ClubWPT qualifier Felipe Diaz, a 36-year-old butcher from Wisconsin, ended the day with 188,000 chips. That includes some past World Poker Tour champions such as Eric Afriat and Erkut Yilmaz. WPT Choctaw, as is always the case, attracted some of the top players in the game to Durant, Oklahoma. The bubble will burst before the day concludes.Īndrew Moreno finished Day 1a with the biggest stack at 510,500, which would have been good for fourth place on Day 1b. There were 95 survivors on Day 1a and 92 on Day 1b, which means 187 will return to the Grand Theater at Choctaw Casino & Resort on Sunday at noon CT. A min-cash - 71st to 77th place - is worth $6,980. All six players who reach the final table, which will take place in Las Vegas on May 26, will have a guaranteed minimum payout of $81,700. First place will take home $400,740 and the runner-up will receive $261,000. We now have the payouts now that registration has closed. Moore had a setback but still finished with a healthy 301,000-chip stack.īryan Campanello, who busted former WPT Player of the Year Ray Qartomy twice in the same day, is the only other player over 600,000 - he finished with 611,000. He finished the session with 631,000 (252 big blinds). But the pot was crucial as it put him over the 600,000-chip mark. Neither hands were exposed so we can't tell you if he was bluffing or what she folded.

Jones had bet 243,000 chips on the river and Moore frustratingly folded her hand.

The WPT's live reporting team caught the action on a board of 4 ♠ 10 ♦ 7 ♥ Q ♠ 6 ♥ in an already bloated pot. While there were a number of big name players who bagged, and multiple monster stacks, everyone finished with an inferior stack compared to Jesse Jones who won a massive pot against Megan Moore late on Saturday that catapulted him into the chip lead. There were exactly 300 entries on Day 1b at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw $3,800 buy-in event, but only 92 of them will be advancing to Sunday's Day 2 session.

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