Die LA Poker Classic gehören zu den ganz großen Traditionsturnieren im Rahmen der World Poker Tour und im Poker Circuit überhaupt.
Seit 2003 gehen die Pokercracks hier auf Titeljagd, und auch in diesem Jahr waren wieder viele bekannte Namen am Start, als der Startschuss zum Main Event erfolgte.
Insgesamt 475 Spieler kauften sich am ersten Turniertag mit $10.000 ein sorgten damit für ein ähnlich großes Feld wie im Vorjahr, als 521 Entries verbucht wurden.
Die endgültige Teilnehmerzahl und damit auch die Preisgeldverteilung steht noch nicht fest, da bis zu Beginn von Tag 2 die Late Reg möglich ist.
Wie erwartet, nahmen viele bekannte Spieler den Kampf um die Nachfolge von Daniel Strelitz auf, der im Vorjahr als Sieger eine Million Dollar mitnahm, darunter auch Erik Seidel, Ryan Riess und Mike Matusow.
Aus deutscher Sicht qualifizierten sich Rainer Kempe und Andreas Klatt mit durchschnittlichen Stacks für Tag 2 und werden mit 280 anderen Spielern um die bezahlten Plätze kämpfen.
Klarer Chipleader ist der hierzulande eher unbekannte John Misirian, aber auch Toby Lewis legte einen glänzenden Start hin.
WPT LA Poker Classic, Stand nach Tag 1
1-1
1-2 Steve Ayoub – 96,800
1-3 Sam Ganzfried – 25,200
1-4 Scott Vener – 15,000
1-5 Danny Qutami – 23,200
1-6 Andrey Plotnikov – 114,500
1-7 Martin Mathis – 92,200
1-8 Anthony Spinella – 35,400
1-9
2-1 Dylan Linde – 67,200
2-2 Angelina Richardson – 70,000
2-3 Owen Crowe – 20,000
2-4 Calvin Lee – 47,100
2-5 Mike Sowers – 77,800
2-6 Inhpounh Vongvone – 14,000
2-7 Daniel Barriocanal – 95,200
2-8 Mike McClain – 42,300
2-9 James Romers – 17,000
3-1
3-2 Barry Hutter – 23,400
3-3 David Paredes – 82,000
3-4 Gintautas Putinas – 51,900
3-5 Andrew Liporace – 21,900
3-6 Miguel Capriles – 59,300
3-7 Tyler Patterson – 61,000
3-8 Brian Green – 66,100
3-9
4-1 Edward Ochana – 24,700
4-2 Dmar Zazay – 18,300
4-3 Justin Kruger – 11,000
4-4 Jason Dewitt – 14,400
4-5 Christian Soto – 32,700
4-6 Chen Yu Hung – 33,000
4-7 Chance Kornuth – 81,000
4-8 Saneep Pulusani – 64,400
4-9
5-1 Ben Keeline – 39,200
5-2 Rajesh Jagannadham – 14,200
5-3 Seth Davies – 54,800
5-4 Dan Shak – 55,100
5-5 George Rahme – 34,600
5-6 Gavin Griffin – 41,900
5-7 James Jackson – 86,000
5-8 Allan Le – 52,000
5-9 Phil Wastell – 22,700
6-1
6-2 Ken Huber – 47,900
6-3
6-4 Nigel Vonas – 30,800
6-5 Tony Dunst – 48,600
6-6 Kyle Cartwright – 38,300
6-7 Jared Talarico – 60,400
6-8 Roland Israelashvili – 30,900
6-9 Ubaid Habib – 85,600
7-1 Shawn Daniels – 53,400
7-2 Eli Berg – 63,700
7-3 Gordon Vayo – 78,100
7-4 Bruce Kramer – 45,200
7-5 Amir Makhija – 80,700
7-6
7-7 Mike Cordell – 68,100
7-8 Thong Jimmy Tran – 35,000
7-9 Keven Stammen – 28,600
8-1 Jacob Daniels – 26,700
8-2 Dan Heimiller – 75,500
8-3
8-4 Zachary Smiley – 37,200
8-5 Jordan Cristos – 50,200
8-6 Joe Schulman – 83,400
8-7
8-8 Adam Swan – 80,400
8-9 Saya Ono – 78,400
9-1 Vuong Do – 21,100
9-2
9-3 James Rann – 46,900
9-4 Evan Sandberg – 55,400
9-5 Ben Yu – 20,200
9-6 Walter Fisher – 70,700
