
Gestern traf sich das Who is Who der internationalen Poker Szene im Commerce Casino Los Angeles zum $10.000 WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event, und bis jetzt kauften sich 503 Spieler in dieses Single-Entry Turnier ein. Bis zum Start von Level 10 können sich Spieler auch heute noch in das Turnier einkaufen.
Am besten lief es am ersten Tag für Hung Tran, er liegt mit 209.000 Chips vor Adam Volen mit 177.400. Im Feld herrscht eine extrem große Dichte an Poker Pro’s. So sind Spieler wie Justin Smith (87.000), David Williams (78.500), Scott Seiver (69.000), Joe Hachem (48.200), Brian Rast (43.200), Daniel Negreanu (41.000), Liv Boeree (35.100) uvm. noch im Turnier. Insgesamt sind noch 328 Spieler im Rennen und der Average Chipcount liegt bei 46.006.
Aus deutschsprachiger Sicht sind noch folgende Spieler im Feld: Dominik Nitsche (20.500), Marvin Rettenmaier (22.100), Max Altergott (42.200) und Igor Kurganov (69.00). Den Live Blog könnt ihr auf der WPT Homepage folgen und weitere Details findet ihr auf der LA Poker Classic Homepage.
Anbei die Chipcounts:
| 1 | TRAN | HUNG | 209,000 |
| 2 | VOLEN | ADAM | 177,400 |
| 3 | MASSEY | AARON | 151,300 |
| 4 | NEFF | PETER | 143,900 |
| 5 | MASHOUR | MAX | 136,100 |
| 6 | FEE | RYAN | 120,600 |
| 7 | GIMBLE | KEVIN | 119,600 |
| 8 | DEWITT | JASON | 116,900 |
| 9 | HART | BRENT II | 114,300 |
| 10 | CRAMER | TIM | 113,600 |
| 11 | RIPP | SEAN | 113,300 |
| 12 | CORNELL | TYLER | 112,600 |
| 13 | JENKINS | RON | 110,100 |
| 14 | FRIEDMAN | IRA | 110,100 |
| 15 | GHATGE | PRATIK | 106,500 |
| 16 | DALAL | SUJAY | 103,900 |
| 17 | MINER | WILLIAM | 101,500 |
| 18 | JAFFE | JONATHAN | 96,900 |
| 19 | YU | BEN | 92,400 |
| 20 | DAVID | MACKA | 91,500 |
| 21 | ALJANEDI | JAMEER | 91,300 |
| 22 | ROCKOWITZ | JESSE | 90,900 |
| 23 | OGEARE | SEYMOUR | 90,100 |
| 24 | YOCKEY | BRYCE | 87,500 |
| 25 | ARMSTRONG | JAMIE | 87,000 |
| 26 | ANDRESS | JOHN | 86,700 |
| 27 | DIBELLA | JOHN | 86,400 |
| 28 | MERMELSTEIN | AARON | 86,200 |
| 29 | OLIVER | JUSTIN | 84,600 |
| 30 | GRIFFIN | JEON-PAUL | 81,700 |
| 31 | JIVKOV | TED | 81,200 |
| 32 | STOUT | MATT | 81,100 |
| 33 | CANAWATI | JOHN | 80,800 |
| 34 | YOROSHEVSKYY | IGOR | 80,400 |
| 35 | WILKERSON | DYLAN | 79,900 |
| 36 | LOWE | RICK | 79,500 |
| 37 | KRENTZMAN | EVAN | 79,400 |
| 38 | LEAH | MIKE | 79,000 |
| 39 | WILLIAMS | DAVID | 78,500 |
| 40 | BAKER | DAVID | 77,700 |
| 41 | KLEIN | LOREN | 77,700 |
