Vadim Trincher(credit: World Poker Tour)
126 players took to the felt for the first Day One of the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship, held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Players began the day with quadruple stacks of 100k and blinds were 90 minutes apart. However, this didn’t stop the eliminations from happening.
Andy Bloch nearly doubled up at one point with a straight diamond flush (6-high) Amnon Filippi, runner up at the recent WPT Foxwoods event tangled in two big pots with Phil Hellmuth, eventually taking out the Poker Brat early on Day 1A.
However, it was Vadim Trincher, who defeated Filippi heads-up at the Foxwoods Poker Classic, who held court at the end of Day 1A. The poker player clipped John Phan’s wings with a higher set and stood at the top of the chipleader board with 309,725 in his stack.