This year’s 4th Annual World Poker Classic will be held in Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel Resort and Casino. The big event is scheduled to begin on April 5th and to finish near the end of the month on April 24th. The final championship table begins playing on the 18th of April with the event’s final table playing on the 24th. The first two days of the tournament will start off with two-day, no-limit Texas Hold’em tournaments, as well as a senior event and a “last-chance-to-qualify” super satellite.

Throughout the course of each scheduled event there will be one-table qualifiers running day and night for the next day’s tournament.

The Bellagio’s Director of Poker Operations, Doug Dalton, said “Bellagio is excited to host the WPT World Championship for the fourth consecutive year as the grand finale of the 5 Star World Poker Classic”. Dalton added that “the number of participants increases every tournament and the prize pools continue to set new highs.”

Last year, Tuan Le, the winner of last year’s World Poker Classic championship title, won a bracelet, the World Poker Classic trophy, a silver platter and, of course, the prize money. Tuan Le will be returning this year to defend his title. In last year’s final, Le had to outlast another 452 players in order to make it to the final table. Even though he was severely short-stacked, Le was able to make a come back and survive blinds, bluffs and simple fate and win the $2,856,150 million. Paul Maxfield, who took second place at the tournament, went home with almost $1.7 million.

For this season’ tournament, over a dozen champions have qualified including Roland De Wolfe, the winner of the Grand Prix de Paris. Other qualified champion players include Aruba winner, Freddie Deeb; Bay 101’s Nam Le; Bellagio Five Diamond’s Rehne Pedersen; Borgata’s, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi; Borgata Poker Open’s Al Ardebili; Caribbean Poker Adventure winner, Steve Paul-Ambrose; L.A. Poker Classic’s, Alan Goehring; Legends champion, Alex Kahaner; Mirage Poker Showdown winner, Gavin Smith; PokerStars Gold Strike’s, Scotty “The Prince” Nguyen Ultimatebet’s Foxwood’s, Nick Schulman; and this years WPC and Foxwood’s champions, yet to be announced.

Posted on: March 27, 2006

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