Action packed day at WPT Prime Taiwan with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club) filled to capacity once again. International players and locals poured in for Main Event Day 1B, and as predicted, the NT$ 10M guarantee was quickly shattered. With a cumulative 452 entries (Day 1A – 189, Day 1B – 263), the prize pool has now reached NT 13 Million which will balloon further with Day 1C yet to complete. Read up on the action via the Live Updates on WPT.com
Opening the day’s festivities was a ribbon cutting ceremony with special appearance by Ko Wen-Je, Mayor of Taipei. After his speech, WPT CEO Adam Pliska also welcomed in the players,
“We are so happy to be here. It is the 20th anniversary of the World Poker Tour and for 20 years the brand has brought people together not just for poker competition but also allowing them to travel the world and meet people all over and forge new friendships. This is what the World Poker Tour is about.”
In anticipation of the large crowd, the WPT and CTP prepared a room at the gymnasium for the side events. This was indeed a good plan with Day 1B attracting a monster 263 entries. For several hours in the day, every seat in the house was spoken for. By midnight, the bubble was delivered, sending Thailand’s Metasit Pratibsangkom‘s stack over the million mark. To emphasize the enormity of his stack, the closest in the overall counts is Day 1A chip leader Carter Chan who is roughly 40 BB behind. To end the day, Pratibsangkom eliminated Shawn Wu on the bubble with pocket Jacks over pocket Tens.
End of Day 1B chip counts
| Metasit Pratipsangkom | Thailand | 1,007,000 |
| Yun Hsiang Fan | Taiwan | 621,000 |
| Nobuaki Sasaki | Japan | 420,000 |
| Kosei Ichinose | Japan | 399,000 |
| Bradley Ritschel | U.S.A | 374,000 |
| Junhwan Kim | South Korea | 370,000 |
| Sung Joo Hyun | South Korea | 350,000 |
| Rikuto Sashida | Japan | 286,000 |
| Louis Bilodeau | Japan | 280,000 |
| Kun Han Lee | Taiwan | 267,000 |
| Bin Chiat Tay | Singapore | 259,000 |
| Po Jun Lin | Taiwan | 258,000 |
| Min Joo Cho | South Korea | 251,235 |
| Chieh Shan Yang | Taiwan | 248,000 |
| Ikeda Maki | Japan | 246,000 |
| Chih Fang Li | Taiwan | 243,000 |
| Chun Min Tai | Taiwan | 230,000 |
| Masaya Hayami | Japan | 219,000 |
| Yao Wei Huang | Taiwan | 212,000 |
| Chia Hao Chang | Taiwan | 202,000 |
| Yung Han Chin | Taiwan | 177,000 |
| Cheng Liang Liu | Taiwan | 158,000 |
| Chi Jen Chen | Taiwan | 149,000 |
| Che Li Lin | Taiwan | 134,000 |
| Kai Cheng Hsu | Taiwan | 118,000 |
| Park Giwon | South Korea | 102,000 |
| Yu Che Chang | Taiwan | 86,000 |
| Samuel Wilkinson | England | 82,000 |
| Chia Wei Kao | Taiwan | 80,000 |
| Sparrow Cheung | Hong Kong | 71,000 |
| Yu Jung Lo | Taiwan | 58,000 |
| Hua Wei Lin | Taiwan | 54,000 |
| Kenny Shih | Taiwan | 50,000 |
The Main Event got underway on November 17 and will run through November 21. A total of 57 advanced to Day 2. One starting day remains to join that list. Day 1C takes place on Saturday, November 19 at 1pm. It is expected to be the biggest day yet so make sure to arrive early. Buy in is NT$ 33,000. Cards in the air at 1pm.
WPT Prime Taiwan – MAIN EVENT DAY 2 QUALIFIERS
WPT Prime Taiwan – MAIN EVENT Day 1A
WPT Prime Taiwan – PLAYER GUIDE
WPT Prime Taiwan – FULL RESULTS
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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