Thanks to a late knockout on Day 1B, leading to a roughly 600,000-chip pot, Donovan Dean will take the chip lead into Day 2 of the Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion.
The Alabama native bagged up 961,000 to steer the roughly 127 survivors from Friday’s Day 1B. The second beginning flight attracted 698 entries, which mixed with the 277 entries and 44 survivors from Thursday’s Day 1A, brings the entire area measurement to 985 entries with a greater than $2.2 million prize pool.
The Venetian employees is tallying chip counts and seat attracts, however there will probably be roughly 171 gamers returning at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Day 2. When playing cards get within the air, one of many first issues on everybody’s thoughts will probably be surviving into the cash.
The high 99 spots will end within the cash for at the least a min-cash price $5,324, however the eventual winner will stroll away with a $417,004 payday. The high 5 finishers will earn a six-figure money.
Heading into the previous couple of orbits of the day, it didn’t seem that anybody would overtake Vahan Sudzhyan, who completed because the Day 1A chip chief with 752,000. But simply earlier than the tip of the day Dean flopped the nut straight in opposition to backside set to win an enormous pot and rating a knockout. Sudzhyan will possible begin Day 2 second in chips.
Other notable professionals to make safe a seat within the Day 2 area embody Matas Cimbolas, Kristen Bicknell, Jonathan Tamayo, Brian Altman, Sergio, Aido, and Mike Dentale.
Not everybody was fortunate sufficient to outlive the day, nonetheless, as loads of poker expertise hit the rail earlier than the tip of the day’s 16, 40-minute ranges. For the remainder of the event, nonetheless, ranges will probably be elevated to 60 minutes.
Among those who had been eradicated on Friday had been Ryan Laplante, Dylan Linde, Card Player Publisher Barry Shulman, Mark Newhouse, Ian O’Hara, Ping Liu, and Scott Stewart.
Card Player could have unique protection because the occasion performs into the cash and right down to a winner.
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