{"id":3222,"date":"2010-02-27T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/day-1-of-the-wpt-la-poker-classic-continues.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:16:16","slug":"day-1-of-the-wpt-la-poker-classic-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/day-1-of-the-wpt-la-poker-classic-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"11 PartyPoker players still in &#8211; WPT LAPC day 1 chip counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3218\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3218\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1010341-300x2251.jpg\" alt=\"Day 2 of the LA Poker Classic\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 1 of the LA Poker Classic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We now have the all important stats for this event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A total of 745 players have entered the WPT La Poker Classic which has generated a prize pool of $7,152,000. First prize will be a cool $1,778,001 and even 2nd place will walk away over $1,000,000. With the top 72 places getting paid, there is plenty to play for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tournament Director, Matt Savage told me he is delighted with the turnout. Matt has done a lot of work re-vamping the whole tournament structure for the entire LA Poker Classic series. As well as the main event, Matt introduced a lot of new side events which has increased the overall turnout for the series. This has helped make the LA Poker Classic the second biggest poker event behind the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Looking around the tournament room, there were a lot of late entrants. It is always the top players who arrive during the 2nd or 3rd level. Maybe they think they do not have to bother themselves with the early stages \u2013 who knows. Some the late entrants included Peter Eastgate, Bertrand \u2018Elky\u2019 Grospellier, Chris Ferguson, Joe Hachem and Annie Duke. Some of them did not hang around long. I saw Peter Eastgate hit the rail soon after he sat down. I was very disappointed that Mike Matusow was had also left the tournament room before I had a chance to get a copy of his book. Unless he comes back tomorrow, I\u2019ll have to look on Amazon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3220\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3220\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1010348-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Marco from Italy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco from Italy<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Many of the partypoker players are sitting with very nice chip stacks. Unfortunately as we reached the later stages of the day we lost a couple of our players. Robert from Sweden was seen heading to rail at about 7pm. He has come out to Los Angeles with his family so I\u2019m sure they will enjoy their time here. Mario from Germany and Joe from Canada were also missing from their chairs so I presumed they have also busted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3221\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3221\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1010327-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Robert from Sweden\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert from Sweden<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">By the time the chips were bagged up at 8.30pm we still had 11 players left in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here are the important chip counts at the end of Day 1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chip leader is Masa Kagawa with 124,575 chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partypoker players in position and with chip counts:<\/p>\n<p>27 Sergei Norikov 71,025<br \/>\n28 Malte Moennig 70,950<br \/>\n71 Jeff Kimber 50,600<br \/>\n98 Andrey Marsev 44,575<br \/>\n109 Salvatore De Luca 42,975<br \/>\n200 Rudger Gravestein 31,450<br \/>\n219 Marco Callari 29,300<br \/>\n266 Mykhailo Demydenko 24,875<br \/>\n306 Nicholas Verkaik 20,000<br \/>\n326 George Grant 18,225<br \/>\n406 Gavin Greenwood 11,650<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3219\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3219\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1010337-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Sergey from Russia starts day 2 with over 71,000 chips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergey from Russia starts day 2 with over 71,000 chips<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking with the players as they left the tournament room, many were happy with their days work and were looking forward to Saturday. Many went into Los Angeles for dinner in a chic restaurant in Beverly Hills. Because it was Friday night, some were hoping they might run into a famous movie star. Unfortunately we only saw other poker players. But at least the dinner was delicious<\/p>\n<p>We are back on Saturday for Day 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have the all important stats for this event. A total of 745 players have entered the WPT La Poker Classic which has generated a prize pool of $7,152,000. First prize will be a cool $1,778,001 and even 2nd place will walk away over $1,000,000. With the top 72 places getting paid, there is<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/day-1-of-the-wpt-la-poker-classic-continues.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[229],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30952,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/30952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}