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The Card Player Poker Tour Venetian main event continued on Monday with day 1B as a part of the DeepStack Extravaganza III, a chain boasting greater than $16 million in guarantees this summer.

The $5,000 buy-in main event kicked off at noon with the second one of 3 starting flights. Each player began with 25,000 in chips and benefited from a generous structure of 75-minute blind levels. The degrees increases to 90-minutes beginning on day 2.

A total of 91 showed for day 1B action and only 36 made it in the course of the day. When combined with the day 1A field of 42, the official choice of runners now stands at 133 going into the general starting flight. Players too can enter for the primary two levels of day 2. As is the case with most live tournaments, the fields for day 1C and a pair of will undoubtedly be much larger.

After eight levels of action, it was Viktor Lavi who ended the day on top of the leaderboard with 118,300. Lavi made a flush and won a large pot with just ten minutes left within the evening to take the lead. Other notables with big stacks include Kyle Keranen, Joey Weissman, Aditya Prasetyo, Jeremy Ausmus, Lily Kiletto, Artem Metalidi and 2016 Super High Roller Bowl champion Rainer Kempe.

The CPPT made its last appearance on the Venetian back in 2013. That event was won by Card Player’s own Allyn Shulman, who picked up the $293,966 first-place prize. Shulman was within the field on day 1B, but didn't advance to day 2.

Other notables who did not bag up their chips for the night included Michael Mizrachi, Chino Rheem, Steve Gross, Dimitar Danchev, Joseph Cheong, Pratyush Buddiga, Adrian Mateos Diaz and Jared Jaffee.

Here’s a glance on the chip counts from the day 1B field. Click here to read more about day 1A.

Rank	Player Name	Chip Count
1	Viktor Lavi	118,300
2	Joey Weissman	99,400
3	Kyle Kernanen	98,200
4	Matthew Leecy	97,400
5	Rainer Kempe	96,700
6	Aditya Prasetyo	89,000
7	Lily Kiletto	89,000
8	Xixiang Luo	88,700
9	Artem Metalidi	88,000
10	Jeremy Ausmus	87,300
11	David Ormsby	75,600
12	Faraz Jaka	75,500
13	Barry Shulman	73,600
14	Koray Aldemir	73,500
15	Michael Laake	70,900
16	Griffin Abel	70,000
17	Danny Noam	67,000
18	Mark Dube	65,000
19	Mike Leah	62,300
20	Justin Young	59,700
21	Yew Fatt Kan	59,100
22	Mark Radoja	57,000
23	Tom Bedell	56,800
24	Adam Levy	47,200
25	Hans Winzeler	47,000
26	Oliver Price	46,300
27	Taylor Black	44,200
28	Ben Zamani	44,000
29	Jason Wheeler	42,000
30	Anthony Zinno	36,600
31	Rocco Palombo	32,600
32	Tim West	31,100
33	Dylan Linde	26,300
34	Ben Palmer	24,600
35	Danny Wong	19,700
36	James Calderaro	17,400

For additional info concerning the CPPT, visit the tour’s homepage.

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