Not less than 1,313 players ended up participating in the $3,5k main event of WPT Borgata Poker Open, which started 2 days ago, making it the largest tournament in WPT history. Now, both Day 1a and b are already in the books and Day 2 will start in a few hours.
Chip leader is Abe Korotkl with 260,100 chips, and in second place is no one else than Jeff Madsen with 216,925 chips (more info about hi[...] Read more » WPT Borgata Poker Open: Jeff Madsen in second place!
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 4843
Poker is growing, and this WPT is just another example that each time more persons are beting on learning to play the game very well in order to fill confident enough to enter a tourney like this, that just achieved almost $1 million thanks to the huge field. I think that it will start to be common to see greater prizes this and next years than they were before.
------------ Poker is growing, and this WPT is just another example that each time more persons are beting on learning to play the game very well in order to fill confident enough to enter a tourney like this, that just achieved almost $1 million thanks to the huge field. I think that it will start to be common to see greater prizes this and next years than they were before.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 4843
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------------ Well explored online poker opened a great oportunity for old casinos to upgrade their activity. In Portugal, casinos only have lots of people in the summer. If they receive or sponsor events like this, and if they join themselves to this online trademarks, they have a lot to win. Better online players who never went to a casino will take this tickets they win as a first time going, and that can turn into a spreading word that can bring more public to real casinos. Its a win-win scheme to sponsor this tickets and online events, in order to have more people at real casinos.
