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.
. It gave him kings, but brought him a sweat for the spade draw that Sanoubane picked up. The turn sealed his fate, coming 
to give Sanoubane a flush. The river fell 
to complete the runout and Schwulst became the 10th place finisher.
, thinking he was last to act, and Jay immediately folded behind. 
, resulting in more reaction from the two players as the straight brought a flop for Zoller. Voorhees was now down to his last two cards, needing to pick up a king to improve and double. The turn and river came 
to spell the end for Voorhees as he became the 11th place finisher of the tournament.
along the way. The turn 
and river 
quickly followed, resulting in Freedman's pocket nines remaining best as Keeline was eliminated from the tournament in 12th place.
. He then found himself needing to fade Jay's newly-acquired gutshot Broadway outs, and was unable to do so on the turn 
, leaving him now in need of hitting one of the three remaining aces in the deck for a chop. He was unable to do so as the river fell 
, becoming the most recent elimination as a result.
and Visher checked. Stiverson checked behind, bringing the turn 
. Visher immediately announced she was all in and Stiverson put in his last 180,000 or so to commit himself. 
to do just that, sending both Angstead and Stiverson to the payout desk in the process.
, however the turn and river ran out clean and he secured the knockout as Pence finished in 17th place.
