With considered one of two opening flights within the books on the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship, the sphere is about to crack the 300-entrant mark.
Day 1b will happen at 11 a.m. Saturday at Choctaw On line casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. Those that did not make it by means of Day 1a are eligible to return again and provides it one other shot up till registration closes following Stage 8 (roughly 9:15 p.m.).
Fairly a Day for the Chip Chief
Curt Kohlberg was the quickest to crack 100,000 from his 50,000-chip beginning stack. However he did not even make it to the dinner break earlier than being eradicated. However he seems to have made the sensible resolution to rebuy as he ended up the place he was all the way in which again in Stage 1 — within the chip lead.
Kohlberg ended the session with 505,000 chips, good for 202 massive blinds. Brian Battistone has the second largest stack at 482,000, and Kyle Arora is the one different participant to bag greater than 400,000 chips.
Numerous massive title professionals bagged massive stacks. That checklist contains Michael Wang (347,000), Erick Lindgren (288,500), Chino Rheem (274,500), and Ren Lin (241,500).
Lin, like Kohlberg, busted his first bullet after which spun it up on his second. Lindgren is a two-time World Poker Tour champion and has over $Three million in cashes on tour. However he has solely cashed as soon as up to now decade.
Saturday is shaping as much as be an enormous day at Choctaw. Not solely will the $2 million assured prize pool be surpassed in some unspecified time in the future, there’s going to be a gamers occasion on the dinner break with pizza and bowling contained in the on line casino, an annual custom for this prestigious Predominant Tour occasion.
Fairly a number of high-profile gamers had been unable to discover a bag, together with the defending champion, Jared Jaffee. Others on that checklist embrace Anthony Zinno, Gal Yifrach, Craig Varnell and Jesse Lonis. They’re all eligible to return again on Day 1b to rebuy. Amongst those that completed the day with a small stack are Dan Sepiol (95,500), Ashley Frank (78,000), and Scott Ball (10,500).
The payouts aren’t but accessible as registration continues to be open, however we’ll have all that information on Saturday night time.
*Pictures courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
