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WPT World Championship – Day 1 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Mon, 2013-05-20 05:18
With the
WSOP drawing near fast, the pressure has been intensifying on all the other major poker tours to wrap up their respective seasons. The
EPT’s 9th season is over: it went out with a bang in Monte Carlo the other week. The WSOP-C has wrapped up as well and now the WPT is looking to put an end to its Season XI too. The WPT’s World Championship event at the Bellagio is a worthy conclusion for the series and in the same breath, a more than decent warm-up for the upcoming WSOP.
Featuring a buy-in of $25k, the WPT World Championship is indeed an elite tournament in every sense of the word. Obviously, only the deepest poker bankrolls can swallow a buy-in this large and therefore the quality of the field is guaranteed to be outstanding.
The first day of the event saw 113 players belly up to the tables, logging 5 levels of action, at the end of which 93 were left standing. The player who had the most chips bagged at the end of the day was Will Failla, who finished with 276k chips.
Cliff Josephy finished with a decent stack as well: his 250.8k chips were enough for 5th place on the provisional chip leader board. Jake Cody and Marvin Rettenmaier made the top 10 as well.
The interesting thing about Rettenmaier’s presence at the top of the pops was that he was the winner of last year’s edition of the same event. Rettnemaier was obviously unfazed by the burden of the title defense. He played well through the day, taking down a massive pot from Ralph Perry at one point. Perry himself survived the day though, together with a host of other players like Tom Marchese,
PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu and Antonio Esfandiari.
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