Next Group of Bustouts

We are at the point in the tournament where there is a pay jump after every three bustouts. We are down to the final 21 right now, meaning we have hit two jumps already. Once we get down to the final 18, we will post a seating chart with full counts for everyone still in.

These players each took home $4,125

22. Marc Contreras
23. Qing Lu
24.  Mark Bryan

These players each won $3,690.

25. Luke Nguyen
26. Ray Etniel
27. Jesse Yaginuma

Latest Bustouts From the Main

The final 27 players just completed a full three table redraw. Here are are the players who just missed out on making it to that marker. Each of these players took home $3,255 tonight.

28. Michael Knight
29. Mohsin Charania
30. John Misirian
31. Al Connelly
32. Anthony Spinella
33. Josh Siegel
34. Joseph Baghdadian
35. Fred Schwartz
36. Jim Mangiemele

Some Fresh Chips From the Top 27

Blinds: 8,000-16,000 Average: 766,0000

Said El Harrak - 1,500,000
Massoud Eskandari - 1,200,000
Jarod Einsohn - 1,200,000
Jim Collopy - 1,100,000
Duey Duong - 1,080,000
Harvey Alegado - 960,000
Jordan Cristos - 860,000
Brandon Zuidema - 735,000
Adam Geyer - 455,000

Next Round of Eliminations in the Main Event

The following players all took home $2,850 for their efforts tonight.

37. Martino Bakri
38. Paul Vacchio
39. Jiehao Zhu
40. William Wolf
41. Timothy Xu
42. Anne Liu
43. Ali Darroudi
44. Triet Nguyen
45. Goswin Siemsen

More Updated Counts From the Final Four Tables

Blinds: 6,000-12,000 Average: 585,000

Said El Harrak - 1,420,000
Jim Collopy - 1,150,000
Harvey Alegado - 940,000
Jordan Cristos - 800,000
Massoud Eskandari - 790,000
Jarod Einsohn - 660,000
Adam Geyer - 630,000
Duey Duong - 580,000
Brandon Zuidema - 570,000
Jesse Yaginuma - 360,000
Anthony Spinella - 195,000
Mohsin Charania - 160,000

First Round of Player Bustouts

As we usually do, we will start listing off eliminations now that we are down to the final five tables here in this Cardplayer Main Event. The following players all took home $2,500 tonight.

46. John Rock
47. Straton Wilhelm
48. Bruce Buffer
49. Shawn Walker
50. Tawab Hessam
51. Phong "Turbo" Nguyen
52. Christopher Bolek
53. Travis Takahashi
54. Jason Warner

Updated Counts In the Main Event

Blinds: 4,000-8,000 Average: 370,000 Players Left: 54

Said El Harrak - 1,200,000
Massoud Eskandari - 1,100,000
Jim Collopy - 1,000,000
Jordan Cristos - 680,000
Jarod Einsohn - 450,000
Duey Duong - 390,000
Phong "Turbo" Nguyen - 380,000
Brandon Zuidema - 280,000
Mohsin Charania - 210,000
Anthony Spinella - 132,000
Jesse Yaginuma - 105,000

Fresh Counts From the Final 63

Blinds: 3,000-6,000 Average: 316,000

Said El Harrak - 1,300,000
Jordan Cristos - 1,050,000
Massoud Eskandari - 980,000
Jim Collopy - 700,000
Duey Duong - 580,000
Brandon Zuidema - 350,000
Jesse Yaginuma - 222,000
Jarod Einsohn - 195,000
Tony Ma - 195,000
Phong "Turbo" Nguyen - 180,000
Anthony Spinella - 165,000
Benjamin Moon - 150,000
Joe Serock - 130,000

We are Now in the Money!

It has taken less than five hours for us to get down to the final nine players, which means we are officially in the money now! All of the remaining players have locked up at least $1,905, but they all have their eyes set on the first place prize of $156,350 to be handed out tomorrow!

At the moment, it looks like local Bicycle Casino regular Massoud Eskandari has the chip lead with over one million in chips. Stay tuned to find out if Eskandari can make yet another major final table here at the Bike!

