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Everything you need to know about the 2022 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic

The Bellagio Hotel, Resort & Casino is synonymous with Las Vegas, the movie Oceans Eleven , and the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, one of the most iconic tournaments on the World Poker Tour. The 2022 edition of the festival will begin in less than 24 hours and will run through October 23 with a variety of events. The Main Event will kick off on October 19, and the final table will take place on Sunday October 23.

Twenty years ago the first World Poker Tour tournament was played at the Bellagio with 146 players. Among the finalists were Scotty Nguyen , John Juanda , Freddy Deeb , John Hennigan, and Gus Hansen , who ended up winning the event.

This year’s festival boasts the traditional $10K Main Event along with a number of other marquee side events — including a special cash game — which you can read about below.

Festival Highlights

• No Limit Hold’em: October 7-9. Buy-In: $560
• High Roller #1: October 8. Buy-In: $25,000
• Seniors: October 11. Buy-In: $1,100
• Mystery Bounty: October 13. Buy-In: $2,650
• WPT MUG with Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen : October 18
• WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic: October 19-23. Buy-In: $10,400
• High Roller PLO #10: October 17. Buy-In: $25,000
• High Roller #12: October 21. Buy-In: $25,000

You can see the complete schedule with all the events and satellites via this link .

WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic

• Format: No Limit Texas Hold’em
• Buy-In: $10,400
• Starting stack: 50,000 (250 big blinds)
• Blind levels: 60 minute during Day 1 and 90 minutes during Days 2, 3, 4 and 5
• First level: 100/200 with 200 Big Blind Ante
• Re-entry: Unlimited re-entry is allowed until the start of Level 10
• Late registration: registration closes at the start of Level 10 during Day 2
• Action Clock; Will be used at the start of Day 3
• Players per table: Play will start 9-handed and will move to 8-handed when 80 players are remaining
• Payouts: 12.5% of the field approximately
• Day 1: October 19 at 12 PM (8 levels)
• Day 2: October 20 at 12 PM (5 levels)
• Day 3: October 21 at 12 PM (5 levels)
• Day 4: October 22 at 12 PM (until final table)
• Day 5: October 23 at 12 PM (final table)

MUG with Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen

Following the success of the Meet Up Game (MUG) during WPT Australia , World Poker Tour ambassadors Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen will return to play $2/$5 cash games on Tuesday October 18 between 10 AM and 5 PM. WPT MUG players will be invited for complimentary drinks and food following the meet-up game, from 5 PM.

Hotel Options

For the best available room rates at Bellagio, contact Bellagio’s Poker Host, Penny Cohen at [email protected] or by phone at 702-693-7290.

Defending Champion

The last edition of the tournament was played in December 2021 and had 716 entries, distributing a total of $6,945,200 in prizes. The top 90 players made it into the money, and the champion crowned was Taylor Black , who took home $1,241,430 and got his name etched on the venerable Sexton Cup.

Notable Champions

As mentioned, the prestigious tournament now has 20 years of history and has been won in the past renowned players including Gus Hansen (2002), Daniel Negreanu (2004), Joe Hachem (2006), Eugene Katchalov (2007), Antonio Esfandiari (2010), Dan Smith (2013), Dylan Linde (2018) and Alex Foxen (2019).

If you want to take a crack at adding your name to that illustrious list of WPT champions, then just head on over to the Bellagio!

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2022 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Is Underway

I was listening to a podcast while making dinner last night about my all-time favorite movie, Field of Dreams (if you like sports and sports movies, check out the Big Screen Sports podcast – it’s fun!). Naturally, they talked about James Earl Jones’ big monologue near the end, part of which goes, “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.”

In the poker world, the same can be said for the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic, which begins today at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. It was the World Poker Tour’s first-ever event and is the only one that has been held in all of the Tour’s 20 seasons. Since before the poker boom and through it, through shifts in the industry that have caused poker’s popularity to rise and fall, the Five Diamond has persevered. The only thing to stop it was the COVID-19 pandemic, but that put the kibosh on just about all poker in 2020.

As one of the most prestigious live poker tournaments in the world and with a buy-in of $10,000, the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic has a “who’s who” list of winners and runners-up. Of particular note are the top finishers from the early days of the event, pre-poker boom.

In 2002, Gus Hansen won the first Five Diamond, beating John Juanda heads-up. The following year, it was Paul Phillips beating Dewey Tomko, and the year after that, Daniel Negreanu edged out Humberto Brenes.

