Day 1B and 1C of the 2019 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic are in the books. A total of 532 entries have now been made through the first four starting flights of this tournament, which means the prize pool has grown to $81,200. There are now just two $250 buy-in starting flights remaining, with day 2 direct buy-in also available.

The tournament features an estimated prize pool of $150,000. That number is very likely to be well surpassed, with the event having previously drawn as many as 949 entries to create a prize pool worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The April 2019 running of the San Diego Classic drew 728 total entries, with Adam Weinraub earning $32,212 as the eventual champion.

Flight 1C saw a total of 143 entries made, while flight 1D added another 132. With 257 entries from the first two starting flights, the total number has now grown to 532. A total of 33 players moved on from flights 1C and 1D, with the largest stack belonging to Mohammad Sotoudeh (614,500).

There are still two starting flights remaining in this tournament. Players can also take advantage of the Quantum Tournament structure of this event can buy directly into day 2 for $1,500 on Sunday, July 21. Players that elect to take advantage of this option will receive 170,000 in tournament chips, and can also pay a $30 optional staff add-on to receive another 30,000. Blinds will begin at 1,500-3,000 on day 2. Players can re-enter once before the end of the second level on day 2.

A combined total of 61 players have moved on to day 2. Mohammad Sotoudeh and Josh Vlahos both qualified twice and will be taking their largest stacks forward into day 2. Here is a look at the chip counts of those that survived from flights 1 A-D:

Player Chip Count Mohammad Sotoudeh 614,500 Rafi Azam 482,000 Tom Schafer 457,500 Benjamin Jensen 452,500 Robert Pagcaliwagan 443,500 Kevin Weason 416,500 Ali Salehi 414,400 Barry Seidman 410,500 Logan Bennett 402,000 Scott Lewis 369,000 Jerry Snell 368,000 Robert Vasquez 355,500 David Weeks 352,500 Brigitte Spiteri 346,000 Raymond Gonzales 329,500 William Wolf 319,000 Gary Crite 288,500 Steve Firestone 278,500 Tim Bresien 256,500 Aaric West 245,500 Josh Vlahos 234,500 Bob Doerfler 221,000 Robert Lefkowitz 216,500 Alex Motigue 215,500 David Schraer 196,000 Bob Campbell 194,000 MD Shifat Uddin 188,500 Narege Kamakian 186,000 Michael Lambesis 182,500 Christopher Marble 180,000 Mike Kornblum 176,000 Stanley Edward Lipka 176,000 Michael Piellucci 172,500 Jess Steinberg 169,000 Ken Pollack 168,000 Daniel VanStogteren 164,000 Afzal Atta 146,500 Alain Connelly 146,000 Tyler Moore 133,500 Brad Sholl 111,000 Mike Tremblay 110,000 Nabor Delgado 105,000 David Icke 104,000 Lucy Hargett 103,000 Sravesh Chinnappa 100,500 Sharon Thorson 99,500 Nicholas Schmit 96,500 Pedro Prado 93,500 Joshua Bautista 93,000 Nicholas Pasto 86,500 Jimmy Ong 84,000 Dwayne Buth 83,000 Brian Bridgeman 82,000 Jon Gunter 61,000 Ron Novini 55,500 Sam Michmali 53,000 Jeffrey Knopov 48,500 Glenn Poole 41,000 Adam Martel 33,000 Joseph Anthony 13,000 Tom Czyszczon 10,500

Ocean’s 11 is the only casino in Southern California located along the Pacific Ocean on the Interstate 5 freeway, less than a mile from some of the area’s most picturesque beaches.

The property also boasts 50 tables of the best poker and table games found anywhere in California with all the favorite poker games, including no-limit and limit hold’em, Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, pot-limit Omaha, and crazy pineapple.

Previous winners of this event include Shawn Busse, Robert DeAgazio, Barry Knowlton, Barry Seidman, Scott “Brian” Blount, David McCaw, Seth Brown, Matthew Welch, and Adam Weinraub. For more information on this event, please visit the CPPT homepage.