The Card Player Poker Tour Wynn $1,600 No-Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guarantee Main Event began March 11 and concludes March 15 with the crowing of the first CPPT Champion of Season IV.

A total of 128 players entered Day 1A, the first of three starting days, adding $186,000 to the prize pool. Day 1B begins March 12 at 12 p.m. followed by Day 1C March 13 at 12 p.m.

Of the 128 players who entered, only 30 remained at the end of Day 1A. Christopher Stephan leads with a stack of 317,000, the only player to cross the 300,000 mark by the end of the night.

Day 1A Chip Counts

Name	Chips
Christopher Stephan	317,800
Julian Parmann	213,100
Ron Coury	207,400
David Malka	197,400
Jonathan Dimmig	172,100
Dan Charbonneau	167,200
Brian Hansen	155,100
Paul Balzano	152,200
John Morgan	132,400
Marty Storozum	103,200
Shahram Sheikhan	102,700
Benjamin Zamani	101,000
Jason Wheeler	97,500
Tom Kearney	83,700
Scott Epstein	79,900
Ryan Leadem	73,600
David Goodman	72,900
Jeff Madsen	71,100
Zach Ackley	62,300
Rumen Nanev	60,400
Bruno Gmuer	55,400
Dennis Phillips	55,200
Charles Robinson	55,000
Steve Ryan	54,100
Dutch Boyd	53,600
Stuart Marshak	48,400
Eric Baldwin	37,900
Dustin Lee	34,900
Guy Cicconi	34,700
Paul Lieu	34,000
Griffin Abel	32,000
Darren Rabinowitz	27,600
Krista Gifford	22,200
Ben Hamnett	17,400

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