Katikakis Ends Flight With A Massive Pot To Put Himself Among The Leaders As 64 Advance To Day 2

CPPT Main Event (Flight A)

Level 12 (600/1,200/200)
Total Entrants: 188
Players Remaining: 64
Chip Average: 88,000

Konstantinos Katikakis (S. Boston, MA)

The first starting flight for the $300,000 GTD Card Player Poker Tour Main Event is officially in the books as the players have just completed their final five hands of the night and have bagged up their chips for Day 2.

Of the total players in this flight, only 64 remained to advance to tomorrow, with some "notable" names on top of the CPPT Main Event leaderboard.

One player who waited until the last few hands to move himself into the top positions was Konstantinos 'Costa' Katikakis (South Boston, MA), who cracked Kings in a massive 200,000 chip pot to move himself up the leaderboard.

The action was picked up at a central table on a board of [9h][3c][5s][2d] with Costa checking to an unknown player.

The unknown player would fire out a bet of 7,000 and then call Costa's check raise to 19,000 to see a river card.

The [5c] paired and completed the board and Costa again checked, with his opponent counting out his chips and then finally announcing all-in.

Costa quickly called and tabled [6d][4d] for a turned straight.

His opponent shook his head and threw down [Kh][Ks] and would see his CPPT Main Event run end just a few hands from the end of Flight A.

Costa would see his patience pay off as he worked a slightly above average stack for much of the day and now sits with 213,000 going into tomorrow's Day 2 session.

Other players to bag up above average stacks were Todd Mitchell (285,000), Bart Guthrie (235,000), Ryan Mostafa (188,000), Sean Kelly (180,000), Chris Tryba (173,000), Nick Palma (154,000), Samuel Taylor (140,000), Ryan Eriquezzo (138,000), Fred Paradis (138,000) and Steve Happas (135,000).

A complete list of chip counts from Flight A will be posted along with the chip counts from Flight B once the counts are finalized, with that list hopefully coming at the conclusion of play tonight around 2-3 AM.