354 players took to the felt on the Day 1b of World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars Palace $1,600 Main Event. This created a field of 662 poker players between the two flights of Day 1. 76 players pocketed their chips after 15 levels.
Jeff Fielder is leading the poker tournament before the start of Day 2 with a stack of 437500 chips. He defeated Mark “P0ker H0″ Kroon to win a massive pot and moved to the top of the leaderboard later in Day 1. Kroon was second in chips at the time.
The players cast out during the Day 1a of the tournament could re-enter again in the main event by paying another $ 1600 as buy-in. Several players including Eric Baldwin, Giorgio Medici, David Singontiko, David Williams and Steve Gross decided to give it another shot. However, none of them could finally survive Day 1b. Big names to have moved on to the second day include Jeff Madsen, Scott Clements, Kathy Liebert, Vanessa Peng and Dutch Boyd. Dan O’Brien, William Reynolds, James Carroll, Sean Getzwiller and Gavin Griffin are among the Day 1a survivors.
Meanwhile, The World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw (WSOPC) has brought 947 participants on its first qualifying day. 647 players participated on the Day 1a while the Day 1b had 300 players. Only 498 players survived after an action packed day that lasted above 14 hours. Chris Tiller, who is ranked as the chipleader with 167500 chips, has a good chance of winning the competition. La Sengphet is occupying the second spot with 144,000 chips.
Many renowned poker players such as Ylon Schwartz, Gavin Smith and Todd Brunson faced an early elimination. Men Nguyen, James Van Aistyne, Scotty Nguyen, Chad Brown, Tommy Vedes, Tom McEvoy, TJ Cloutier, Roland Israel, Dennis Phillips, Kattamuri Raja, Drazen Illich and Layne Flack are among the players who made it through Day 1 and will be back on Day 2.
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Peter Eastgate is a Danish professional poker player born in 1985, which won the WSOP 2008 Main Event, a feat that he well known for. For a while he was the player that managed to do this at the youngest age but he was overtaken by Joe Cada one year later.
He qualified for WSOP 2008 main event through Ladbrokes Poker, traveling to the event as a Team Ladbrokers member. When he reached the main event’s final table he had a total of 18,375,000 poker chips, which placed him on the fourth place, the first three being Scott Montgomery, Ivan Demidov and Dennis Phillips. The final two players that took part were Demidov and Eastgate. Eastgate won the final table, after playing for 15 hour and a half, playing 274 hands. The prize for first place was $9,152,416. He was just 22 years old when he won the World Series.
One year later he tried to defend his title and managed to resist until the 6th day, when he went out from the 78th spot.
Before his win at the WSOP, his best results during live tournaments included a finish in the money at the EPT 2008 in Copenhagen, plus a finish at the final table during the Irish Poker Open in 2007. The Paddy Power Open brought him a prize of $46,714 and this was the biggest win of his before his World Series main event success. After that WSOP win, he took part in more tournaments and he was successful in quite a few, finishing in the money during the EPT PCA Main Event, plus winning a side event which brought him $343,000. He also finished on the 2nd place at London EPT 2009, the prize being £530,000.
In 2010, he had total winnings in live tournaments of over $10.9 million.