Raymer Off To A Fast Day 2 Start, Looking Like One Of The Leaders

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 14 (1,000/2,000/300)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 89
Chip Average: 97,000

Greg Raymer (Charlotte, NC)

At the end of last night's Flight B session, Greg Raymer seemed happy with his stack, as it was "more chips than he paid for" and he'd end the day with an above average bag.

But in the first few hands of Day 2, the former WSOP Main Event Champion has more than doubled his starting stack and now looks like one of the leaders here in the Card Player Poker Tour Main Event.

Fossil Man was just tweeting that he was starting Day 2 with 100,000 chips and then caught himself mid-tweet as got an early double when his pocket tens cracked the pocket Aces of an evenly stacked player to move himself over the 200,000 mark.

day 2 @FoxwoodspPoker @CardPlayerPoker main, above avg w 100K. wait, just got allin AA<TT, so now 200K. #yeahpoker
— Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) February 8, 2015

He's picked up a few pots since then and now sits just over the 250,000 mark and is easily the biggest "early gainer" in this CPPT Main Event.

While Raymer is certainly best known for his 2004 WSOP Main Event victory, since then he's had immense success at "mid-stake" buy-in main events, with the majority of that success coming on the Heartland Poker Tour, where he won four Main Event titles in a five month span in 2012, claim the HPT Player of the Year award in the process.

Raymer was always a threat to make a deep run in this event, even when he had an average stack, but now that he's doubled his stack in the first level of Day 2, the rest of the field should be on high alert as Raymer looks to be in a commanding position to make a serious run to this Card Player Poker Tour Main Event Final Table.