| 42 | KIVELA | TOMMY | 77,300 |
| 43 | SERRATOS | JOSE | 76,100 |
| 44 | SMITH | JUSTIN | 75,800 |
| 45 | TRAN | NGHI VAN | 74,900 |
| 46 | TEPPER | ROB | 74,500 |
| 47 | KHALFIN | MICHAEL | 74,400 |
| 48 | VASWANI | JAGDISH | 73,900 |
| 49 | YACOUBIAN | MACRADIJ | 73,500 |
| 50 | CATTERSON | JOSEPH | 73,200 |
| 51 | RAGHVAN | RAVI | 72,800 |
| 52 | GEYER | ADAM | 72,300 |
| 53 | FAZELI | ALI | 72,300 |
| 54 | SHULMAN | BARRY | 71,300 |
| 55 | AUSMUS | JEREMY | 71,300 |
| 56 | HORTIN | DYLAN | 71,100 |
| 57 | DEMACI | CHRISTOPHER | 70,500 |
| 58 | PHILLIPS | SAMUEL | 70,100 |
| 59 | DRINAN | CONNER | 70,000 |
| 60 | OHANIAN | VAZGEN | 69,300 |
| 61 | KURGANOV | IGOR | 69,000 |
| 62 | BUCHANAN | SHAWN | 68,000 |
| 63 | JOHNSON | KYLE | 67,600 |
| 64 | TUTHILL | DAVID | 67,400 |
| 65 | FARRELL | NIALL | 67,200 |
| 66 | CHARANIA | MOHSIN | 67,100 |
| 67 | BARANOVSKY | VADIM | 66,400 |
| 68 | LEE | KYUNG MIN | 65,600 |
| 69 | MORTENSEN | J. CARLOS | 65,300 |
| 70 | COHEN | JON | 65,100 |
| 71 | SMITH | JOHN | 65,000 |
| 72 | YOON | BRIAN | 64,200 |
| 73 | KLANN | PAUL | 64,000 |
| 74 | ALAEI | DANIEL | 63,400 |
| 75 | KILPATRICK | KORY | 62,800 |
| 76 | BUBOI | VASILE | 62,300 |
| 77 | WEST | RON | 62,200 |
| 78 | BERKEY | MATT | 62,100 |
| 79 | WERTZ | JOSEPH | 62,100 |
| 80 | DOBROVOLSKIY | VLADIMIR | 62,100 |
| 81 | TAVARES | JOSE | 61,700 |
| 82 | MANDAVIA | ANKUSH | 61,700 |
| 83 | SANDS | DAVID | 60,800 |
| 84 | BRABAND | TOM | 60,600 |
| 85 | NGUYEN | THU | 59,400 |
| 86 | ARUTYUNYAN | ARUTYUN | 59,400 |
| 87 | BLACK | ROBERT | 59,300 |
| 88 | HOM | BLAISE | 59,300 |
| 89 | ARNOLD | EDDIE | 59,200 |
| 90 | BRECHER | STEVE | 58,500 |
| 91 | COLEMAN | MAXX | 58,200 |
| 92 | STEWART | CASEY | 58,000 |
| 93 | WINZELER | HANS | 58,000 |
| 94 | JOHNSON | MARCO | 57,600 |
| 95 | WHEELER | JASON | 57,600 |
| 96 | FERRERA | KEITH | 57,500 |
| 97 | MASEK | ALEX | 57,500 |
| 98 | PHAN | LOI | 57,200 |
| 99 | PETRANGELO | NICK | 57,000 |
| 100 | KAMRAN | MICHAEL | 57,000 |
| 101 | KOTTLER | JEREMY | 57,000 |
| 102 | LAFAYE | GLENN | 56,900 |
| 103 | DWYER | MICHAEL | 56,400 |
| 104 | MANN | JASON | 56,400 |
| 105 | OHEL | RANDY | 55,900 |
| 106 | SMITH | DAN | 55,600 |
| 107 | RAMAGE | GRAYSON | 55,300 |
| 108 | VONGVONE | INHPOUNH | 54,700 |
| 109 | LE | NAM | 54,600 |
| 110 | VENER | SCOTT | 54,500 |
| 111 | DARNER | MARK | 54,300 |
| 112 | MACCIELLO | JOSHUA | 54,000 |
| 113 | WU | JACK | 53,700 |
| 114 | CHEN | BENNY | 53,600 |
