Derzeit das Pokermekka der Welt ist Hollywood in Florida, wo beim WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (fast) die gesamte Weltspitze vertreten ist.
Neben dem Main Event steht auch das WPT World Poker Finale auf dem Programm, für das sich 321 Spieler mit einem Startgeld von $10.000 anmeldeten.
Neben vielen internationalen Stars sind auch einige deutsche Top-Spieler dabei. Marvin Rettenmaier schied aus, aber Fedor Holz und Giuseppe Pantaleo erreichten den zweiten Turniertag, an dem Gert Zumkehr als Elfter die beste Ausgangsposition unserer Spieler hat.
Ebenfalls noch im Rennen ist Alexander Turyansky, der letztes Jahr nur knapp die November Nine verpasste.
In Führung liegt derzeit der Amerikaner Jared Jaffee, genaue Zahlen zum Preisgeldfonds liegen noch nicht vor, da bis zu Beginn
Hier der Stand nach Tag 1:
| 1 | Jared | Jaffee | 222.500 |
| 2 | Benjamin | Zamani | 195.000 |
| 3 | Noah | Schwartz | 171.400 |
| 4 | Justin | Liberto | 168.500 |
| 5 | Christian | Harder | 167.900 |
| 6 | Stephanie | Tang | 162.500 |
| 7 | Ryan | Olisar | 161.600 |
| 8 | Adam | Weinraub | 160.900 |
| 9 | Eddy | Sabat | 157.100 |
| 10 | Adam | Schwartz | 156.800 |
| 11 | Gert | Zumkehr | 151.900 |
| 12 | Ray | Qartomy | 150.500 |
| 13 | Charlemagne | Benjamin | 150.000 |
| 14 | Jon | Borenstein | 148.700 |
| 15 | David | Malka | 139.200 |
| 16 | Giuseppe | Pantaleo | 138.300 |
| 17 | Barry | Hutter | 137.500 |
| 18 | Alex | Rocha | 136.000 |
| 19 | Sergii | Baranov | 135.000 |
| 20 | Matt | Berkey | 134.100 |
| 21 | Chris | Klodnicki | 131.500 |
| 22 | Uri | Kadosh | 129.000 |
| 23 | Blake | Bohn | 129.000 |
| 24 | Hiren | Patel | 127.600 |
| 25 | Alexander | Turyansky | 124.700 |
| 26 | Faraz | Jaka | 120.700 |
| 27 | Jeff | Gibralter | 118.300 |
| 28 | Chino | Rheem | 118.000 |
| 29 | Curt | Kohlberg | 116.900 |
| 30 | Paul | Dlugozima | 116.200 |
| 31 | Rainer | Qeiuye | 116.000 |
| 32 | Matthew | McEwan | 115.800 |
| 33 | Andre | Crooks | 115.500 |
| 34 | Adrian | Mateos Diaz | 110.100 |
| 35 | Allain | Adrien | 109.000 |
| 36 | Sam | Panzica | 104.500 |
| 37 | Core | Kochman | 103.900 |
| 38 | Ravi | Raghavan | 101.500 |
| 39 | Jeff | Madsen | 101.000 |
| 40 | Taylor | Paur | 100.100 |
| 41 | Myung | Shih | 98.700 |
| 42 | Bryan | Piccioli | 97.600 |
| 43 | Will | Failla | 97.500 |
| 44 | Jean | Gaspard | 96.900 |
| 45 | Larry | Kruc | 96.500 |
| 46 | Samuel | Azuz | 95.900 |
| 47 | Greg | Lehn | 95.700 |
| 48 | Qasem | Jamhour | 94.600 |
| 49 | Ian | O’Hara | 94.200 |
| 50 | Jake | Schwartz | 92.300 |
| 51 | David | Parades | 92.100 |
| 52 | Myles | German | 91.800 |
| 53 | Josh | Kay | 91.000 |
| 54 | Griffin | Abel | 90.000 |
| 55 | Eric | Liu | 88.100 |
| 56 | Markus | Gonsalves | 87.200 |
| 57 | Shawn | Buchanan | 86.800 |
| 58 | Eric | Baldwin | 86.700 |
| 59 | Joe | Hachem | 85.400 |
| 60 | John | Andress | 83.800 |
| 61 | Upeshka | De Silva | 81.100 |
| 62 | Jonathan | Paul | 81.100 |
| 63 | Joshua | Beckley | 80.000 |
| 64 | Danny | Qutami | 79.500 |
| 65 | Omar | Zazay | 79.500 |
| 66 | Anthony | Zinno | 79.000 |
| 67 | Ari | Engel | 78.500 |
| 68 | Chris | Meyers | 78.400 |
| 69 | Mark | Radoja | 78.000 |
| 70 | Darren | Elias | 77.500 |
| 71 | Joe | Kuether | 77.500 |
| 72 | John | Templeton | 77.300 |
| 73 | Loni | Harwood | 76.900 |
| 74 | Timothy | Miles | 76.600 |
| 75 | Richard | Leger | 76.200 |
| 76 | Justin | Zaki | 76.200 |
| 77 | Anthony | Gregg | 75.500 |
| 78 | Sam | Stein | 71.500 |
