Die WSOP ist vorbei und damit starten in den USA auch wieder die anderen Turniere. Die World Poker Tour (WPT) geht im Gardens Casino mit einem $5000 Championship Event in die neue Saison. Auch einige Deutsche sind mit von der Partie beim Saisonauftakt.
Zwei Starttage wurden beim $4.700 + 300 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event geboten, die Late Reg ist zudem bis zum Start von Tag 2 möglich. Tag 1A brachte 122 Spieler an die Tische, 56 konnten am Ende Chips eintüten. Am zweiten Starttag war die Runde mit 171 Teilnehmern ein bisschen größer, aber auch hier wurde kräftig aufgeräumt und noch 100 Spieler konnten am Ende Chips eintüten.
Cord Garcia schnaptte sich mit 265.700 Chips an Tag 1A den Tagessieg und behielt auch die Führung nach dem zweiten Flight. Marvin Rettenmaier, blieb ebenso auf der Strecke wie Steve Sung oder Men Nguyen, James Romero und Ryan Tosoc. Generell konnten die Deutschsprachigen aber einen recht guten Start hinlegen, auch wenn sie nicht ganz vorne mitmischen. Marius Gierse (24.), Timo Kamphues (86.), Manig Loeser (107.), Daniel Smiljkovic (126.) und Lars Kamphues (140.) sind mit dabei, wenn es bei den Blinds 500/1000/1000 in Tag 2 geht. Die Coverage gibt es unter wpt.com zum Mitlesen.
| Name | Chipcount | Table | Seat |
| Cord Garcia | 265.700 | 25 | 5 |
| Straton Wihelm | 244.300 | 40 | 2 |
| Michael Kamran | 207.000 | 21 | 7 |
| Jeff Madsen | 205.800 | 26 | 5 |
| Bradley Hinson | 183.900 | 26 | 2 |
| Alex Tran | 180.500 | 5 | 3 |
| Bryce Yockey | 180.300 | 23 | 8 |
| Jesse Vilchez | 179.900 | 9 | 6 |
| Ira Friedman | 163.800 | 38 | 8 |
| Tam Nguyen | 154.800 | 40 | 4 |
| Daniel Strelitz | 153.800 | 22 | 7 |
| Gal Yifrach | 148.200 | 25 | 2 |
| Peter Park | 148.200 | 26 | 9 |
| Jeremy Kottler | 144.900 | 37 | 7 |
| Viny Lima | 142.300 | 21 | 6 |
| Robert McVeigh | 141.800 | 6 | 5 |
| Kevin Song | 139.100 | 40 | 1 |
| Joey To | 136.000 | 24 | 8 |
| Jacky Lee | 134.400 | 37 | 5 |
| Spencer Tep | 128.600 | 5 | 6 |
| Ludovic Geilich | 127.900 | 38 | 1 |
| James Calderaro | 124.600 | 6 | 8 |
| Xiao Ruan | 118.800 | 28 | 6 |
| Marius Gierse | 117.000 | 39 | 3 |
| David Miscikowski | 115.500 | 7 | 6 |
| Joel Feldman | 113.000 | 39 | 9 |
| Henry So | 111.100 | 27 | 4 |
| Kenny Nguyen | 109.000 | 23 | 4 |
| Justin Steinbrenner | 108.700 | 29 | 6 |
| Eli Strickland | 108.300 | 8 | 2 |
| Shaun Davis | 107.800 | 8 | 1 |
| Dan Colpoys | 106.100 | 28 | 3 |
| Laszlo Molnar | 102.600 | 38 | 7 |