| 115 | JING | SHAN | 53,600 |
| 116 | GHANEIAN | ARASH | 53,500 |
| 117 | SCHWARTZ | NOAH | 53,400 |
| 118 | POWELL | JULIAN | 53,000 |
| 119 | SEIVER | SCOTT | 52,800 |
| 120 | ELIAS | DARREN | 52,600 |
| 121 | HAMBY | JARED | 52,000 |
| 122 | TRAN | J.C. | 51,800 |
| 123 | THALAS | JASON | 51,400 |
| 124 | KUETHER | JOE | 51,200 |
| 125 | COLLINS | CANDACE | 51,200 |
| 126 | GERL | ANDREW | 51,100 |
| 127 | DOLAN | JOHN | 50,600 |
| 128 | HENSON | RAY | 50,300 |
| 129 | HALE | JOSH | 50,200 |
| 130 | ZINNO | ANTHONY | 50,200 |
| 131 | KLODNICKI | CHRIS | 50,000 |
| 132 | MUELLER | GREG | 49,900 |
| 133 | ALDRIGE | KEN | 49,400 |
| 134 | DELUCA | JOEY | 49,300 |
| 135 | LEE | RONALD | 49,300 |
| 136 | LONCAR | MICHAEL | 48,500 |
| 137 | SHKOLNIK | NICK | 48,300 |
| 138 | LEWIS | TOBY | 48,200 |
| 139 | HACHEM | JOE | 48,100 |
| 140 | DONG TAO | ANTHONY | 47,800 |
| 141 | CIMPAN | CORNEL | 47,700 |
| 142 | SOULIER | FABRICE | 47,700 |
| 143 | LIGHTBOURNE | IARON | 47,100 |
| 144 | NGUYEN | TURBO | 47,000 |
| 145 | DANG | YEN | 46,000 |
| 146 | MERCIER | JASON | 46,000 |
| 147 | ZAZAY | OMAR | 45,800 |
| 148 | WITEK | FRANCIS | 45,300 |
| 149 | TRAN | JIMMY | 44,600 |
| 150 | YANG | JUSTIN | 44,300 |
| 151 | HENGSAKUL | PETER | 44,300 |
| 152 | OCHANA | EDWARD | 43,700 |
| 153 | LAPLANTE | RYAN | 43,600 |
| 154 | RAST | BRIAN | 43,200 |
| 155 | KESSLER | ALLEN | 43,200 |
| 156 | NGUYEN | XUAN | 43,200 |
| 157 | TSURIKOV | YEGOR | 43,200 |
| 158 | KATCHALOV | EUGENE | 43,100 |
| 159 | NGUYEN | VINH | 42,800 |
| 160 | KOHLBERG | CURT | 42,600 |
| 161 | BIRIZDO | ISTVAN | 42,400 |
| 162 | ALTERGOTT | MAX | 42,200 |
| 163 | MAKHIJA | AMIT | 41,300 |
| 164 | CAROL | JAMES | 41,000 |
| 165 | PAUR | TAYLOR | 41,000 |
| 166 | LE | DOANH | 41,000 |
| 167 | NGUYEN | BINH | 40,900 |
| 168 | MIKHAIL | TIMOSHIN | 40,700 |
| 169 | VAYO | GORDON | 40,600 |
| 170 | HULETT | JOHN | 40,100 |
| 171 | PARK | MICHAEL | 40,000 |
| 172 | WAXMAN | MATTHEW | 39,700 |
| 173 | SOSHNIKOV | IVAN | 39,700 |
| 174 | FRIEDMAN | ADAM | 39,300 |
| 175 | THOMAS | RALPH | 38,900 |
| 176 | CRAWFORD | BRANDON | 38,700 |
| 177 | VON KRIEGENBERGH | TAYLOR | 38,200 |
| 178 | AZOULAY | JONATHAN | 38,000 |
| 179 | PHAN | ANDY | 37,700 |
| 180 | WEST | TIMOTHY | 37,600 |
| 181 | PAK | YONG | 37,600 |
| 182 | CHANG | ZHIXZANG | 37,400 |
| 183 | SCHINDLER | JAKE | 37,100 |
| 184 | WITTEMAN | TYLER | 36,800 |
| 185 | YARCHEVER | JEFF | 36,600 |
| 186 | FRAKENBERGER | ANDY | 36,600 |
