In Las Vegas laufen neben der WSOP auch vielen weitere Turnierserien. Da darf natürlich die World Poker Tour nicht fehlen. Seit dem 25. Juni fliegen im Aria Hotel & Casino Las Vegas die Karten beim $570 Zynga Poker WPT 500 Event. An den neun Starttagen Eins kamen insgesamt 2.983 Entries zusammen, so dass es um ein Preisgeld von $1.491.500 ging. Schon an den Starttagen Eins kamen jeweils 12.5 % des Teilnehmerfeldes in die Preisgeldränge. 5 % der Spieler qualifizierten sich für den Tag 2. Hier traten dann 154 Pokercracks an, darunter auch die beiden Deutschen Jens Thomsen und Jakub Wojtas. Jakub belegte am Ende Platz 88 für $2.500. Bester deutschsprachiger Teilnehmer wurde Jens Thomsen auf Rang 83 für $2.500. Am Tag 3 wurde nur noch der Final Table gespielt. Hier konnte sich dann Kyriakos Papadopoulos im Heads Up gegen Bobby Poe durchsetzen und ein Preisgeld von $207.940 gewinnen.
Hier ist das offizielle Ergebnis:
Platz | Name | Preisgeld |
1 | Kyriakos Papadopoulos | $207,940 |
2 | Bobby Poe | $139,960 |
3 | Hoan Nguyen | $103,060 |
4 | Adi Ben Ami | $76,750 |
5 | Chris Bell | $57,800 |
6 | James Morris | $44,000 |
7 | Greg Gius | $33,800 |
8 | Hugh Grant | $26,310 |
9 | Joseph Guarino | $21,110 |
10 | Ricky Esterak | $21,110 |
11 | Graeme Wright | $16,450 |
12 | Harshil Dhingra | $16,450 |
13 | Quentin Jones | $13,220 |
14 | Brandon Carey | $13,220 |
15 | Kelley Slay | $10,740 |
16 | Kunal Patni | $10,740 |
17 | Juan Giambartolomei | $8,820 |
18 | Sam Cosby | $8,820 |
19 | Jimmy Guerrero | $8,820 |
20 | Edward Little | $8,820 |
21 | Miklos Zsuffa | $7,320 |
22 | Mo Nuwwarah | $7,320 |
23 | Dmitrii Shchepkin | $7,320 |
24 | Scott Vetter | $7,320 |
25 | Eric Vallee | $6,150 |
26 | Jose Nadal | $6,150 |
27 | Michael Tran | $6,150 |
28 | Francois Tosques | $6,150 |
29 | Bruce Kramer | $6,150 |
30 | Adam Wilkinson | $6,150 |
31 | Chris Stanfield | $6,150 |
32 | Alisson Piekazewicz | $6,150 |
33 | Harry Lodge | $5,220 |
34 | Leo Flores | $5,220 |
35 | Tim Mcauliffe | $5,220 |
36 | Joris Springael | $5,220 |
37 | Pascal Rabany | $5,220 |
38 | Marek Ohnisko | $5,220 |
39 | Albert Ng | $5,220 |
40 | Chris Kostoulas | $5,220 |
41 | Cody Brinn | $4,490 |
42 | Henri Kasper | $4,490 |
43 | Jean Paul Zaffran | $4,490 |
44 | Brandon Eisen | $4,490 |
45 | Lee Sommers | $4,490 |
46 | Brian Kearney | $4,490 |
47 | Nick Moriwaki | $4,490 |
48 | Michael Ma | $4,490 |
49 | Martin Romanec | $4,000 |
50 | David Aker | $4,000 |
51 | Dinu Stefaroi | $4,000 |
52 | Mohamed Mamouni | $4,000 |
53 | Terry Woodruff | $4,000 |
54 | Florian Ribouchon | $4,000 |
55 | Peter Christiansen | $4,000 |
56 | Glenn Larson | $4,000 |
57 | Dominic Coombe | $3,550 |
58 | Jeff Center | $3,550 |
59 | Gary Fisher | $3,550 |
60 | Eric Cruz | $3,550 |
61 | Aylar Lie | $3,550 |
62 | Michael Karlsson | $3,550 |
63 | Melanie Weisner | $3,550 |
