Ardavan Yadzi Leads the Final Flight of Colossus III
The final flight of the Colossus III is in the books, wrapping up six flights totaling 18,053 entries. Ardavan Yazdi bagged the lead with 588,000 chips, and leads the remaining 143 players who moved on to Day 2 from flight 1F. Sitting second in chips is WPT Legends of Poker Champion Harry Arutyunyan, sitting on 504,000, with Jordan Polk rounding out the top three with 487,000 chips.
Yazdi has amassed over $644,000 in live recorded cashes, with a single win in 2007 in the Los Angeles Legends of Poker $5,000 Main Event for $188,125. He bested the likes of Barry Greenstein and David Pham at the final table, and has several notable final tables on his resume.
Sunday's final flight attracted 3,923 entries, slightly less than the 3,966 entries from flight 1E earlier in the day, and more than any of the first four flights.
Interestingly enough, the top three from the evening flight also fall within the top five counts across all six flights.
Here is a look at the top five stacks going into Day 2 on Monday:
Place | Player Name | Chip Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Ardavan Yazdi | 588,000 |
2 | Thomas Boivin | 538,000 |
3 | Harry Arutyunyan | 504,000 |
4 | Jordan Polk | 487,000 |
5 | Newton Deleon | 433,000 |
Here is a look at the breakdown of entries across all six flights:
Flight | Entries |
---|---|
A | 2,756 |
B | 1,982 |
C | 3,102 |
D | 2,324 |
E | 3,966 |
F | 3,923 |
Total Entries: 18,053 |
Day 2 resumes Monday, June 5th at 2:00 p.m. local time. Play will last 10 levels with blinds increasing to 60 minutes in duration. There will be a break every two levels, with a scheduled 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level of the day. Day 3 is on Tuesday, June 6th at 2:00 p.m. followed by Day 4 on Wednesday, June 7th at 2:00 p.m. where a winner will be crowned.
The Colossus III is paying out a whopping $1,000,000 first-place prize, along with the coveted gold WSOP bracelet. Last year's winner was Ben Keeline, earning himself a million dollars and adding a bracelet to go alongside his WSOP circuit ring. Keeline bested a field of 21,613 entries after four days of play.
Notable players to make it through to Day from this flight included Darren Rabinowitz (393,000), Matt Affleck (272,000), Ralph Massey (219,000), Ryan Laplante (155,000), Cate Hall (138,000), and Jeff Gross (28,000).
With the field being so massive, many familiar faces fired this flight but didn't make it through, including Maria Ho, Kristen Bicknell, Joe Cada, Kenny Hallaert, Loni Harwood, Jessica Dawley, Jamie Kerstetter, William Kassouf, Upeshka De Silva, and Ben Zamani.
There are three more days to go before a millionaire is crowned, so keep following along as PokerNews continues to bring all of the action throughout the rest of this series.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ardavan Yazdi | 588,000 | 588,000 |
Harry Arutyunyan | 504,000 | 274,000 |
Jordan Polk
|
487,000 | 487,000 |
William Black | 463,000 | 463,000 |
Maxwell Campbell | 400,000 | 400,000 |
Darren Rabinowitz | 393,000 | 143,000 |
Luke Vrabel | 352,000 | 352,000 |
Armin Khachadourian | 347,000 | 347,000 |
Randy Pfeifer | 308,000 | 78,000 |
Mark Babekov | 307,000 | 62,000 |
Alexander Gambino | 298,000 | 298,000 |
Matt Affleck | 297,000 | 217,000 |
Sejo Kasic | 295,000 | 65,000 |
Artur Rudziankov | 257,000 | 27,000 |
Chad Davis | 256,000 | 256,000 |
John Hanna | 252,000 | 252,000 |
Nicholas Power | 240,000 | 240,000 |
Matthew Parry
|
239,000 | 239,000 |
James Broderick | 228,000 | 228,000 |
Ian Steinman
|
228,000 | 113,000 |
Ralph Massey | 219,000 | 174,000 |
Joshua Feiger | 219,000 | 219,000 |
Michael Flesch | 219,000 | 219,000 |
Bryan Munoz | 219,000 | 219,000 |
Fraser Short | 203,000 | 58,000 |
Miguel Use | 198,000 | -62,000 |
John Delrossi | 198,000 | 198,000 |
Matthew Yorra | 196,000 | 196,000 |
Daniel Deveau | 193,000 | 193,000 |
John Kim | 192,000 | 192,000 |
Matthew Shultis
|
188,000 | 188,000 |
