Registration has closed within the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble Championship with 361 entries, 205 of which purchased into the match for Day 1b on Saturday.
The ultimate Essential Tour occasion earlier than the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas subsequent month is now prepared for Day 2, which is able to happen at midday ET on Sunday from the bestbet Jacksonville poker site.
The eventual winner will take dwelling $347,850, the biggest share of the $1,642,550 prize pool.
Josh Reichard, a WPT Champions Membership member, can have a large chip benefit over the 124 remaining gamers when the playing cards are within the air. Reichard completed Day 1a with the chip lead, whereas Jacksonville native poker participant Thad McNulty ended the second beginning flight with the most important stack.
Aggressive on the Prime
Reichard completed Day 1a with 487,000 chips (195 large blinds), a large benefit over the opposite 55 gamers who bagged from that session. However the leaderboard on Saturday was much more aggressive, and nobody from the second session, together with McNulty, got here near matching Reichard’s stack.
Prime 5 Day 1b Chip Stacks
McNulty ended the day with 369,500 chips, good for 148 large blinds when Day 2 begins. That stack is just a few large blinds higher than what Jeremiah Wheeler bagged (360,000). Proper behind these two gamers is David DiBernardi (335,500), Joe Jordan (331,000), and Fred Paradis (329,000).
McNulty isn’t any slouch on the felt and has some spectacular outcomes, which features a fourth place end for over $150,000 in a 2014 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) occasion and greater than $660,000 in lifetime reside match cashes, in keeping with The Hendon Mob.
The chip chief battled towards some high execs on Day 1b, and can do the identical on Day 2. Former WPT Participant of the 12 months winner Erkut Yilmaz (206,000) and three-time WPT champion Eric Afriat (121,000) had been amongst those that bagged chips on Saturday. Afriat has an opportunity to tie Darren Elias‘ report of 4 World Poker Tour titles. The complete checklist of chip counts weren’t out there on the time of publishing.
ClubWPT qualifiers Michael Goldsworthy and Raymond Harper each battled on Day 1b however had been unable to discover a bag. Harper was competing in his first ever reside poker match. Jeremy Becker, who busted on Day 1a, got here again sturdy on Saturday and completed the day with a mean stack. The cash bubble will burst when the sphere reaches 46 gamers, more likely to be someday within the night on Sunday.
Josh Reichard Leads WPT bestbet Scramble After Day 1a
*Photos courtesy of Katerina Lukina/World Poker Tour.
