D'Ambrosio Leads Largest $5,000 WPT Main Event in History; Big Names Galore Still in Contention
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After three starting flights, the WPT Venetian Main Event heads to Day 2 with 340 players remaining from a starting field of 1,199, making it the largest $5,000 World Poker Tour Main Event in history.
This comes off the back of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown earlier this year that broke the record for the largest WPT Main Event ever.
Leading the way is Jimmy D'Ambrosio ahead of Sergii Baranov and Ezequiel Waigel. Fourth in chips is Nate Silver, American statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight .
Silver previously cashed at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, finishing 161st for $7,465 and is looking for a second WPT cash to add to his resume.
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WPT Venetian Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jimmy D'Ambrosio | United States | 568,500 |
| 2 | Sergii Baranov | Ukraine | 542,000 |
| 3 | Ezequiel Waigel | Argentina | 428,000 |
| 4 | Nate Silver | United States | 462,000 |
| 5 | Tim McDermott | United States | 434,500 |
| 6 | Ezequiel Waigel | Argentina | 428,000 |
| 7 | Farid Jattin | Colombia | 417,000 |
| 8 | Tara Kittle | United States | 363,000 |
| 9 | Mike Liang | United States | 359,000 |
| 10 | Sean Perry | United States | 358,500 |
Outside of the top ten there are plenty of big names still in including Champions Club members Darren Elias, Anthony Zinno, Daniel Negreanu, Michael Mizrachi, John Hennigan, Phil Laak, Erik Seidel and Scotty Nguyen.
Player of the Year leader Brian Altman is also still in the field, along with Kitty Kuo, Bill Klein, Mike Watson, Kristen Bicknell, Joe Cada, Joe McKeehen, Joey Weissman and David Pham to name but a few.
#WPTVenetian is up to more than 1,000 entries, making it the largest $5,000 buy-in event in WPT history #
— World Poker Tour (@WPT)
WPT Venetian Payouts
A total of 150 places will be paid with a min-cash worth $8,915. Cracking the top 10 will earn a player $91,035 and the winner will walk away with $910,370 and the title. Their name will also be engraved on the Mike Sexton Cup.
| Place | Payout (USD) |
|---|---|
| 1 | $910,370 |
| 2 | $606,890 |
| 3 | $448,755 |
| 4 | $335,200 |
| 5 | $252,945 |
| 6 | $192,855 |
| 7 | $148,580 |
| 8 | $115,685 |
| 9 | $91,035 |
| 10 | $91,035 |
Recent World Poker Tour Results
WPT Venetian marks the third Main Event of the WPT Season 19 after the WPT Online Series on partypoker and WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa, won by Brian Altman.
It's been a busy few months for the World Poker Tour, so why not check out this list of event recaps right here on PokerNews!
- June 2021 - Reigning WPT POY Brian Altman Wins WPT Tampa for Third WPT Title
- June 2021 - Phil Ivey Wins WPT Heads-Up Poker Championship
- June 2021 - Christian Rudolph Wins WPT Online Series Main Event
- May 2021 - Brek Schutten Wins WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
- May 2021 - Balakrishna Patur Wins the WPT L.A. Poker Classic
- May 2021 - Veerab Zakarian Wins WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open
*Lead image courtesy of the World Poker Tour/Joe Giron
Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.