| 187 | ELLEFSON | MARK | 36,500 |
| 188 | BLAIN | DERMOT | 36,300 |
| 189 | HARTMAN | TONY | 36,000 |
| 190 | SHAK | DANIEL | 35,800 |
| 191 | VALANT | BRIAN | 35,500 |
| 192 | HOCHMAN | COREY | 35,400 |
| 193 | THIPTINNAKON | PHONGTHEP | 35,400 |
| 194 | HABIB | HASAN | 35,300 |
| 195 | BRUNING | RICH | 35,100 |
| 196 | BOEREE | LIV | 35,100 |
| 197 | ENTIN | JONAS | 35,100 |
| 198 | LUTZ | TOM | 34,700 |
| 199 | KIM | KYONG | 34,500 |
| 200 | ORMSON | LARRY | 34,500 |
| 201 | GONSALVES | MARKUS | 34,400 |
| 202 | MARTIROSIAN | SHAHEN | 34,100 |
| 203 | SEIDEL | ERIK | 34,100 |
| 204 | QUANG | LARRY | 33,900 |
| 205 | GILLIS | TED | 33,900 |
| 206 | GRIGORIAN | CHRIS | 33,100 |
| 207 | ALTMAN | BRIAN | 33,000 |
| 208 | GRIPPO | NICHOLAS | 32,400 |
| 209 | CRISTOS | JORDAN | 31,700 |
| 210 | RAMPONE | NICHOLAS | 31,500 |
| 211 | FAUCEGLIA | MARIO | 31,500 |
| 212 | NEGREANU | DANIEL | 31,500 |
| 213 | SCIUTO | RICHARD | 31,300 |
| 214 | SCHULTZ | MATT | 31,100 |
| 215 | BUDDIGA | PRATYOSH | 30,900 |
| 216 | OSHIMA | KAZU | 30,900 |
| 217 | DJOKOVIC | AVDO | 30,900 |
| 218 | SEWELL | GARY | 30,800 |
| 219 | CHAMANI | RONIT | 30,700 |
| 220 | JAFFEE | JARE | 30,600 |
| 221 | MARCUS | GREGORY | 30,400 |
| 222 | MALZANINI | JULIUS | 30,400 |
| 223 | VOLPE | PAUL | 30,300 |
| 224 | POPE | TREVOR | 30,000 |
| 225 | SABAT | EDDY | 29,400 |
| 226 | WEST | TOM | 29,100 |
| 227 | ESKENAZI | SCOTT | 28,900 |
| 228 | QIAO | HUICUN | 28,500 |
| 229 | ZAMANI | BENJAMIN | 28,500 |
| 230 | DRAGAR | PETER | 28,400 |
| 231 | NGUYEN | THAI | 28,000 |
| 232 | MENARD | JEREMY | 27,700 |
| 233 | ROBERTS | BRIAN | 27,300 |
| 234 | SOSA | DANIEL | 26,900 |
| 235 | ROSEN | ROBERT | 26,100 |
| 236 | SALSBERG | MATT | 26,000 |
| 237 | BJERNO | NATHAN | 25,400 |
| 238 | REIMAN | TY | 25,300 |
| 239 | NGUYEN | THANG | 24,900 |
| 240 | BAROUSSE | BLAKE | 24,700 |
| 241 | JULIUS | KYLE | 24,500 |
| 242 | MENDELSOHN | HEATH | 24,100 |
| 243 | SHAHADE | JEN | 24,100 |
| 244 | BAZELY | JACOB | 23,900 |
| 245 | MOORMAN | CHRIS | 23,700 |
| 246 | JAVA | NIPUN | 23,700 |
| 247 | VILLANUEVA | JOHN | 23,700 |
| 248 | KELLY | DANIEL | 23,300 |
| 249 | PAYDAR | TONY | 23,200 |
| 250 | RUBERTO | TOM | 22,600 |
| 251 | NEWMAN | ANTHONY | 22,400 |
| 252 | SCHULMAN | JOE | 22,400 |
| 253 | RETTENMAIER | MARVIN | 22,100 |
| 254 | SYLVIA | JESSE | 22,000 |
| 255 | VRABEL | LUKE | 22,000 |
| 256 | JAKA | FARAZ | 21,600 |
| 257 | HUI CHEN | KUO | 21,500 |
