Venetian Poker Tournament 2020
The 2021 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event has already seen the $500,000 guarantee surpassed after the first starting day. A total of 249 entries were made on day 1A, creating a prize pool worth $560,250 with registration and re-entry available for all of day 1B and the early levels of day 2. Registration will officially close for this event after the break that will follow the conclusion of level 14.
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Day 1A saw 12 levels played, each lasting 45 minutes in length. At the end of the day, just 86 players remained to bag up their chips and move on to day 2, which will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, Feb. 21. The chip leader at the end of the night is high roller tournament regular Ali Imsirovic with 484,500. He will be looking to add to his more than $9.4 million in recorded tournament earnings with a deep run in this event. He made the final table of the 2017 CPPT Venetian $3,500 buy-in event, finishing fourth for $61,441.
Other notables who bagged up sizable stacks include World Poker Tour main event winner Jordan Cristos (203,500), World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erik Cajelais (176,500), recent bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open main event winner Scott Stewart (172,500), Tim Reilly (167,500), bracelet winner Ankush Mandavia (144,000), Marle Cordeiro (135,000), Nicholas Pupillo (115,000), bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (114,000), and Matt Stout (106,000).
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2018 CPPT Venetian main event champion Anthony Zinno is still in contention with 46,000. The three-time WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner defeated a field of 547 players in that $5,000 buy-in event to win $466,670. A few other players who made it to day 2 have also found their way into the winner’s circle at the Venetian Poker Room earlier this series. Johnny Oshana, who ended day 1A with 87,500 in chips, won the $1,100 buy-in Mid-States Poker Tour Poker Bowl event for $130,000 on Feb. 6. WPT Championship winner Asher Conniff has 34,000 heading into day 2, and will be looking for his second title of the festival after winning the $800 no-limit hold’em UltimateStack event for $98,669.
Other big names still in contention include 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan Riess (86,000), bracelet winner Ryan Laplante (82,000), WPT champion Alex Foxen (45,000) and three-time bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell (30,500).
Play will continue on Saturday, Feb. 20 with day 1B beginning at 11:10 a.m. local time.
Here is a look at the chip counts of the 86 players who moved on to day 2:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ali Imsirovic | 484,500 |
| 2 | Doug Holland | 360,500 |
| 3 | Joshua Prager | 337,500 |
| 4 | Salim Admon | 335,500 |
| 5 | Nick Getzen | 242,000 |
| 6 | Jerry Brown | 239,000 |
| 7 | Brent Hart | 218,500 |
| 8 | Jordan Cristos | 203,500 |
| 9 | Tommy Tran | 181,000 |
| 10 | Erik Cajelais | 176,500 |
| 11 | Ben Underwood | 175,500 |
| 12 | Kfir Nahum | 175,500 |
| 13 | Scott Stewart | 172,500 |
| 14 | Jimmy Zeledon | 170,000 |
| 15 | Brandon Eisen | 169,500 |
| 16 | Tim Reilly | 167,500 |
| 17 | Albert Calderon | 167,000 |
| 18 | Tommy Kivela | 161,000 |
| 19 | Brendan Shiller | 159,000 |
| 20 | Arsenii Karmatckii | 155,000 |
| 21 | Sean Banahan | 155,000 |
| 22 | John Dennehey | 149,500 |
| 23 | Kevin Garosshen | 147,500 |
| 24 | Ankush Mandavia | 144,000 |
| 25 | Kyung Min Lee | 138,500 |
| 26 | Marle Cordeiro | 135,000 |
| 27 | Steve Wilkie | 134,000 |
| 28 | Coby Hoogi | 133,500 |
| 29 | Daniel Park | 133,000 |
| 30 | Jesse Lonis | 131,000 |
| 31 | John Gordon | 130,000 |
| 32 | Matthew Gross | 129,500 |
| 33 | Anthony Grappo | 126,000 |
| 34 | David Poces | 126,000 |
| 35 | Sami Shurbaji | 126,000 |
| 36 | Thomas Tran | 123,000 |
| 37 | Nicholas Pupillo | 115,000 |
| 38 | Noah Muallem | 114,000 |
| 39 | Jeremy Ausmus | 114,000 |
| 40 | Jeanette Mendez | 111,000 |
| 41 | Hyon Kim | 107,500 |
| 42 | Matt Stout | 106,000 |
| 43 | William Chao | 105,000 |
| 44 | David Jackson | 100,500 |
| 45 | Fred Hanna | 100,500 |
| 46 | Alex Feiner | 91,500 |
| 47 | Sean Hegarty | 91,000 |
| 48 | Jean Gaspard | 91,000 |
| 49 | Chad Wassmuth | 88,500 |
| 50 | Johnny Oshana | 87,500 |
| 51 | Harrison Dobin | 86,500 |
| 52 | Ryan Riess | 86,000 |
| 53 | Michael Faulkner | 82,500 |
| 54 | Ryan Laplante | 82,000 |
| 55 | Mitchell Halverson | 82,000 |
| 56 | Philip Yeh | 78,500 |
| 57 | Veselin Dimitrov | 78,000 |
| 58 | Nadya Magnus | 75,000 |
| 59 | Peyman Ahmadi | 74,500 |
| 60 | David Somers | 73,000 |
| 61 | Jason Hickey | 68,000 |
| 62 | Jason Sagle | 66,500 |