9-7 Mukul Pahuja – 37,500
9-8 Travis Tachibana – 56,100
9-9 William Klein – 80,100
10-1 Ming Li – 51,500
10-2 Kimbo Ung – 121,200
10-3 Adnan Mohammad – 13,100
10-4 Derer Gregory – 126,900
10-5 Qing Yasui – 14,300
10-6 Johnny Jo – 39,200
10-7 Casey Mccarrell – 120,900
10-8 Pogos Simityan – 17,900
10-9 Lang Lee – 45,600
11-1 Steven Tabb – 52,400
11-2 Maria Ho – 11,100
11-3 Kevin Macphee – 39,400
11-4 Jeremy Menard – 16,100
11-5 Joshua Gordon – 85,600
11-6 Michael Chang – 26,700
11-7 John Misirian – 234,300
11-8
11-9 Christian Back – 17,200
12-1 Alexander Orlov – 42,000
12-2 Kc Cha – 46,300
12-3 Alex Grenblatt – 43,600
12-4 Allen Patatanyan – 48,300
12-5 Bryan Wittman – 25,900
12-6 Johnny Sonkoly – 27,300
12-7 Tk Miles – 91,200
12-8 Bruno Furth – 68,900
12-9 Felip Dawla – 63,500
13-1 Daniel Fuhs – 47,100
13-2 Amad Shalan – 71,400
13-3 Dean Baranowski – 67,100
13-4 Phong Turbo Nguyen – 30,600
13-5 Peter Neff – 46,000
13-6 Ping Liu – 31,800
13-7 Michael Gagliano – 91,000
13-8 Victor Crisostomo – 74,100
13-9 Louis Werman – 29,200
14-1 Mike Leah – 32,200
14-2
14-3 Daniel Aharoni – 65,200
14-4 Tim Cramer – 123,100
14-5 Chase Bianchi – 52,400
14-6 Kevin Chan – 12,800
14-7 Sam Phillips – 23,500
14-8 Armen Nazaryan – 80,600
14-9 Bryan Pimlott – 14,700
15-1 Eddy Sabat – 38,600
15-2 Tom Mccormick – 35,600
15-3 Hyung Kim – 13,600
15-4 Ping Yang – 44,700
15-5 Jonathan Zarin – 94,200
15-6 Lawrence Ma – 23,600
15-7 Candie Vaca – 124,900
15-8 Rich Wu – 47,800
15-9 Sanjay Mayekar – 28,500
16-1 Andreas Klatt – 47,600
16-2 Lawrence Greenberg – 97,800
16-3
16-4 Yifu He – 21,500
16-5 Nick Vertucci – 15,800
16-6 Michael Chang – 26,700
16-7 Antonios Roungevis – 38,800
16-8 Tim Adders – 66,000
16-9 Sal Rasibi – 70,000
17-1 Aaron Kweskin – 62,100
17-2 Kevin Andriamahefa – 39,100
17-3 Mike Del Vecchio – 73,200
17-4 Brad Lubetkin – 46,400
17-5 Ken Okada – 39,100
17-6 Mark Jun – 58,300
17-7 Massoud Eskandari – 76,500
17-8 Phillip Phan – 14,400
17-9 Kelly Minkin – 42,200
18-1 Adam Singer – 35,200
18-2 Luke Brereton – 25,000
18-3 Emile Schiff – 69,700
18-4 Jack Smite – 16,100
18-5 Mazin Khoury – 62,400
18-6 Josh Kay – 61,500
18-7 Isaac Baron – 43,200
18-8 Michael Kamran – 10,600
18-9 Derek Wolters – 35,200
19-1 Michael Nia – 57,300
19-2 Will the Thrill Failla – 43,600
19-3
19-4 Marc Macdonnell – 95,700
19-5 Kevin Eyster – 97,200
19-6 Eric Seidel – 36,300
19-7 Binh Nguyen – 58,700
19-8 Allen Pock – 68,200
19-9 Deepinder Singh – 67,000
20-1 Brian Bangunan – 61,700
20-2 Patrick Eskandar – 28,600
20-3 Zu Qin Zhou – 46,500
20-4 Cary Katz – 37,400
20-5 Millard Hale – 65,100
20-6 Rene Vas – 41,200
20-7 Said Michailidis – 57,700
20-8 Jason Kim – 31,800
20-9 Justin Newton – 22,400
21-1 Jerry Richardson – 57,600
21-2 Toby Lewis – 149,000
21-3 Kyle Welsh – 57,700
21-4 Randy Ohel – 76,000
21-5 Ray Qartomy – 75,200
21-6 Matt Salsberg – 55,900
21-7 Farid Jattin – 87,400
21-8 Bob Herber – 22,000
21-9 Curt Kohlberg – 16,900
22-1 Maria Konnikova – 6,600
