The gates came down on entries in WPT Super $55 with 2,411 total entries, putting $120,550 into the prize pool. There are 1,129 players left in action, fighting for 375 paid spots. The earliest cashers will pocket $52 in prizes, but there's almost $7,100 up top for the win.
WPT #14 High Roller Championship had a surge of entries early in the first level, and its up to 35 entries now. Mikita Badziakouski leads the field in early play with almost 200,000 chips already.
Ole Schemion is still on top of the Super High Roller pile with almost 400,000 chips, more than 100,000 more than second place Artur Martirosian.
WPT Grand has just over 10 minutes left to get in, and 266 entries. Aaron Dyson is still leading, with Bruno Bernardino now in second place.
Action is playing fast in the WPT Super $215 with just 114 players left now. Just 79 players get paid, so there's still work to do for the remaining players.
Registration is about to close in WPT Super $55. Once again, it has crushed it's guarantee with almost $120,000 in prizes. João Paulo Souza leads the way now with more than 2,400 entries and 1,207 remaining.
Day 1 of WPT #14 High Roller Championship is now underway with 8 players at the tables. Among others, Pascal Lefrancois, Mikita Badziakouski, and Ali Imsirovic are all doing double HR duty today, playing in both the High Roller Championship as well as WPT #12 Super High Roller Championship.
WPT #12 Super High Roller now has 27 entries in the game, with 22 players still in action. They are still more than $300,000 off the guarantee, but there is still just under 1.5 hours to get there.
Ole Schemion currently tops the list of chip stacks with more than 270,000, with Artur Martirosian and Timothy Adams also over 200,000.
| Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Ole Schemion | Germany | 271,592 |
| Artur Martirosian | Russia | 257,184 |
| Timothy Adams | Canada | 224,234 |
| Mikita Badziakouski | Slovenia | 181,434 |
| Sam Greenwood | Canada | 177,385 |
WPT Grand has less than 30 minutes left to get into the game, and so far 253 entries have amassed $252,424 in collected funds. That's still some ways off the $300,000 guarantee, but there is still a bit of time to get there. Aaron Dyson still leads that game, now with almost 6.75 million.
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There are just under 40 minutes left to get into WPT Grand today, and a total of 239 entries now. That means they've collected $237,424 towards the $300,000 prize pool so far.
Aaron Dyson is the current chip leader with 141 stacks still in play. Dyson has more than 6.2 million, compared to about 5.7 million for second place Robert Heidorn.
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They didn't quite hit the $100,000 guarantee in the WPT Super $215, but they came very close. There were 484 total entries, meaning they collected $96,800.
That means 79 players will share in the prizes, with almost $7,200 up top for the win. Everyone who makes the final nine is guaranteed at least $850, while the earliest paid busts will pocket $219 on the way out.
Isaac Haxton was among the first players seated for WPT #12, but he was also the first person to stand up and leave the tables. Haxton busted before the first break, and so far hasn't elected to rebuy. Igor Gubenok also lost his stack and chose not to get another one.
Wiktor Malinowski takes the lead to the break in the biggest game of the day, with the field up to 18 entries now. The collected prizes in WPT Grand are over $200,000 with about 1.25 hours to go in registration.
The WPT Super $215 has 456 entries for $91,200 collected on its $100,000 guarantee while WPT Super $55 has 1,581 entries for just under $80,000 collected. That game has just under an hour to get in.
WPT Weekender Final Day is about to get underway, playing for $150,000. A total of 198 players made the Final Day, and as always, they are all in the money.
| Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 171,533 |
| Timothy Adams | Canada | 160,148 |
| Ole Schemion | Germany | 147,274 |
| Pascal Lefrancois | Canada | 146,659 |
| Adria Diaz Dalmau | Spain | 134,186 |
| Jason Koon | United States | 129,275 |
| Marius Gierse | Austria | 125,310 |
| Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 121,376 |
| Artur Martirosian | Russia | 112,145 |
| Mikita Badziakouski | Slovenia | 105,874 |