The 2012 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event (Event #65: $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em) attracted lots of players with its eye-popping $5 million guarantee. However, many couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams that the prize pool would end up almost the double...
When the first hands were dealt it was obvious that that $5 million guarantee would met. Within 30 minutes of play the total number of entrants had already crept over 1,200, which made the prize pool more than $6 million. More and more people registered for the tournament until registration finally closed, with a total of 1,825 players and a prize pool of $9,125,000!
After about 12 hours of battle, the first day was over and 245 players had chips left. The chip leader was "munchenHB" (Cyprus) and "moukari6" (Finland) in second place with 536,563 chips. Play will resume tonight at 20:30 CET and the cash bubble will burst after 20 more eliminations. There is some life-changing money up for grabs on the final table, so we have a very interesting day/night of poker ahead of us!
End of Day 1 chip counts (TOP 10):
1. munchenHB (Cyprus) -- 587,433
2. moukari6 (Finland) -- 536,563
3. hnidel (Czech Republic) -- 442,654
4. JRADF79 (Belgium) -- 422,268
5. The Lag rat (Costa Rica) -- 416,817
6. sly caveat (Portugal) -- 409,459
7. SNG Grind_15 (Norway) -- 405,168
8. Rens02 (Netherlands) -- 385,579
9. leech4555 (South Korea) -- 369,185
10. NL_Profit (Russia) -- 362,355
Final Table Payouts:
1st prize: $1,612,843.75
2nd: $1,113,250.00
3rd: $750,000.00
4th: $513,281.25
5th: $365,000.00
6th: $249,112.50
7th: $182,500.00
8th: $136,875.00
9th: $91,250.00