Nobody has won the Five Diamond more than once, though a couple players have come very close. Ryan Tosoc finished as the runner-up in 2016 and then won the tournament following year. Alex Foxen came in second to Tosoc, but then won the whole thing in 2019.

This year’s Five Diamond is a five day event. On Wednesday’s Day 1, players will compete for eight 60-minute levels. Days 2 and 3 will have five 90-minute levels. The six-handed final table will be determined on Day 4 and a champion will be crowned on Day 5. Play will begin nine-handed and switch to eight-handed when there are 80 players remaining.

The tournament will pay approximately 12.5% of the field.

Taylor Black won the 2021 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic , beating a 716-entry field (re-entries were and are permitted) to claim the $1,241,430 first prize from a $6.9 million prize pool.

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2-1:  Gabriel Andrade  –  34,500 2-2:  Andre Butler  –  28,500 2-3:  Joey Weissman  –  136,000 2-4:  Taylor Black  –  238,000 2-6:  Brian Rast  –  42,500 2-7:  Damjan Radanov  –  151,500 2-8:  James Calderaro  –  72,500 2-9:  Peiwen Wang  –  119,500

3-1:  Bill Klein  –  60,500 3-2:  David Gonzalez  –  21,000 3-3:  Bin Weng  –  79,500 3-4:  Ronald Paolucci  –  90,500 3-6:  Karim Rebei  –  138,500 3-7:  Sergio Fernandez  –  144,500 3-8:  Leonard Maue  –  105,500 3-9:  Pavlo Veksler  –  113,000

4-1:  Michael Stembera  –  55,500 4-2:  Philip Shing  –  73,000 4-3:  Duy Duong  –  19,500 4-4:  Ed Sebesta  –  183,000 4-6:  Selahaddin Bedir  –  52,500 4-7:  Lee Markholt  –  51,500 4-8:  Wayne Harmon  –  69,500 4-9:  Robert Park  –  172,500

5-1:  Matt Stout  –  159,500 5-2:  Brian Batt  –  90,500 5-3:  Glenn Lafaye  –  48,500 5-4:  Ralph Wong  –  41,500 5-6:  Dylan Destefano  –  119,000 5-7:  Gediminas Uselis  –  132,500 5-8:  Chino Rheem  –  93,000 5-9:  Peter Lockwood  –  82,500

6-1:  Ryan Franklin  –  88,000 6-2:  Thong Tran  –  25,000 6-3:  Markus Gonsalves  –  84,000 6-4:  Dominik Nitsche  –  20,000 6-6:  Stephen Song  –  36,500 6-7:  Alexander Gruenig  –  138,500 6-8:  John Corsi  –  15,000 6-9:  Faraz Jaka  –  103,000

7-1:  Chris Moorman  –  34,000 7-2:  Henry Lu  –  34,000 7-3:  Stan Jablonski  –  22,500 7-4:  Ping Liu  –  36,000 7-5:  Michael Shanahan  –  127,000 7-6:  John Andress  –  79,500 7-7:  Arash Ghaneian  –  89,000 7-8:  Noah Novick  –  75,000 7-9:  Sergi Reixach  –  24,500

9-1:  Francis Anderson  –  37,500 9-2:  Phil Hellmuth  –  76,000 9-3:  Nate Silver  –  44,500 9-4:  Allen Pock  –  43,000 9-6:  George Won  –  18,000 9-7:  Mazen Abdallah  –  85,000 9-8:  Badr Imejjane  –  50,000 9-9:  Joao Simao  –  115,500

10-1:  Xuan Liu  –  25,000 10-2:  Daniel Smiljkovic  –  72,000 10-3:  Dylan Wilkerson  –  151,000 10-4:  Tomas Soderstrom  –  26,500 10-5:  Jared Hemingway  –  55,500 10-6:  Eli Berg  –  102,500 10-7:  Nathan Zimnik  –  32,500 10-8:  Michael Youngman  –  31,500 10-9:  Martins Adeniya  –  105,500

11-1:  Kevin Eyster  –  91,000 11-2:  Cary Katz  –  103,000 11-3:  Isaac Baron  –  38,000 11-4:  Edward Grinko  –  56,500 11-5:  Dan Colpoys  –  177,500 11-6:  Chun Li  –  146,500 11-7:  Jr Foutty  –  101,000 11-8:  Farid Jattin  –  70,000 11-9:  Jacob Ferro  –  154,500

