WPT World Championship
Event info
Stars from around the world, a marathon of live streams, the world's most expensive tournament with a million-dollar buy-in and a record-breaking Main Event with a guarantee like the poker world has never seen before - all this and much more is promised by the WPT organisers during December's WPT World Championship, which will take place at the famous Wynn Casino.
After last year's success, when the $10,400 buy-in Main Event produced 2,960 entries, bringing the prizepool to $29,008,000, the organisers have decided to shock the poker world. This year, they set the guarantee for the Main Event itself at a massive $40 million, the largest live tournament guarantee in poker history. The prize pool will go from each buy-in to $9,800, so 4,082 entries are needed just to fill the guarantee, which has to be taken care of in the 4 opening days.
WPT CEO Adam Pliska said in a press release, "The WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is poised to reach a new level and we wanted to meet that expectation with a guarantee like no live poker tournament has ever seen."
The entire festival will run from November 29 to December 23 and will guarantee more than $56,000,000 in total . There will also be the aforementioned $1,000,000 WPT Big One for One Drop charity buy-in or the $1,600 buy-in Mystery Bounty tournament with a $2,000,000 guarantee. The cheapest tournaments will have a buy-in of $600, and the big attraction will be the WPT Prime Championship with a buy-in of $1,100 and a guarantee of $5,000,000, which will take place on December 7-12.
Video Event News Results| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Michael Rossito | ITA | 340,698$* |
| 2. | Brian Barker | USA | 268,559$* |
| 3. | Lawrence Chow | USA | 186,493$ |
| 4. | Alex Britton | USA | 143,927$ |
| 5. | Paul Hizer | UK | 110,888$ |
| 6. | David Wintersberger | GER | 84,477$ |
| 7. | Meraf Tedla | - | 63,479$ |
| 8. | Florin Iacoban | USA | 46,640$ |
| 9. | Jai Davenport | USA | 33,372$ |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | George Tomescu | ROM | $500,202 |
| 2. | Jiacong Zhang | USA | $324,347 |
| 3. | Jack Hardcastle | UK | $249,761 |
| 4. | Matthew McEwan | USA | $192,754 |
| 5. | Todd Turoci | USA | $148,507 |
| 6. | Fausto Valdez | USA | $113,136 |
| 7. | David Levy | USA | $85,014 |
| 8. | Danny Fuhs | USA | $62,463 |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Lisa Costello | USA | $85,297 |
| 2. | Ashley Sleeth | USA | $57,069 |
| 3. | Kathy Stahl | USA | $43,686 |
| 4. | Chris Read | USA | $34,220 |
| 5. | Aylar Lie | NOR | $26,480 |
| 6. | Ada Lang | USA | $20,155 |
| 7. | Alida Veliu | USA | $15,128 |
| 8. | Michelle Gibson | USA | $11,058 |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Bin Weng | USA | 958,279$* |
| 2. | Thomas Boivin | BEL | 958,278$* |
| 3. | Justin Saliba | USA | 525,087$ |
| 4. | Alex Kulev | BUL | 397,254$ |
| 5. | Joni Jouhkimainen | FIN | 295,116$ |
| 6. | Danny Tang | HKG | 219,306$ |
| 7. | Joe McKeehen | USA | 173,844$ |
| 8. | David Peters | USA | 141,590$ |
| 9. | Orpen Kisacikoglu | TUR | 117,659$ |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Mikita Badziakouski | BLR | $7,114,500 |
| 2. | Mario Mosboeck | AUT | $4,663,950 |
| 3. | Dan Smith | USA | $2,806,750 |
| 4. | Isaac Haxton | USA | $1,224,800 |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Calvin Anderson | USA | $1,386,280 |
| 2. | Aaron Pinson | USA | $910,000 |
| 3. | Jay Lu | USA | $675,000 |
| 4. | Jon Glendinning | USA | $505,000 |
| 5. | Bob Buckenmayer | USA | $380,000 |
| 6. | Valeriy Pak | UZB | $290,000 |
| # | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1. | Dan Sepiol | USA | $5,282,954* |
| 2. | Georgios Sotiropoulos | GRE | $4,167,246* |
| 3. | Andrew Lichtenberger | USA | $2,798,700 |
| 4. | Chris Moorman | UK | $2,095,300 |
| 5. | Ben Heath | UK | $1,583,100 |
| 6. | Artur Martirosian | RUS | $1,207,000 |
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