| M Sabouni | 102.200 | 41 | 2 |
| Alberto Ramirez | 100.900 | 10 | 4 |
| Michael Noori | 100.400 | 37 | 4 |
| Jared Grienier | 100.100 | 7 | 8 |
| Jimmy Pham | 100.000 | 37 | 3 |
| Mehrnoosh Kadkhodaeikhalafi | 99.800 | 5 | 4 |
| Matthew Ara | 97.900 | 40 | 8 |
| Jordan Cristos | 96.900 | 24 | 6 |
| Felipe Davila | 94.000 | 25 | 3 |
| Lior Orel | 93.500 | 24 | 2 |
| Kevin McCormack | 93.300 | 38 | 2 |
| Ray Qartomy | 92.300 | 40 | 9 |
| Ky Nguyen | 89.100 | 7 | 2 |
| Eric Hicks | 89.000 | 10 | 5 |
| Jan Bednar | 88.700 | 24 | 9 |
| Frank Stepuchin | 88.400 | 27 | 5 |
| Aaron Messmer | 87.400 | 28 | 5 |
| Brian Yoon | 84.100 | 7 | 5 |
| Sean Yu | 83.700 | 23 | 9 |
| Aram Zobian | 83.300 | 29 | 5 |
| Ron West | 82.900 | 7 | 4 |
| Thomas Boivin | 82.300 | 41 | 5 |
| Dilip Das | 82.100 | 39 | 6 |
| Joseph Townsend | 82.100 | 40 | 5 |
| Jared Jaffee | 81.300 | 37 | 1 |
| Adam Demersseman | 80.900 | 10 | 1 |
| Paul W. Lee | 79.600 | 26 | 1 |
| Erkut Yilmaz | 79.000 | 27 | 8 |
| Gabriel Lam | 78.800 | 41 | 1 |
| Peiwen Wang | 77.900 | 37 | 2 |
| Paul Seres | 77.800 | 10 | 6 |
| Joao Teixeira De Freitas | 77.700 | 40 | 6 |
| Stephen Johnson | 77.500 | 29 | 3 |
| Isaac Baron | 77.300 | 26 | 6 |
| Shannon Shorr | 77.000 | 5 | 9 |
| Maria Ho | 76.700 | 9 | 5 |
| Michael Itaev | 75.400 | 23 | 7 |
| Vuong Do | 75.000 | 8 | 4 |
| Zu Zhou | 73.900 | 27 | 6 |
| Aaron Massey | 72.900 | 39 | 7 |
| Chris DeMaci | 69.600 | 29 | 4 |
| Vlastmil Pustina | 69.100 | 38 | 3 |
| Paul Chauderson | 69.000 | 28 | 8 |
| Aditya Sushant | 68.400 | 23 | 2 |
| Javier Zarco | 68.300 | 26 | 4 |
| Jordan Fisch | 68.100 | 22 | 2 |
| Paul Evans | 66.800 | 23 | 5 |
| Jason Les | 65.800 | 8 | 3 |
| William Vo | 65.000 | 23 | 1 |
| Igor Zektser | 64.600 | 6 | 7 |
| Vadim Shlez | 63.800 | 22 | 6 |
| Edward Ho | 63.400 | 41 | 4 |
| Timo Kamphues | 62.500 | 5 | 2 |
| Peter Cross | 61.100 | 40 | 7 |
| Camille Brown | 60.800 | 26 | 3 |
| Qing Lu | 60.700 | 41 | 9 |
| Tran Tran | 59.700 | 28 | 2 |
| Thu Nguyen | 59.400 | 38 | 5 |
| Vladimir Vasilyen | 57.500 | 27 | 2 |
| Antonios Roungeris | 55.700 | 27 | 3 |
| Kitty Kuo | 55.300 | 8 | 7 |
| Adam Weinraub | 51.700 | 22 | 3 |
| Ping Liu | 51.600 | 10 | 3 |
| Aaron Mathis | 51.200 | 6 | 2 |
| Christopher Usude | 50.900 | 9 | 4 |
| Jack Salter | 50.100 | 37 | 8 |
| Armen Nazaryan | 49.800 | 9 | 9 |
| Corey Hochman | 48.400 | 8 | 5 |
| Paul Nguyen | 48.000 | 24 | 5 |
| Adam Swan | 48.000 | 28 | 1 |
| Charles Clark | 47.000 | 24 | 1 |