Some Updated Counts During Break

Blinds: 2,500-5,000 Average: 234,000 Players Left: 85

Said El Harrak - 650,000
Brandon Zuidema - 475,000
Duey Duong - 450,000
Jordan Cristos - 425,000
Massoud Eskandari - 350,000
Tony Ma - 300,000
Phong "Turbo" Nguyen - 300,000
Kevin French - 260,000
Anthony Spinella - 255,000
Benjamin Moon - 180,000
Jesse Yaginuma - 155,000
Joe Serock - 130,000
Jarod Einsohn - 85,000
Danny Wong - 48,000

Final Payouts For the Cardplayer Main Event

After the 46 Day 2 entries today, the prizepool swelled up to $642,140. The final 72 players today will finish in the money, each locking up $1,905. Scroll down for the rest of the payouts, and good luck to the remaining 105 players!

1. $156,350
2. $90,385
3. $52,080
4. $39,235
5. $29,640
6. $22,475
7. $17,530
8. $13,680
9. $10,465
10-12. $7,615
13-15. $6,355
16-18. $5,395
19-21. $4,760
22-24. $4,185
25-27. $3,690
28-36. $3,255
37-45. $2,850
46-54. $2,500
55-63. $2,190
64-72. $1,905

Some Chippies From the Day 2 Restart

Blinds: 1,500-3,000 Average: 170,000 Players Left: 117

Said El Harrak - 700,000
Brandon Zuidema - 550,000
Kevin French - 450,000
Duey Duong - 320,000
Tony Ma - 320,000
Massoud Eskandari - 310,000
Joe Serock - 250,000
Benjamin Moon - 190,000
Jesse Yaginuma - 135,000
Danny Wong - 125,000
Anthony Spinella - 120,000
Jarod Einsohn - 120,000
Ron West - 110,000

Registration Closes With 46 Day 2 Entries

As the title indicates, we got just under 50 Day 2 buy-ins today, creating a final field of 166 players today. We will post the full payouts as soon as we get them from the floor staff, but we can confirm that the prizepool ended up at just under $650,000.

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Cardplayer Main Event. Stay tuned for more updates from this exciting Day 2!

Cards in the Air: $570 Survivor Event

The Main Event might have just closed it's registration doors at the top of the hour, but that doesn't mean the poker action is stopping here at the Bike Poker Oktober! We still have three post Main Event tournaments coming up: one today, and two tomorrow. Today's event has just kicked off, and it's a $570 Survivor Event. That means that the top 10% of players will all cash out for an even $5,000, a great way to boost the bankroll at the end of the series.

If you can't make it for the Survivor Event, we have a $100,000 Guaranteed Deepstack Event tomorrow at 11:30 AM, and one more Survivor Even, this time for $365, tomorrow at 5 PM.

Good luck everyone!

Nearly 40 Day 2 Buy-ins So Far

We have just passed the halfway point of the Day 2 buy-in period, and so far, we have 36 Day 2 entries. That means that the prizepool is now approaching $400,000!

Be sure to stay tuned for a round of notable chip counts once registration closes at 3 PM today!

Cards in the Air: Main Event Day 2 Finals

It is time to get going once again here in the Cardplayer Main Event! It's Day 2, and that means that players will be coming in today to buy-in directly for Day 2 to join the 120 players who have already advanced. Registration today will be open until the end of the first break, or until about 3 PM local time. The buy-in is $4,300, and we will be passing the posted guarantee shortly into play today.

Click here for a full list of chip counts, and good luck to everyone!

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Full List of Day 2 Chip Counts

After three days of play, 120 players will be coming back today for the day 2 finals of the Cardplayer Main Event! Of course, the list of Day 2 players will be growing as players come in to buy-in directly for $4,300. Registration for that will be open until just before 3 PM today.

Avedis Chuldjian leads the way with 342,900, but he has a number of tough players breathing down his neck, including John Misirian (328,500), William Wolf (322,100), Said El Harrak (307,000), Kevin French (235,600), and Tony Ma (209,900). 

We will be playing 12 hours today, or until we reach the final table, whichever comes first. The remaining survivors will come back tomorrow at 2 PM, where the final table will be streaming on Live at the Bike! 

Good luck all!

