Jour 1c chip leader Zachary Tay
Le retour du World Poker Tour à Taiwan avait déjà été un franc succès avant le tournoi phare de l'étape au Association chinoise de poker Texas Hold'em dans la ville de Taipei. Attendance numbers in the high-stakes competitions were through the roof but all of that was topped in the 2022 WPT Prime TWD 33,000 ($1,100) Main Event.
Grâce à 189 ainsi que 263 entries in the first two starting days, the TWD 10 million guarantee was already surpassed and the attendance was nearly doubled in the third and final flight. An incredible 425 entries pushed the capacity of the CTP Club as all 32 tables in the main tournament room and overflow area were in use during the registration period. This pushed the total field size to 877 entries as a prize pool of TWD 25,196,700 ($808,623) emerged and the tournament has become the largest in the live poker history of the venue and Taiwan.
Three players were competing for the chip lead during the arduous bubble period which lasted two hours and approximately three dozen hands. Multiple all-in showdowns brought no casualties and Zachary Tay (1,098,000), Marc Inizan (1,056,000) as well as Ken Okada (838,000) took advantage of the tense affair to pull away from the pack.
Other notables to bag and tag for the night were Jason Chen (507,000), Kuang Hung "Luke" Lee (456,000), Pei Chih "Jason" Shih (330,000), Po Wen Fang (293,000), and Fu Bang Huang (236,000). La 2021 WSOP bracelet winner and Player of the Festival contender Motoyoshi Okamura scraped through the bubble period with a chip and a chair as he finished the night with 13,000.
Parmi l' 51 survivors were also four women and Sumire Hori advanced with the far biggest stack if them as she claimed 665,000 to her name. Orathai Nasathaen (118,000), Szu.Wei Chiu (113,000) and Qing Lu (102,000) are separated by only a few big blinds.
After numerous all-in showdowns without an elimination, Zhen Long Liu, Ying Huang and Woo Suk Hong all bowed out in the same hand on separate tables. The trio split the two min-cashes as each take home TWD 36,933 ($1,185) pour leurs efforts.
Le Main Event record en chiffres :
Jour 1a: 24 / 189 entrées avancées
Jour 1b: 33 / 263 entrées avancées
Jour 1c: 51 / 425 entrées avancées
Jour 2: 108 players return, all in the money
Nombre total d'entrées : 877
Total Prize Pool: TWD 25,196,700 ($808,623)
Min-Cash: TWD 55,400 ($1,778)
Final Table Min-Cash: TWD 431,900 ($13,861)
Top Prize: TWD 4,326,000 ($138,852) + Entry for WPT Championships in Las Vegas
Big names that found no fortune in the third and final starting day included the former WPTDeepStacks winners Hamish Crawshaw and Brian Tougias, 2022 WPT Australia Player of the Festival Joseph Sandaev, Michael Soyza, Punnat Punsri, Kitty Kuo, Phachara Wongwichit, Natalie Teh, and Namhyung Kim.
L'action reprendra avec 15 minutes restantes dans le niveau 15 aux stores de 3,000-6,000 et une grosse blind ante de 6,000 as it rolls back to the earliest finish across the three starting days. All 108 Jour 1 survivors have locked up a min-cash of TWD 55,400 while the three casualties on the Day 1c bubble will split two min-cashes.
À partir du jour 2 and until a winner has been crowned, the level duration increases to 60 minutes each and the tournament switches to eight-handed tables with 14 of them in use at the restart in the CTP Club. The penultimate tournament day will play all the way down to the final table, which then concludes one day later on Monday, November 21, 2022.