A complete of 100 entries have been made on day 1B of the $300,000 assured Card Participant Poker Tour occasion at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas.
This $1,100 buy-in event 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 not less than a min-cash. The second flight noticed 13 extra contenders transfer on to Sunday, which signifies that 21 of the 160 entries made thus far have bagged and tagged.
This event contains a beginning stack of 40,000 in chips, with 40-minute blind ranges. Late registration and re-entry have been out there by means of the beginning of degree 10 on every of the finished flights thus far, and it will likely be the identical case for Saturday’s day 1C.
Greater than 12 hours after playing cards acquired within the air, the day concluded when 2023 Wynn Tens of millions important occasion winner Michael Rossito ran pocket tens into the pocket kings of Aaron Massey. Rossito, who completed third within the 2024 CPPT Venetian important occasion again in January, was despatched to the rail empty handed to deliver day 1B to an in depth.
Massey, who has greater than $5.7 million in profession event earnings, is among the shorter stacks that survived day 1B, with 178,000.
The chip chief on the finish of the evening was Jeremy Becker with 649,000. Becker, pictured atop the article, is simply over per week faraway from the most important rating of his profession. The rising event 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 an additional $163,800. Becker now has greater than $2 million in profession earnings, and may add to that whole in a serious manner with a deep run on this occasion.
Becker completed sixth within the CPPT Venetian February important occasion earlier this yr. He has now made 23 closing tables in 2024, probably the most of any participant on the circuit. In consequence, he’s now ranked sixteenth on this yr’s Card Participant Participant of the 12 months race.
The second-largest stack belongs to Ivan Ruban, who completed ninth within the CPPT Venetian important occasion again in January of this yr.
There have been 87 knockouts recorded throughout day 1B. Amongst those that have been eradicated have been Card Participant writer and two-time bracelet winner Barry Shulman, 2024 CPPT Venetian February important occasion champion Andrew Rodgers, four-time bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion Anthony Zinno, current 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 Stage 17 (4,000-8,000 with an enormous 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 Stage 10. Those that transfer on will be a part of the day 1A and day 1B survivors for day 2, which can get underway on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11:00 AM. The remaining discipline will play all the way down to the subsequent CPPT champion.
Listed here are the chip counts from the top of play on Day 1B:
Rank
Participant
Chip Depend
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
