CPPT Event 1: 3rd Place - Patel ($15,788)

Event 1 (Day 2)
Level 28 (25,000/50,000/5,000)
Total Entries: 332
Players Remaining: 2

Chip Average: 3,300,000

Raj Patel (Meriden, CT)

Raj Patel was the shortest stack at the Final Table coming back from the last break and while he couldn't make up any ground on the two big stacks and get to heads up play, he would make a pretty sizable pay jump winning the last longer with Rami Jradeh.

Patel would last very long after Rami's elimination though, as a few hands later he was all-in and at risk in a blind vs. blind encounter with Brad St. Vincent.

Patel held a slight advantage [Ad][4d] to St. Vincent's [Kd][9c], but both players would pair up on the flop with St. Vincent getting the best of the [4c][3d][9h] board.

Patel would need back door diamonds or two pair to win the pot, but would get neither as the flopped pair would hold up for St. Vincent.

Patel, a former WPT Champion from the 2007 season stop at Foxwoods, will make just over $15,000 and we are now heads up for the Card Player Poker Tour $100,000 GTD Event 1 Championship, with Brad St. Vincent and Marsel Backa nearly even in chips.

We are also a few minutes from the start of Level 29.