WSOPC in the Money, LAPC Moves On, Ivey Signs Lewis

WSOPC Palm Beach Main Event Bursts Money Bubble

The World Series of Poker Circuit is at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida for its latest stop, and the $1,675 buy-in NLHE Main Event began on February 23. Two starting flights brought in 670 entries and a $1,005,000 prize pool.

Day 2 started with 249 players and quickly reduced that number in the evening hours to burst the money bubble, which happened when Tony Miles eliminated a player in 71^st place. Some of the players who cashed included Harrison Gimbel, Ebony Kenney, Rex Clinkscales, Adam Teasdale, Lee Childs, and Jared Jaffee. Play stopped with 30 players remaining.

Day 3 headed took a few players toward the final table, reducing the field further with eliminations of players like Anthony Lombard and Ryan Carter.

WPT L.A. Poker Classic Thins Field

The World Poker Tour‘s famous stop at the L.A. Poker Classic offered WPT players the rare opportunity for a $10K buy-in NLHE tournament with no reentries allowed. A total of 517 players entered the event, creating a prize pool of $4,963,200.

Day 2 of the tournament saw quite a few players eliminated, with only 162 surviving the day. Peter Neff led the pack with 284,700 chips, and others in the top 10 included Ryan Eriquezzo, Scott Seiver, Justin Young, and Sam Stein.

IveyPoker Signs Toby Lewis

Phil Ivey’s instructional poker site, IveyPoker, signed its 30^th pro to its roster with the addition of British player Toby Lewis. Primarily on online pro, Lewis has accumulated more than $2.5 million in winnings thus far, and he also has more than $1.5 million in live tournament earnings.

“I feel like this is a great opportunity for me to extend myself further into my poker career and being related to the IveyPoker name can only help me do that,” Lewis said. “I’ll be a loyal and hard working member of Team Ivey.”