Day 2 of the 2016 Card Player Poker Tour Ocean’s 11 San Diego Classic $200 buy-in event has wrapped up. Friday, April 22 saw the the third and fourth starting flights of the six total happen. Flight 1C got underway at 10:00 AM local time and drew 115 total entries. Day 1D attracted 103 more entries to bring the entire choice of entries throughout the first four flights to 443 entries.

With that strong turnout the prize pool has already grown to $85,942 with two starting flights yet to go.

A total of 66 players have survived from the primary four flights, with Aaron Magers holding the chip lead with 388,800. Here's a take a look at the chip counts of these who've made their strategy to day 2:

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	Aaron Magers	388,800
2	Shaun Davis	219,100
3	Jerome Mangum	213,300
4	Justin Dada	209,000
5	Paul Pound	199,700
6	Brad Talbert	192,300
7	George Vidal	188,600
8	Donato Mazzola	183,600
9	Bob Lazarus	173,100
10	Paul Duchemin	166,700
11	Carolyn Gooding	162,200
12	Vance Hughes	140,700
13	Bryan Kallenbaugh	131,100
14	Christopher Kwong	127,100
15	Hunter Materne	118,700
16	Bernadeta Wisniewska	118,400
17	Eugene Goom	116,500
18	Stuart Spencer	116,500
19	Margo Lundahl	115,400
20	Craig Fouts	113,700
21	Justin Graves	112,700
22	Thang Doan	112,300
23	Jon Bain	111,500
24	Richard Hendricks	108,000
25	Massoud Eskandari	107,500
26	Richard Lanes	104,200
27	Kyle Reynolds	104,000
28	James Mahooti	99,100
29	Daniel Goodman	98,600
30	Arash Fuladian	95,100
31	Shanish Aloor	93,900
32	Rex Mendoza	92,800
33	Armando Mesina	91,300
34	Acil Fowler	89,100
35	Michael Kaplitz	86,600
36	Bill Bear	84,400
37	Linda Fox	84,200
38	George Mutashobya	82,600
39	Ali Salehi	81,600
40	Sylvia Sanchez	80,500
41	Samir Bages	77,500
42	Daniel Schrade	76,500
43	Fred Mahjoob	76,100
44	Mike Sushing	74,000
45	Ori Kossonogi	67,600
46	Rip Fritzer	66,700
47	Ken Ritzman	63,900
48	Ken Mondegari	58,700
49	Anthony Watters	56,400
50	James Pinpin	54,300
51	Debra Jenny	53,600
52	Amanda Canelakes	50,100
53	Jay Chavkin	48,700
54	Terry Donath	48,700
55	Richard Niwinski	47,900
56	Rodolfo Rabino	46,600
57	David Lebhar	44,500
58	Miguel Elias	44,200
59	Jesse Steinberg	43,400
60	Andrew Cook	38,800
61	Dave Liu	35,300
62	Richard Furfaro	31,400
63	Tammy Buletza	31,100
64	Raymond Hilbert	28,200
65	Ranjit Ranomawa	27,500
66	Kenneth Sullivan	18,000

Players who wish to take part in this exciting event can still play flight 1E starting on Saturday at 10:00 AM local time and flight 1F starting on Saturday 6:00 PM local time. Folks who make it to day 2 will return at 1:00 PM on Sunday to minimize to a champion.

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 succeed in the general day. As an added twist, Ocean’s 11 has partnered with Quantum Reload to provide players who shouldn't have the time to play qualifying sessions, or just wish to skip them, the danger to go into the general 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 predict 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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