The World Poker Tour wraps up Season IV with its grand finale being hosted at the Bellagio Hotel Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Bellagio’s 2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic kicks off April 5th with two-day no-limit hold’em tournaments, including a seniors event and “a last chance to qualify” super satellite. On April 18th, the $25,000 championship will begin, with final table filming on April 24th.
One-table qualifiers will run day and night, throughout the course of the each scheduled event, for the next day’s tournament.
“Bellagio is excited to host the WPT World Championship for the fourth consecutive year as the grand finale of the 5 Star World Poker Classic,” said Doug Dalton, Director of Poker Operations at Bellagio. “The number of participants increases every tournament and the prize pools continue to set new highs. We are proud to be part of this phenomenon.”
Tuan Le will return to defend last year’s WPT Championship title, which included a bracelet, the trophy, a silver platter and, of course, the money. Le outlasted a field of 452 players to reach the exciting up and down final table. Le, who was severely short-stacked, rebounded to survive blinds, bluffs and fate and won $2,856,150. Second place finisher, Paul Maxfield, took home nearly $1.7 million.
This season, the WPT qualified over a dozen champions, including Grand Prix de Paris winner, Roland De Wolfe. Other slotted participants include Mirage Poker Showdown winner, Gavin Smith; Legends champion, Alex Kahaner; Borgata Poker Open’s Al Ardebili; Ultimatebet’s Aruba winner, Freddie Deeb; Foxwood’s, Nick Schulman; Bellagio Five Diamond’s Rehne Pedersen; PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure winner, Steve Paul-Ambrose; Gold Strike’s, Scotty “The Prince” Nguyen; L.A. Poker Classic’s, Alan Goehring; Borgata’s, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi; Bay 101’s Nam Le; and this years WPC and Foxwood’s champions, to be announced.
Source: www.cardplayer.com
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