WPT Championships

Posted Apr 24th 2006 12:06AM by Derek McGuire
Filed under: Bloggers, Tournaments, World Poker Tour, Las Vegas

The TV final table for the WPT Championships is set for Monday. James Van Alstyne is the current chipleader.

The winner of this event gets a very sweet payout of $3,760,165. Second and third place money is pretty nice too. Here are the top 4 payouts:

1st - $3,760,165
2nd - $1,903,950
3rd - $1,025,205
4th - $659,120

Dr. Pauly is live blogging this event from the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas. Go stop by his poker blog Monday night for final table updates. You can also check out his Day 5 coverage from Sunday.

Here's a list of the TV final table players:

James Van Alstyne
Joseph Bartholdi
Claus Nielsen
Davidson Matthew
Roland De Wolfe
Men "the Master" Nguyen

Vanessa Rousso was the TV final table bubble girl. She finished in 7th place and won $263,625.

Phil Hellmuth busted out of this event in 50th place. He lost to a bad beat. James Van Alstyne cracked Hellmuth's set when he turned a flush. Poor Phil!

Former Cardsquad writer, Erica Schoenberg, did very well in this event until she was eliminated in 16th place. She won $117,165 for her efforts.

Reader Comments

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1. The winner of this event gets a very sweet payout of $3,760,165- it's more than sweet. WHo is sponsoring the competition. So much money at stake I think that these players do nothing but just practice 8 hours a day or more.

Posted at 6:17AM on Apr 24th 2006 by Razib Ahmed

2. I'm agree with Razib. Answer plz via mail

Posted at 4:05PM on Apr 24th 2006 by Cardiol

3. If you're wondering where all of that money is coming from, well, it's coming from the players themselves. They each have to buy in to the event. I think the buy-in for this one is $25k. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted at 4:21PM on Apr 24th 2006 by kaellinn18

4. I've played with Davidson Matthew before at the Canadian Poker Championship. He was good! I thought he was going to win, but I heard he tilted off his stack after another player showed him a bluff.

I also know the TV can get to people (I played the TV table at the CPC) and they can get crazy trying to showoff or whatever. It should be interesting seeing him at the final table for sure.

Posted at 5:02AM on Apr 25th 2006 by Ins

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