A complete of 89 entries have been made on day 1A of the $400,000 assured Card Player Poker Tour predominant occasion at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas, including $126,380 to the prize pool. The $1,600 buy-in event sports activities three beginning flights, with 12.5% of the sphere making the cash. In the tip, 12 gamers superior to day 2 from the day 1A contenders, every being assured at the very least a min-cash.
Each participant started with 40,000 in chips to play with through the 40-minute blind ranges. Late registration and re-entry have been obtainable by means of the beginning of degree 13. More than 13 hours after playing cards obtained within the air, the day concluded with the elimination of World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Dylan Linde. He ran his pocket nines into the pocket aces of fellow bracelet winner Ryan Laplante to hit the rail in thirteenth place to burst the bubble.
Laplante ended the day in second chip place. The Card Player columnist has 482,000. The chip chief on the finish of the night time was Evan Sandberg (pictured above) with 571,000. The bracelet winner from the Bay Area in California has greater than $1.3 million in event earnings to his identify, along with his most up-to-date deep run being an eighth-place end within the Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian predominant occasion that completed right here final week for $14,044.
Sandberg scored a number of knockouts down the stretch, together with sending Shannon Shorr and Mike Zulker packing late within the day.
Other massive stacks embody Dan Auckland (466,000), reigning WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas predominant occasion champion Dan Sepiol (449,000), and Brandon Wittmeyer (428,000).
2022 CPPT Venetian predominant occasion champion John Riordan additionally made it by means of to day 2, ending the night time with 181,000.
Notables who took a seat on day 1A however have been unable to bag included Jeremy Becker, WPT champion Lee Markholt, two-time bracelet winner and all-time Venetian cash chief Eric Baldwin, and WPT champion Qing Liu.
There was 3:15 left remaining in degree 18 (5,000-10,000 with a giant blind ante of 10,000) when play concluded.
Tournament play continues with Day 1B starting Friday, Feb. 16 at 11:10 AM native time. Day 2 will start Sunday at 11:00 AM.
Here is a take a look at the chip counts from day 1A:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Evan Sandberg | 571,000 |
| 2 | Ryan Laplante | 482,000 |
| 3 | Dan Auckland | 466,000 |
| 4 | Dan Sepiol | 449,000 |
| 5 | Brandon Wittmeyer | 428,000 |
| 6 | Mike Rangel | 273,000 |
| 7 | Neil Yekell | 184,000 |
| 8 | John Riordan | 181,000 |
| 9 | Robby Rojas | 170,000 |
| 10 | Tim Chang | 141,000 |
| 11 | Dylan Yip | 118,000 |
| 12 | Augie Lee Martinho | 73,000 |