| 79 | Dani | Dayan | 71.100 |
| 80 | John | Dollinger | 70.400 |
| 81 | Jonathan | Faltz | 69.700 |
| 82 | Justin | Kruger | 69.300 |
| 83 | Richard | Rice | 68.000 |
| 84 | Matt | O’Donnell | 67.800 |
| 85 | Connor | Drinan | 66.100 |
| 86 | Louis | Salter | 65.900 |
| 87 | Noah | Bronstein | 65.000 |
| 88 | Kevin | Eyster | 64.900 |
| 89 | Matt | Davenport | 64.800 |
| 90 | Tyler | Patterson | 64.700 |
| 91 | Aditya | Prasetyo | 63.900 |
| 92 | Hans | Winzeler | 63.700 |
| 93 | Charbel | Azzi | 63.600 |
| 94 | Raj | Vohra | 63.500 |
| 95 | Carlos | Loving | 63.400 |
| 96 | Darren | Rabinowitz | 62.900 |
| 97 | Scott | Clements | 61.800 |
| 98 | William | Jennings | 60.600 |
| 99 | Anthony | Cousineau | 60.500 |
| 100 | Paul | Domb | 60.400 |
| 101 | Tim | West | 60.400 |
| 102 | Nick | Petitti | 60.000 |
| 103 | Joe | Serock | 59.700 |
| 104 | Ludovic | Geilich | 58.100 |
| 105 | Vladimir | Revniaga | 57.900 |
| 106 | Mike | Shariati | 57.500 |
| 107 | Sheddy | Siddiqui | 57.200 |
| 108 | Jennifer | Tilly | 57.200 |
| 109 | Samuel | Bernabeu | 56.100 |
| 110 | James | Calderaro | 55.800 |
| 111 | Niall | Farrell | 55.500 |
| 112 | Nicolas | Yunis | 52.400 |
| 113 | Jonathan | Little | 52.200 |
| 114 | Mohammed | Arami | 52.000 |
| 115 | Joseph | Cheong | 50.400 |
| 116 | Dan | Dizenzo | 48.800 |
| 117 | Adam | Levy | 48.100 |
| 118 | Leo | Wolpert | 47.200 |
| 119 | Mark | Dube | 46.700 |
| 120 | Aaron | Overton | 44.800 |
| 121 | Michael | Wang | 44.400 |
| 122 | Andy | Seth | 44.200 |
| 123 | Cheng | Liu | 43.800 |
| 124 | Shawn | Busse | 43.700 |
| 125 | David | Stamm | 42.600 |
| 126 | Sam | Ganzfried | 42.600 |
| 127 | Alan | Schein | 42.500 |
| 128 | Andrew | Liporace | 42.000 |
| 129 | Antonio | Salorio | 41.300 |
| 130 | Jon | Turner | 40.000 |
| 131 | Joseph | Cappello | 39.500 |
| 132 | Dietrich | Fast | 37.700 |
| 133 | Jack | Duong | 37.500 |
| 134 | Brian | Green | 37.500 |
| 135 | Eli | Levy | 37.400 |
| 136 | Ory | Hen | 36.600 |
| 137 | Kyle | Julius | 36.100 |
| 138 | Michael | Gagliano | 36.000 |
| 139 | Jessica | Dawley | 35.600 |
| 140 | Steve | Karp | 34.900 |
| 141 | Eric | Afriat | 34.500 |
| 142 | Frederik | Jensen | 33.500 |
| 143 | Nam | Le | 32.700 |
| 144 | Scott | Baumstein | 32.600 |
| 145 | Tom | Marchese | 32.000 |
| 146 | Andros | Ioakimides | 31.900 |
| 147 | Shannon | Shorr | 30.800 |
| 148 | Allen | Kessler | 29.600 |
| 149 | Eric | Penner | 29.200 |
| 150 | Andrew | Spears | 28.600 |
| 151 | James | Hughes | 27.700 |
| 152 | Loosli | Sylvain | 26.400 |
| 153 | Alexander | Queen | 26.100 |
| 154 | Johanssy | Joseph | 25.300 |
| 155 | Nipun | Java | 24.700 |
| 156 | Kurt | Lichtman | 24.500 |
| 157 | Stan | Jablonski | 24.500 |
| 158 | Tom | Thomas | 24.500 |
| 159 | Talesh | Patel | 24.100 |
| 160 | Dominique | Mosley | 23.400 |
| 161 | Fedor | Holz | 22.300 |
| 162 | Frank | Alpandinar | 21.500 |
| 163 | Seth | Davies | 20.400 |
| 164 | Mike | Sexton | 20.000 |
| 165 | Paul | Tong | 19.900 |
| 166 | Alexander | Haber | 19.100 |
| 167 | Hunter | Cichy | 18.800 |
| 168 | Sergio | Aido | 18.400 |
| 169 | Ardit | Kurshumi | 18.200 |
| 170 | Vladimir | Dobrovolskiy | 18.000 |
| 171 | Andy | Frankenberger | 15.800 |
| 172 | Dylan | Wilkerson | 15.000 |
| 173 | James | Cavanaugh | 14.700 |
| 174 | Kou | Vang | 14.600 |
| 175 | Yevgeniy | Timoshenko | 14.200 |
| 176 | Asher | Conniff | 12.700 |
| 177 | Matthew | Wantman | 9.900 |
| 178 | Gilbert | Diaz | 8.200 |
| 179 | Ryan | Riess | 4.600 |
