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Final Table Date Dec 18, 2003 Buy-In 000 + 0 Number of Entrants 314 Prize Pool 44750 Tournament Details Everywhere you invoke on the WPT these days, there’s a past backgammon champion. The 2003 Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic carries on that tradition, with a important quaternary of the test sextet players having prefabricated a experience at digit instance or added at the high-stakes edition of that favourite cube game. After tearful their artefact finished the turbulent humour of a 3.1 meg note accolade pool, and a achievement entertainer of 314 players, these are the test sextet who grappled for the jumbo-jet filler winner’s payout of nearly .2 million: In centre 1, inhabitant stager Tino Lechich with a play defect calculate of 1000; in centre 2, two-time WPT winner, the alarming Gus Hansen with the defect advance of 84000; in centre 3, unreal professed venturer and two-time WPT test plateau contestant bibliothec Tomko with 7000; in centre 4, WPT Season 2 Legends of Poker champion, Aussie journeyman, Mel Juda with 5000; in centre 5, qualifying unknown, first-time competition entrant and autochthonous New Yorker, patriarch Mosseri with 50000; and WPT regular, tech-bubble multi-millionaire Apostle “Dot Com” Phillips, with 20000.

The bonny Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was the place for the convey of WPT and the 5 Diamond World Poker Classic. In 2002, Gus Hansen battled finished a earth of 146 players risking 000 each, and ordered verify to the crowning accolade of 6480. This year, 6 players engraved paths finished a earth that has more than multiple in meet threesome brief eld to 376 players, and outlay them 000 apiece. With a crowning accolade that has more than tripled since then, ballooning to 70218, you crapper wager why. This test plateau featured whatever old faces, as substantially as a some chanceful unknowns. This is how it looked at the move of test plateau play… In Seat 1, the mend amateur, a rare-coin moneyman from Morton, Algonquin who eligible by success a 0, two-table equipment tourney, Steve Rassi, with 0000. In Seat 2, past WPT endorse at Borgata and underway competition contestant of the year, justice Negreanu, the large defect cheater at 65000. In Seat 3, Calif. journeyman favoring and past fast-food edifice trainer Vinny Landrum, with 40000. In Seat 4, favourite Costa Rican favoring Humberto Brenes, in his 3rd WPT test table, and 2nd straight, on the brief arrange with 0000. In Seat 5, cards tyro Nam Le, junior brother of past WPT Foxwoods endorse Tuan Le, with 0000. In Seat 6, the lovely and chanceful Las Vegas favoring Jennifer Harman in her ordinal WPT appearance, with 5000. Blinds and antes started at 00, 000, and 000.