| Hal Strumpf | 47.000 | 24 | 4 |
| Mark Bryan | 45.700 | 9 | 2 |
| Manig Loeser | 44.600 | 9 | 7 |
| John Phan | 44.300 | 28 | 7 |
| Will Givens | 44.000 | 29 | 1 |
| Michael Nia | 43.300 | 7 | 1 |
| Andy Tsai | 42.900 | 27 | 7 |
| Dana Kellstrom | 42.800 | 6 | 3 |
| John Rock | 42.600 | 21 | 1 |
| Stepen Zehngut | 42.400 | 21 | 2 |
| Eric Wong | 42.400 | 39 | 4 |
| Jake Schwartz | 42.300 | 6 | 1 |
| Angel Guillen | 42.000 | 10 | 7 |
| Kevin MacPhee | 41.800 | 28 | 9 |
| Simon Deadman | 40.000 | 5 | 7 |
| John Cynn | 40.000 | 39 | 5 |
| Anuj Agarwal | 37.800 | 9 | 1 |
| Moshin Charania | 37.500 | 25 | 6 |
| Anthony Zinno | 37.400 | 8 | 9 |
| Cody Bell | 36.700 | 9 | 8 |
| Denny Tran | 36.000 | 39 | 1 |
| Daniel Smiljkovic | 35.900 | 24 | 7 |
| Abhinav Iyer | 35.800 | 10 | 2 |
| Ekrem Bozkurt | 35.300 | 6 | 6 |
| Peter Neff | 34.500 | 25 | 9 |
| Henry Lu | 34.000 | 25 | 8 |
| Zhipeng Fang | 33.300 | 27 | 1 |
| Shi Chen | 32.400 | 37 | 6 |
| Timothy Telliard | 31.900 | 5 | 8 |
| Neil Ho | 31.900 | 21 | 5 |
| Allan Macabulos | 31.900 | 29 | 8 |
| Ryan Feldman | 31.500 | 41 | 7 |
| Kevin Kung | 31.200 | 5 | 1 |
| Anatolii Zyrin | 31.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Milos Skrbic | 29.500 | 22 | 1 |
| Lars Kamphues | 29.400 | 22 | 5 |
| Scott Stewart | 29.100 | 23 | 3 |
| Sean Swingruber | 28.800 | 29 | 9 |
| Albert Hanley | 28.600 | 21 | 4 |
| Xinyi Li | 26.000 | 22 | 4 |
| Truyen Nguyen | 25.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Matthew Wantman | 24.600 | 38 | 9 |
| Marc Mcdonnell | 23.000 | 38 | 6 |
| Saya Ono | 22.900 | 7 | 9 |
| Byron Kaverman | 22.700 | 21 | 8 |
| Max Pescatori | 20.500 | 29 | 2 |
| Sean Jazayeri | 20.200 | 25 | 4 |
| Elio Fox | 19.400 | 39 | 8 |
| Aaron Mermelstein | 17.600 | 6 | 4 |
| Michael Steward | 16.700 | 22 | 9 |
| Bobby Oboodi | 11.200 | 41 | 6 |
| Marton Czuczor | 9.300 | 26 | 7 |
| Name | Chipcount | Table | Seat |
| Cord Garcia | 265.700 | 25 | 5 |
| Straton Wihelm | 244.300 | 40 | 2 |
| Michael Kamran | 207.000 | 21 | 7 |
| Jeff Madsen | 205.800 | 26 | 5 |
| Bradley Hinson | 183.900 | 26 | 2 |
| Alex Tran | 180.500 | 5 | 3 |
| Bryce Yockey | 180.300 | 23 | 8 |
| Jesse Vilchez | 179.900 | 9 | 6 |
| Ira Friedman | 163.800 | 38 | 8 |
| Tam Nguyen | 154.800 | 40 | 4 |
| Daniel Strelitz | 153.800 | 22 | 7 |
| Gal Yifrach | 148.200 | 25 | 2 |
| Peter Park | 148.200 | 26 | 9 |
| Jeremy Kottler | 144.900 | 37 | 7 |
| Viny Lima | 142.300 | 21 | 6 |
| Robert McVeigh | 141.800 | 6 | 5 |
