Seit Jahren schon heißt es im Bellagio „Coming home for Christmas“, wenn die Pokercommunity sich zum $10.400 Championship Event der World Poker Tour (WPT) trifft. Auch dieses Jahr gab es wieder ein prominentes Schaulaufen.
Gespielt wird das letzte Event von Season XIX der WPT mit 40.000 Chips, an Tag 1 betrug die Leveldauer 60 Minuten, ab Tag 2 geht es mit 90 Minuten Levels weiter. Acht Levels galt es an Tag 1 zu absolvieren, die Late Reg ist bis Ende Level 10 an Tag 2 offen. Schon jetzt steht fest, dass das Event zwar gut besucht ist, aber die Rekordzahl von 1.035 Entries von 2019 nicht erreicht werden kann.
In den acht Levels wurden 561 Entries verzeichnet, rund 300 Spieler kamen durch den Tag. An Big Names mangelte es nicht – Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Justin Bonomo, Darren Elias, Faraz Jaka, Erik Seidel, Dylan Linde, Ema Zajmovic, Chris Moorman, Shannon Shorr, Moshin Charania, Ryan Riess, Mike Matusow und viele, viele mehr waren mit von der Partie. Aber auch Dominik Nitsche, Daniel Rezaei, Martin Finger und Koray Aldemir waren unter den Startern.
Bereits ausgeschieden an Tag 1 ist Titelverteidiger Alex Foxen, auch Dan Smith, Andrew Lichtenberger und Brian Altman mussten an die Rail. Die Chipcounts gibt es erst zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt, rund 300 Spieler konnten Tag 1 erfolgreich überstehen. John Flynt führt mit 324.500 Chips vor Johan Schumacher (310.000) und Landon Tice (296.500 sowie Justin Bonomo (265.500). Die vollständigen Counts bzw. den Seat Draw für Tag 2 reichen wir asap nach.
Die Coverage zum Event und alle Details findet Ihr unter wpt.com.
Update 12:15 Uhr:
Die deutschsprachigen Spieler sind teils sehr gut durch den Tag gekommen, 280 Spieler sind insgesamt weiter. Niko Koop schaffte den Sprung in die Top 10, Robin Hegele verpasste sie nur knapp:
| Rang | Name | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
| 6 | Niko Koop | 238.000 | 33 | 8 |
| 14 | Robin Hegele | 169.500 | 36 | 6 |
| 29 | Christopher Frank | 150.000 | 12 | 8 |
| 56 | Tobias Schwecht | 117.000 | 15 | 2 |
| 70 | Leonard Maue | 105.500 | 3 | 8 |
| 82 | Daniel Rezaei | 100.000 | 24 | 9 |
| 86 | Fabian Gumz | 95.500 | 30 | 4 |
| 140 | Daniel Smiljkovic | 72.000 | 10 | 2 |
| 169 | Koray Aldemir | 56.000 | 30 | 2 |
| 268 | Dominik Nitsche | 20.000 | 6 | 4 |
Der komplette Redraw zu Tag 2:
| Rang | Name | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
| 1 | John Flynt | 324.500 | 31 | 1 |
| 2 | Johan Schumacher | 310.000 | 31 | 4 |
| 3 | Landon Avery | 296.500 | 36 | 7 |
| 4 | Justin Bonomo | 266.500 | 33 | 4 |
| 5 | Taylor Black | 238.000 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Niko Koop | 238.000 | 33 | 8 |
| 7 | Joseph Cheong | 208.000 | 24 | 3 |
| 8 | Darren Elias | 193.500 | 30 | 1 |
