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WPT Los Angeles: A first title for Andy Frankenberger
He was and he remained so ! It is Andy Frankenberger who became the new champion of World Poker Tour Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino, in Los Angeles. For his first participation in the WPT final table, the New Yorker show a very good game because he was already the chip leader of the last day of the tournament. Not less than ten hours of play, the equivalent of 184 hands were necessary to separate the six finalists and see emerge victorious the winner in the person of Andy Frankenberger who beat the runner-up Kyle Wilson at the final duel. As reward, the winner of the WPT Los Angeles won a jackpot of $ 750,000, a bracelet and a bronze trophy of Wild Bill Hickok, a player of West America killed during a poker game in Deadwood in 1876.
For information, the field of the WPT Legends of Poker $ 5,000 buy-in of this year attracted 462 participants and generated a prize pool of $ 2,151,072. Closing for this stage of Los Angeles then and the next destination for the poker players is England at the WPT Classic in London with £ 5,000 entry fee, to be held at the Palm Casino, in the prestigious neighborhood of Mayfair from August 30th. In the meantime, here are the main results of the WPT Legends of Poker 2010 : 1st Andrew Frankenberger with $ 750,000, 2nd Kyle Wilson $ 370,000, 3rd Tom Lee $ 174,772, fourth Tom Braband $ 109,000, Jared Jaffee 5th and 6th Franco Brunetti with respectively $ 86,000 and $ 63,000.
Source: Poker 777
Monday, 30 August 2010
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