WPT Continues, WSOPC NOLA and CSOP Finish

WPT Championship Thins Field

Season 11 of the World Poker Tour was nearing the end with the excitement of the grand finale of the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The 146-entry field had a prize pool of $3,540,500 with which to pay the top 15 finishers.

May 20 was Day 3 of the $25,500 buy-in Main Event, and it started with 67 players, though only 24 of them remained when play ended that night. The chip leader was Amir Babakhani with 1,220,000 chips.

Day 4 brought the money bubble into play after Andy Frankenberger exited in 17^th place. Hyon Kim was then eliminated by Dan Shak in 16^th place on the bubble, and the rest of the players were guaranteed at least $49,210. Play continued in an effort to find the final table of six.

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Luke Graham Wins WSOP Circuit New Orleans

What started with 762 entries wrapped up on May 20 with one winner at the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s in New Orleans. The $1,675 buy-in NLHE tournament had a prize pool of $1,143,000 and awarded more than $228K to Luke Graham for his victory. The final results were:

1^st place: Luke Graham ($228,600)

2^nd place: Joseph Hebert ($140,932)

3^rd place: Kasra Khodayarkhani ($103,899)

4^th place: Daniel Weinman ($77,438)

5^th place: Rogen Chhabra ($58,487)

6^th place: Dan Schmiech ($44,748)

7^th place: Tripp Kirk ($34,667)

8^th place: Ben Mintz ($27,192)

9^th place: Pavan Bhatia ($21,591)

China Series of Poker Wraps

The inaugural event of the China Series of Poker brought 379 players to the island of Hainan in Sanya, China. Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin bubbled the final table, but fellow Team Pro Raymond Wu made it and finished seventh. The final results were:

1^st place: HaiGuang Jin

2^nd place: MingYi Hsu

3^rd place: DaWei Shi

4^th place: Wei Zhang

5^th place: Jun Hu

6^th place: Wen Hao

7^th place: Raymond Wu

8^th place: Jia Wang

9^th place: Hong Zhu