
The Hungarian chip leader is returning with a 5,680,000-chip stack and is the only player even remotely close to 100 big blinds. Kevin O’Donnell is his closest competitor and will start Sunday with 4,750,000. The only other player above the 4 million-chip mark is Ezeqiel Waigel, who will start the day third in chips with 4,120,000. To start Sunday, Waigel has positional advantage on the chip leader, sitting on his direct left.
Other notables to make the final day include World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour Champion Keven Stammen, who has more than $6 million in career tournament earnings, recent WSOP Online bracelet winner Justin Saliba, and young up-and-coming pro Michael Rossitto, who already has accumulated a resume worth seven-figures and is still in his 20s. German Fabian Gumz also has more than $1 million in career tournament earnings.
Day 2 kicked off at 11 a.m. Saturday morning with 163 players hoping to at least finish in the top 99 to make the money. All of those players were chasing Donovan Dean, who started the day as the chip leader and stayed near the top of the pack for most of the day and comes back with 3,265,000 in chips Sunday.
It was Dean himself who burst the bubble in the third level of the day when he bet all three streets with top pair, including a river shove, and got his opponent to call off with second pair.
Once the bubble bursts, eliminations began to pile up and the line at the cashier’s cage grew. In the nearly seven levels between the bubble bursting and the end of the day, there was plenty of top poker talent that busted.
Shankar Pillai (99th – $5,324), Kyle Cartwright ($5,324), Matas Cimbolas (92nd – $5,324), Sohale Khalili (84th – $5,545), 2016 WSOP main event fifth-place finisher Vojtech Ruzicka (75th – $5,767), Elio Fox (73rd – $5,767), Aaron Massey (70th – $5,989), triple crown winner Adrian Mateos (49th – $7,098), 2014 WSOP main event champion Martin Jacobson (46th – $7,098), WSOP bracelet winner Alan Percal ($7,985), Joe Serock (41st – $7,985), and John Phan (24th – $12,200) were all eliminated before the final hand of the day.
There was a flurry of bustouts at the end of the day, including one on the day’s last hand, which saw Lokesh Garg bust in 16th to Ezeqiel Waigel, to leave the field with 15 hopefuls.
Card Player will have complete coverage of Sunday’s action as the CPPT crowns its next champion.
Here is a look at the seat draw and chip counts for Sunday’s 15 players:
Table 28
Seat 1: Keven Stammen – 2,950,000
Seat 2: -Empty-
Seat 3: Simeon Spasov – 1,035,000
Seat 4: Marco Bognanni – 2,440,000
Seat 5: Tibor Nagygyoergy – 5,680,000
Seat 6: Ezeqiel Waigel – 4,120,000
Seat 7: Gergely Kulcsar – 1,475,000
Seat 8: Fabian Gumz – 2,710,000
Seat 9: —Empty—
Table 29
Seat 1: Alexander Villa – 3,385,000
Seat 2: Matthias Auer – 1,575,000
Seat 3: Michael Rossitto – 965,000
Seat 4: Kevin O’Donnell – 4,750,000
Seat 5: Justin Saliba – 1,075,000
Seat 6: Donovan Dean – 3,265,000
Seat 7: Ryan Dodd – 2,175,000
Seat 8: —Empty—
Seat 9: Vahan Sudzhyan – 1,450,000
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Tibor Nagygyoergy Takes Over The Chip Lead
Nov 13, '21
With less than 40 players in the field and a 60-minute dinner break approaching, Tibor Nagygyoergy is the only player with more than 2 million in chips and is holding the chip lead.
Here is a look at the top stacks:
Tibor Nagygyoergy – 2,250,000
Kevin O’Donnell – 1,800,000
Vahan Sudzhyan – 1,750,000
Fabian Gumz – 1,650,000
Donovan Dean – 1,650,000
Michael Rossitto – 1,600,000
Ezeqiel Waigel – 1,600,000
Ron West – 1,600,000
Sergio Aido – 1,350,000
Marco Bognanni – 1,300,000
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Tibor Nagygyoergy Eliminated In Fourth Place ($157,487)
Nov 14, '21
Waigel raised all in from the button and Nagygyoergy called off for his last four big blinds with Q
10
.
Waigel held K
2 and he made two pair on a board of AK29
Q to bust Nagygyoergy in fourth place.
Nagygyoergy earns $117,561, and Waigel closes in on the win with almost 30 million in chips.
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Tibor Nagygyoergy Takes a Chunk From Donovan Dean
Nov 14, '21
There was about 4,000,000 in the middle on the turn with a board of 88410 and Tibor Nagygyoergy was in the big blind and heads-up with Donovan Dean under the gun.
Nagygyoergy bet 1,300,000 and Dean quickly called to see the K river. Nagygyoergy bet 900,000, leaving himself about 600,000 behind and Dean quickly called again.
Nagygyoergy tabled 87, good for trip eights, and Dean mucked his hand.
“You should’ve just went all in,” said Dean. “I’d have doubled you up.”
Tibor Nagygyoergy – 8,500,000
Donovan Dean – 8,500,000
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Day 3 Starts at 11 AM With Tibor Nagygyoergy Leading
Nov 14, '21
The final 15 players remaining in the 975-entry field in the Card Player Poker Tour $2,500 Venetian main event return to the tournament area at 11 a.m. on Sunday to play down to a winner.
They are all chasing Tibor Nagygyoergy, who starts the day with the chip lead and will start with blinds of 30,000-60,000 and a 60,000 big blind ante. The Hungarian chip leader starts the day with 5,680,000 and is the only player above the 5 million-chip mark.
Everybody is guaranteed a cash of at least $20,850, but the eventual winner will walk away with $417,004.
Here is a look at the seat draw and chip counts for Sunday’s 15 players:
Table 28
Seat 1: Keven Stammen – 2,950,000
Seat 2: -Empty-
Seat 3: Simeon Spasov – 1,035,000
Seat 4: Marco Bognanni – 2,440,000
Seat 5: Tibor Nagygyoergy – 5,680,000
Seat 6: Ezeqiel Waigel – 4,120,000
Seat 7: Gergely Kulcsar – 1,475,000
Seat 8: Fabian Gumz – 2,710,000
Seat 9: —Empty—
Table 29
Seat 1: Alexander Villa – 3,385,000
Seat 2: Matthias Auer – 1,575,000
Seat 3: Michael Rossitto – 965,000
Seat 4: Kevin O’Donnell – 4,750,000
Seat 5: Justin Saliba – 1,075,000
Seat 6: Donovan Dean – 3,265,000
Seat 7: Ryan Dodd – 2,175,000
Seat 8: —Empty—
Seat 9: Vahan Sudzhyan – 1,450,000
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