64 | Pierre Merlin | $3,550 |
65 | Sai Pulugurtha | $3,200 |
66 | Arthur Gavrilov | $3,200 |
67 | Brett Collson | $3,200 |
68 | Steven Daoud | $3,200 |
69 | Thomas Morgenstern | $3,200 |
70 | Hideki Sahashi | $3,200 |
71 | Ali Zihni | $3,200 |
72 | Xianbang Yang | $3,200 |
73 | Ben Volpe | $2,850 |
74 | Stephen Lane | $2,850 |
75 | Yuhan Huo | $2,850 |
76 | Stuart Taylor | $2,850 |
77 | Lukáš Jebavý | $2,850 |
78 | Randy Haddox | $2,850 |
79 | Marius Kudzmanas | $2,850 |
80 | Mikal Smith | $2,850 |
81 | Chad Awerbuch | $2,500 |
82 | David Paull | $2,500 |
83 | Jens Thomsen | $2,500 |
84 | Mateusz Moolhuizen | $2,500 |
85 | Ashton Tucker | $2,500 |
86 | Shawn Stroke | $2,500 |
87 | Min Yoo | $2,500 |
88 | Jakub Wojtas | $2,500 |
89 | Luke Boynton | $2,500 |
90 | Rayo Kniep | $2,500 |
91 | Glenn Miller | $2,200 |
92 | Damon Graham | $2,200 |
93 | Robert Chusid | $2,200 |
94 | Sanjay Mayekar | $2,200 |
95 | Sakthiganesan Alagarsamy | $2,200 |
96 | Gianfranco Giordano | $2,200 |
97 | Javid Chizari | $2,200 |
98 | Adam Vigna | $2,200 |
99 | Daniel Jones | $2,200 |
100 | Jean Joseph | $2,200 |
101 | Vedat Deviren | $2,200 |
102 | Faisal Siddiqui | $2,200 |
103 | Daniel Yu | $2,200 |
104 | Michael Senter | $2,200 |
105 | Sasha Stancic | $2,200 |
106 | Lucio Antunes | $2,200 |
107 | Garrett Dansereau | $2,200 |
108 | Matt McKinney | $2,200 |
109 | Jace Reiken | $1,900 |
110 | Kevin Kwan | $1,900 |
111 | Richard Zipes | $1,900 |
112 | Bob Mather | $1,900 |
113 | Paul Gatens | $1,900 |
114 | David Attride | $1,900 |
115 | Vahid Jalali | $1,900 |
116 | Jasven Saigal | $1,900 |
117 | Brian Katon | $1,900 |
118 | David Gelley | $1,900 |
119 | Gervasio Costa | $1,900 |
120 | Alex Rabusseau | $1,900 |
121 | Jonathan Lawson | $1,900 |
122 | Joseph Lachiana | $1,900 |
123 | Oscar Menjivar | $1,900 |
124 | Leonardo Marques | $1,900 |
125 | Kevan Patrick | $1,900 |
126 | Eivind Dahle | $1,900 |
127 | David Rich | $1,900 |
128 | Ray Foley | $1,900 |
129 | Chul Ho Bae | $1,900 |
130 | Hal Light | $1,900 |
131 | Kelly Fitzsimmons | $1,900 |
132 | Matt Savage | $1,900 |
133 | Andrew Teng | $1,900 |
134 | Mark Bartrom | $1,900 |
135 | Joseph Hernon | $1,900 |
136 | Hermann Gomez | $1,600 |
137 | Morgan Klein | $1,600 |
138 | Hossein Malekabadi | $1,600 |
139 | Itai Levy | $1,600 |
140 | Felipe Hoffmann | $1,600 |
141 | Michael Dobbs | $1,600 |
142 | Ben Keeline | $1,600 |
143 | Ravi Raghavan | $1,600 |
144 | Noam Yahav | $1,600 |
145 | Jeff Bucher | $1,600 |
146 | Ke Chen | $1,600 |
147 | Adam White | $1,600 |
148 | Linas Balaisis | $1,600 |
149 | Beau Winn | $1,600 |
150 | Shawn Dees | $1,600 |
151 | Eduardo Nejaim | $1,600 |
152 | Mike Rich | $1,600 |
153 | Jimmy Zeledon | $1,600 |
154 | Jesse Carlton | $1,600 |
155 | Raj Ramakrishnan | $1,600 |
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