| Kevin Song | 139.100 | 40 | 1 |
| Joey To | 136.000 | 24 | 8 |
| Jacky Lee | 134.400 | 37 | 5 |
| Spencer Tep | 128.600 | 5 | 6 |
| Ludovic Geilich | 127.900 | 38 | 1 |
| James Calderaro | 124.600 | 6 | 8 |
| Xiao Ruan | 118.800 | 28 | 6 |
| Marius Gierse | 117.000 | 39 | 3 |
| David Miscikowski | 115.500 | 7 | 6 |
| Joel Feldman | 113.000 | 39 | 9 |
| Henry So | 111.100 | 27 | 4 |
| Kenny Nguyen | 109.000 | 23 | 4 |
| Justin Steinbrenner | 108.700 | 29 | 6 |
| Eli Strickland | 108.300 | 8 | 2 |
| Shaun Davis | 107.800 | 8 | 1 |
| Dan Colpoys | 106.100 | 28 | 3 |
| Laszlo Molnar | 102.600 | 38 | 7 |
| M Sabouni | 102.200 | 41 | 2 |
| Alberto Ramirez | 100.900 | 10 | 4 |
| Michael Noori | 100.400 | 37 | 4 |
| Jared Grienier | 100.100 | 7 | 8 |
| Jimmy Pham | 100.000 | 37 | 3 |
| Mehrnoosh Kadkhodaeikhalafi | 99.800 | 5 | 4 |
| Matthew Ara | 97.900 | 40 | 8 |
| Jordan Cristos | 96.900 | 24 | 6 |
| Felipe Davila | 94.000 | 25 | 3 |
| Lior Orel | 93.500 | 24 | 2 |
| Kevin McCormack | 93.300 | 38 | 2 |
| Ray Qartomy | 92.300 | 40 | 9 |
| Ky Nguyen | 89.100 | 7 | 2 |
| Eric Hicks | 89.000 | 10 | 5 |
| Jan Bednar | 88.700 | 24 | 9 |
| Frank Stepuchin | 88.400 | 27 | 5 |
| Aaron Messmer | 87.400 | 28 | 5 |
| Brian Yoon | 84.100 | 7 | 5 |
| Sean Yu | 83.700 | 23 | 9 |
| Aram Zobian | 83.300 | 29 | 5 |
| Ron West | 82.900 | 7 | 4 |
| Thomas Boivin | 82.300 | 41 | 5 |
| Dilip Das | 82.100 | 39 | 6 |
| Joseph Townsend | 82.100 | 40 | 5 |
| Jared Jaffee | 81.300 | 37 | 1 |
| Adam Demersseman | 80.900 | 10 | 1 |
| Paul W. Lee | 79.600 | 26 | 1 |
| Erkut Yilmaz | 79.000 | 27 | 8 |
| Gabriel Lam | 78.800 | 41 | 1 |
| Peiwen Wang | 77.900 | 37 | 2 |
| Paul Seres | 77.800 | 10 | 6 |
| Joao Teixeira De Freitas | 77.700 | 40 | 6 |
| Stephen Johnson | 77.500 | 29 | 3 |
| Isaac Baron | 77.300 | 26 | 6 |
| Shannon Shorr | 77.000 | 5 | 9 |
| Maria Ho | 76.700 | 9 | 5 |
| Michael Itaev | 75.400 | 23 | 7 |
| Vuong Do | 75.000 | 8 | 4 |
| Zu Zhou | 73.900 | 27 | 6 |
| Aaron Massey | 72.900 | 39 | 7 |
| Chris DeMaci | 69.600 | 29 | 4 |
| Vlastmil Pustina | 69.100 | 38 | 3 |
| Paul Chauderson | 69.000 | 28 | 8 |
| Aditya Sushant | 68.400 | 23 | 2 |
| Javier Zarco | 68.300 | 26 | 4 |
| Jordan Fisch | 68.100 | 22 | 2 |
| Paul Evans | 66.800 | 23 | 5 |
| Jason Les | 65.800 | 8 | 3 |
| William Vo | 65.000 | 23 | 1 |
| Igor Zektser | 64.600 | 6 | 7 |
| Vadim Shlez | 63.800 | 22 | 6 |
| Edward Ho | 63.400 | 41 | 4 |
| Timo Kamphues | 62.500 | 5 | 2 |
| Peter Cross | 61.100 | 40 | 7 |
