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Ankush Mandavia Wins 2021 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 Buy-In Main Event
The 33-Year-Old Poker Pro Defeated A Field of 652 Entries To Earn $260,000
by Erik Fast
| Published: Feb 23, 2021
Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. The 33-year-old poker pro from Kalamazoo, Michigan defeated a field of 652 entries to earn the title and the top payout of $260,000 after striking a heads-up deal with Anselmo Villarreal. This was the fifth-largest score of the
World Series of Poker bracelet winner’s career, and it brought his lifetime earnings to just shy of $5.4 million.
$24,939
The tournament pulled in 652 entries for a prize pool of $1,467,000, according to
CardPlayer s own reporting. That made it one of the bigger poker events held since the onset of COVID-19 all but shut down live poker last spring.
Notables at the Final Table
Some notable names advanced to the final table, namely
Alex Foxen and
Kristen Bicknell. The dominating pair wasn t sharing Venetian final table real estate for the first time. While they ended things in victorious but also controversial fashion before, things were less lucrative here as Foxen busted in sixth for $45,477 while Bicknell took fourth for $90,954.
Also making the final table was
Home : Poker News : Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main Event: James Anderson Leads Final 27 Players
Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main Event: James Anderson Leads Final 27 Players
The $2,500 Buy-In Event Drew 652 Entries To Build A $1,467,000 Prize Pool, With The Winner Set To Earn $315,396
by Erik Fast
| Published: Feb 22, 2021
A total of 652 entries were made in the 2021
Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, nearly tripling the tournament’s $500,000 guarantee to create a final prize pool of $1,467,000. After two starting flights and day 2, that field has been narrowed down to just 27 players remaining with a shot at the title and the top prize of $315,396.
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