Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017
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2.5 Day 5 Ryan Tosoc outlasted 812 players and bested his last year’s runner-up finish in this same event to claim his first WPT title when he won the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,958,065. Coverage of the poker series 2017/2018 WPT Five Diamond Classic, including results, chip counts, poker videos, and photos. The Bellagio Poker Room, one of the hottest poker spots on the Las Vegas Strip, is currently playing host to this year’s WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic.The festival has long been one of the most popular tournament poker events to be taking place within WPT’s schedule, and this year presents no exception to what has become a general rule. December 11, 2017 Valerie Cross 8 The record-breaking Season XVI World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio is a wrap, and it ended with Ryan Tosoc amazingly besting his. Just over a year ago at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Ryan Tosoc finished second to James Romero at one of the biggest events on the World Poker Tour, the Five Diamond Poker Classic. It was an amazing result for Tosoc, but he did himself one better on Sunday, winning the 2017 Classic and taking home nearly $2 million for first place.
Let’s just say that Ryan Tosoc will be staying at the Bellagio whenever he is in Las Vegas. This weekend, Tosoc won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event and nearly $2 million, just a year after finishing this same tournament as the runner-up and earning over $1.1 million. Methinks he can splurge for the Bellagio’s Presidential Suite* during his next stay.
Last year’s event was the largest-ever for the Five Diamond, as it garnered 791 entries. This one was bigger, with the re-entry format helping the field climb to 812 $10,000 entries. If you did the math above (with my rounded-off numbers), Tosoc has now won more than $3 million at the Five Diamond, accounting for the vast majority of his live tournament earnings. He has a nice list of cashes, but only one other is even in the low six-figure range (and it is at this point that I give my usual disclaimer that I would KILL for a low six-figure poker score).
“It feels unreal,” Tosoc told WPT.com afterward. “I kind of feel like I’m in a dream right now.”
Poker can be an emotional game, especially since you can make perfect decisions and still come out on the losing end, but Tosoc tried not to get too high or too low during the Main Event.
“During the tournament, I like to just keep even-keeled,” he said. “The only time like I felt like I was going to win was when I was all in with Queen-Ten. I just felt that jack coming.”
It is not every day that players feel ultra-confident when all-in with just Queen-Ten, but I guess that’s the mojo you get when you are on your way to winning one of the World Poker Tour’s most prestigious events.
That Queen-Ten was on the final hand of the tournament and frankly, Tosoc had every right to feel that victory was coming, as he had an enormous chip lead at that point over Alex Foxen, 21.450 million chips to just 2.925 million.
Tosoc raised pre-flop with the aforementioned hole cards, as one would expect, and then Foxen shoved all-in with a dominated A-T. With little to lose by calling (and not REALLY all-in), Tosoc looked him up.
The flop was 9-3-K, a good one for Foxen, though Tosoc did gain a gutshot straight draw. As he already told WPT.com, he felt the Jack coming and it certainly did so on the turn. Foxen, though, now had a chance at a better straight. Another Jack was dealt on the river, shutting the door on Foxen’s chances and given Ryan Tosoc a one-spot better finish than last year and his first WPT title.
2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event – Final Table Results
1. Ryan Tosoc – $1,958,065
2. Alex Foxen – $1,134,202
3. Mike Del Vecchio – $752,196
4. Sean Perry – $504,090
5. Away Chabra – $350,500
6. Richard Kirsch – $271,736
*I do not know if the Bellagio has something called the Presidential Suite.
Tournament Info
- Event Number
- Event #13
- Event Name
- 2017 5-Diamond - Event #13 - No Limit Hold'em
- Event Type
- Series Event
- Game Type
- NL Holdem
- Event Start Date
- Sunday, Dec 3, 2017
- Starting Flights
- 1
- Length of Event
- 2 days
Registration
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- Start Time
- 12:00pm
- Registration Closes
- 5:50pm
Buy-In Details
- Total Buy-In
- $5,200
- Entry Fee
- $5,000
- Deductions
- $200
- 3% of prize money will be withheld for poker room staff.
Format
- Starting Chips
- 25,000
- Starting Blinds
- 50/100
- Ante Type
- None
- Re-Entry
- Unlimited
- Through first eight levels.
Structure
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- Level Time
- 40
- Levels 1-8 are 40 minutes. Levels 9+ are 60 minutes.
- Break Length
- 15 min
- Break Frequency
- Every 2 hours. Dinner break at approx 8:45pm.
- Blind Structure
- View
- Structure Notes
- Play continues until final table or 1am. Final table will resume play at 1pm the following day. 1st place will include a $10,400 seat for WPT Five Diamond WPC withheld if prize pool exceeds $200k.