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WPT Prague – Day 1A Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2012-12-05 09:20
On Monday, the WPT descended on Prague, with the first day 1 flight of its
PartyPoker sponsored Main Event. A total of 155 players coughed up the buy-in at the beginning of the day. Of them, 55 managed to secure a seat for Day 2. The player who finished the day with the largest stack and thus with the provisional chip lead was Pasi Heinanen, who beat Shannon Shorr to the top by a hair. Heinanen built a stack of 193.8k chips, while Shorr fell short with a stack of 191.8k.
Being overtaken during the final stretch must’ve been at least a bit painful for Shorr, who had held the chip lead for most of the day. Shorr started his meteoric rise during the 4th level, when he reportedly surpassed the 72k chip mark. Later, he locked horns with Bryn Kenney and earned a massive pot off him, sending him to the rail and adding still more chips to his stack. The hand in question saw the chips go into the middle before the flop, with Kenney holding pocket 9s against Shorr’s pocket rockets. While no other “name” players managed to finish in the top 10, several of them finished with healthy stacks.
Paul Volpe was one of these notables: the end of the day caught him with a stack of 80k chips.
Aaron Gustavson did well too: he finished with 74.4k chips to his name. Rinat Bogdanov finished the day among the leaders as well: he managed to build a stack of 71k chips.
While some were thriving, others were hanging on for bare life or not hanging on at all but rather heading to the rail. Faraz Jaka didn’t survive the day and neither did Matt Waxman and Jonathan Duhamel.
Nicolas Levi bit the dust as well.