22-2 Arnel Abrera – 114,600
22-3 Bart Hanson – 11,700
22-4 Joe Hindry – 20,400
22-5
22-6 Nipun Java – 56,800
22-7 Barry Woods – 34,600
22-8 David Pham – 47,700
22-9 Jeff Gross – 63,800
23-1 Matt Berkey – 46,600
23-2 Craig Mason – 20,900
23-3 Anuj Agarwaz – 48,400
23-4 Benjamin Zamani – 70,000
23-5 Reinier Pandy – 14,500
23-6 Gentian Sula – 80,600
23-7 Andy Frankenberger – 115,400
23-8
23-9 Griffin Abel – 16,200
24-1 Adam Regiaba – 145,000
24-2 Shaun Jing – 41,000
24-3 Ajay Gnanasambanthan – 9,100
24-4 Haixia Zhang – 19,100
24-5 Shawn Hart – 48,200
24-6
24-7 Tyler Stafford – 54,800
24-8 Levon Khachatryan – 29,900
24-9 Chris Kostoulas – 8,400
25-1 Mike Sexton – 53,900
25-2 Travis Hundt – 15,600
25-3 Scott Eskenazi – 48,900
25-4 Dennis Blieden – 69,300
25-5 Nick Palma – 54,000
25-6 Jeremy White – 67,400
25-7 Tim Reilly – 56,600
25-8 Amir Sean Mirrasouli – 60,900
25-9 Gaurav Raina – 45,100
26-1 Jake Bazeley – 66,000
26-2 Jason Leifer – 62,000
26-3 Garrett Greer – 15,300
26-4 Gene Sun – 51,200
26-5 Justin Zaki – 11,000
26-6 Greg Paryani – 54,200
26-7 Edward Liu – 33,500
26-8 David Gonzales – 17,000
26-9 Mike Matusow – 88,900
27-1 Mao Liu – 23,100
27-2 Thomas Gabriel – 25,000
27-3 Weijun Ling – 32,300
27-4 Rainer Kempe – 60,100
27-5 Ma Josep Galindo – 46,900
27-6 Alex Condon – 48,500
27-7
27-8 Richard Seymour – 92,000
27-9 Thomas Emerson – 70,400
28-1 M. R. – 25,000
28-2 Sean Yu – 75,500
28-3 Artem Metalidi – 11,400
28-4 Manue Martinez – 27,500
28-5 Abbas Imani – 30,200
28-6 Peter Hengsakul – 129,900
28-7 Mesha James – 24,400
28-8 Matt Giannetti – 49,200
28-9 Aaron Kaiser – 84,000
29-1 Brandon Butler – 38,100
29-2 Pablo Fernandez – 89,500
29-3 Andrew Gerl – 64,300
29-4
29-5 Cheryl Spencer – 79,000
29-6 Jose Tavares – 21,200
29-7 Ness Reilly – 13,900
29-8
29-9 Raymond Ho – 15,600
30-1 Alex Lynskey – 35,000
30-2 Paul Kumich – 74,600
30-3 Omran Sansui – 32,900
30-4 Francisco Fragoso – 59,800
30-5 Jim Paul – 37,800
30-6 Bob Wenzl – 12,800
30-7
30-8 Kevin Song – 26,000
30-9 Lloyd Mandel – 120,000
31-1 Tuan Phan – 43,900
31-2
31-3 Vlad Mezheritsky – 39,700
31-4 Frank Crivello – 60,500
31-5 Chahn Jung – 51,900
31-6 Majdei Abzakh – 86,400
31-7 Jesse Martin – 32,100
31-8 Steve Sung – 10,500
31-9 Xuan Nguyen – 35,900
32-1 Gary Sewell – 108,000
32-2 Daniel Strelitz – 66,200
32-3 Frank Lin – 104,900
32-4 Yi Chi Li – 37,500
32-5 Matt Millisor – 31,000
32-6 Joe Serock – 47,400
32-7 Lauren Roberts – 32,300
32-8 Billy Baxter – 56,700
32-9 Duy Ho – 118,000
33-1 Rellie Sigua – 58,750
33-2
33-3 Clayton Jiang – 67,000
33-4 Brandon Cantu – 68,400
33-5 Michael Ruane – 42,500
33-6 Joe McKeehen – 35,400
33-7 Kayla Voogd – 55,500
33-8 Olivier Busquet – 20,100
33-9 Jeremy Kottler – 35,900
50-1 Ken Aldridge – 16,500
50-2 Richard Bennett – 22,000
50-3 Anthony Zinno – 44,300
50-4 Kristina Holst – 27,700
50-5 Vincent Salazar – 26,900
50-6 Craig Chait – 70,800
50-7 Justin Gardenhire – 31,300
50-8 Quang Vu – 54,500
50-9 Toby Joyce – 62,000