| 258 | MARTIN | JESSE | 21,000 |
| 259 | CALVERT | GUY | 20,900 |
| 260 | MATUSOW | MIKE | 20,600 |
| 261 | LEMKE | BRIAN | 20,600 |
| 262 | NITSCHE | DOMINIK | 20,500 |
| 263 | JULIUS | RYAN | 20,300 |
| 264 | POCK | ALLEN | 20,300 |
| 265 | KAMPANATSARYAKORN | CHANE | 20,000 |
| 266 | ROCCO | MICHAEL | 19,700 |
| 267 | ARANI | MOHAMMED | 19,300 |
| 268 | LEI | LEI | 19,300 |
| 269 | MURRAY | BRETT | 19,300 |
| 270 | BUCKENMAYER | ROBERT | 19,200 |
| 271 | MEZHERITSKY | VLAD | 19,100 |
| 272 | KRAMER | BRUCE | 19,100 |
| 273 | HUTTER | BARRY | 19,000 |
| 274 | HOLLEY | JOHN | 18,700 |
| 275 | SULLER | SHAUN | 18,600 |
| 276 | IDEMA | DANIEL | 18,300 |
| 277 | WEISNER | MELANIE | 18,200 |
| 278 | DARDON | OSMIN | 18,100 |
| 279 | LAW | CHUN | 17,800 |
| 280 | NEUMANN | MARKO | 17,700 |
| 281 | DIEHL | MATTHEW | 17,500 |
| 282 | LESKOWITZ | BRYAN | 17,400 |
| 283 | HOLST | KRISTINA | 17,100 |
| 284 | PARIKH | SAMAY | 17,000 |
| 285 | STURIANO | WILLIAM | 16,900 |
| 286 | BARBOUR | NATASHA | 16,800 |
| 287 | BELLVENUTT | MICHAEL | 16,400 |
| 288 | EVERETT | CARLTON | 16,400 |
| 289 | KEELIA | BEN | 15,500 |
| 290 | MACKEY | JAMES | 15,500 |
| 291 | GROSPELLIER | BERTRAND | 14,500 |
| 292 | MOTAMENI | SHAWN | 14,000 |
| 293 | GRUNEBERG | ZACHARY | 14,000 |
| 294 | TODD | EUGENE | 13,750 |
| 295 | JOSEPH | TIM | 13,200 |
| 296 | ESKANDARI | MASSOUD | 13,100 |
| 297 | GREENBLATT | ALEX | 13,100 |
| 298 | KINDRED | JUSTIN | 12,900 |
| 299 | HEIMILLER | DAN | 12,900 |
| 300 | MACDONALD | ROB | 12,800 |
| 301 | MARCHESE | THOMAS | 12,600 |
| 302 | KOON | JASON | 11,700 |
| 303 | NAZARYAN | ARMEN | 11,300 |
| 304 | AZARIA | MAX | 11,200 |
| 305 | RADOJA | MARK | 11,000 |
| 306 | ZAKI | JUSTIN | 10,900 |
| 307 | JACOBSON | MARTIN | 10,800 |
| 308 | CONDON | ALEX | 10,700 |
| 309 | OHARA | IAN | 10,700 |
| 310 | MARTIN | JOHN | 10,500 |
| 311 | SEROCK | JOE | 10,400 |
| 312 | CHEONG | JOSEPH | 10,300 |
| 313 | PATEL | HIREN | 10,200 |
| 314 | PRICE | OLIVER | 10,000 |
| 315 | WUNSTEL | CORRIE | 10,000 |
| 316 | YAZDI | ARDAVAN | 9,800 |
| 317 | VAKUM | YAAGOV | 9,700 |
| 318 | KETTERINGHAM | MARK | 9,500 |
| 319 | NGUYEN | BINH | 9,400 |
| 320 | PALLACK | JOSHUA | 9,100 |
| 321 | GALVIN | STEPHEN | 8,800 |
| 322 | SHORR | SHANNON | 8,400 |
| 323 | GORODINSKY | MIKE | 8,300 |
| 324 | KAISER | AARON | 7,800 |
| 325 | FISHER | WALTER | 7,700 |
| 326 | SHACK-HARRIS | BRANDON | 7,400 |
| 327 | MOLSON | WILL | 7,300 |
| 328 | KALAS | KANE | 6,400 |







