Venetian Poker Tournament 2020
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The 2021 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event has already seen the $500,000 guarantee surpassed after the first starting day. A total of 249 entries were made on day 1A, creating a prize pool worth $560,250 with registration and re-entry available for all of day 1B and the early levels of day 2. Registration will officially close for this event after the break that will follow the conclusion of level 14.
Day 1A saw 12 levels played, each lasting 45 minutes in length. At the end of the day, just 86 players remained to bag up their chips and move on to day 2, which will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, Feb. 21. The chip leader at the end of the night is high roller tournament regular Ali Imsirovic with 484,500. He will be looking to add to his more than $9.4 million in recorded tournament earnings with a deep run in this event. He made the final table of the 2017 CPPT Venetian $3,500 buy-in event, finishing fourth for $61,441.
Other notables who bagged up sizable stacks include World Poker Tour main event winner Jordan Cristos (203,500), World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erik Cajelais (176,500), recent bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open main event winner Scott Stewart (172,500), Tim Reilly (167,500), bracelet winner Ankush Mandavia (144,000), Marle Cordeiro (135,000), Nicholas Pupillo (115,000), bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (114,000), and Matt Stout (106,000).
2018 CPPT Venetian main event champion Anthony Zinno is still in contention with 46,000. The three-time WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner defeated a field of 547 players in that $5,000 buy-in event to win $466,670. A few other players who made it to day 2 have also found their way into the winner’s circle at the Venetian Poker Room earlier this series. Johnny Oshana, who ended day 1A with 87,500 in chips, won the $1,100 buy-in Mid-States Poker Tour Poker Bowl event for $130,000 on Feb. 6. WPT Championship winner Asher Conniff has 34,000 heading into day 2, and will be looking for his second title of the festival after winning the $800 no-limit hold’em UltimateStack event for $98,669.
Other big names still in contention include 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan Riess (86,000), bracelet winner Ryan Laplante (82,000), WPT champion Alex Foxen (45,000) and three-time bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell (30,500).
Play will continue on Saturday, Feb. 20 with day 1B beginning at 11:10 a.m. local time.
Here is a look at the chip counts of the 86 players who moved on to day 2:
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| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ali Imsirovic | 484,500 |
| 2 | Doug Holland | 360,500 |
| 3 | Joshua Prager | 337,500 |
| 4 | Salim Admon | 335,500 |
| 5 | Nick Getzen | 242,000 |
| 6 | Jerry Brown | 239,000 |
| 7 | Brent Hart | 218,500 |
| 8 | Jordan Cristos | 203,500 |
| 9 | Tommy Tran | 181,000 |
| 10 | Erik Cajelais | 176,500 |
| 11 | Ben Underwood | 175,500 |
| 12 | Kfir Nahum | 175,500 |
| 13 | Scott Stewart | 172,500 |
| 14 | Jimmy Zeledon | 170,000 |
| 15 | Brandon Eisen | 169,500 |
| 16 | Tim Reilly | 167,500 |
| 17 | Albert Calderon | 167,000 |
| 18 | Tommy Kivela | 161,000 |
| 19 | Brendan Shiller | 159,000 |
| 20 | Arsenii Karmatckii | 155,000 |
| 21 | Sean Banahan | 155,000 |
| 22 | John Dennehey | 149,500 |
| 23 | Kevin Garosshen | 147,500 |
| 24 | Ankush Mandavia | 144,000 |
| 25 | Kyung Min Lee | 138,500 |
| 26 | Marle Cordeiro | 135,000 |
| 27 | Steve Wilkie | 134,000 |
| 28 | Coby Hoogi | 133,500 |
| 29 | Daniel Park | 133,000 |
| 30 | Jesse Lonis | 131,000 |
| 31 | John Gordon | 130,000 |
| 32 | Matthew Gross | 129,500 |
| 33 | Anthony Grappo | 126,000 |
| 34 | David Poces | 126,000 |
| 35 | Sami Shurbaji | 126,000 |
| 36 | Thomas Tran | 123,000 |
| 37 | Nicholas Pupillo | 115,000 |
| 38 | Noah Muallem | 114,000 |
| 39 | Jeremy Ausmus | 114,000 |
| 40 | Jeanette Mendez | 111,000 |
| 41 | Hyon Kim | 107,500 |
| 42 | Matt Stout | 106,000 |
| 43 | William Chao | 105,000 |
| 44 | David Jackson | 100,500 |
| 45 | Fred Hanna | 100,500 |
| 46 | Alex Feiner | 91,500 |
| 47 | Sean Hegarty | 91,000 |
| 48 | Jean Gaspard | 91,000 |
| 49 | Chad Wassmuth | 88,500 |
| 50 | Johnny Oshana | 87,500 |
| 51 | Harrison Dobin | 86,500 |
| 52 | Ryan Riess | 86,000 |
| 53 | Michael Faulkner | 82,500 |
