World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean has kicked off on the beautiful island of St Maarten and it’s Marvin Rettenmaier who takes the Day 1A chip lead with 104,400 chips as the first day of action comes to a close.
St. Maarten may be a new stop for the WPT Main Event team, but the first day of action ended with a familiar face at top of the chip counts. The two-time WPT Champions Trophy winner Marvin Rettenmaier topping the headlines of poker news outlets worldwide.
It was a compact and bijou field with 75-players choosing Day 1A as their starting flight of choice, and 45 players have made it through to the Day 2 seat draw.
Amongst them are the likes of Marko Neumann (104,100), Julian Thomas (100,900), Giacomo Fundaro (82,300), Sean Jazayeri (75,200), Mike Linster (47,700), Mike Watson (45,000), Anthony Zinno (32,000) and Jordan Cristos (23,200).
Players who were left eating sand included Season X WPT Ones to Watch Ebony Kenney when her pocket aces failed to hold; Ivey Poker Pro David Peters who ran short before being eliminated by Micah Raskin; Jake Schwartz who fired two bullets only to miss the target twice; and WPT Champions Club members Will Failla and Jonathan Roy, with the latter managing to bust in a three-bet pot holding pocket tens on [Ts] [5s] [3s].
Given the location and the fact that people have been playing in Jacksonville and gearing up for Montreal, this is going to be a great opportunity for someone to pick up a WPT Champions Trophy is a much smaller field.
After being unseated from his top spot on the Global Poker Index (GPI) ranking by Daniel Negreanu, Rettenmaier won’t want to be unseated in this one, as he plans to become the second German champion in the Caribbean after Philipp Gruissem took down the WPT Alpha8 event in the nearby island of St Kitts yesterday.
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