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2016 WPT Five Diamond Day 1: Robin Hegele Leads the Potentially Record Setting Field
- Updated: December 6, 2016
The 2016 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event at the Bellagio kicked off the first of its six days of its 15th anniversary event on Monday, Dec. 5 with a star-studded field loaded with some of the biggest names in the game.
The opening day ended after the first five levels of play were completed, and a total of 519 entrants ponied up the $10,400 event buy-in creating a prize pool of over $5 million and counting. With late registration open until around 5:15 PT on Day 2 or at the end of level 9, the field size is likely to eclipse last year’s event which attracted 439 entrants on Day 1 and 639 in total.
Additionally, the field size could set an overall record for the field size for the event which was established back in 2007 when Ukraine’s Eugene Katchalov outlasted a field of 664 entrants to secure his biggest win of his poker career of $2,482,605. However, it is unlikely that this year’s event will eclipse the 2007 event’s total prize pool of $9,661,200, since in that year the buy-in was $15,400 or about 50 percent higher than that of this year’s event.
While chip counts won’t be official until before the start of Day 2, at the end of Day 1, Germany’s Robin Hegele was the chip leader with 185,000 and approximately 385 entrants remaining according to WorldPokerTour.com.
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