A complete of 100 entries had been made on day 1B of the $300,000 assured Card Player Poker Tour occasion at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas.
This $1,100 buy-in match options three beginning flights, with 12.5% of the sector making the cash every day. Day 1A ended with 8 gamers advancing to Day 2, every being assured a minimum of a min-cash. The second flight noticed 13 extra contenders transfer on to Sunday, which implies that 21 of the 160 entries made to date have bagged and tagged.
This match includes a beginning stack of 40,000 in chips, with 40-minute blind ranges. Late registration and re-entry had been out there by the beginning of stage 10 on every of the finished flights to date, and it is going to be the identical case for Saturday’s day 1C.
More than 12 hours after playing cards obtained within the air, the day concluded when 2023 Wynn Millions predominant occasion winner Michael Rossito ran pocket tens into the pocket kings of Aaron Massey. Rossito, who completed third within the 2024 CPPT Venetian predominant occasion again in January, was despatched to the rail empty handed to convey day 1B to a detailed.
Massey, who has greater than $5.7 million in profession match earnings, is likely one of the shorter stacks that survived day 1B, with 178,000.
The chip chief on the finish of the night time was Jeremy Becker with 649,000. Becker, pictured atop the article, is simply over every week faraway from the biggest rating of his profession. The rising match star, who first caught the eye of the poker world with a streak of wins in each day tournaments round Las Vegas, took down a $10,100 buy-in occasion on the Poker Masters to earn $255,000. This was his first six-figure rating. His second got here simply 5 days later, when he completed third in a $15,100 buy-in for one more $163,800. Becker now has greater than $2 million in profession earnings, and might add to that whole in a significant manner with a deep run on this occasion.
Becker completed sixth within the CPPT Venetian February predominant occasion earlier this yr. He has now made 23 ultimate tables in 2024, essentially the most of any participant on the circuit. As a consequence, he’s now ranked sixteenth on this yr’s Card Player Player of the Year race.
The second-largest stack belongs to Ivan Ruban, who completed ninth within the CPPT Venetian predominant occasion again in January of this yr.
There had been 87 knockouts recorded throughout day 1B. Among those that had been eradicated had been Card Player writer and two-time bracelet winner Barry Shulman, 2024 CPPT Venetian February predominant occasion champion Andrew Rodgers, four-time bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion Anthony Zinno, latest Poker Masters kickoff occasion winner Spencer Champlin, two-time bracelet winner Mark Seif, and 2022 WSOP $3,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion runner-up Toby Boas.
There was 35:32 remaining in Level 17 (4,000-8,000 with a giant blind ante of 8,000) when play concluded on day 1B.
Day 1C will begin on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 11:10 AM. Registration will as soon as once more be open, with re-entries out there, till the beginning of Level 10. Those who transfer on will be a part of the day 1A and day 1B survivors for day 2, which is able to get underway on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11:00 AM. The remaining discipline will play all the way down to the subsequent CPPT champion.
Here are the chip counts from the top of play on Day 1B:
Rank | Player | Chip Count |
1 | Jeremy Becker | 649,000 |
2 | Ivan Ruban | 453,000 |
3 | Ammar Alobaidy | 402,000 |
4 | Virab Zakaryan | 402,000 |
5 | Rolands Norietis | 383,000 |
6 | Matthew Schulte | 316,000 |
7 | Tyler Mitchell | 264,000 |
8 | Garen Zobian | 242,000 |
9 | Mario Colavita | 211,000 |
10 | Martin Schroeder | 203,000 |
11 | Christopher McNulty | 193,000 |
12 | Aaron Massey | 178,000 |
13 | Timothy Pai | 106,000 |