WPT World Championship Thread

[TightEnd]

The event has started now

Schedule at http://www.worldpokertour.com/Shared/Tournaments/Seasons/Season_X/WPT_World_Championship.aspx

The Main Event is

Dates    May 19 - 26, 2012
Final Table Date    May 26, 2012
Buy-In    $25,000 + $500





I think we have Flushy playing. Dubai too?

Nearer the time news/updates etc

[bobby1]

Good luck to both those guys. Is this the evwnt that dubai's investors in his WPT win have a share in?

[Dubai]

Yep. Fly next week, staying with Flushy who is already there living the life

[pleno1]

vbol to Dubai, win it all mate.

[bobby1]

Good luck to you both

[Marky147]

Good luck boys get that millyball!!!

[TightEnd]

98 of 103 made it through Day 1 of the main event

There were 103 players who began this tournament on Day 1, and most of them survived -- unofficially, there are 98 players remaining. However, registration remains open until the beginning of Day 3, so that number will grow.

Yes, you can start this tournament on Day 3. The blinds on Day 3 will be 800-1,600 (200 ante), so a starting stack of 100,000 will still be worth 62.5 big blinds.

Steve O'Dwyer is the unofficial chipleader with 231,750


Full chip counts of those 98 are at http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Full_Chipcount_Ranking_List.aspx?q=

A host of big names of course



British players

James Dempsey 85,000


Flushy reported that he had JJ v 33 v KK on J-4-3 Kings called all the way to the river, spiked a King, but v-bet only a 1/4 of the pot at that point...



Perrins, Cody, JP Kelly and Trickett are all from their twitter feeds due to play today

Dubai too, I assume


gl all

[Royal Flush]

Yeah tilt had KK v A2 on 4b pot run out 9825A as well feel i should be on 300k+ but today is a new day

Crab will be regging today

[Ant040689]

Yeah tilt had KK v A2 on 4b pot run out 9825A as well feel i should be on 300k+ but today is a new day

Crab will be regging today

gl to you both, thankfully you made it through day 1 without dying of boredom, that structure is incredible.

[Royal Flush]

Actually had a blast on day 1 got to play so many fun pots against very inexperienced players ~500bb deep.

Day 2 was horrific i bust at the 400-800 level, crab, jake, pez, jp and trickett still in

[Ant040689]

ul with it, hope crab takes it down.

I am coming from the view of never really having your whole stack on the line, not even thinking about how creative and enjoyable it could get so deep with the ability to put in 5 bet bluffs and the sort.

Way too used to playing turbos.

Gl in the next one wherever you are playing.

[TightEnd]

Day 2 comes to an end with about 95 players remaining from a field of 135. Here is an unofficial look at the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Michael Mizrachi  -  428,000
2.  Rinat Bogdanov  -  381,000
3.  Guillaume Darcourt  -  356,600
4.  David Steicke  -  345,500
5.  Isaac Haxton  -  313,500


Trickett 150,000

Dubai 108,100

Cody 35,000


Updates at http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx

[RH12]

Dubai and Cody out, Sam Trickett 275k according to the updates.

[TightEnd]

45 left headed into Day 3

JP Kelly and Sam Trickett are the last surviving Brits

http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Full_Chipcount_Ranking_List.aspx?q=

Here's the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Curt Kohlberg  -  918,300  (183 BBs)
2.  Nick Schulman  -  768,000  (153 BBs)
3.  Guillaume Darcourt  -  641,000  (128 BBs)
4.  Antonio Esfandiari  -  632,100  (126 BBs)
5.  Rinat Bogdanov  -  624,100  (124 BBs)

[Royal Flush]

3.  Guillaume Darcourt  -  641,000  (128 BBs)
5.  Rinat Bogdanov  -  624,100  (124 BBs)

How this is possible i do not know