12-1:  Jeremy Ausmus  –  48,500 12-2:  Daniel Wellborn  –  33,500 12-3:  Eric Baldwin  –  28,000 12-4:  Curt Kohlberg  –  76,500 12-6:  Duff Charette  –  111,000 12-7:  Zachary Mcdiarmid  –  37,500 12-8:  Christopher Frank  –  150,000 12-9:  Larry Greenberg  –  29,500

13-1:  Todd Ivens  –  27,000 13-2:  David Mcgowan  –  115,000 13-3:  Jeremiah Williams  –  79,000 13-4:  Samuel Bekerian  –  71,500 13-6:  Viet Vo  –  132,500 13-7:  Pavel Plesuv  –  59,500 13-8:  Sung Hyun  –  115,500 13-9:  Erik Seidel  –  50,000

14-1:  Ranla Nasreddine  –  22,000 14-2:  Sam Soverel  –  71,500 14-3:  Stanley Lee  –  40,000 14-4:  Thomas Winters  –  74,500 14-5:  George Rakitzis  –  90,500 14-6:  Paul Dewald  –  94,500 14-7:  Lorenzo Lavis  –  36,000 14-8:  Reuben Hoang  –  80,500 14-9:  Andy Philachack  –  44,500

15-1:  Peter Mugar  –  32,000 15-2:  Tobias Schwecht  –  117,000 15-3:  Arthur Conan  –  55,000 15-4:  Daniel Negreanu  –  86,500 15-6:  Justin Saliba  –  104,000 15-7:  Greg Mueller  –  28,500 15-8:  Anuj Agarwal  –  103,000 15-9:  Ryan Remington  –  62,000

16-1:  Alain Bauer  –  51,500 16-2:  Ezequiel Waigel  –  33,000 16-3:  Brian Green  –  97,500 16-4:  Erik Wigg  –  48,000 16-6:  Steven Sarmiento  –  71,500 16-7:  Vlastimil Pustina  –  28,500 16-8:  Steve Karp  –  70,500 16-9:  Dylan Linde  –  126,000

17-1:  Tony Dunst  –  134,000 17-2:  Michael Morgan  –  50,500 17-3:  George Wolff  –  84,000 17-4:  Kevin Calenzo  –  112,500 17-6:  Ardit Kurshumi  –  33,500 17-7:  Andrew Wilson  –  163,500 17-8:  Alex Foxen  –  65,500 17-9:  Dominique Mosley  –  51,500

18-1:  Richard Bai  –  17,000 18-2:  Jacob Powers  –  101,500 18-3:  Mel Wiener  –  115,000 18-4:  Cody Wiegmann  –  41,500 18-6:  Richard Alsup  –  112,500 18-7:  Arnaud Enselme  –  125,000 18-8:  Garrett Greer  –  29,500 18-9:  Jeremy Kottler  –  81,000

19-1:  Martin Mathis  –  86,000 19-2:  Tim Reilly  –  58,000 19-3:  Qing Liu  –  43,000 19-4:  Tai Cao  –  32,000 19-6:  Michael Walsh  –  40,500 19-7:  Paul Jager  –  38,000 19-8:  Mitchell Halverson  –  124,500 19-9:  Uri Reichenstein  –  28,500

20-1:  Ankush Mandavia  –  55,000 20-2:  Will Givens  –  42,500 20-3:  A Okin  –  158,500 20-4:  Ari Engel  –  12,000 20-6:  Clayton Maguire  –  151,000 20-7:  Omar Zazay  –  56,000 20-8:  Fikret Kovac  –  40,000 20-9:  Vincent Longtin  –  105,500

22-1:  Jeff Platt  –  12,000 22-2:  Mohsin Charania  –  40,500 22-3:  Joseph Sabe  –  77,000 22-4:  Shannon Shorr  –  38,500 22-6:  Gansukh Sandagsuren  –  52,500 22-7:  Ronnie Abro  –  17,500 22-8:  Dapo Ajayi  –  52,000 22-9:  Ben Palmer  –  64,000

24-1:  Brek Schutten  –  151,500 24-2:  Barry Hutter  –  21,000 24-3:  Joseph Cheong  –  208,000 24-4:  Boris Kolev  –  20,500 24-6:  Matthew Wantman  –  67,000 24-7:  Amitabh Mehra  –  16,000 24-8:  Pat Lyons  –  82,000 24-9:  Daniel Rezaei  –  100,000