| 9 | Ed Sebesta | 183.000 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | Dan Colpoys | 177.500 | 11 | 5 |
| 11 | David Marshall | 177.500 | 33 | 1 |
| 12 | Robert Park | 172.500 | 4 | 9 |
| 13 | Christopher Brewer | 172.000 | 36 | 4 |
| 14 | Robin Hegele | 169.500 | 36 | 6 |
| 15 | Michael Vanier | 164.000 | 38 | 3 |
| 16 | Andrew Wilson | 163.500 | 17 | 7 |
| 17 | Matthew Berkey | 163.500 | 38 | 2 |
| 18 | Glenn Thompson | 162.500 | 27 | 7 |
| 19 | Arkadi Onikoul | 160.000 | 28 | 3 |
| 20 | Matt Stout | 159.500 | 5 | 1 |
| 21 | A Okin | 158.500 | 20 | 3 |
| 22 | Ivan Zufic | 158.000 | 37 | 7 |
| 23 | Jacob Ferro | 154.500 | 11 | 9 |
| 24 | Ariel Mantel | 153.500 | 31 | 3 |
| 25 | Damjan Radanov | 151.500 | 2 | 7 |
| 26 | Brek Schutten | 151.500 | 24 | 1 |
| 27 | Dylan Wilkerson | 151.000 | 10 | 3 |
| 28 | Clayton Maguire | 151.000 | 20 | 6 |
| 29 | Christopher Frank | 150.000 | 12 | 8 |
| 30 | Chun Li | 146.500 | 11 | 6 |
| 31 | Sergio Fernandez | 144.500 | 3 | 7 |
| 32 | Scott Hall | 144.000 | 35 | 1 |
| 33 | Andrew Lichtenberger | 143.500 | 34 | 3 |
| 34 | Bryden Baxter | 142.500 | 33 | 7 |
| 35 | Karim Rebei | 138.500 | 3 | 6 |
| 36 | Alexander Gruenig | 138.500 | 6 | 7 |
| 37 | Joey Weissman | 136.000 | 2 | 3 |
| 38 | Tony Dunst | 134.000 | 17 | 1 |
| 39 | Michael Gathy | 134.000 | 26 | 4 |
| 40 | Kyle Arora | 134.000 | 38 | 1 |
| 41 | Gediminas Uselis | 132.500 | 5 | 7 |
| 42 | Viet Vo | 132.500 | 13 | 6 |
| 43 | Jacob Daniels | 127.500 | 35 | 3 |
| 44 | Michael Shanahan | 127.000 | 7 | 5 |
| 45 | Dylan Linde | 126.000 | 16 | 9 |
| 46 | Michael Kinney | 126.000 | 38 | 7 |
| 47 | Arnaud Enselme | 125.000 | 18 | 7 |
| 48 | Mitchell Halverson | 124.500 | 19 | 8 |
| 49 | David Mock | 123.000 | 26 | 1 |
| 50 | Yuri Ishida | 123.000 | 34 | 9 |
| 51 | Michael Liang | 122.000 | 31 | 6 |
| 52 | Daniel Maor | 122.000 | 40 | 3 |
| 53 | Seth Davies | 120.000 | 27 | 4 |
| 54 | Peiwen Wang | 119.500 | 2 | 9 |
| 55 | Dylan Destefano | 119.000 | 5 | 6 |
| 56 | Tobias Schwecht | 117.000 | 15 | 2 |
| 57 | Michael Sortino | 116.500 | 28 | 6 |
| 58 | Brandon Wilson | 116.000 | 38 | 9 |
| 59 | Joao Simao | 115.500 | 9 | 9 |
| 60 | Sung Hyun | 115.500 | 13 | 8 |
| 61 | David Mcgowan | 115.000 | 13 | 2 |
| 62 | Mel Wiener | 115.000 | 18 | 3 |
| 63 | Morgan Machina | 115.000 | 39 | 8 |
| 64 | Anthony Marquez | 114.000 | 36 | 9 |
| 65 | Pavlo Veksler | 113.000 | 3 | 9 |
| 66 | Kevin Calenzo | 112.500 | 17 | 4 |
| 67 | Richard Alsup | 112.500 | 18 | 6 |
| 68 | Duff Charette | 111.000 | 12 | 6 |
| 69 | Kainalu Mccue Unciano | 109.500 | 40 | 4 |
| 70 | Leonard Maue | 105.500 | 3 | 8 |
| 71 | Martins Adeniya | 105.500 | 10 | 9 |
| 72 | Vincent Longtin | 105.500 | 20 | 9 |
| 73 | Cole Ferraro | 105.000 | 37 | 8 |
| 74 | Justin Saliba | 104.000 | 15 | 6 |
| 75 | Faraz Jaka | 103.000 | 6 | 9 |
