WPT: Legends Of Poker Main Event Starts Tomorrow
Published on 22 Aug 08 12:47 by Drakhor
Even though WPT Enterprise currently struggles, a WPT title is still the most prestigious poker trophy after a WSOP bracelet. Tomorrow, the Main Event of the 'Legends of Poker' begins in the Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles.
The
$10,000 Main Event will take place on six days. As usual, two starting days are planned. The kick-off is tomorrow at 2:15PM local time. The final table will be played on August 28th.
Nguyen Family successful in the Prelims
In
a $300 No-Limit Hold'em event he prevailed over 251 further participants and received $65,700. Added to that was a first place in the $500 Omaha
Hi/Lo event (121 participants) for $20,535. Thus Nguyen
already booked six wins in bigger tournaments in 2008 –
including a first place in the $2,500 Limit Hold'em tournament of the L.A. Poker
Classic. By the way: a WPT title is still missing in the collection of the six-time bracelet winner, even though he already cashed twelve times at the Tour. In January, Nguyen almost made it but he only finished third behind Hoyt Corkins and Brett Faustman.
Minh Nguyen, cousin of Men Nguyen, cashed twice. He didn't win an event, but he was able to call attention to himself with an 11th place in the $500 No-Limit Hold'em tournament and an 8th place in the $300 Omaha Hi/Lo event.
There was also a German cash in the preliminary tourneys. Gerhard Schiesser finished 14th in a $300 No-Limit Hold'em tournament and received $2,595.
Main Event 2007
Last year, 484 players signed up for the event. The prize pool summed up to $4,607,500. None other than Dan Harrington won the tourney. On a very strong final table he defeated Thu Nguyen, Tom Schneider and David 'The Dragon' Pham amongst others. Harrington was rewarded with $1,635,365.