| 54 | Ryan Laplante | 82,000 |
| 55 | Mitchell Halverson | 82,000 |
| 56 | Philip Yeh | 78,500 |
| 57 | Veselin Dimitrov | 78,000 |
| 58 | Nadya Magnus | 75,000 |
| 59 | Peyman Ahmadi | 74,500 |
| 60 | David Somers | 73,000 |
| 61 | Jason Hickey | 68,000 |
| 62 | Jason Sagle | 66,500 |
| 63 | Kenneth Isaacs | 64,500 |
| 64 | Rodger Johnson | 64,000 |
| 65 | Ken Einiger | 62,000 |
| 66 | Haim Gabay | 60,000 |
| 67 | James Anderson | 60,000 |
| 68 | Barry Hutter | 60,000 |
| 69 | Frank Marasco | 57,500 |
| 70 | Duff Charette | 56,000 |
| 71 | Alex Condon | 56,000 |
| 72 | Anthony Zinno | 46,000 |
| 73 | Alex Foxen | 45,000 |
| 74 | Dean Hutchinson | 44,500 |
| 75 | Adam Burriss | 41,500 |
| 76 | Benny Chen | 39,500 |
| 77 | Michael Rossitto | 37,500 |
| 78 | Matthew Volosevich | 36,500 |
| 79 | Joe Maas | 34,500 |
| 80 | Asher Conniff | 34,000 |
| 81 | Peter Braglia | 32,000 |
| 82 | Ralph Wong | 31,000 |
| 83 | Kristen Bicknell | 30,500 |
| 84 | Robert Peacock | 21,000 |
| 85 | David Offengeym | 20,000 |
| 86 | Raman Afanasenka | 9,000 |
The World Poker Tour is back in action again, this time stepping back into the familiar stomping grounds of Las Vegas. The Venetian is playing host to the WPT Venetian for the next few days, marking the first major tournament schedule to resume under the COVID regulations in the city. The WPT is expecting a big crowd for this event and they have adjusted some of the terms of the event that were in effect last year, which should not slow down anyone from playing.
Kick Up the Buy-In…
When it was first announced, the WPT Venetian was set for a $3500 buy-in with unlimited reentries until the start of Level 9. The Venetian decided to change the entry fee for the tournament, however (the WPT has no call over the structures of any event on its schedule, including the buy-in), making it a $5000 buy-in event while keeping the unlimited re-entry intact. They also set a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool, which should easily be crushed between the two-Day Ones.
On Friday, it became quickly evident that players, despite the mandated face masks and plexiglass separating the competitors, wanted to get on the felt. 123 players were on the tables when the call to action was heard and this number ratcheted up rapidly. Just before the dinner break, 327 entries were in the books, thrashing the $1.5 million guarantee and demonstrating that the WPT Venetian was going to be one for the record books.
Late registration/reentry ended with the start of Level 9 and the numbers were astounding. 378 entries were on the board, but perhaps most surprising was that there were still 176 players in their seats by Level 9. Over the final two levels of the night, however, the players began to drop by the wayside.
Stacked Leaderboard from Day 1A
Venetian Poker Tournaments June 2020
Either because they could come back on Day 1B and try to run up another stack or they wanted to try to run up the one they had and failed, there were some very notable names sitting on the sidelines by the end of Friday night. Garrett Greer hit the rail late in the evening holding pocket nines, the victim of a race against Scott Stewart’s suited A♠ Q♠ when the Q♣ hit on the flop. Others who failed to reach the end of the night included PokerGO’s boss, Cary Katz and another fellow “High Roller” regular, Dan Shak.
Venetian Poker Tournaments 2020
The upper echelons of the leaderboard are replete with top professionals amongst the 79 players who will be happy with what they bagged (at least the Top Ten will): Dustin Dirksen will be the only player over the 500K mark on the Day 1A leaderboard, but there are plenty of challenges awaiting him, even without the Day 1B field added:
1. Dustin Dirksen, 566,000
2. Joseph Cheong, 390,500
3. James Carroll, 386,500
4. Dave Alfa, 382,500
5. Zhen Cai, 341,000
6. Jarod Ludemann, 335,000
7. Scott Stewart, 334,000
8. Shannon Shorr, 305,500
9. Nick Schulman, 280,000
10. Adam Hendrix, 277,000
Day 1B will go off at 11AM at The Venetian in Las Vegas with the same plan on Saturday – 11 levels of action, $5000 entry fee with unlimited rebuys. If the Day 1A crowd is any indicator, they might challenge 500 players on Saturday for the last shot at the crown, which would completely destroy the $1.5 million guarantee. With only 522 entries necessary to achieve 900 entries and an over $4 million prize pool, the only question other than who will be the champion of the WPT Venetian will be how high the prize pool will go.