WPT $25,000 Championship - Bellagio

WPT Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

WPT $25,000 Championship - Bellagio

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$3,970,415
Event Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$15,495,750
Entries
639
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
300,000

Recent Arrivals

A few big-name players showed up either shortly before or during the break, including Patrik Antonius, Bob Stupak, and Erik "Erik123" Sagstrom.

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Eugene Todd Eliminated

With the board showing {10-Clubs}{10-Spades}{6-Spades}{6-Clubs}{J-Hearts}, Eugene Todd was all in against another player. Todd showed {J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}, good for top full house (jacks full of tens). But his opponent had {6-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}, giving him quads, and Eugene Todd was eliminated.

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Ill Mike Matusow

Mike Matusow is not feeling well. He was just spotted lying down on one of the floral patterned couches in the Bellagio's Fontana Room. With 50K to start in chips, The Mouth can nap for a couple of hours.

Tags: Mike Matusow

More Faces in the Crowd

Gavin Griffin
Gavin Griffin
A few more familiar faces have been spotted as players continue to trickle into the tournament, including Johnny Chan, Layne Flack, Gus Hansen, Al Barbieri, Carmel Petresco, Sean McCabe, Danny Hall, J.C. Alvarado, and Quinn Do.

Gavin Griffin, who recently won the EPT Championship in Monte Carlo, is also here. And just like it was in Monte Carlo, his hair is dyed pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Tags: Johnny Chan

Hollis Stabler Eliminates Ted Forrest

How does a situation arise where someone busts out in the first 20 minutes of a tournament with 50,000 in starting chips and blinds of 50-100? When somebody accidentally bets the wrong chip.

Hollis Stabler had pocket queens, and when he reraised preflop, he accidentally used a 10,000 chip, which was much higher than he planned. Ted Forrest called, and after a flop of K-rag-rag, all of the money went in the pot. Stabler showed his queens, but Forrest had pocket aces.

Forrest was ahead, but Lady Luck was sitting with Stabler, as another queen showed up as his salvation on the river, cracking Forrest's aces. Forrest went home as Stabler took the early chip lead with about 100,000 in chips.

Tags: Hollis StablerTed Forrest

Who's Here? Part Two

We spotted a few more friendly faces including Scotty Nguyen, Minh Nguyen, Isabelle Mercier, Chad Layne, Kathy Liebert, Young Pham, Russell Rosenbloom, Gene Todd, Mark Gregorich, Dan Heimiller, Per Ummer, Jim McManus, David Oppenheim, Todd Brunson, Phil Laak, Jacobo Fernandez, Eskimo, Bill Edler, Greg Mueller, Chau Giang, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Wattel, David Benyamine, Erica Schoenberg, Clonie Gowen, Huck Seed, and Sam Grizzle.

Tags: Isabelle MercierKathy LiebertPhil Laak