November 3, 2014, St Maartens (Press Release) – As two Caribbean Poker Tour players
sponsored by
Intertops Poker and
Juicy Stakes Poker report in their
daily blog, Living the Dream,
it was an action filled day at the poker tables of the Casino Royale on Sint
Maarten and the action kicked off with a $150+20 Turbo Satellite. The Freezeout
tournament generated seven seats to the $1,100 CPT St Maarten Main Event and
the 8th place finisher received a consolation prize of $740. One of the
sponsored players advanced to Day 2 while the other is out.
“So I'm out, while never really being in control of my destiny, mostly
fighting against the blind,” Brian Kulp, one of two players to win his way to
the CPT in online satellites hosted by Intertops and Juicy Stakes, wrote in the
blog yesterday. “But still it was a
great experience.”
In his blog posting yesterday, the other
sponsored player, Simon Beauregard, explained his ultimately successful
strategy for Day 1: “I'm trying to play pots in position so I can build them up
when I have hands that can win a showdown. I don't see the need in getting out
of control stealing pots when the blinds are small.”
Next on the
schedule was Day 2 of the $200+20 NLHE Event #2 and nine out of 120 players in
total returned at 5pm local time to determine the winner. William Hill online
qualifier Florian Seeberger was the first to hit the rail. The only remaining
woman in the field, Vaea Profit from Sint Maarten, emerged victorious by
defeating start-of-the-day chip leader Thibault Saillard in heads-up. Prior to
the duel for the title, both players agreed on a deal and played for $810
still.
At 9pm
there was a $100+20 Rebuy Satellite for the upcoming $3,500 WPT Caribbean that
kicks off next Monday November 3rd. Thanks to 43 entries, 26 rebuys and 31 add
ons another two 2 seats were generated and Daniel Montagnolli from Austria was
one of the two ticket winners whereas third place granted a consolation prize
of $2,700.
The
highlight of the day was definitely the $1,100 CPT St Maarten that started
around 6pm. Once the re-entry period was finished at the end of level six, 138
unique players and 12 re-entries made for 150 entries in total. The total prize
pool of $145,500 will be split among the top 17 finishers with the minimum cash
being worth $1,950 and the champion on Monday will walk home with $41,000.
There were
plenty of big names in such as Allyn Jaffrey and Barry Shulman, WPT champions
Anthony Zinno, Jonathan Roy, Alain Medesan, Pieter de Korver and Mike Linster,
however none of them made it through the end of level 10 to bag up chips.
Plenty of other notables will return tomorrow at 5pm though such as Mihai
Manole (37,400), Will "The Thrill" Failla (47,500), Dan Murariu
(75,800), Allen Kessler (84,900), Jeremy Nock (95,500), WSOP tournament
director Charlie Ciresi (106,300), Poker Royale boss Peter Hajszan (114,000),
Martin Hanowski (115,200) and Sabina Hiatullah (163,600). Chip leader is Xuan
Hien Cao from Canada with 174,900 and seven online and live qualifiers remain.
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