26-1:  David Mock  –  123,000 26-2:  Michael Lang  –  3,000 26-3:  Elio Fox  –  89,500 26-4:  Michael Gathy  –  134,000 26-6:  Jared Jaffee  –  35,500 26-7:  Nick Yunis  –  36,000 26-8:  Jesse Sylvia  –  38,500 26-9:  Paul Fisher  –  76,500

27-1:  James Hundt  –  89,500 27-2:  Gianluca Speranza  –  88,000 27-3:  Robert Lofaso  –  42,500 27-4:  Seth Davies  –  120,000 27-5:  Blair Hinkle  –  54,000 27-6:  Shawn Daniels  –  91,000 27-7:  Glenn Thompson  –  162,500 27-8:  Nacho Barbero  –  34,500 27-9:  James Romero  –  92,000

28-1:  Byron Kaverman  –  20,500 28-2:  Paul Corlett  –  43,000 28-3:  Arkadi Onikoul  –  160,000 28-4:  James Collopy  –  33,500 28-6:  Michael Sortino  –  116,500 28-7:  Gregory Back  –  4,500 28-8:  Seyed Safari  –  20,500 28-9:  Justin Zaki  –  93,000

29-1:  Alexander Condon  –  83,500 29-2:  Jeffrey Tanouye  –  64,000 29-3:  Andrew Jeong  –  86,500 29-4:  Aneris Adomkevicius  –  55,000 29-6:  Amarender Puri  –  46,500 29-7:  Balakrishna Patur  –  55,000 29-8:  Joseph Beasy  –  23,000 29-9:  Jason Koon  –  40,000

30-1:  Darren Elias  –  193,500 30-2:  Koray Aldemir  –  56,000 30-3:  Amir Mirrasouli  –  77,000 30-4:  Fabian Gumz  –  95,500 30-6:  Hieu Tran  –  79,000 30-7:  Benjamin Souriau  –  15,500 30-8:  David Coleman  –  40,000 30-9:  Nick Schulman  –  51,500

31-1:  John Flynt  –  324,500 31-2:  Z Stein  –  84,500 31-3:  Ariel Mantel  –  153,500 31-4:  Johan Schumacher  –  310,000 31-6:  Michael Liang  –  122,000 31-7:  Quang Vu  –  24,500 31-8:  Kitty Kuo  –  74,000 31-9:  Miguel Capriles  –  27,500

33-1:  David Marshall  –  177,500 33-2:  Gal Yifrach  –  62,000 33-3:  Brian Yoon  –  77,000 33-4:  Justin Bonomo  –  266,500 33-5:  Kristen Bicknell  –  37,500 33-6:  Matthew Su  –  79,000 33-7:  Bryden Baxter  –  142,500 33-8:  Niko Koop  –  238,000 33-9:  Muhammad Abdel-Rahim  –  41,000

34-1:  Mike Meskin  –  34,500 34-2:  Gallego Martinez  –  93,000 34-3:  Andrew Lichtenberger  –  143,500 34-4:  Ryan Laplante  –  65,000 34-6:  Vladas Tamasauskas  –  48,500 34-7:  Matt Affleck  –  60,000 34-8:  Karle Wilson  –  63,000 34-9:  Yuri Ishida  –  123,000

35-1:  Scott Hall  –  144,000 35-2:  Sam Panzica  –  100,500 35-3:  Jake Daniels  –  127,500 35-4:  Danny Qutami  –  54,000 35-6:  Michael Wang  –  98,000 35-7:  Zach Donovan  –  68,500 35-8:  Ken Einiger  –  89,000 35-9:  Mike Eskandari  –  81,500

36-1:  Amnon Filippi  –  86,000 36-2:  James Mordue  –  68,000 36-3:  Bob Buckenmayer  –  53,000 36-4:  Christopher Brewer  –  172,000 36-6:  Robin Hegele  –  169,500 36-7:  Landon Avery  –  296,500 36-8:  Ramos Tavares  –  41,000 36-9:  Anthony Marquez  –  114,000

37-1:  Jordan Cristos  –  72,000 37-2:  David Fuss  –  56,500 37-3:  Arianna Son  –  16,500 37-4:  Vanessa Kade  –  68,000 37-6:  Dan Matsuzuki  –  76,500 37-7:  Ivan Zufic  –  158,000 37-8:  Cole Ferraro  –  105,000 37-9:  Patrick Eskandar  –  89,000

