As many as 279 entries registered into the tournament on Day 1A, but only 70 of them survived through the end to bag and tag for the night. They will all go back at the host venue for Day 2, which is scheduled to take place on Sunday.
Vo put 458,500 worth of chips into his bag last night. The player cemented his chip leader position late on Day 1A by winning a key pot with pocket kings to an opponent’s ace-jack. Prior to jumping into this year’s edition of the WPT Choctaw, Vo had over $1 million in chips and two previous WPT in-the-money finishes. It is yet to be seen whether the Day 1A chip leader will be able to scoop a third cash from the popular poker series and to even win his first-ever WPT title.
Brady Holiman finished second in chips last night, not far behind Vo with his 440,000. Randy Skeel took the third largest stack into the night with 395,000. The reigning WPT Season XVI Player of the Year Art Papazyan bagged and tagged 385,000 and Men Nguyen, who came fresh off a third place in the WPT Gardens Main Event, collected 365,500 last night to round out the top five chip counts of Day 1A.
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There were quite some notables to make it through the first starting flight, including several former WPT champions. Darren Elias, Chris Moorman, Brian Altman, and Marvin Rettenmaier were some of these players. They will all return for Day 2. Reigning champion Jay Lee, too, survived through the day, bagging 73,000 in chips to continue his run for a back-to-back WPT Choctaw title.
Day 1B is scheduled to kick off today at noon local time. Participants will play 12 levels and registration will remain open until the start of Level 11.
As mentioned above, the Day 1A field counted 279 entries, of whom 70 made it to the very end. The tournament features a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. The guarantee is really close to be cracked and it is to be seen how much the prize pool will eventually amount to and how much the winner will scoop.
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Frenchman Bruno Fitoussi has joined the cluster of partypoker brand ambassadors to promote the poker operator’s live events across Europe. News about his new role arrive just a few months after his fellow countryman, Bertrand Elky Grospellier, was assigned a similar promotional task by the GVC Holdings-owned major poker brand. 
Fitoussi has been generally recognized as the person who brought and popularized the game of poker in his homeland and across Europe. He introduced the game to French public back in the 1990s at the Aviation Club de France, which has gradually turned into one of France’s premium live poker destinations. 
Online poker room PokerStars has finally announced this year’s schedule for the World Championship of Online Poker and it can officially be said that there will be a little something for players of all levels of skill and for every bankroll during the major online festival. 
As mentioned above, there will be 61 events, and each of them will involve tournaments in three tiers – Low, Medium, and High. Each of them except for the Main Event, to be more precise. It will feature two tournaments – a Medium and a High one. The former will have a buy-in fee of $55 and will offer $1 million in guaranteed prize money. The latter will feature a buy-in fee of $5,200 and a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million. Both events are slated to kick off on September 16. 