Mit 1.035 Entries gibt es einen neuen Teilnehmerrekord beim $10.300 Championship Event der World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamonds World Poker Classic im Bellagio. Zwei Entries sind es mehr geworden als letztes Jahr. 224 Spieler sind übrig und Roland Rokita liegt auf Rang 6.
Die Leveldauer erhöhte sich an Tag 2 auf 90 Minuten, für drei Levels war die Late Reg noch offen. 705 Entries waren es nach dem ersten Tag gewesen und tatsächlich konnte man mit weiteren 430 Entries in den drei Levels den Rekord vom Vorjahr knapp übertreffen. Damit liegen $10.039.500 im Pot und die Top 130 Plätze werden bezahlt.
Für ein 10k Event in Las Vegas gab es viele deutschsprachige Spieler im Feld, nicht alle schafften es dann aber durch Tag 2. Short Stack Rene Knapp sowie Leonard Maue und Lars Kamphues mussten an die Rail. Dafür lief es bei den anderen recht gut. Timo Kamphues (173.500 Chips) konnte sich erneut gut behaupten, auch Manig Loeser (92.000 Chips) und Mario Mosböck (98.000) sind in Tag 3. Einen richtig guten Tag erwischten Giuseppe Pantaleo und Roland Rokita. Giuseppe liegt mit 375.000 Chips auf dem sehr guten 21. Rang, noch besser positionierte sich Roland. Der konnte nämlich gleich 553.500 Chips eintüten und sicherte sich damit Rang 6.
Viele Pros und Big Names mussten sich an Tag 2 schon vom Titeltraum verabschieden, darunter unter anderem Phil Hellmuth, Nick Schulman, Dylan Wilkerson, Mike Matusow, David ODB Baker und David Bakes Baker, Mike Sexton, Ben Lamb und so weiter.
T.K. Miles, der erst vor wenigen Tagen bei den Winter Open in Tampa Rang 3 für mehr als $67k belegte, konnte sich auch im Bellagio gut präsentieren und sicherte sich den Chiplead mit 688.500 Chips.
224 Spieler sind nach Tag 2 übrig und für die geht es bei den Blinds 1500/3000 weiter. Das nächste Ziel sind die 130 Geldränge, die $18.530 an Preisgeld sichern. Auf den Sieger warten am Ende $1.694.995 inklusive $15.000 Tournament of Champions Ticket. Auch der Runner-up geht als Millionär nach Hause.
Die Coverage gibt es unter wpt.com zum Mitlesen.
Seat Draw Tag 3:
| Rang | Name | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
| 1 | T.K. Miles | 688.500 | 36 | 4 |
| 2 | Mike Vanier | 631.000 | 29 | 2 |
| 3 | Alex Papazian | 601.000 | 33 | 6 |
| 4 | Qi Hu | 568.500 | 39 | 4 |
| 5 | Isaac Baron | 557.000 | 22 | 4 |
| 6 | Roland Rokita | 553.500 | 18 | 3 |
| 7 | Jerry Wong | 503.500 | 30 | 7 |
| 8 | Raul Martinez | 489.000 | 39 | 6 |
| 9 | Tony Sinishtaj | 487.500 | 26 | 5 |
| 10 | Matthew Stone | 484.500 | 27 | 7 |
| 11 | Dan Smith | 473.500 | 22 | 9 |
| 12 | Ryan Yu | 472.500 | 28 | 6 |
| 13 | Govert Metaal | 465.500 | 35 | 9 |
| 14 | Jake Schwartz | 446.000 | 9 | 5 |
| 15 | Ivan Galinec | 443.000 | 16 | 9 |
| 16 | Barak Wisbrod | 442.000 | 8 | 7 |
