Genau 498 Spieler kauften sich in Los Angeles für die ruhmreichen LA Poker Classic ein und sorgten damit schon vor der Late Reg, die bis zum zehnten Level möglich ist, für ein Gesamtpreisgeld von mindestens $4,7 Millionen.
Unter den Startern, die die $10.000 Preisgeld hinlegte, befanden sich viele Weltklassespieler wie Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari oder Erik Seidel, aber auch einige deutsche Spieler wie Stefan Schillhabel, Dietrich Fast, Isi Bojang, Marvin Rettenmaier, Christopher Frank und Rainer Kempe.
Von unseren Jungs starteten Schillhabel und Fast am besten und belegten einen soliden Mittelfeldplatz, der noch alle Möglichkeiten bietet.
Chipleader ist aktuell Nick Maimone, der 187.000 Chips eintüten konnte und damit vor James Romero, einem heißen Anwärter auf den WPT Player of the Year, das Feld anführt.
WPT LA Poker Classic – Stand nach Tag 1
1-1 Brandon Wittmeyer – 15,400 1-2 Billy Baxter – 41,800 1-3 Darren Elias – 42,700 1-4 Dipak Bhakta – 20,100 1-5 Chun Law – 50,400 1-6 Dana Kellstrom – 25,700 1-7 Sam Rashid – 19,600 1-8 Tyler Cornell – 23,500 1-9 Martin Mathis – 18,200
2-1 John Cohen – 78,600 2-2 Richard Kim – 74,100 2-3 Eddy Sabat – 98,100 2-4 Benjamin Reinhart – 77,900 2-6 Romain Lewis – 49,400 2-7 Kane Kalas – 40,800 2-8 Paul Tedeschi – 20,900 2-9 Joey Weissman – 59,200
3-1 Bob Wenzl – 30,100 3-2 Craig Mason – 15,400 3-3 3-4 Christian Harder – 44,700 3-5 Visnja Luetic – 28,100 3-6 Donald Maloney – 72,200 3-7 Steven Tabb – 38,900 3-8 3-9 Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 9,900
4-1 Larry Quang – 94,300 4-2 Niall Farrell – 108,200 4-3 Aaron Kaiser – 37,700 4-4 Doron Bitton – 48,700 4-5 Ivan Faisal Karim – 102,000 4 6 4-7 Tony Paydar – 26,900 4-8 James Hughes – 34,400 4-9
5-1 Salomon Ponte – 43,800 5-2 Roman Korenev – 27,100 5-3 David Belhumeur – 8,500 5-4 David Stepney – 43,800 5-5 Bart Hanson – 105,400 5-6 James Cavanaugh – 19,100 5-7 Grayson Ramage – 36,900 5-8 5-9 Thomas Chung – 39,400
6-1 Tho Tran – 88,900 6-2 Rainer Kempe – 46,800 6-3 Behzad Teranie – 46,000 6-4 Nathan Bjerno – 37,700 6-5 Dzmitry Urbanovich – 40,100 6-6 Mark Bryan – 100,300 6-7 Patrick Eskandar – 52,200 6-8 Richard Foster – 23,300 6-9 Jonathan Prince – 16,400
7-1 7-2 Richard Sciato – 38,700 7-3 Ismael Bojang – 26,500 7-4 David Olson – 62,300 7-5 Jason Vanstrom – 12,500 7-6 Ilya Miller – 29,500 7-7 Jake Abdalla – 30,700 7-9
8-1 Peter Neff – 65,200 8-2 Sergi Reixach – 11,500 8-3 8-4 Nipun Java – 20,400 8-5 Phuong Tran – 22,500 8-6 Rafael Oliveira – 21,000 8-7 8-8 Ty Witteman – 33,400 8-9 Marco Cavallaro – 126,800
9-1 9-2 Christopher Frank – 29,400 9-3 Corey Hochman – 31,100 9-4 Jia Liu – 58,700 9-5 Sergio Fernandez – 94,000 9-6 Ted Gillis – 89,900 9-7 Jacob Bazeley – 51,300 9-8 David Lawrence – 28,400 9-9 Kyle Keranen – 16,400
10-1 Sam Ganzfried – 18,000 10-2 Scott Margereson – 83,900 10-3 10-4 Huy Lam – 26,700 10-5 Ted Jivkov – 36,400 10-6 Valentin Vornicu – 37,600 10-7 10-8 Danny Fuhs – 66,900 10-9 Keith Rogers – 20,800
11-1 Kevin Macphee – 18,700 11-2 Adam Regiaba – 21,700 11-3 Seth Davies – 16,500 11-4 Kevin Eyster – 12,900 11-5 Jeremy Kottler – 37,000 11-6 J.C. Tran – 50,000 11-7 Richard Rice – 50,200 11-8 11-9 Chris Limo – 81,200