| 76 | Cary Katz | 103.000 | 11 | 2 |
| 77 | Anuj Agarwal | 103.000 | 15 | 8 |
| 78 | Eli Berg | 102.500 | 10 | 6 |
| 79 | Jacob Powers | 101.500 | 18 | 2 |
| 80 | Jr Foutty | 101.000 | 11 | 7 |
| 81 | Samuel Panzica | 100.500 | 35 | 2 |
| 82 | Daniel Rezaei | 100.000 | 24 | 9 |
| 83 | Punnat Punsri | 99.000 | 40 | 9 |
| 84 | Michael Wang | 98.000 | 35 | 6 |
| 85 | Brian Green | 97.500 | 16 | 3 |
| 86 | Fabian Gumz | 95.500 | 30 | 4 |
| 87 | Paul Dewald | 94.500 | 14 | 6 |
| 88 | Chino Rheem | 93.000 | 5 | 8 |
| 89 | Justin Zaki | 93.000 | 28 | 9 |
| 90 | Gallego Martinez | 93.000 | 34 | 2 |
| 91 | James Romero | 92.000 | 27 | 9 |
| 92 | Kevin Eyster | 91.000 | 11 | 1 |
| 93 | Shawn Daniels | 91.000 | 27 | 6 |
| 94 | Ronald Paolucci | 90.500 | 3 | 4 |
| 95 | Brian Batt | 90.500 | 5 | 2 |
| 96 | George Rakitzis | 90.500 | 14 | 5 |
| 97 | Elio Fox | 89.500 | 26 | 3 |
| 98 | James Hundt | 89.500 | 27 | 1 |
| 99 | Craig Mason | 89.500 | 40 | 2 |
| 100 | Arash Ghaneian | 89.000 | 7 | 7 |
| 101 | Ken Einiger | 89.000 | 35 | 8 |
| 102 | Patrick Eskandar | 89.000 | 37 | 9 |
| 103 | Ryan Franklin | 88.000 | 6 | 1 |
| 104 | Gianluca Speranza | 88.000 | 27 | 2 |
| 105 | Aaron Massey | 88.000 | 40 | 6 |
| 106 | Daniel Negreanu | 86.500 | 15 | 4 |
| 107 | Andrew Jeong | 86.500 | 29 | 3 |
| 108 | Martin Mathis | 86.000 | 19 | 1 |
| 109 | Amnon Filippi | 86.000 | 36 | 1 |
| 110 | Mazen Abdallah | 85.000 | 9 | 7 |
| 111 | Z Stein | 84.500 | 31 | 2 |
| 112 | Markus Gonsalves | 84.000 | 6 | 3 |
| 113 | George Wolff | 84.000 | 17 | 3 |
| 114 | Alexander Condon | 83.500 | 29 | 1 |
| 115 | Peter Lockwood | 82.500 | 5 | 9 |
| 116 | Patrick Lyons | 82.000 | 24 | 8 |
| 117 | Mike Eskandari | 81.500 | 35 | 9 |
| 118 | Jeremy Kottler | 81.000 | 18 | 9 |
| 119 | Reuben Hoang | 80.500 | 14 | 8 |
| 120 | Corey Lieblein | 80.000 | 39 | 2 |
| 121 | Bin Weng | 79.500 | 3 | 3 |
| 122 | John Andress | 79.500 | 7 | 6 |
| 123 | Benjamin Hamnett | 79.500 | 39 | 5 |
| 124 | Jeremiah Williams | 79.000 | 13 | 3 |
| 125 | Hieu Tran | 79.000 | 30 | 6 |
| 126 | Matthew Su | 79.000 | 33 | 6 |
| 127 | Joseph Sabe | 77.000 | 22 | 3 |
| 128 | Amir Mirrasouli | 77.000 | 30 | 3 |
| 129 | Brian Yoon | 77.000 | 33 | 3 |
| 130 | Curt Kohlberg | 76.500 | 12 | 4 |
| 131 | Paul Fisher | 76.500 | 26 | 9 |
| 132 | Dan Matsuzuki | 76.500 | 37 | 6 |
| 133 | Phil Hellmuth | 76.000 | 9 | 2 |
| 134 | Noah Novick | 75.000 | 7 | 8 |
| 135 | Thomas Winters | 74.500 | 14 | 4 |
| 136 | Hui Kuo | 74.000 | 31 | 8 |
| 137 | Philip Shing | 73.000 | 4 | 2 |
| 138 | Cheang Yoo | 73.000 | 40 | 7 |
| 139 | James Calderaro | 72.500 | 2 | 8 |
| 140 | Daniel Smiljkovic | 72.000 | 10 | 2 |
| 141 | Jordan Cristos | 72.000 | 37 | 1 |
| 142 | Samuel Bekerian | 71.500 | 13 | 4 |
| 143 | Sam Soverel | 71.500 | 14 | 2 |
| 144 | Steven Sarmiento | 71.500 | 16 | 6 |
