WPT World Championships: Ivey, Dwan and Negreanu eliminated
- Filed under: Daniel Negreanu, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Humberto Brenes, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Tom Dwan, WPT, durrrr
- Date: Apr 20,2010
Second day of WPT World Championships (buy-in $25,000+500) has been played at Bellagio. Roughly half of the field have been eliminated and 98 players from the original 195 will continue tomorrow to hunt down the $1,530,537 first prize.
Faraz Jaka (597,1k) took the lead after two days, Shawn Buchanan (596,6k) holds the second place and on the third place is Brandon Cantu (520k).
Other familiar people continuing the play are Yevgeniy Timoshenko (300k), Brian Lemke (260k), David Benyamine (230k), Scotty Nguyen (115k) and Howard Lederer (95k).
Scotty Baby
There has been some notable eliminations as well already: Phil Ivey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith and Sorel Mizzi.
There were 195 players who started in the WPT World Championships. Winner takes down a nice $1,530,537 pot and even the second place finisher will get $1,034,715. The starting stack was 100k.
Read more about the WPT World Championships’ second day.
Chip count (full list):
1. Faraz Jaka 597,100
2. Shawn Buchanan 596,600
3. Brandon Cantu 520,000
4. Justin Bonomo 503,600
5. Joshua Gould 500,000
6. Heather Sue Mercer 490,000
7. Soheil Shamseddin 472,000
8. Todd Terry 430,000
9. Cody Slaubaugh 416,300
10. Aaron “Aejones” Jones 362,000
Prize structure:
1. $1,530,537
2. $1,034,715
3. $587,906
4. $329,228
5. $246,921
6. $199,888
7. $152,856
8. $105,823
9. $75,252
10 – 12. $56,439
13 – 15. $51,736
16 – 18. $47,033
Source: WPT
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