World Poker Tour 2018 Bicycle Casino
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- The Bicycle Hotel & Casino reserves the right to revise, suspend, cancel, or modify tournament events at its sole discretion and without prior notice within the parameters of GEGA-000451. Residents of foreign countries without a U.S. Tax treaty and non-residents of California will be subject to withholding.
The World Series of Poker Circuit has returned to the legendary Bicycle Hotel and Casino near Los Angeles for their latest tour stop in 2018. The series features twelve gold ring events, with the.
The 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Bicycle Hotel & Casino main event drew a field of 2,180 total entries, with 153 day 2 direct entries. The prize pool swelled to $675,023 as a result of the massive turnout, blowing away the $500,000 guarantee. The eventual champion of this event is set to take home $123,418 for the win.
After 14 levels of play on day 2 the field was narrowed to just 34 remaining hopefuls. The chip leader coming into the final day of this event is Australia’s Warwick Mirzirkinian with 4,885,000. He surged up the leaderboard at the end of the day to just surpass Richard Chun, who lead for much of the last few levels and ended up with 4,770,000.
Also still in contention is 2015 Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park main event champion Adam Volen (1,435,000), who has a chance to become the first player to ever win two CPPT main event titles.
Volen spent much of the day short stacked, but was able to climb to the middle ofthe pack by making quad aces holdeing the AA in a three-way all-in pot late in the day.
Plenty of notables were eliminated after the money bubble burst, including Owen Crowe (59th – $1,345), Ryan Lenaghan (97th – $650) and Bart Hanson (118th – $510).
The remaining 34 players are now all guaranteed at least $2,815 for their efforts in this event. They will return to play down to a champion at 1:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, July 15.
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final day:
World Poker Tour 2018 Bicycle Casino Game
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Warwick Mirzikinian | 4,885,000 |
| 2 | Richard Chun | 4,770,000 |
| 3 | Cody Bell | 3,110,000 |
| 4 | John Marquez | 3,005,000 |
| 5 | Dany Georges | 2,800,000 |
| 6 | George Antonakos | 2,490,000 |
| 7 | Alexandre Novaes | 2,310,000 |
| 8 | Amir Ghazvinian | 2,280,000 |
| 9 | Kyle Cameron | 2,040,000 |
| 10 | Alex Rapoport | 2,005,000 |
| 11 | Alexander Fu | 1,765,000 |
| 12 | Agasi Ognanyon | 1,760,000 |
| 13 | Ilya Shpiner | 1,635,000 |
| 14 | Barrett Green | 1,590,000 |
| 15 | Thi Truong | 1,540,000 |
| 16 | Tom Trang | 1,500,000 |
| 17 | Adam Volen | 1,435,000 |
| 18 | Mike VaVerka | 1,425,000 |
| 19 | Ira Friedman | 1,325,000 |
| 20 | Nicholas Ronyecz | 1,245,000 |
| 21 | Mazen Abdalah | 1,200,000 |
| 22 | Miriam Lewcowitz | 1,110,000 |
| 23 | Daniel Wagner | 1,025,000 |
| 24 | Dung Nguyen | 995,000 |
| 25 | Alexander Beleson | 965,000 |
| 26 | Jeff Rogers | 950,000 |
| 27 | Gevorr Rasabyan | 895,000 |
| 28 | Chris Kay | 865,000 |
| 29 | Connor Hulse | 855,000 |
| 30 | Steve Henning | 835,000 |
| 31 | Haana Batshoun | 585,000 |
| 32 | Jacob Oelman | 345,000 |
| 33 | Ophir Atar | 235,000 |
| 34 | Thic Truong | 170,000 |