38-1:  Kyle Arora  –  134,000 38-2:  Matthew Berkey  –  163,500 38-3:  Michael Vanier  –  164,000 38-4:  Rajai Wazwaz  –  37,000 38-6:  Jesse Lonis  –  54,500 38-7:  Michael Kinney  –  126,000 38-8:  Thomas Reynolds  –  27,500 38-9:  Brandon Wilson  –  116,000

39-1:  Jeremy Becker  –  35,500 39-2:  Corey Lieblein  –  80,000 39-3:  Corey Hochman  –  70,000 39-4:  Jimmy Pham  –  66,500 39-5:  Ben Hamnett  –  79,500 39-6:  Benjamin Diebold  –  54,500 39-7:  Jung Woo  –  36,500 39-8:  Morgan Machina  –  115,000 39-9:  Ryan Riess  –  47,500

40-1:  Steve Enriquez  –  23,500 40-2:  Craig Mason  –  89,500 40-3:  Daniel Maor  –  122,000 40-4:  Kainalu Mccue-Unciano  –  109,500 40-5:  Vikenty Shegal  –  46,000 40-6:  Aaron Massey  –  88,000 40-7:  Cheang Yoo  –  73,000 40-8:  David “ODB” Baker  –  57,000 40-9:  Punnat Punsri  –  99,000

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World Poker Tour® Sets New Record at WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio

IRVINE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The World Poker Tour® and Bellagio Resort & Casino set another all-time WPT® Main Tour record. The Season XVIII WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic drew 1,035 entries and set a prize pool record for a $10,000 buy-in WPT Main Tour event, with $10,039,500 disbursed among 130 players. First place in this prestigious event receives $1,694,995 at the final table, which will take place on Saturday December 21 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas .

The Season XVIII turnout at Bellagio marks the seventh consecutive season of growth for the first-ever event to take place on the World Poker Tour in Season I. The 2019 event also marks a new record for the largest prize pool in 18 seasons of the event.

Among the high-profile players who participated in the event include WPT Raw Deal Host Phil Hellmuth , WPT Commentator Tony Dunst , four-time WPT Champions Club member Darren Elias , defending WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic winner Dylan Linde , and Season III WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic champion Daniel Negreanu .

All final table participants will earn at least $355,125 , and the eventual second-place finisher will take home $1,120,040 , making it the fourth year in a row in which the top-two finishers receive at least $1,000,000 .

The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic capped off a weekend of high-profile events in Las Vegas , including the 2019 ceremony presenting the WPT Honors, which formally recognized the respective poker careers of bestbet Jacksonville’s Vice President of Poker Operations Deborah Giardina and WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage .

“The World Poker Tour’s in-person numbers have exceeded even our own high expectations,” said Adam Pliska , CEO of the World Poker Tour. “This record-breaking event has demonstrated the popularity of poker, the WPT brand, and incredible partnerships like the one with the Bellagio Poker Room , which has lasted for over 18 years.”

“The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic’s incredible field puts a bow on a strong 2019 for the World Poker Tour and its global casino partners,” added Angelica Hael , VP of Global Tour Management for the World Poker Tour. “The players are demonstrating their continued support of the WPT and its global events, and there is no doubt that Five Diamond will continue to thrive annually at Bellagio.”

“Bellagio is delighted to be the host for another record-breaking WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic,” said Craig Lumpp , Director of Poker Operations at Bellagio. “This event recognizes the best in poker every year, and we look forward to crowning a new champion this week.”

About World Poker Tour

World Poker Tour (WPT) is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online, and mobile. Leading innovation in the sport of poker since 2002, WPT ignited the global poker boom with the creation of a unique television show based on a series of high-stakes poker tournaments. WPT has broadcast globally in more than 150 countries and territories, and is currently producing its 18th season, which airs on FOX Sports Regional Networks in the United States . Season XVIII of WPT is sponsored by ClubWPT.com . ClubWPT.com is a unique online membership site that offers inside access to the WPT, as well as a sweepstakes-based poker club available in 35 states across the United States . WPT also participates in strategic brand license, partnership, and sponsorship opportunities. For more information, go to WPT.com . WPT Enterprises Inc. is a subsidiary of Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.

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Allied Esports Entertainment (NASDAQ: AESE) is a global esports entertainment venture dedicated to providing transformative live experiences, multiplatform content and interactive services to audiences worldwide through its strategic fusion of two powerful entertainment brands: Allied Esports and the World Poker Tour (WPT). Allied Esports Entertainment was created in August 2019 when Black Ridge Acquisition Corp. completed its business combination with Allied Esports and WPT Enterprises .

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