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2016 WPT Five Diamond Day 2: Ryan Hughes Leads Record-Setting Field
- Updated: December 7, 2016
On Tuesday, the 2016 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event at the Bellagio concluded its second of six days with five more levels of play. The field size ballooned from 519 to 791 entries when late registration closed before the start of Level 9, generating a huge $7,672,700 prize pool and a new record for the 15 year history of the event.
The previous record was established back in 2007 when Ukraine’s Eugene Katchalov outlasted a field of 664 entrants to bank $2,482,605, the biggest win of his poker career. This also ties a the WPT record in $10,000 buy-in events with the 2007 WPT L.A. Poker Classic, an event won by Eric Hershler for $2,429,970.
Despite the record-breaking field size, the event ranks in fourth place in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event history in terms of prize pool due to some of the earlier events featuring a larger buy-in of $15,300 to $15,400 when compared to the $10,400 buy-in in this year’s event. However, it does set a new record for the largest prize pool in WPT $10,000 events with the 2007 WPT L.A. Poker Classic generating a slightly smaller $7,593,600 prize pool.
While chip counts won’t be official until before the start of Day 3, at the end of Day 2, two-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Ryan Hughes racked up a substantial chip lead with 364,400 chips with 270 players remaining, according to WorldPokerTour.com.
Day 2 of the Season XV WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event began at 12 p.m. …
