The $1,100 buy-in, $5,000,000 GTD WPT Prime Championship will happen from Dec. 8-14 on the Wynn Las Vegas as part of the WPT World Championship Pageant (Dec. 3-23). Final yr, Calvin Anderson topped a subject of 10,512 entrants – almost double that of 2022 – to win the 2023 WPT Prime Championship for $1,386,280.
The WPT Prime proved so profitable that it received the World Poker Award for Greatest Mid-Main Tour/Circuit. Whereas the ClubWPT Gold $5M Invitational and WPT World Championship have garnered their share of pleasure, the WPT Prime World Championship stays one of many standout occasions on this yr’s thrilling schedule and PokerNews is getting ready for it by catching up with some the 2024 Prime Season.
We beforehand caught up with WPT Prime Taiwan champ Jereld Sam, and now we contact base with Timothy Chung, who again in September took down the £1,100 WPT Prime UK Championship title and £57,660 in prize cash, plus a bundle to the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
A Deep Dive into the WPT Prime World Championship and the 2024 Prime Season
From a Birthday Celebration to Poker Professional
No stranger to poker success, the 35-year-old Chung hails from Birmingham, UK dropped out of college the place he spent a yr finding out engineering. He grew to become a poker participant whereas additionally dealing on the facet for 3 months in order that he might study extra about stay poker video games.
“I discovered to play poker after I was 16 years previous at my buddy’s party. They requested if we wished to play poker and I mentioned positive,” Chung advised PokerNews when requested how he discovered the sport. “I used to be at all times actually into video games. I already knew the hand rankings previous to this, which made my studying somewhat bit simpler. Then I discovered somewhat extra about it while enjoying on Fb poker for play chips.”
“Simply to be constantly at all times beating the video games since I’ve began enjoying poker is one thing I suppose I can take pleasure in.”
These days, Chung performs a mixture of on-line and stay, each tournaments and money video games as much as $100/$200.
When requested about his proudest poker accomplishment, Chung gave a solution you may count on from a poker professional.
“I don’t assume I can single out a selected accomplishment since I feel there’s a lot variance in tournaments, however I feel simply to be constantly at all times beating the video games since I’ve began enjoying poker is one thing I suppose I can take pleasure in.”
Chung has been to Las Vegas many instances, primarily for the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).
“I’ve at all times centered on making an attempt to win a bracelet, albeit with a shorter time schedule than others, I are inclined to solely keep for round three weeks. so I haven’t actually had many alternatives to get huge outcomes. However now I get to go over and simply focus solely in making an attempt to earn cash in barely smaller fields in the course of the WPT World Championship,” mentioned Chung, who will probably be enjoying the occasion for the primary time.
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