| 17 | Dominique Mosley | 442.000 | 16 | 2 |
| 18 | Allen Pock | 420.000 | 30 | 4 |
| 19 | Daniel Park | 417.500 | 20 | 2 |
| 20 | Michael Wang | 383.500 | 36 | 3 |
| 21 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | 375.000 | 27 | 4 |
| 22 | David Williams | 369.500 | 21 | 8 |
| 23 | Ricky Guan | 369.500 | 31 | 8 |
| 24 | Stephen Chidwick | 361.000 | 32 | 4 |
| 25 | Toby Boas | 353.000 | 39 | 3 |
| 26 | Kevin Macphee | 347.000 | 38 | 6 |
| 27 | Andrey Pateychuk | 343.500 | 8 | 8 |
| 28 | Adam Owen | 342.500 | 38 | 9 |
| 29 | David Jackson | 341.000 | 32 | 7 |
| 30 | Darren Elias | 334.500 | 22 | 5 |
| 31 | Jonathan Jaffe | 334.000 | 32 | 1 |
| 32 | Ryan Remington | 318.000 | 16 | 3 |
| 33 | Scott Seiver | 309.000 | 20 | 3 |
| 34 | Shawn Kjetland | 307.000 | 21 | 3 |
| 35 | Michael Lipman | 295.000 | 17 | 4 |
| 36 | Bob Shao | 279.500 | 28 | 2 |
| 37 | Harry Law | 278.000 | 17 | 1 |
| 38 | Cary Katz | 276.000 | 9 | 3 |
| 39 | Robert Mizrachi | 273.000 | 8 | 6 |
| 40 | Ted Jivkov | 272.000 | 34 | 9 |
| 41 | Daniel Strelitz | 271.500 | 18 | 9 |
| 42 | Jeff Gross | 271.000 | 19 | 7 |
| 43 | Blair Hinkle | 270.000 | 26 | 7 |
| 44 | Erik Gamans | 269.500 | 20 | 1 |
| 45 | Ping Liu | 258.500 | 24 | 8 |
| 46 | Brett Richey | 257.500 | 37 | 2 |
| 47 | Christopher Usude | 255.000 | 19 | 3 |
| 48 | Justin Bonomo | 253.500 | 17 | 7 |
| 49 | Robert Salaburu | 252.500 | 16 | 4 |
| 50 | Scott Vener | 250.000 | 31 | 3 |
| 51 | Bruno Furth | 246.000 | 26 | 6 |
| 52 | Galen Hall | 244.500 | 37 | 7 |
| 53 | Alex Greenblatt | 243.500 | 31 | 2 |
| 54 | Matthew Wantman | 241.500 | 16 | 6 |
| 55 | Keith Lehr | 240.000 | 39 | 7 |
| 56 | Clayton Maguire | 239.500 | 27 | 1 |
| 57 | Gordon Vayo | 237.500 | 31 | 7 |
| 58 | Pat Lyons | 232.000 | 21 | 6 |
| 59 | Sina Mouloud | 231.000 | 31 | 6 |
| 60 | Vlad Mezheritsky | 227.000 | 18 | 4 |
| 61 | Alex Foxen | 227.000 | 33 | 9 |
| 62 | Ross Atkin | 226.000 | 38 | 2 |
| 63 | Pavlo Veksler | 222.000 | 19 | 2 |
| 64 | Ali Imsirovic | 220.500 | 17 | 3 |
| 65 | Paul Balzano | 216.000 | 26 | 9 |
| 66 | Eric Afriat | 211.000 | 34 | 1 |
| 67 | Markus Gonsalves | 210.000 | 22 | 1 |
| 68 | Vijaya Madala | 210.000 | 34 | 2 |
| 69 | Chino Rheem | 208.500 | 31 | 4 |
| 70 | Calvin Anderson | 203.500 | 19 | 5 |
| 71 | Timothy Cramer | 202.000 | 39 | 1 |
| 72 | Krzysztof Stybaniewicz | 201.000 | 9 | 1 |
| 73 | Kevin Albers | 200.500 | 24 | 3 |
| 74 | Sebastien Grax | 200.000 | 39 | 2 |
| 75 | Peter Neff | 199.500 | 8 | 4 |
| 76 | Asher Conniff | 198.500 | 36 | 8 |
| 77 | Phong Turbo Nguyen | 198.000 | 20 | 9 |
| 78 | Cheang Yoo | 196.500 | 18 | 2 |
| 79 | Noah Schwartz | 195.500 | 30 | 3 |
| 80 | Frank Stepuchin | 194.500 | 37 | 8 |
| 81 | Toby Joyce | 194.000 | 30 | 5 |
| 82 | Kelly Becker | 192.000 | 9 | 7 |
| 83 | David Mcgowan | 192.000 | 34 | 4 |
