The first day of the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic $200 buy-in event is now within the books!

Thursday, April 21 saw the primary two starting flights of six get underway. Flight 1A drew 119 total entries while flight 1B attracted 106.

With 225 total entries thus far the prize pool has already grown to $43,560 with four starting flights yet to head. Only 34 players survived from the 2 starting flights that ran today, with Jerome Mangum within the lead with 213,300. Here's a have a look at all the chip counts of these who've made their option to day 2:

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	Jerome Mangum	213,300
2	Paul pound	199,700
3	Brad Talbert	192,300
4	Bob Lazarus	173,000
5	Vance Hughes	140,700
6	Bryan Kallenbaugh	131,100
7	Hunter Materne	118,700
8	Bernadeta Wisniewska	118,400
9	Eugene Goom	116,500
10	Margo Lundahl	115,400
11	Craig Fouts	113,700
12	Justin Graves	112,700
13	Jon Bain	111,500
14	Richard Hendricks	108,000
15	Massoud Eskandari	107,500
16	Richard Lanes	104,200
17	Daniel Goodman	98,600
18	Shanish Aloor	93,900
19	Rex Mendoza	92,800
20	Acil Fowler	89,100
21	Linda Fox	84,200
22	George Mutashobya	82,600
23	Sylvia Sanchez	80,500
24	Daniel Schrade	76,500
25	Mike Sushing	74,000
26	Rip Fritzer	66,700
27	James Pinpin	54,300
28	Terry Donath	48,700
29	Jay Chavkin	48,700
30	Richard Niwinski	47,900
31	David Lebhar	44,500
32	Miguel Elias	44,200
33	Andrew Cook	38,800
34	Tammy Buletza	31,100

Players who wish to take part in this exciting event can still play flight 1C (starting on Friday at 10:00 AM local time), flight 1D (starting on Friday 6:00 PM local time) in addition to flights 1E and 1F, starting on the same times on Saturday.

The San Diego Classic, held Apr. 21 to Apr. 24, is the cardboard Player Poker Tour’s first event in San Diego and proves once and for all there are indeed great major tournament events in California outside of Los Angeles.

With a modest buy-in of $200, and the chance to re-enter once during each qualifying session, players have multiple chances to achieve the overall day. As an added twist, Ocean’s 11 has partnered with Quantum Reload to provide players who do not need the time to play qualifying sessions, or just need to skip them, the danger to go into the overall day by offering an afternoon 2 $1,350 buy-in. All Quantum Reload entries receive 100,000 chips. Day 2 blinds start at 1,000 – 2,000.

“Don’t let the $100,000 prize pool estimate fool you. We think to surpass $100,000 well before the Quantum Reload entries join the party”, says Casino Manager Zaven Esmaili. “Our World Poker Tour Deepstack-San Diego multiple-day final event held in October always surpasses its $200,000 guarantee, with a $504,000 prize pool in 2014 and a $379,000 prize pool last year. Our single-day annual classic likewise never disappoints, with our Labor Day prize pool of $68,200, and Memorial Day prize pool of $69,000 blowing past our $50,000 estimates.”

We encourage all players to test the cardboard Player website, the Ocean’s 11 website, or just call the casino in the course of the event to maintain track of the growing prize pool.

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