A complete of 152 entries jumped into the combo on day 1B of the $400,000 assured Card Player Poker Tour most important occasion at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas, placing the full area measurement at 241 with the prize pool as much as $342,220. The $1,600 buy-in event sports activities three beginning flights, with 12.5% of the sphere making the cash. In the top tonight, 19 gamers superior to hitch the 12 gamers that had already made day 2 from the day 1A contenders, and all of them are assured at the least a min-cash on Sunday.
Each participant started with 40,000 in chips to play with as 40-minute blind ranges performed all through the flight that clocked in at 12 hours. Late registration and re-entry have been out there via the beginning of degree 13. The remaining hand noticed each the cash bubble and end-of-day bubble burst concurrently when Aaron Massey took out Hal Rotholz to finish play for the evening.
The participant on the prime of the counts to finish play was earlier CPPT Venetian runner-up Anselmo Villareal, who held 669,000 on the finish of play. That stack makes him the general chip chief heading into Day 2 at this level within the event. His earlier second-place end right here within the Venetian Poker Room got here again in 2021 when he cashed for a pleasant payday price $253,441.
Other large stacks close to the highest on the finish of play embrace two-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Scott Ball with 632,000, and Yaron Malki rounds out the highest three with a stack of 506,000. There are simply 4 gamers within the event that superior above the half-million mark in chips now together with Day 1A chief Evan Sandberg (571,000).
Jeremy Becker, who was the discuss of poker social media right this moment as a consequence of a cross-booking guess made by Daniel Negreanu pitting Becker towards Landon Tice, bagged up the fourth-largest stack on day 1B with 493,000. Becker is at present ranked inside the highest 25 within the Card Player Player of the Year race due to a powerful begin to 2024, with one POY-qualified title and 5 such final-table finishes.
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Notables who took a seat on day 1B, however have been unable to bag included all-time Venetian cash chief Eric Baldwin, Shannon Shorr, Dylan Linde, Matt Affleck, and WPT champion Qing Liu.
There was 13:45 left remaining in degree 17 (4,000-8,000 with a giant blind ante of 8,000) when play concluded.
Tournament play continues with Day 1C starting Saturday, Feb. 17 at 11:10 AM native time. Day 2 will start Sunday at 11:00 AM.
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Anselmo Villareal | 669,000 |
| 2 | Scott Ball | 632,000 |
| 3 | Yaron Malki | 506,000 |
| 4 | Jeremy Becker | 493,000 |
| 5 | Harvey Alegado | 449,000 |
| 6 | Patrick Truong | 431,000 |
| 7 | Rommel Liscano | 410,000 |
| 8 | Charlie Tang | 386,000 |
| 9 | Peter Hengsakul | 319,000 |
| 10 | Tim Reilly | 242,000 |
| 11 | Michael Khan | 227,000 |
| 12 | Chance Walker | 215,000 |
| 13 | Graham Matthews | 212,000 |
| 14 | Brian Battistone | 197,000 |
| 15 | Lee Markholt | 188,000 |
| 16 | Aaron Massey | 176,000 |
| 17 | Esther Kim | 145,000 |
| 18 | James Romero | 120,000 |
| 19 | Farah Galfond | 115,000 |