| 84 | Michael Marder | 191.000 | 32 | 8 |
| 85 | Steve Sung | 190.500 | 21 | 7 |
| 86 | Louis Salter | 190.000 | 9 | 9 |
| 87 | Joe Serock | 189.000 | 30 | 6 |
| 88 | Robert Zeidman | 188.500 | 33 | 1 |
| 89 | Seth Davies | 185.500 | 37 | 4 |
| 90 | Blake Bohn | 181.500 | 28 | 5 |
| 91 | Mike Leah | 181.500 | 31 | 5 |
| 92 | Scott Stewart | 180.500 | 33 | 5 |
| 93 | John Krpan | 180.000 | 30 | 1 |
| 94 | Chris Moorman | 176.500 | 28 | 7 |
| 95 | Kyle Welsh | 174.500 | 20 | 6 |
| 96 | Timo Kamphues | 173.500 | 20 | 5 |
| 97 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | 170.000 | 26 | 1 |
| 98 | Brandon Steven | 168.500 | 36 | 6 |
| 99 | John Gorsuch | 165.500 | 37 | 3 |
| 100 | Eric Wasserson | 165.000 | 30 | 8 |
| 101 | Carlos Rodriguez | 161.000 | 22 | 6 |
| 102 | Freddy Deeb | 160.500 | 24 | 5 |
| 103 | Michael Rocco | 157.000 | 19 | 1 |
| 104 | Taylor Black | 156.500 | 26 | 8 |
| 105 | Mark Mache | 156.000 | 18 | 7 |
| 106 | Ami Alibay | 155.000 | 31 | 9 |
| 107 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | 155.000 | 37 | 6 |
| 108 | Jack Salter | 154.500 | 39 | 5 |
| 109 | Jeremy Ausmus | 151.000 | 19 | 6 |
| 110 | Hiroaki Harada | 151.000 | 28 | 9 |
| 111 | Matas Cimbolas | 151.000 | 40 | 4 |
| 112 | Paul Volpe | 150.000 | 28 | 1 |
| 113 | Joe Hachem | 150.000 | 40 | 6 |
| 114 | Clint Tolbert | 149.500 | 31 | 1 |
| 115 | Lisa Hamilton | 149.500 | 36 | 9 |
| 116 | Byron Kaverman | 142.500 | 18 | 5 |
| 117 | Bryce Yockey | 142.500 | 34 | 5 |
| 118 | Matthew Leecy | 141.500 | 21 | 1 |
| 119 | Omar Saeed | 141.500 | 29 | 3 |
| 120 | Brian Altman | 140.500 | 40 | 2 |
| 121 | John Riordan | 140.000 | 26 | 3 |
| 122 | Maria Ho | 138.500 | 32 | 3 |
| 123 | Daniel Wojcik | 138.000 | 24 | 9 |
| 124 | Stephen Song | 136.000 | 16 | 1 |
| 125 | Nick Pupillo | 135.000 | 28 | 3 |
| 126 | Jonathan Depa | 134.500 | 40 | 7 |
| 127 | Simon Deadman | 134.000 | 19 | 4 |
| 128 | Mukul Pahuja | 133.000 | 33 | 7 |
| 129 | Vincent Moscati | 130.000 | 37 | 5 |
| 130 | Ahmad Popal | 128.500 | 33 | 3 |
| 131 | Jesse Sylvia | 128.500 | 39 | 9 |
| 132 | Paul Dhaliwal | 128.000 | 38 | 1 |
| 133 | Mike Gorodinsky | 127.000 | 8 | 2 |
| 134 | Scott Matte | 125.000 | 34 | 8 |
| 135 | Amit Makhija | 124.500 | 35 | 1 |
| 136 | Kitty Kuo | 124.000 | 22 | 3 |
| 137 | Tyler Patterson | 120.500 | 17 | 6 |
| 138 | Roger Teska | 120.500 | 34 | 7 |
| 139 | Carlos Chang | 120.000 | 34 | 3 |
| 140 | Dylan Linde | 116.000 | 29 | 7 |
| 141 | Ray Qartomy | 115.000 | 33 | 8 |
| 142 | Farid Jattin | 114.500 | 24 | 4 |
| 143 | Cliff Josephy | 114.500 | 37 | 9 |
| 144 | Ronit Chamani | 114.000 | 9 | 4 |
| 145 | Ofer Miara | 113.500 | 38 | 4 |
| 146 | Richard Rogers | 113.000 | 35 | 6 |
| 147 | Anthony Spinella | 111.500 | 21 | 4 |
| 148 | Shawn Daniels | 110.500 | 21 | 5 |