12-1 Nicholas Rampone – 32,000 12-2 Sebastian Pauli – 50,300 12-3 Sam Phillips – 143,000 12-4 Mike Meskin – 80,300 12-5 12-6 Danny Noam – 15,100 12-7 Nick Maimone – 187,000 12-8 Stefan Schillhabel – 73,000 12-9 James Maxey – 81,000
13-1 Ryan Feldman – 42,000 13-2 Robert Glass – 17,000 13-3 Jonathan Borenstein – 74,100 13-4 Manny Marianakis – 63,300 13-5 Greg Roberts – 56,700 13-6 Bryce Yockey – 82,200 13-7 Andrew Nguyen – 73,600 13-8 Seth Berger – 115,400 13-9 Richard Tuhrim – 68,600
14-1 Adam Friedman – 32,200 14-2 Joseph Alban – 33,500 14-3 Alex Foxen – 49,600 14-4 Gerald Karlic – 57,000 14-5 Simeon Naydenov – 85,100 14-6 Ping Liu – 38,500 14-7 Brian Yoon – 15,600 14-8 Tony Ma – 25,600 14-9 Milan Dobrilovic – 25,200
15-1 Gordon Vayo – 73,000 15-2 Palil Lieu – 16,800 15-3 Carl Kuran – 14,900 15-4 15-5 Ema Zajmovic – 86,200 15-6 Jean Gaspard – 76,100 15-7 David Benefield – 28,900 15-8 Sean Jazayeri – 52,000 15-9 Igor Yaroshevskyy – 89,500
16-2 Young Phan – 19,100 16-3 Dean Baranowski – 101,300 16-4 Brian Whiteman – 100,200 16-5 Tom McCormick – 51,500 16-6 Tom McEvoy – 25,600 16-7 Adam Levy – 34,300 16-8 Scott Eskenazi – 18,000 16-9 Paul Ghanderson – 34,900
17-1 Sanjay Mayekar – 19,500 17-2 Armen Zadoyan – 34,700 17-3 Bruce Buffer – 8,100 17-4 Onur Unsal – 60,200 17-5 Clint Keown – 106,200 17-6 Daniel Aharoni – 36,900 17-7 Daniel Strelitz – 129,600 17-8 Richard Seymour – 78,000 17-9 Chris Moorman – 34,100
18-1 Tim Reilly – 101,200 18-2 Nicholas Palma – 30,700 18-3 Dane Roemer – 28,300 18-4 Jimmy Guerrero – 72,000 18-5 Artem Metalidi – 29,800 18-6 Jesse Martin – 84,700 18-7 Eric Semel – 33,700 18-8 Gal Yifrach – 15,900 18-9 Jonathan Zarin – 64,200
19-1 Phil Scaletta – 56,600 19-2 19-3 Mohsin Charania – 93,900 19-4 Sameer Aljanedi – 75,700 19-5 Millard Hale – 60,200 19-6 Raul Requena – 57,200 19-7 Joshua Weiss – 38,400 19-8 Jared Hamby – 70,600 19-9 Timothy Cramer – 15,100
20-1 Gavin Griffin – 73,300 20-2 Achia Hua – 44,700 20-3 20-4 Michael Russo – 26,500 20-5 Jake Schwartz – 101,600 20-6 Matt Brady – 10,400 20-7 Erkut Yilmaz – 90,000 20-8 20-9 Andrew Seidman – 89,600
21-1 Michael Nia – 100,000 21-2 Jon Turner – 23,300 21-3 Thomas Penza – 69,200 21-4 Chino Rheem – 91,300 21-5 21-6 T.K. Miles – 52,700 21-7 William Halsey – 34,400 21-8 Neel Murthy – 43,900 21-9 Rory Brown – 36,100
22-1 Yen Han Chen – 37,000 22-2 Christian Christner – 50,200 22-3 Farzad Bonyadi – 9,500 22-4 John Cynn – 47,100 22-6 Brian Altman – 17,600 22-7 Daniel Negreanu – 80,200 22-8 22-9 Thomas Gabriel – 57,500
23-1 Vicente Delgado – 13,200 23-2 David Fong – 35,100 23-3 Ezra Abugazel – 31,500 23-4 Jordan Cristos – 13,200 23-5 Jim Collopy – 67,500 23-6 Jason Wheeler – 80,200 23-7 Phil Laak – 96,100 23-8 Omar Zazay – 53,300 23-9 Lior Orel – 12,000
24-1 Lucas Oliver – 120,800 24-2 Alex Keating – 32,700 24-3 Alex Condon – 58,900 24-4 Ramzi Srour – 37,700 24-5 David Sandhu – 29,200 24-6 Bryan Piccioli – 52,500 24-7 Guy Calvert – 14,200 24-8 Nam Le – 12,000 24-9 Mike Vela – 14,100
