WPT Event in Reno-Less buy-ins

The buy-in has been raised to $7500 as we all know, for the event in Grand Sierra Resort, Reno. In 2007 there were 475 players participating, this year there was only 261 players.

It's got to be the higher buy-in due to the critical economical situation in the USA many hobby players are not willing to pay such a high price for a live tournament.

Still many pros appeared and the quality of poker and the participants was kept very high. For example, reconfirmed Phil Ivey, had very strong performances from the past weeks. He is chip leader with 179000 chips, followed by Eli Elezra (173800 chips), And with 131300 chips was Jordan Rich in fourth place.



Elezra has already won one WPT-title, which was the $10000 Mirage Poker Showdown. Jordan Rich has been on top form to, with good results in recent times. Also in the top 10 are Furthermore Tim West, Hasan Habib and Bill Edler.

27 players will make up the money ranks and the star prize contains an amount of $1873275 witch is smaller than last year. The winner will take $493815.