Visher Leads Final Nine in Colorado Poker Championship $1,100 Main Event
Sixty-one hopefuls returned for Day 2 of the August 2019 Colorado Poker Championship $1,100 Main Event, and after just shy of eight one-hour levels of play, just nine remain. Barb Visher leads the pack after a Day 2 that saw her make numerous massive hands en route to bagging a total chip stack of 2,399,000.
Visher entered the day with 224,000 in chips, chipping up slightly before the rush happened. It started with her cracking Michael O’Toole’s pocket aces by hitting Broadway on the turn with her ace-jack. She then found herself over the half-million chip mark, and from there she knocked out Eddie Konarske and Andrew Dea to get close to seven figures. She won her biggest pot of the night during the final two tables when her pocket jacks flopped a set and held to secure to more knockouts and vault her over two million.
Second in chips is Nate Zoller (2,069,000), who was the only other player to finish over two million. Zoller finds himself at his second $1,100 Main Event final table in as many months, after taking a chip lead into last month’s Heartland Poker Tour event en route to a fourth-place finish for $61,915.
Colorado Poker Championship Main Event Final Table
| Seat | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Medina | 687,000 | 43 |
| 2 | Steve Wilkie | 724,000 | 45 |
| 3 | Nate Zoller | 2,069,000 | 129 |
| 4 | Barb Visher | 2,399,000 | 150 |
| 5 | Randy Needens | 677,000 | 42 |
| 6 | Bobby Sanoubane | 697,000 | 44 |
| 7 | Wendy Freedman | 621,000 | 39 |
| 8 | Jon Cohen | 996,000 | 62 |
| 9 | Jay Jesse | 1,032,000 | 65 |
Day 2 Action
The top 36 players out of the 61 who returned made it into the money. A handful of known players hit that mark but fell short of the final table. Some of those players included reigning champion Mike Itoafa (31st place - $2,401), Nick Pupillo (24th place - $2,881), Adrian Buckley (13th place - $4,577), and Ben Keeline (12th place - $6,082).
Cards will be in the air for Day 3 on Monday at 11 a.m. local time with 17:21 remaining on the clock for Level 22 (8,000/16,000/16,000). With the shortest stack still having almost 40 big blinds, there is a lot of room for play and action is sure to be plenty.
Come back to PokerNews to catch updates as the remaining nine go to battle for the first-place prize of $73,621.