Dustin Bryan | 187,000 | -28,000 |
Gregory Sanchez | 183,000 | 183,000 |
Mike Chau | 179,000 | 179,000 |
Pejman Kazemi | 179,000 | 179,000 |
Anthony Marchese | 178,000 | 178,000 |
Bahman Ataeianfar | 177,000 | 177,000 |
Stefan Martin | 173,000 | 173,000 |
Kunal Ashok Ranglani | 173,000 | 173,000 |
Armando Figueroa | 164,000 | 164,000 |
Mark Scacewater | 163,000 | 163,000 |
Dmitry Savelyev | 162,500 | 162,500 |
Ben Tang | 160,000 | 160,000 |
Ron Black | 159,000 | 159,000 |
Nam Le | 156,000 | 156,000 |
William Johnson | 155,000 | 155,000 |
Ryan Laplante
|
155,000 | |
John Fontana | 149,000 | 55,000 |
Aditya Agarwal | 149,000 | 149,000 |
Jan Christoph Von Halle | 147,000 | 147,000 |
Joey Weissman
|
144,000 | 144,000 |
Cate Hall | 138,000 | 86,000 |
George Boyce | 135,000 | |
Binh Nguyen | 134,000 | 134,000 |
Daniel Mcnanna | 133,000 | 133,000 |
Dien Le | 132,000 | 132,000 |
Randall Campbell | 130,000 | 130,000 |
Ying Zhao | 128,000 | 128,000 |
Benjamin Dobson | 126,000 | 126,000 |
Bryce Burt | 123,000 | 28,000 |
Richard Gagliano | 123,000 | 123,000 |
Kelley Slay | 122,000 | 122,000 |
Cody Pack | 122,000 | 82,000 |
Safiya Umerova
|
121,000 | -29,000 |
Joshua Gingras | 121,000 | 121,000 |
Khoi Phan | 120,000 | 120,000 |
Federico Ottenio | 119,000 | 119,000 |
Walter Treccarichi | 118,000 | -62,000 |
Ravi Shanmugam | 118,000 | 118,000 |
Emile Schiff | 117,000 | 117,000 |
Christopher Herrin | 115,000 | 115,000 |
Thomas Cuce | 115,000 | 115,000 |
Troy Mclain | 114,000 | 114,000 |
Gang Wang | 112,000 | 112,000 |
Matthias Eibinger | 110,000 | 110,000 |
Paul Cogliano | 107,000 | 107,000 |
Josias Santos | 107,000 | 107,000 |
Jason Sorichetti | 106,000 | 106,000 |
David Johnson | 105,000 | 105,000 |
Douglas Bounsall | 103,000 | 103,000 |
Brett Shaffer
|
103,000 | 103,000 |
Tuan Vu | 103,000 | 103,000 |
Eduardo Christ | 101,000 | 101,000 |
Andrew Cook | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Kenneth Jones | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Rene Michael Mitsching | 98,000 | 98,000 |
Charles Johnson Jr | 95,000 | 95,000 |
Brian Pedersen | 93,000 | -6,500 |
Adrian Fazakerley | 92,000 | 92,000 |
Jacque Lavadour | 90,000 | 90,000 |
Joseph Torres | 89,000 | 89,000 |
Matthew Wolff | 88,000 | 88,000 |
Tracie Osborne | 88,000 | 88,000 |
Joshua Abady | 86,000 | 86,000 |
Peter Zhmutski | 86,000 | 86,000 |
Brandon Wong
|
84,000 | 84,000 |
Stanley Silverman | 83,000 | 83,000 |
Florian Strasser | 83,000 | 83,000 |
Amritaksha Basu | 82,000 | 82,000 |
Derek Crooks | 80,000 | 80,000 |
Patrick Chan | 79,000 | 79,000 |
Tony Gargano | 78,000 | -62,000 |
Brandon Cantu
|
78,000 | 33,000 |
Kane Lai | 77,000 | 77,000 |
Justo Avalos | 75,000 | 75,000 |
Cody Brinn | 74,000 | 74,000 |
James Cho | 74,000 | 74,000 |
Angel Pagan | 74,000 | 74,000 |
Benjamin Bauer | 73,000 | 73,000 |
Reza Yazdi | 73,000 | 73,000 |
Sinisa Zimek
|
71,000 | 71,000 |
Scott Massimiano | 70,000 | 70,000 |
Thomas Taylor | 68,000 | -37,000 |
Yue Zhang | 67,000 | 67,000 |
Rodrigo Portaleoni | 67,000 | 67,000 |
Robert Roberts | 67,000 | 67,000 |
Jesse Mills | 67,000 | 67,000 |
Donald Landwirth | 65,000 | 65,000 |
Stephen Brown | 64,000 | 64,000 |
Troy Throop | 56,000 | 56,000 |
David Woo | 51,000 | 51,000 |
Petko Petkov | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Gerald Lechner | 49,000 | 49,000 |
Terry Zitzman | 48,000 | 48,000 |
Sebastien Comel | 48,000 | 48,000 |
Jason Abolsky | 45,000 | 45,000 |
Gian Generosi | 45,000 | 45,000 |
Matthew Schoenian | 44,000 | 44,000 |
Francis Carandang | 41,000 | 41,000 |
Kenneth Basmadjian | 38,000 | 38,000 |
Michael Ciacciarelli | 38,000 | 38,000 |
Johann Schafer | 34,000 | 34,000 |
Brandon Harwood | 32,000 | 32,000 |
Dale Kuklinski | 28,000 | 28,000 |
Jeff Gross | 28,000 | 4,000 |
Jeffrey Dewitt | 28,000 | 28,000 |
Tony Hoang | 28,000 | -12,000 |
Alysa Riddle | 24,000 | 24,000 |
John Walker | 21,880 | 21,880 |
Dwight Crisostomo | 19,000 | 19,000 |
Mauricio Garcia | 18,000 | 18,000 |
William Dai | 18,000 | 18,000 |
Gene Rarangol | 4,000 | 4,000 |