Diego Ventura Leads WPT500 Knockout With Four Flights Remaining
Four WPT500 Knockout flights are done and dusted, and 881 players have taken a shot at the $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Only 132 of those starters punched their Day 2 tickets, and nobody has more chips at this point than Peruvian superstar Diego Ventura. Current WPT500 Knockout Top Chips Chip Counts Place Player Country
Four WPT500 Knockout flights are done and dusted, and 881 players have taken a shot at the $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Only 132 of those starters punched their Day 2 tickets, and nobody has more chips at this point than Peruvian superstar Diego Ventura.
Current WPT500 Knockout Top Chips Chip Counts
Place | Player | Country | Chips | Bounties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 10,137,148 | $1,312 |
2 | Aleksandr Shepel | Russia | 9,973,191 | $1,132 |
3 | Andre Marques | Netherlands | 9,884,986 | $1,109 |
4 | Julien Perouse | Canada | 8,413,275 | $312 |
5 | Endrit Geci | United Kingdom | 8,383,469 | $937 |
6 | Charles La Boissonniere | Canada | 8,118,778 | $468 |
7 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 7,384,791 | $964 |
8 | Adil Morkos | Canada | 7,207,987 | $796 |
9 | Josip Simunic | Austria | 6,877,284 | $906 |
10 | Stoyan Kitanov | Bulgaria | 6,454,732 | $1,562 |
Ventura bought into the $1 million guaranteed WPT500 Knockout on Day 1A back on March 16 where he finished high flights with 10,137,148 chips. Nobody has managed to surpass that impressive eight-figure stack so far.
Day 1A was a good day for several other grinders because they still find themselves in the top 10 chip counts with four of the scheduled eight flights remaining.
Julien Perouse of Canada (8,413,275), the MILLIONS Online Main Event champion Endrit Geci (8,383,469), and Bulgarian Stoyan Kitanov (6,454,732) are all safely through to the business end of this massive PKO event.
The current Day 2 field is littered with household names and legitimate superstars. Yuri Dzivielevski (7,384,791), former member of Team partypoker Josip Simunic (6,877,284), Bryan Paris (6,344,301), and former MILLIONS Online champion Benjamin Chalot (6,012,000) currently occupy spots in the top 20.
Further down the counts you find the likes of David Peters (5,512,257), Steven Van Zadelhoff (4,182,311), Alex Foxen (3,301,388), Damian Salas (2,186,189), Mary Pudmoreff (1,216,434), and Joao Vieira (1,207,627).
Four WPT500 Knockout Flights Remain; Dozens of Satellites Scheduled
You still have the chance to join Ventura and the other 131 players who have navigated their way to Day 2 of the WPT500 Knockout. Four $530 flights remain, including a last-ditch turbo flight at 17:05 on March 22.
Date | Time (GMT) | Name |
|---|---|---|
Fri 19 Mar | 20:05 | WPT #13 WPT500 Knockout Day 1E: $1M Gtd |
Sat 20 Mar | 20:05 | WPT #13 WPT500 Knockout Day 1F: $1M Gtd |
Sat 21 Mar | 20:05 | WPT #13 WPT500 Knockout Day 1G: $1M Gtd |
Sat 22 Mar | 17:05 | WPT #13 WPT500 Knockout Day 1H Turbo: $1M Gtd |
More than 120 seats are guaranteed to be won in the remaining $66 satellites that run from 17:05 GMT on March 19 through to 16:05 GMT on March 22. These satellites have between three and ten $530 seats in their prize pool. Check out the satellites filter under the WPT tab for all the available satellites feeding into this $1 million guaranteed event.
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