Strong start from Pütz, Bernhauser and Ensan at the WPT Venetian!

Christopher Puetz (GER)

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It was $5,000 on Wednesday night World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event im Venetian Hotel & Casino Las Vegas with the second of three starting days one further. The tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $4,000,000.

176 entries came together on day 1a and 40 players qualified for day 2. Anton Wigg (SWE) got the chip lead with 751,000 (250.5 big blinds). The DACH community showed a strong performance and five players made it through the day safely.

Here are the chip counts of the DACH players from Day 1a:

Rank 3 – Ljubomir Josipovic (AUT) – 486,500 (162 Big Blinds)

Rang 5 – Ole Schemion (GER) – 392.000 (130,5 Big Blinds)

Rang 12 – Leon Sturm (GER) – 268.500 (89,5 Big Blinds)

Rank 14 – Timo Kamphues (GER) – 254,500 (85 Big Blinds)

Rang 34 – Stefan Schillhabel (GER) – 90.500 (30 Big Blinds)

Day 1b started again with 50,000 chips and eleven levels of 60 minutes each were played. By the end of the late registration after level 9 there had been 241 entries, so after day 1b you already have 417 starts. At the end of the day, 58 protagonists were still allowed to bag their chips for day 2. Among others, Fedor Holz (GER) fell behind. The American Harrison Ashdown took over the day 1b chip lead with 466,000 (155.5 big blinds). As the best of five DACH players, Christopher Pütz (GER) is in 6th place with 429,000 (143 big blinds).

So far, 98 protagonists have already qualified for Day 2. Anton Wigg (SWE) holds the overall chip lead with 751,000 (250 big blinds). The average after Day 1b is 212,755 (71 big blinds).

Day 1c starts on Thursday at 20:10 (CET).

Day 2 starts on Friday at 20:00 (CET) on level 12 with blinds 1,500/3,000 (big blind ante). Then ten levels of 60 minutes each are played. From day 3, a 30-second action clock will be used in the tournament. The champion will only be determined in the final on Sunday from 21:00 (CET).

Our colleagues at WPT.com have one too Live blog about the tournament.

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Here are the chip counts of the DACH players on day 1b:

6th place – Christopher Puetz (GER) – 429,000

Rang 15 – Fabian Bernhauser (AUT) – 262.000

Rank 20 – Hossein Ensan (GER) – 241,000

Rank 28 – Daniel Rezaei (AUT) – 173,000

Rank 41 – Hannes Speiser (AUT) – 110,500

Here are the chip counts from day 1b:

1. Harrison Ashdown – 466,500
2. Mitchell Halverson – 452,500
3. Wesley Shi – 449,000
4. Ignacio Moron – 430,000
5. John Riordan – 430,000
6. Christopher Puetz – 429,000
7. Eric Afriat – 424,000
8. Nichan Khorchidian – 420,000
9. Wendy Beckers – 390,000
10. Jake Schwartz – 380,500
11. Nick Phoenix – 366,000
12. Wayne Harmon – 332,000
13. Brad Owen – 316,000
14. Jeremy Becker – 275,000
15. Fabian Bernhauser – 262,000
16. Cameron Rezaie – 259,500
17. Daniel Lim – 258,500
18. Jerry Wong – 253,500
19. Fabiano Kovalski – 251,000
20. Hossein Ensan – 241,000
21. Zachary Tay – 238,000
22. Zachary Grech – 230,500
23. Andrew Neeme – 208,500
24. Daniela Rodriguez – 206,500
25. Spencer Champlin – 205,500
26. Denys Shafikov – 193,500
27. Donovan Dean – 184,000
28. Daniel Rezaei – 173,000
29. Kyle Frey – 172,000
30. Noel Rodriguez – 170,500
31. Sean McNutly – 166,500
32. Miracles Peterson – 164,500
33. Kyle Birdwell – 163,000
34. Joe Kuether – 156,000
35. James Calderaro – 155,000
36. David Jackson – 155,000
37. Andrew Hulme – 152,500
38. Antonio Salorio – 144,000
39. Jasvinder Singh – 113,000
40. Phaly Nou – 113,000
41. Hannes Speiser – 110,500
42. Angel Ruiz – 107,500
43. Ralph Wong – 97,500
44. Valerie Novak – 97,500
45. Frank Stepuchin – 96,000
46. Ming Xi – 94,500
47. Samuel Bekerian – 88,000
48. Thong Tran – 85,000
49. Harold Evans – 84,500
50. Shakkar Haran – 79,500
51. Nabil Cardoso – 77,000
52. Ramesh Puradchithasan – 69,000
53. Adrian Naggy – 68,000
54. Payan Ataie – 67,500
55. Justin Zaki – 62,000
56. Jacob Perry – 54,500
57. Will Nguyen – 52,000
58. Philip Shing – 43,000