Two of the three starting flights have already been completed in the $1,000,000 guaranteed Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 no-limit hold’em main event, with a total of 296 entries made so far.
Day 1C kicks off at 11:10 AM local time on Friday, Feb. 14 inside the Venetian Poker Room, with 40-minute levels and starting stacks of 30,000. Late registration and re-entry are available through the first nine levels and the break that follows, with an estimated closing time of around 5:55 PM.
Day 2 of this event is set for 11:00 AM on Feb. 15, with the final table getting underway at noon on Feb. 16. The final table will be produced and broadcast by PokerGO for Venetian Poker Live from inside the venue’s brand new state-of-the-art Poker Studio.
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Day 1B drew 174 entries, with 22 players bagging up at the end of the night to join the 16 who moved on from day 1A’s 122 entries. The 296 total entries have added $421,800 to the prize pool so far.
Day 1B action ended with 29:04 remaining in Level 16, with blinds at 3,000-6,000 and a big blind ante of 6,000. Daniel Marcus ended the night with the largest stack of 779,000, which gives him the overall chip lead up to this point.
Other notables among the players to move on from day 1B include 2024 CPPT Venetian third-place finisher Michael Rossitto (440,000), two-time bracelet winner Evan Sandberg (419,000), World Poker Tour champion James Romero (303,000), and bracelet winner Nicholas Pupillo (239,000).
Check out the chip counts of the players to move on from days 1A and 1B below:
Photo via Venetian Poker Room X account.