| 149 | Danny Hannawa | 110.500 | 35 | 3 |
| 150 | Michael Trivett | 110.500 | 35 | 4 |
| 151 | Stoyan Obreshkov | 110.000 | 27 | 3 |
| 152 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | 107.500 | 33 | 2 |
| 153 | Taylor Paur | 105.000 | 8 | 3 |
| 154 | Straton Wilhelm | 105.000 | 27 | 6 |
| 155 | Tom Wheaton | 104.000 | 27 | 9 |
| 156 | Gal Yifrach | 104.000 | 32 | 6 |
| 157 | Jason Sagle | 103.500 | 29 | 9 |
| 158 | Harrison Gimbel | 103.000 | 35 | 5 |
| 159 | Kenn Pluard | 102.500 | 40 | 9 |
| 160 | Brian Yoon | 99.500 | 16 | 5 |
| 161 | Ryan Lenaghan | 99.000 | 20 | 7 |
| 162 | Aaron Massey | 99.000 | 29 | 4 |
| 163 | Barry Hutter | 98.500 | 36 | 7 |
| 164 | Mario Mosbock | 98.000 | 38 | 8 |
| 165 | Sandeep Pulusani | 97.000 | 29 | 8 |
| 166 | Benjamin Diebold | 96.500 | 21 | 2 |
| 167 | Vladimir Vasilyev | 95.000 | 8 | 1 |
| 168 | Igor Gonta | 94.000 | 37 | 1 |
| 169 | Brent Roberts | 93.500 | 29 | 6 |
| 170 | Manig Loeser | 92.000 | 35 | 2 |
| 171 | Greg Jennings | 91.500 | 27 | 2 |
| 172 | Scott Baumstein | 90.500 | 18 | 1 |
| 173 | Matt Glantz | 90.000 | 20 | 4 |
| 174 | Will Failla | 90.000 | 22 | 2 |
| 175 | Adam Demersseman | 89.500 | 29 | 5 |
| 176 | Paul Berger | 88.500 | 18 | 8 |
| 177 | Donald Maloney | 88.000 | 32 | 9 |
| 178 | Michael Turri | 87.500 | 8 | 5 |
| 179 | Taylor Mcfarland | 87.000 | 27 | 8 |
| 180 | Will Berry | 87.000 | 34 | 6 |
| 181 | Aram Zobian | 86.500 | 24 | 2 |
| 182 | Brock Wilson | 84.500 | 35 | 8 |
| 183 | Mohsin Charania | 82.000 | 17 | 5 |
| 184 | James Cavanaugh | 80.500 | 9 | 8 |
| 185 | Brian Okin | 80.500 | 26 | 4 |
| 186 | Preston Lee | 80.000 | 8 | 9 |
| 187 | Shannon Shorr | 78.500 | 29 | 1 |
| 188 | Daniel Negreanu | 78.000 | 22 | 8 |
| 189 | Nikolai Sears | 77.500 | 19 | 9 |
| 190 | Patrick Eskandar | 77.000 | 36 | 2 |
| 191 | Florian Duta | 76.000 | 16 | 8 |
| 192 | Brad Albrinck | 75.500 | 17 | 8 |
| 193 | Tony Dunst | 74.500 | 30 | 2 |
| 194 | Ryan Riess | 72.500 | 33 | 4 |
| 195 | Taylor Von Kriegenbergh | 71.500 | 20 | 8 |
| 196 | Alex Rocha | 71.500 | 38 | 7 |
| 197 | Joseph Cheong | 70.500 | 18 | 6 |
| 198 | Uke Dauti | 66.500 | 17 | 2 |
| 199 | Ajay Chabra | 66.000 | 28 | 4 |
| 200 | Evgenii Fidchuk | 66.000 | 40 | 5 |
| 201 | Richard Rice | 64.500 | 36 | 1 |
| 202 | Anthony Zinno | 63.000 | 24 | 1 |
| 203 | Justin Young | 62.500 | 9 | 2 |
| 204 | Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | 62.500 | 28 | 8 |
| 205 | Arthur Conan | 62.000 | 38 | 3 |
| 206 | Jonathan Lawson | 61.000 | 24 | 7 |
| 207 | Steven Sarmiento | 59.500 | 40 | 3 |
| 208 | Keven Stammen | 57.500 | 32 | 2 |
| 209 | Ankush Mandavia | 55.500 | 9 | 6 |
| 210 | Martin Kozlov | 55.500 | 40 | 8 |
| 211 | Richard Alsup | 50.500 | 35 | 7 |
| 212 | Elijah Berg | 48.000 | 40 | 1 |
