| Buy-In: | $1,000 + $100 |
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| Prize Pool: | $357,930 |
| Entrants: | 369 |
Day 1B of the Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Casino main event drew 122 players, bringing the total number of entrants for the first two starting days to 231. With an even better turnout expected for Sunday’s start, this stop on the Card Player Poker Tour will almost certainly eclipse the $300,000 guarantee with ease.
The $1,100 buy-in tournament began at 1 p.m. and lasted until 2:30 a.m. After 12 levels of play, just 29 players remained. Those players will combine with the rest of the field on Monday for day 2.
Leading the way is Devron Miller with 353,100. Miller spent much of the day as either the outright chip leader or one of the top few stacks, but he solidified his lead on one of the final hands of the night when he played a huge pot with one of the other top stacks in the field Brian Patrick. Miller moved all-in over a 104,000 check-raise from Patrick on a J
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flop, and took down the gigantic pot after Patrick folded following several minutes in the tank. Patrick still ended the day as the second largest stack with 268,400.
Other large stacks from day 1B include Duey Duong (260,700), Andy Phan (194,200), Angelo Roy (194,500) and Phong “Turbo” Nguyen (151,900).
Notable players who played day 1B but didn’t survive include recently crowned WPT Player of the Year Matt Salsberg, 2007 WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event champion Eric Hershler, Dana Kellstom and Live At The Bike commentator and Card Player columnist Bart Hanson.
Here is a look at the chip counts at the end of day 1B:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Devron Miller | 353,100 |
| 2 | Brian Patrick | 268,400 |
| 3 | Duey Duong | 260,700 |
| 4 | Angelo Ray | 194,500 |
| 5 | Andy Phan | 194,200 |
| 6 | Andy “Shooter” Stracuzzi | 186,000 |
| 7 | Rob McVeigh | 158,800 |
| 8 | Phong “Turbo” Nguyen | 151,900 |
| 9 | Pogos Simityan | 149,300 |
| 10 | Jay Ishimaru | 138,300 |
| 11 | Victor Kruglov | 136,200 |
| 12 | Eric Semel | 134,500 |
| 13 | Kirk Drickman | 122,000 |
| 14 | Stan Hackett | 120,100 |
| 15 | Ron Miller | 114,400 |
| 16 | Vadim Baranovsky | 114,100 |
| 17 | Jeff Potts | 108,000 |
| 18 | Shahram Shahriani | 107,800 |
| 19 | Vikaas Sharma | 105,100 |
| 20 | Ahmad Hooshmand | 98,400 |
| 21 | Bruce Kramer | 90,000 |
| 22 | Stephanie Donahue | 89,500 |
| 23 | Diana Yang | 74,000 |
| 24 | Matt Rolph | 62,100 |
| 25 | Philip Hwang | 54,300 |
| 26 | Ryan Russ | 40,900 |
| 27 | Syed Kadri | 28,000 |
| 28 | Jonathan Stabb | 13,200 |
| 29 | Richard Baroukh | 11,600 |
Two of the top three stacks in the field on day 1B played a huge pot with minutes left in the final level of the night.
Devron Miller raised to 5,000 and Brian Patrick reraised to 13,500. Miller thought it over for a moment before calling.
The flop brought the J73 and Patrick checked, prompting Miller to fire out a sizable 45,000 chip bet. Patrick check-raised to 104,000. Miller moved all-in for 216,300 total.
“How much is it?” asked Patrick.
“A lot,” answered Miller.
Patrick went into the tank, clearly agonizing about the decision. “This would be a crazy call.”
After several minutes, his thinking out loud changed course slightly.
“I could come back with a lot… I played so well all day.” After a few more minutes he eventually folded.
Miller climbed into the outright chip lead for the day with 368,600 while Patrick fell to 268,400 to end the day.
Despite being one of the larger stacks late on day 1B, Phong “Turbo” Nguyen’s focus isn’t entirely on the tournament at hand. In fact, between hands he is rushing across the room to check on his wife Linda, who is on the bubble in the $150 mega satellite into day 1C.
There are currently 30 players remaining as the end of day 1B nears, meaning that just under a quarter of the 122 players the began the day are left.
An early position raiser opened for 4,000 and Nika Futterman moved all-in for roughly 30,000. Duey Duong announced a call and the initial raiser folded.
Duong: 55
Futterman: KQ
The board ran out J5299 to give Duong a full house and the pot, while Futterman was sent to the rail.
For the final level of the night blinds have increased to 800 / 1600 with a 200 ante.
With a flop of 743 Diana Yang bet 25,000 into an already sizable pot. Andy Phan called and the turn brought the 4. Yang bet out 20,000 and Phan once again challed. The K hit the river and Yang checked. After a moments thought, Phan bet 20,000.
Yang went into the tank, talking out the possibilities of the hand, but eventually announced a call. Phan revealed the QQ and Yang mucked.
Phan now sits with just over 200,000 in chips.
A very short stack moved all-in for roughly 1,500 and Sean Yu shoved over the top for 30,800 total.
“I call whatever that is,” said Devron Williams.
The short stack flipped up the A10, Yu the AJ and Williams the QQ.
The board ran out 865K2, and Williams knocked out two opponents.
Play has resumed with new blinds of 600 – 1,200 with a 200 ante for level 11.
Players are on a 10 minute break.
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