Ivey Runs Good on Day 1C, Pros Giving to Charity, WPT National Result

Ivey Flourishes on Day 1C

Day 1C of the 2014 WSOP Main Event not only entered the record books as the largest single flight in the event’s history, but it gave Phil Ivey a springboard into Day 2.

The American pro enjoyed a fruitful day at the felt and eventually ended the day with 187,025 chips which was enough for second place on the leaderboard.

Also making it through the day was Daniel Negreanu (129,250), Jake Cody (115,525) and Gus Hansen (90,550), but leading the way at the close of the mammoth session was Eric Tracey.

The amateur player managed to rake in 206,175 chips and will move into Day 2 as one of the largest stacks in the room.

$10,000 WSOP Main Event Day 1C End-of-Day Chip Counts:

1. Eric Tracey – 206,175

2. Phil Ivey – 187,025

3. Ronnie Pease – 181,850

4. Nick Yunis – 171,100

5. Tom Sarra Jr – 168,100

6. Martin Hansen – 167,250

7. Konstantin Tolokno – 161,550

8. Justin Lunin-Pack – 154,925

9. Justin Swilling – 149,275

10. Jonathan McCann – 147,125

Pros to Improve Charity EV

Poker and charity is a winning combination and thanks to the efforts of some forward thinking poker players that cocktail got even better recently.

Raising for Effective Giving (REG) was recently set up by a small team of pros, including Igor Kurganov, Liv Boeree and Philipp Gruissem, with the aim of thinking “rationally” and improving the EV of giving money to charity.

Based on the principle of “effective giving”, REG wants to maximise the expected value of each donation through research, analysis and discussions with experts and think tanks.

The project is calling for members of the poker community to donate 2% of their gross quarterly poker winnings to the project in an effort to help some of the most deserving charities in the world.

Tuna Takes WPT Titles in London

The World Poker Tour‘s latest National Event in London came to a close on Sunday and heading the leaderboard was Gabriel Tuna.

The Londoner has already achieved success on the GUKPT and Genting Poker Series, but on Sunday he was able to add another title and £22,000 to his list of accolades.

After coming through a tough final table that featured the likes of James Greenwood and Mantas Zeringis, Tuna was eventually able to overcome Svetlin Ivanov heads-up.

Having captured the chip lead Tuna finally the title when his Ad 8c was enough to beat Ivanov’s Kc Js as the board ran out 5d 2c 3c Tc 6s.

WPT National London Final Result:

1. Gabriel Tuna – £22,000

2. Svetlin Ivanov – £15,165

3. Anooj Sareen – £9,760

4. Mantas Zeringis – £7,230

5. James Charlton – £5,410

6. James Greenwood – £4,360

7. Quoc Nong – £3,600

8. Mo Shanehzan – £2,900

9. Tristan Chaplin – £2,160