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The World Poker Tour (WPT) ’s 20th anniversary season is continuing this week where it all began, at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with the Five Diamond World Poker Classic .
At the end of the opening day of the $10,400 main event, it was Ethan Yau topping the chip counts with 293,000 chips. 2013 Five Diamond champion Dan Smith isn’t far behind with 213,000 chips.
The popular vlogger known as “Rampage” is coming off a major tournament win just last month at the Poker Masters where he defeated a field of 76 entries in a $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for $197,600.
Wednesday saw 450 entries take their shot at becoming the latest WPT Champions Club member at the tour’s flagship stop, with eyes on taking home a piece of the $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. By night’s end, 250 managed to survive and advance to Day 2 Thursday. Late registration and re-entries are open into Day 2. Top 10 Day 1 Chip Counts
Place Player Count 1 Ethan Yau 293,000 2 Michael Vanier 286,000 3 Karim Rebei 251,000 4 Justin Liberto 228,000 5 David Kim 222,500 6 Breno Silva 219,500 7 Dan Smith 216,000 8 Andrew Neeme 210,000 9 Jesse Lonis 207,500 10 Francisco Fragoso 205,000 Ethan “RampagePoker” Yau bagged the big stack. Sorry, no real money games are currently available in your region, but you can play these Free Online Games Stars Amid the Five Diamonds
The Bellagio poker room was packed with big names from the start of the day as almost 200 players took their seats at noon local time for the first of eight 60-minute levels. Among them were Poker Hall of Famer and former WPT Player of the Year Daniel Negreanu , who finished the day with 79,000 chips from his starting stack of 50,000.
“It was a rollercoaster. I was down to 15,000 after folding a hand, then I was back up to 120,000, then I was back to 15,000 again and up to 160,000 and ended with about 80,000 so y’know it’s all right, it’s Day 1,” […]
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