| 213 | Steve Zolotow | 44.500 | 39 | 8 |
| 214 | Mike Cordell | 44.000 | 38 | 5 |
| 215 | Beka Iordanishvili | 43.000 | 19 | 8 |
| 216 | Austin Lewis | 42.000 | 16 | 7 |
| 217 | Bill Klein | 42.000 | 21 | 9 |
| 218 | Chris Moore | 41.500 | 17 | 9 |
| 219 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 41.500 | 30 | 9 |
| 220 | Michael Tureniec | 39.000 | 27 | 5 |
| 221 | Carlos Chadha | 37.500 | 24 | 6 |
| 222 | Vuong Do | 35.500 | 22 | 7 |
| 223 | David Fuss | 27.000 | 36 | 5 |
| 224 | Antoine Saout | 26.500 | 26 | 2 |
Payouts:
| Rang | Preisgeld |
| 1 | $1.694.995 |
| 2 | $1.120.040 |
| 3 | $827.285 |
| 4 | $617.480 |
| 5 | $465.780 |
| 6 | $355.125 |
| 7 | $273.695 |
| 8 | $213.225 |
| 9 | $168.005 |
| 10 | $168.005 |
| 11 | $133.845 |
| 12 | $133.845 |
| 13 | $107.840 |
| 14 | $107.840 |
| 15 | $87.885 |
| 16 | $87.885 |
| 17 | $72.450 |
| 18 | $72.450 |
| 19 | $72.450 |
| 20 | $72.450 |
| 21 | $60.435 |
| 22 | $60.435 |
| 23 | $60.435 |
| 24 | $60.435 |
| 25 | $51.005 |
| 26 | $51.005 |
| 27 | $51.005 |
| 28 | $51.005 |
| 29 | $51.005 |
| 30 | $51.005 |
| 31 | $51.005 |
| 32 | $51.005 |
| 33 | $43.570 |
| 34 | $43.570 |
| 35 | $43.570 |
| 36 | $43.570 |
| 37 | $43.570 |
| 38 | $43.570 |
| 39 | $43.570 |
| 40 | $43.570 |
| 41 | $37.670 |
| 42 | $37.670 |
| 43 | $37.670 |
| 44 | $37.670 |
| 45 | $37.670 |
| 46 | $37.670 |
| 47 | $37.670 |
| 48 | $37.670 |
| 49 | $32.970 |
| 50 | $32.970 |
| 51 | $32.970 |
| 52 | $32.970 |
| 53 | $32.970 |
| 54 | $32.970 |
| 55 | $32.970 |
| 56 | $32.970 |
| 57 | $29.220 |
| 58 | $29.220 |
| 59 | $29.220 |
| 60 | $29.220 |
| 61 | $29.220 |
| 62 | $29.220 |
| 63 | $29.220 |
| 64 | $29.220 |
| 65 | $26.220 |
| 66 | $26.220 |
| 67 | $26.220 |
| 68 | $26.220 |
| 69 | $26.220 |
| 70 | $26.220 |
| 71 | $26.220 |
| 72 | $26.220 |
| 73 | $23.830 |
| 74 | $23.830 |
| 75 | $23.830 |
| 76 | $23.830 |
| 77 | $23.830 |
| 78 | $23.830 |
| 79 | $23.830 |
| 80 | $23.830 |
| 81 | $21.940 |
| 82 | $21.940 |
| 83 | $21.940 |
| 84 | $21.940 |
| 85 | $21.940 |
| 86 | $21.940 |
| 87 | $21.940 |
| 88 | $21.940 |
| 89 | $21.940 |
| 90 | $20.465 |
| 91 | $20.465 |
| 92 | $20.465 |
| 93 | $20.465 |
| 94 | $20.465 |
| 95 | $20.465 |
| 96 | $20.465 |
| 97 | $20.465 |
| 98 | $20.465 |
| 99 | $19.345 |
| 100 | $19.345 |
| 101 | $19.345 |
| 102 | $19.345 |
| 103 | $19.345 |
| 104 | $19.345 |
| 105 | $19.345 |
| 106 | $19.345 |
| 107 | $19.345 |
| 108 | $19.345 |
| 109 | $19.345 |
| 110 | $19.345 |
| 111 | $19.345 |
| 112 | $19.345 |
| 113 | $19.345 |
| 114 | $19.345 |
| 115 | $19.345 |
| 116 | $19.345 |
| 117 | $18.530 |
| 118 | $18.530 |
| 119 | $18.530 |
| 120 | $18.530 |
| 121 | $18.530 |
| 122 | $18.530 |
| 123 | $18.530 |
| 124 | $18.530 |
| 125 | $18.530 |
| 126 | $18.530 |
| 127 | $18.530 |
| 128 | $18.530 |
| 129 | $18.530 |
| 130 | $18.530 |