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2013 WPT Legends of Poker – Day 1A Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2013-08-31 04:56
The 12th season of the WPT kicked off its first US stop with the Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. 142 players thought it worth-while to buy into the event, and the first Day 1A flight successfully whittled it down to 56. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Barry Hutter, who had 212.4k chips bagged at the end of the day.
Joseph Cheong played well on Day 1A too: he finished 3rd, with a stack of 188.1k chips. Eddie Sabat and Joe Serock finished with healthy stacks as well.
Like it’s so often the case, Hutter took down the majority of his chips late in the day, during the last level actually. The board was reading J,8,8,7,Q rainbow, and there were quite a few chips in the pot already. The player Hutter was going up against was Carlos Chadha. The standoff ended with Hutter pushing all-in and Chadha getting out of the way, leaving a bunch of chips in the pot. That hand boosted Hutter’s stack to around 198k chips. He added a couple thousand more before the day was called.
Scores of notables fell by the side as the first Day 1 flight of the event took its toll: Faraz Jaka and Freddy Deeb were among those eliminated, together with Phil Laak, Paul Volpe and Kyle Julius.
Volpe fell around halfway through the day, when he locked horns with Jake Schindler. The latter had a dominating Ad, Jd against Volpe’s Qd, 10d. The board fell bricks only and Schindler’s A-high sent his opponent packing.
Soi Nguyen was another victim of the
poker tournament. He pushed his last chips into the middle on a classic coin-flip, with an Ah, Kh against Shawn Buchanan’s pocket Qs. A third Q fell on the flop and Nguyen was done.
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