| 63 | Kenneth Isaacs | 64,500 |
| 64 | Rodger Johnson | 64,000 |
| 65 | Ken Einiger | 62,000 |
| 66 | Haim Gabay | 60,000 |
| 67 | James Anderson | 60,000 |
| 68 | Barry Hutter | 60,000 |
| 69 | Frank Marasco | 57,500 |
| 70 | Duff Charette | 56,000 |
| 71 | Alex Condon | 56,000 |
| 72 | Anthony Zinno | 46,000 |
| 73 | Alex Foxen | 45,000 |
| 74 | Dean Hutchinson | 44,500 |
| 75 | Adam Burriss | 41,500 |
| 76 | Benny Chen | 39,500 |
| 77 | Michael Rossitto | 37,500 |
| 78 | Matthew Volosevich | 36,500 |
| 79 | Joe Maas | 34,500 |
| 80 | Asher Conniff | 34,000 |
| 81 | Peter Braglia | 32,000 |
| 82 | Ralph Wong | 31,000 |
| 83 | Kristen Bicknell | 30,500 |
| 84 | Robert Peacock | 21,000 |
| 85 | David Offengeym | 20,000 |
| 86 | Raman Afanasenka | 9,000 |
Sung Joo Hyun has won the 2021 World Poker Tour DeepStacks $1,600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event held at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. The South Korean defeated a field of 812 total entries to earn the title and the top prize of $208,335, the largest score of his career. Hyun had earned his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet just over half of a year earlier, coming out on top of a field of 2,307 entries in a $500 buy-in WSOP Online event to earn $161,898. He now has career tournament earnings of $699,320.
In addition to the title and the money, Hyun was also awarded 912 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This win alone was enough to catapult him into seventh place in the 2021 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
The sizable turnout for this event saw the $500,000 guarantee more than doubled, with $1,161,160 ultimately paid out among the top 102 finishers.
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Plenty of notables made deep runs in this event, including WSOP bracelet winner Ronnie Bardah (92nd – $2,585), WSOP Circuit main event winner Michael Trivett (90th – $2,835), Javier Zarco (81st – $3,090), WPT Championship winner Asher Conniff (76th – $3,090), Card Player Poker Tour main event winner Oddie Dardon (43rd – $4,635), Aaron Massey (38th -$4,635), three-time WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Anthony Zinno (37th – $4,635), WPT champion Joe Tehan (31st – $5,330), and a pair of WSOP bracelet winners Erik Cajelais (17th – $11,120) and Joey Weissman (11th – $16,920).
The final day of this event began with eight players remaining, with Wayne Harmon in the lead and Hyun sitting on the third-shortest stack. he quickly began to climb up the leaderboard, starting by eliminating Iris Angeleri in eighth place ($27,495). Joris Springael was the next to fall. His pocket tens couldn’t hold up against the A-3 of Curtis Powell and he was sent to the rail with $34,560 for his seventh-place showing. Hyun found a double-up through Powell not long after that to continue his ascent up the chip counts. Powell got the last of his chips in not long after that with two pair against the flush draw of Hyun. The draw came in and Powell was knocked out in sixth place ($41,765).
Hyun overtook the lead by winning a big pot off of Wayne Harmon with the nut flush against a lower flush. Harmon was left short, but managed to double up through WPT champion Dylan Wilkerson to regain his footing. He then busted Wilkerson in fifth place ($52,580), winning a race with pocket tens against the A-Q suited of the 2014 WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic winner to send him packing.
Chris Doan’s run in this event came to an end when his KJ came up against the A9 of Hyun. Doan failed to improve and was eliminated in fourth place ($69,025), while Hyun extended his lead heading into three-handed action. Roman Shainiuk closed the gap by busting Wayne Harmon in third place. It was a preflop race, with Shainiuk holding A8 and Harmon the 77. The board brought a flush for Shainiuk and Harmon had to settle for $93,280 as the third-place finisher.
With that Hyun took 13,310,000 into heads-up play against Shainiuk, who sat with 11,050,0000. Hyun was able to extend his lead to nearly a 4:1 advantage by the time the final hand was dealt. Shainiuk raised to 500,000 from the button with K6 and Hyun three-bet all-in holding KQ. Shainiuk called and the board came down Q923A. Hyun made a pair of queens to lock up the pot and the title, while Shainiuk took home $144,480 as the runner-up.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Sung Joo Hyun | $208,335 | 912 |
| 2 | Roman Shainiuk | $144,480 | 760 |
| 3 | Wayne Harmon | $93,280 | 608 |
| 4 | Christopher Doan | $69,025 | 456 |
| 5 | Dylan Wilkerson | $52,580 | 380 |
| 6 | Curtis Powell | $41,765 | 304 |
| 7 | Joris Springael | $34,560 | 228 |
| 8 | Iris Angeleri | $27,495 | 152 |
| 9 | Daniel Chambers | $20,605 | 76 |
Winner photo credit: World Poker Tour.