The 4 Day 1 flights of the 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Fundamental Occasion have concluded, and now it’s time for the $10,000 buy-in event to maneuver on to Day 2.
Among the many hundreds of gamers nonetheless standing is a gaggle of qualifiers from Commerce On line casino in Los Angeles, the most important poker site on the earth. Jamie Gold, the 2006 world champion, headlined a crew of 20 LA professionals (plus himself) that every one entered the Fundamental Occasion Day 1a flight (besides Gold, who was sick).
Practically Everybody Made it to Day 2
Of the 20 Day 1a gamers from the Commerce professional crew, an unbelievable 16 gamers superior to Day 2. After which after Gold’s sickness cleared sufficient for the poker champion to compete, he made it 17 of 21 by bagging 110,000 chips, almost doubling the 60,000-chip beginning stack.
All 17 members of the group from the legendary SoCal card room will likely be again in motion Sunday at midday PT for the Day 2abc session. You possibly can comply with alongside their progress all through the Fundamental Occasion proper right here at PokerNews.
When talking with Gold, who was out of motion for almost per week as he wasn’t feeling properly, it’s clear he’s ecstatic to see the Commerce crew crushing it early within the Fundamental Occasion, a event he gained for $12 million 18 years in the past.
“We’ve all bonded during the last 2 months and it is so heartwarming to see everybody rooting for one another and supporting one another. The camaraderie is absolutely particular, you’ll be able to’t pretend that it is an power and an exquisite feeling as poker is such a singular typically lonely endeavor we made it a crew sport in a means. After all we’re all nonetheless taking part in for our personal success however now there is a method to share that. It is not all in regards to the cash which for me it by no means was.” – Jamie Gold.
Commerce is Gold’s dwelling card room, and the place the place he started his journey as a event participant all the best way again within the early 1990’s. Now as an envoy for the poker site, he’s finished work to advertise Commerce, not solely in Los Angeles, but in addition this week in Las Vegas and past.
The Commerce crew had a profitable Day 1, together with Gold’s efficiency. However nobody within the group beat out Loc “Luke” Nguyen, who bagged 200,900 chips, which places him properly above the typical stack. After all, as Gold realized in 2006, this event is a protracted grind that doesn’t finish till July 17, and nothing is gained on Day 1. However little question the crew is off to a robust begin.
To qualify as one of many 20 finalists for the Commerce professional crew, every participant needed to accumulate no less than 100 factors, simply by taking part in on the poker site. There have been 551 gamers who certified in April. These qualifying gamers then bought an entry to an Invitational Match on Could 5 the place the group was narrowed right down to the highest 20 professional crew members.
Commerce then gave away one other Fundamental Occasion seat on-line for anybody on the earth, free to qualify.
Final month, Gold hosted a Commerce VIP package deal contest the place one participant gained a seat within the Fundamental Occasion together with poker teaching from the previous champ. He has a gaggle of gamers he’s been teaching in preparation for poker’s most prestigious annual event.
In Could, Gold and fellow world champion Phil Hellmuth took on a desk stuffed with Commerce On line casino gamers for a particular livestream on the LA poker site.
Comply with the Commerce Workforce within the WSOP Fundamental Occasion