25-1 Sören Jensen – 33,800 25-2 Dylan Nguyen – 44,900 25-3 Faraz Jaka – 25,800 25-4 Reagan Silber – 52,600 25-5 Anthony Zinno – 15,000 25-6 Abe Aboukhalil – 21,700 25-7 Kakwan Lao – 57,500 25-8 Maria Ho – 62,500 25-9 Dietrich Fast – 72,000
26-1 Antonio Esfandiari – 53,350 26-2 Pratyush Buddiga – 35,700 26-3 Glen Bickerstaff – 16,300 26-4 Adi Abugazal – 59,000 26-5 26-6 26-7 Nguyet Kim Dao – 96,900 26-8 Scott Vener – 24,000 26-9 Haixia Zhang – 19,300
27-1 David Lopez – 50,300 27-3 Matthew Wantman – 41,100 27-4 Nick Phoenix – 25,500 27-5 27-6 Jonas Entin – 48,800 27-7 Scott Stewart – 83,000 27-8 Thien Nguyen – 13,900 27-9 Matt Schultz – 40,000
28-1 David Peters – 33,900 28-2 Marvin Rettenmaier – 29,700 28-4 Andy Philachack – 40,000 28-5 Roger Teska – 35,000 28-6 Matt Berkey – 74,200 28-7 Walter Fisher – 104,300 28-8 Phong “Turbo” Nguyen – 18,000 28-9 William Vo – 55,500
29-1 James Romero – 153,600 29-2 Adam Kipnis – 20,700 29-3 Massoud Eskandari – 23,100 29-4 29-5 Erik Nason – 63,700 29-6 Binh Nguyen – 33,300 29-7 Connor Drinan – 54,000 29-8 Tom Dobrilovic – 25,100 29-9 Taylor Paur – 56,700
30-1 Ardashes Mazmanian – 39,500 30-2 Jason Martin – 17,600 30-3 Aditya Prasetyo – 59,900 30-4 30-5 30-6 Ralph Thomas – 31,700 30-7 Anton Astapau – 33,400 30-8 30-9 Steve Sung – 53,000
31-1 31-2 31-3 31-4 Isaac Baron – 49,500 31-5 Mike McClain – 20,500 31-6 Trong Cao – 119,000 31-7 Sam Soverel – 8,500 31-8 John Conkright – 9,100 31-9 Ryan Tosoc – 52,000
32-1 Adam Monaghan – 26,100 32-3 Peter Nguyen – 85,100 32-4 Dien Nguyen – 54,600 32-5 Joe Serock – 48,300 32-6 32-7 Jared Griener – 67,600 32-8 Danny Wong – 28,700 32-9 Curt Kohlberg – 25,400
33-1 Allan Le – 51,400 33-2 Adam Geyer – 40,700 33-3 Michael Kamran – 38,500 33-4 Claas Segebrecht – 65,500 33-5 Nathan Kovalchuk – 7,900 33-6 Ishan Mohamed – 109,700 33-7 Chance Kornuth – 74,400 33-8 John Hemme – 11,800 33-9 Jeff Esterling – 23,500
34-1 Maxx Coleman – 11,400 34-2 Shawn Busse – 38,700 34-3 Haoxin Tong – 22,200 34-4 Andrew Cha – 80,700 34-5 John Villanueva – 38,200 34-6 Benny Glaser – 56,700 34-7 Amir Mirrasouli – 54,500 34-8 Chris Doan – 43,900 34-9 Mike Sexton – 53,300
35-1 35-3 Vladimir Dobrovolskii – 81,700 35-4 Jordan Warkul – 9,600 35-5 Maxi Lehmanski – 35,500 35-6 Lance Garcia – 15,000 35-7 Tyler Patterson – 16,400 35-8 Aaron Massey – 52,900 35-9 Tony Merksick – 120,100
36-1 Charlie Carrel – 17,900 36-2 36-3 Eric Fields – 11,500 36-4 Garrett Greer – 20,000 36-5 Derek Gregory – 97,500 36-6 Shawn Buchanan – 42,300 36-7 Hong Li – 20,500 36-8 Jason Dewitt – 99,200 36-9 Lawrence Ma – 60,400
37-1 Samir Khalilieh – 56,800 37-2 Tyler Kenney – 34,400 37-3 Richard Kirsch – 23,000 37-4 Guillaume Nolet – 50,000 37-5 37-6 Daniel Barriocanal – 107,200 37-7 Garrett Adelstein – 91,800 37-8 37-9 Bruce Kramer – 9,300
38-1 Eli Berg – 58,400 38-2 Jae Huang – 37,500 38-3 Evan Krentzman – 64,900 38-4 Mike Sowers – 55,100 38-5 Justin Stein – 15,500 38-6 Aaron Frei – 26,000 38-7 Matt Salsberg – 65,300 38-8 Justin Newton – 16,500 38-9 Max Mashour – 22,800
39-1 Jared Kawalsky – 30,800 39-2 James Calderaro – 78,900 39-3 Zu Zhou – 35,000 39-4 Kevin Andriamahefa – 70,200 39-5 39-7 Noah Novick – 60,400 39-8 Bill Klein – 43,600 39-9 Joe Hachem – 89,300
