Final Table Date Dec 18, 2003
Buy-In 10,000 + 200...(suite)
Final Table Date Dec 18, 2003
Buy-In 10,000 + 200
Number of Entrants 314
Prize Pool 3,044,750
Tournament Details
Everywhere you turn on the WPT these days, there's a former backgammon champion. The 2003 Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic carries on that tradition, with a remarkable four of the final six players having made a living at one time or another at the high-stakes version of that popular dice game. After swimming their way through the turbulent waters of a 3.1 million dollar prize pool, and a record draw of 314 players, these are the final six who grappled for the jumbo-jet size winner's payout of nearly 1.2 million:
In seat 1, Australian veteran Tino Lechich with a starting chip count of 811,000; in seat 2, two-time WPT winner, the formidable Gus Hansen with the chip lead of 1,484,000; in seat 3, legendary professional gambler and two-time WPT final table player Dewey Tomko with 757,000; in seat 4, WPT Season 2 Legends of Poker champion, Aussie journeyman, Mel Judah with 655,000; in seat 5, relative unknown, first-time tourney entrant and native New Yorker, Abraham Mosseri with 1,350,000; and WPT regular, tech-bubble multi-millionaire Paul "Dot Com" Phillips, with 1,220,000.(moins)