| 145 | Steve Karp | 70.500 | 16 | 8 |
| 146 | Farid Jattin | 70.000 | 11 | 8 |
| 147 | Corey Hochman | 70.000 | 39 | 3 |
| 148 | Wayne Harmon | 69.500 | 4 | 8 |
| 149 | Zachary Donovan | 68.500 | 35 | 7 |
| 150 | James Mordue | 68.000 | 36 | 2 |
| 151 | Vanessa Kade | 68.000 | 37 | 4 |
| 152 | Matthew Wantman | 67.000 | 24 | 6 |
| 153 | Jimmy Pham | 66.500 | 39 | 4 |
| 154 | Alex Foxen | 65.500 | 17 | 8 |
| 155 | Ryan Laplante | 65.000 | 34 | 4 |
| 156 | Ben Palmer | 64.000 | 22 | 9 |
| 157 | Jeffrey Tanouye | 64.000 | 29 | 2 |
| 158 | Karle Wilson | 63.000 | 34 | 8 |
| 159 | Ryan Remington | 62.000 | 15 | 9 |
| 160 | Gal Yifrach | 62.000 | 33 | 2 |
| 161 | Bill Klein | 60.500 | 3 | 1 |
| 162 | Matthew Affleck | 60.000 | 34 | 7 |
| 163 | Pavel Plesuv | 59.500 | 13 | 7 |
| 164 | Timothy Reilly | 58.000 | 19 | 2 |
| 165 | David Baker | 57.000 | 40 | 8 |
| 166 | Edward Grinko | 56.500 | 11 | 4 |
| 167 | David Fuss | 56.500 | 37 | 2 |
| 168 | Omar Zazay | 56.000 | 20 | 7 |
| 169 | Koray Aldemir | 56.000 | 30 | 2 |
| 170 | Michael Stembera | 55.500 | 4 | 1 |
| 171 | Jared Hemingway | 55.500 | 10 | 5 |
| 172 | Arthur Conan | 55.000 | 15 | 3 |
| 173 | Ankush Mandavia | 55.000 | 20 | 1 |
| 174 | Aneris Adomkevicius | 55.000 | 29 | 4 |
| 175 | Balakrishna Patur | 55.000 | 29 | 7 |
| 176 | Jesse Lonis | 54.500 | 38 | 6 |
| 177 | Benjamin Diebold | 54.500 | 39 | 6 |
| 178 | Blair Hinkle | 54.000 | 27 | 5 |
| 179 | Ayman Qutami | 54.000 | 35 | 4 |
| 180 | Bob Buckenmayer | 53.000 | 36 | 3 |
| 181 | Selahaddin Bedir | 52.500 | 4 | 6 |
| 182 | Gansukh Sandagsuren | 52.500 | 22 | 6 |
| 183 | Dapo Ajayi | 52.000 | 22 | 8 |
| 184 | Lee Markholt | 51.500 | 4 | 7 |
| 185 | Alain Bauer | 51.500 | 16 | 1 |
| 186 | Dominique Mosley | 51.500 | 17 | 9 |
| 187 | Nick Schulman | 51.500 | 30 | 9 |
| 188 | Michael Morgan | 50.500 | 17 | 2 |
| 189 | Badr Imejjane | 50.000 | 9 | 8 |
| 190 | Erik Seidel | 50.000 | 13 | 9 |
| 191 | Glenn Lafaye | 48.500 | 5 | 3 |
| 192 | Jeremy Ausmus | 48.500 | 12 | 1 |
| 193 | Vladas Tamasauskas | 48.500 | 34 | 6 |
| 194 | Erik Wigg | 48.000 | 16 | 4 |
| 195 | Ryan Riess | 47.500 | 39 | 9 |
| 196 | Amarender Puri | 46.500 | 29 | 6 |
| 197 | Vikenty Shegal | 46.000 | 40 | 5 |
| 198 | Nate Silver | 44.500 | 9 | 3 |
| 199 | Andy Philachack | 44.500 | 14 | 9 |
| 200 | Allen Pock | 43.000 | 9 | 4 |
| 201 | Qing Liu | 43.000 | 19 | 3 |
| 202 | Paul Corlett | 43.000 | 28 | 2 |
| 203 | Brian Rast | 42.500 | 2 | 6 |
| 204 | William Givens | 42.500 | 20 | 2 |
| 205 | Robert Lofaso | 42.500 | 27 | 3 |
| 206 | Ralph Wong | 41.500 | 5 | 4 |
| 207 | Cody Wiegmann | 41.500 | 18 | 4 |
| 208 | Muhammad Abdel Rahim | 41.000 | 33 | 9 |
| 209 | Ramos Tavares | 41.000 | 36 | 8 |
| 210 | Michael Walsh | 40.500 | 19 | 6 |
| 211 | Mohsin Charania | 40.500 | 22 | 2 |
| 212 | Stanley Lee | 40.000 | 14 | 3 |
