Day 1A Card Player Poker tour In the Jacksonville bestbet main event, Jonathan Jaffe was eliminated when his AK hit Jeremy Joseph's pocket aces.
The deal gave Joseph a chip lead to complete the action of the day, but Jaffe returned Saturday on Day 1B, amassed his own monster pile, and collected the largest pile of the 38 survivors of the second and final take-off flight.
Master World Poker Tour With over $ 4.2 million in tournament career, he ended day 13, 38-minute levels from 386, in chips. While it is not enough to overtake Joseph 759,000 for an overall advantage, he is the only player Jaffe will be looking at in the leaderboard. Unlike playing one big pot, Jaffe was one of the best chips for most of the day, accumulating chips all day long.
Other top stacks of the day 1B include Raymond Leone (398,000), Donovan Dean (287,), eightfold World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner Kyle Cartwright (287,000) and Jessica Cai (232,000).
Cartwright, who also won The WSOP bracelet in 759, jumped to the top of the 1B chip after hitting a straight draw against Sterling Savill on the flop and retreating to three eights at the end of the day. After that, he was able to maintain stability and finish with the highest stack.
Only Jaffe, Leone and Dean will make it into the top five overall stacks when Day 2 starts as Joseph is first, and Dustin Holladay, who grabbed 386, will start third in chips on Friday. The cards will take off on Sunday noon and will play to the final table, then be picked up to determine the winner on Monday.
Other notable stacks returning on day 2 include Ryan McAllister (242,000), TK Miles (247,000), Raminder Singh (232), Hal Rotholz (185), Sterlin g Savill (158,000), BJ McBrayer (99,000) ), Steve Karp (99,000), Ricardo Eyzaguirre (79,) and 2019 WSOP more event runner-up Tony Miles (56,).
There were 206 entries in the Day 1B field, which combined makes the total field size to 287 of the 109 entries released on Friday 1A. There were 22 survivors from Friday and another 38 on Saturday.
297 entries generated a total prize pool of $759,360 with a counter top 42 slots ending at the box office for at least 3$, 915. The final winner will walk away from the $147,759 and the top two places will earn six figure payouts.
Several talented poker players entered the 2$, 410 buy-in, but failed to complete any of the starting flights. Master of the World Poker Tour Ryan Van Sanford, WSOP bracelet winner John Gorsuch and 2019 WSOP main event November Niner John Dolan.
When players return on Sunday, a bursting money bubble will be one of the first thoughts that come to everyone's mind. Only 61 remaining players, only 16 need to hit the barrier before the final 39 players will be in the box office. With blinds from 2,000-4, with 4,000 big blind ante, there are 10 players starting the day with less than 20 big blinds and the bubble should burst in the first few levels of the day.