| Camille Brown | 60.800 | 26 | 3 |
| Qing Lu | 60.700 | 41 | 9 |
| Tran Tran | 59.700 | 28 | 2 |
| Thu Nguyen | 59.400 | 38 | 5 |
| Vladimir Vasilyen | 57.500 | 27 | 2 |
| Antonios Roungeris | 55.700 | 27 | 3 |
| Kitty Kuo | 55.300 | 8 | 7 |
| Adam Weinraub | 51.700 | 22 | 3 |
| Ping Liu | 51.600 | 10 | 3 |
| Aaron Mathis | 51.200 | 6 | 2 |
| Christopher Usude | 50.900 | 9 | 4 |
| Jack Salter | 50.100 | 37 | 8 |
| Armen Nazaryan | 49.800 | 9 | 9 |
| Corey Hochman | 48.400 | 8 | 5 |
| Paul Nguyen | 48.000 | 24 | 5 |
| Adam Swan | 48.000 | 28 | 1 |
| Charles Clark | 47.000 | 24 | 1 |
| Hal Strumpf | 47.000 | 24 | 4 |
| Mark Bryan | 45.700 | 9 | 2 |
| Manig Loeser | 44.600 | 9 | 7 |
| John Phan | 44.300 | 28 | 7 |
| Will Givens | 44.000 | 29 | 1 |
| Michael Nia | 43.300 | 7 | 1 |
| Andy Tsai | 42.900 | 27 | 7 |
| Dana Kellstrom | 42.800 | 6 | 3 |
| John Rock | 42.600 | 21 | 1 |
| Stepen Zehngut | 42.400 | 21 | 2 |
| Eric Wong | 42.400 | 39 | 4 |
| Jake Schwartz | 42.300 | 6 | 1 |
| Angel Guillen | 42.000 | 10 | 7 |
| Kevin MacPhee | 41.800 | 28 | 9 |
| Simon Deadman | 40.000 | 5 | 7 |
| John Cynn | 40.000 | 39 | 5 |
| Anuj Agarwal | 37.800 | 9 | 1 |
| Moshin Charania | 37.500 | 25 | 6 |
| Anthony Zinno | 37.400 | 8 | 9 |
| Cody Bell | 36.700 | 9 | 8 |
| Denny Tran | 36.000 | 39 | 1 |
| Daniel Smiljkovic | 35.900 | 24 | 7 |
| Abhinav Iyer | 35.800 | 10 | 2 |
| Ekrem Bozkurt | 35.300 | 6 | 6 |
| Peter Neff | 34.500 | 25 | 9 |
| Henry Lu | 34.000 | 25 | 8 |
| Zhipeng Fang | 33.300 | 27 | 1 |
| Shi Chen | 32.400 | 37 | 6 |
| Timothy Telliard | 31.900 | 5 | 8 |
| Neil Ho | 31.900 | 21 | 5 |
| Allan Macabulos | 31.900 | 29 | 8 |
| Ryan Feldman | 31.500 | 41 | 7 |
| Kevin Kung | 31.200 | 5 | 1 |
| Anatolii Zyrin | 31.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Milos Skrbic | 29.500 | 22 | 1 |
| Lars Kamphues | 29.400 | 22 | 5 |
| Scott Stewart | 29.100 | 23 | 3 |
| Sean Swingruber | 28.800 | 29 | 9 |
| Albert Hanley | 28.600 | 21 | 4 |
| Xinyi Li | 26.000 | 22 | 4 |
| Truyen Nguyen | 25.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Matthew Wantman | 24.600 | 38 | 9 |
| Marc Mcdonnell | 23.000 | 38 | 6 |
| Saya Ono | 22.900 | 7 | 9 |
| Byron Kaverman | 22.700 | 21 | 8 |
| Max Pescatori | 20.500 | 29 | 2 |
| Sean Jazayeri | 20.200 | 25 | 4 |
| Elio Fox | 19.400 | 39 | 8 |
| Aaron Mermelstein | 17.600 | 6 | 4 |
| Michael Steward | 16.700 | 22 | 9 |
| Bobby Oboodi | 11.200 | 41 | 6 |
| Marton Czuczor | 9.300 | 26 | 7 |