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	Avedis Chuldjian	342,900
2	John Misirian	328,500
3	William Wolf	322,100
4	Said El Harrak	307,000
5	Beau Winn	284,500
6	David Thomas	264,100
7	Luke Nguyen	255,300
8	Al Connelly	244,600
9	Derek Kwan	240,000
10	Kevin French	235,600
11	Sam Weiss	229,300
12	Tony Ma	209,900
13	Amnon Filippi	197,200
14	Derek Gregory	197,000
15	Michael Wasserman	196,000
16	Rick Schwartz	195,700
17	Sean Yu	195,000
18	Jarod Einsohn	191,000
19	Robert Mather	188,700
20	Ishmael Torres	186,700
21	Julian Chung	177,500
22	Eric Jeffries	166,500
23	Troy Galbadon	166,200
24	Ali Darroudi	166,000
25	Duey Duong	165,400
26	Vadim Baranovsky	162,000
27	Lawrence Ma	160,500
28	Adam Miller	154,600
29	Wong Lee	153,200
30	Ramiro Moran	151,300
31	Larry Quang	149,600
32	Benjamin Gilbert	147,600
33	Xiao Yu	146,900
34	Andrei Moldovan	145,000
35	Rachel Dardon	144,600
36	David Brookshire	144,600
37	Haydar Ali Ettekhari	144,200
38	Emad Bastawros	142,000
39	Triet Nguyen	141,500
40	Brandon Zuidema	138,900
41	Jason Warner	137,600
42	Darrell Lane	135,100
43	Narek Pananyan	134,500
44	Cesar Torres	132,000
45	Adam Volen	130,900
46	Nguyet Dao	130,700
47	Ilya Shpiner	130,000
48	Qing Lu	128,300
49	Adrian Moreno	124,800
50	Michael Nia	124,000
51	Nissav Quarashi	123,500
52	Joseph Baghdadlian	122,300
53	Straton Wilhelm	121,000
54	Michael Knight	118,600
55	Ben Chung	118,400
56	Hamid Karimi	118,000
57	Timothy Acker	117,500
58	Martino Bakri	114,700
59	David Lilien	114,400
60	Marc Contreras	113,300
61	John Hulett	109,600
62	Steve Jun	107,700
63	Shawn Walker	105,700
64	Jared Griener	105,200
65	Harvey Alegado	100,000
66	Doug Lada	99,000
67	Jim Mangianele	98,500
68	Mike Shariati	98,300
69	Jiehao Zhu	98,300
70	Josh Siegel	97,600
71	Tony Ghaffari	95,600
72	Joldis Cosmin	94,900
73	Suang Saetum	94,800
74	Ernst Aschacher	91,700
75	Danny Geyser	89,600
76	Felipe Davila	87,100
77	Al Dargah	87,000
78	Rudy Cervantes	86,000
79	Francisco Lopez	85,000
80	Mel Weiner	83,000
81	Paul Lui	82,400
82	Goswin Siemsen	78,900
83	Ron Miller	78,700
84	John Rock	77,600
85	Alex Hua	74,700
86	Berkeley Yuan	74,400
87	Joe Hindry	71,500
88	Mirkohyar Gaskari	70,400
89	A Junh	67,400
90	Richard Abarca	66,800
91	Mikael Narveson	63,200
92	Kevin Chan	60,200
93	Paul Vacchio	59,500
94	Ruslan Evloev	59,300
95	Benjamin Moon	59,200
96	Alan Myerson	59,000
97	Anne Liu	58,700
98	Jose Prieto	56,900
99	John Pina	53,800
100	Alexandre Novaes	53,000
101	Peter Hengsakul	52,200
102	Enrique Rodriguez	50,800
103	Alex Massman	46,500
104	Bruce Buffer	45,700
105	Bruce Kramer	44,800
106	Jason Kim	43,800
107	Nancy Nguyen	42,900
108	Adam Regiaba	42,200
109	Travis Takashi	42,100
110	Sameer Aljanedi	40,800
111	Ray Etniel	38,500
112	Hector Ziperovich	37,000
113	Stan Hackett	35,200
114	Larisa Evloev	34,400
115	Fred Louie	33,100
116	Michael Merzian	32,700
117	Jonathan Ziegler	31,000
118	Sam Muradyan	28,600
119	Mark Bryan	24,400
120	Pogos Simityan	16,400