| 213 | Fikret Kovac | 40.000 | 20 | 8 |
| 214 | Jason Koon | 40.000 | 29 | 9 |
| 215 | David Coleman | 40.000 | 30 | 8 |
| 216 | Shannon Shorr | 38.500 | 22 | 4 |
| 217 | Jesse Sylvia | 38.500 | 26 | 8 |
| 218 | Isaac Baron | 38.000 | 11 | 3 |
| 219 | Paul Jager | 38.000 | 19 | 7 |
| 220 | Francis Anderson | 37.500 | 9 | 1 |
| 221 | Zachary Mcdiarmid | 37.500 | 12 | 7 |
| 222 | Kristen Bicknell | 37.500 | 33 | 5 |
| 223 | Rajai Wazwaz | 37.000 | 38 | 4 |
| 224 | Stephen Song | 36.500 | 6 | 6 |
| 225 | Jung Woo | 36.500 | 39 | 7 |
| 226 | Ping Liu | 36.000 | 7 | 4 |
| 227 | Lorenzo Lavis | 36.000 | 14 | 7 |
| 228 | Nicolas Yunis | 36.000 | 26 | 7 |
| 229 | Jared Jaffee | 35.500 | 26 | 6 |
| 230 | Jeremy Becker | 35.500 | 39 | 1 |
| 231 | Gabriel Andrade | 34.500 | 2 | 1 |
| 232 | Jose Barbero | 34.500 | 27 | 8 |
| 233 | Mike Meskin | 34.500 | 34 | 1 |
| 234 | Chris Moorman | 34.000 | 7 | 1 |
| 235 | Henry Lu | 34.000 | 7 | 2 |
| 236 | Daniel Wellborn | 33.500 | 12 | 2 |
| 237 | Ardit Kurshumi | 33.500 | 17 | 6 |
| 238 | James Collopy | 33.500 | 28 | 4 |
| 239 | Ezequiel Waigel | 33.000 | 16 | 2 |
| 240 | Nathan Zimnik | 32.500 | 10 | 7 |
| 241 | Peter Mugar | 32.000 | 15 | 1 |
| 242 | Tai Cao | 32.000 | 19 | 4 |
| 243 | Michael Youngman | 31.500 | 10 | 8 |
| 244 | Larry Greenberg | 29.500 | 12 | 9 |
| 245 | Garrett Greer | 29.500 | 18 | 8 |
| 246 | Andre Butler | 28.500 | 2 | 2 |
| 247 | Greg Mueller | 28.500 | 15 | 7 |
| 248 | Vlastimil Pustina | 28.500 | 16 | 7 |
| 249 | Uri Reichenstein | 28.500 | 19 | 9 |
| 250 | Eric Baldwin | 28.000 | 12 | 3 |
| 251 | Cannizzaro Capriles | 27.500 | 31 | 9 |
| 252 | Thomas Reynolds | 27.500 | 38 | 8 |
| 253 | Todd Ivens | 27.000 | 13 | 1 |
| 254 | Tomas Soderstrom | 26.500 | 10 | 4 |
| 255 | Thong Tran | 25.000 | 6 | 2 |
| 256 | Xuan Liu | 25.000 | 10 | 1 |
| 257 | Sergi Reixach | 24.500 | 7 | 9 |
| 258 | Quang Vu | 24.500 | 31 | 7 |
| 259 | Steve Enriquez | 23.500 | 40 | 1 |
| 260 | Joseph Beasy | 23.000 | 29 | 8 |
| 261 | Stan Jablonski | 22.500 | 7 | 3 |
| 262 | Ranla Nasreddine | 22.000 | 14 | 1 |
| 263 | David Gonzalez | 21.000 | 3 | 2 |
| 264 | Barry Hutter | 21.000 | 24 | 2 |
| 265 | Boris Kolev | 20.500 | 24 | 4 |
| 266 | Byron Kaverman | 20.500 | 28 | 1 |
| 267 | Seyed Safari | 20.500 | 28 | 8 |
| 268 | Dominik Nitsche | 20.000 | 6 | 4 |
| 269 | Duy Duong | 19.500 | 4 | 3 |
| 270 | George Won | 18.000 | 9 | 6 |
| 271 | Ronnie Abro | 17.500 | 22 | 7 |
| 272 | Richard Bai | 17.000 | 18 | 1 |
| 273 | Arianna Son | 16.500 | 37 | 3 |
| 274 | Amitabh Mehra | 16.000 | 24 | 7 |
| 275 | Benjamin Souriau | 15.500 | 30 | 7 |
| 276 | John Corsi | 15.000 | 6 | 8 |
| 277 | Alan Engel | 12.000 | 20 | 4 |
| 278 | Jeffrey Platt | 12.000 | 22 | 1 |
| 279 | Gregory Back | 4.500 | 28 | 7 |
| 280 | Michael Lang | 3.000 | 26 | 2 |
