Negreanu will play at the final table of the WSOP 2019 event

​WSOP 2019 has started and poker players have immediately joined the fight for trophies. The first bracelet event in this series is the $10 000 buy-in tournament in the Super Turbo Bounty format.

There were 204 entries which formed a prize pool of $1 305 600, and the winner of this tourney will receive $345 000. In total, 31 people got into the prize zone, and eight of them have already won a gold bracelet (at least once in their life).

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The record holder among them is Eric Seidel, professional who has got 8 of such awards. This time the titled poker player took the 25th place and won only $11 000. Considering the buy-in of $10 000, the amount of the prize money he received is purely symbolic.

The first game day of the tournament is over and the remaining punters (there are 6 of them) packed up their chips. At the moment, American Asher Conniff is a chip leader, but everything may change tomorrow. A real poker legend Daniel Negreanu will play at the final table of the event. The player has missed the trophies and really wants to get a gold bracelet.

Holdem Super Turbo Bounty WSOP 2019 final table chip counts:

1. Asher Conniff (USA) – 4 215 000 (52 BB)
2. Loren Klein (USA) – 3 130 000 (39 BB)
3. Ali Imsirovic (USA) – 2 180 000 (27 BB)
4. Daniel Negreanu (Canada) – 1 015 000 (12 BB)
5. Ali Imsirovic (USA) – 990 000 (11 BB)
6. Brian Green (USA) – 720 000 (9 BB)

The game will continue tomorrow with blinds 40 000/80 000 and Big Blind Ante 80 000.