Foxwoods Poker Classic Continues with Big Numbers

The Foxwoods Poker Classic continues with its preliminary events, which lead up to the World Poker Tour $10,000 championship event, which will start Friday. The series started last Monday, and the preliminary events have been attracting large numbers of entrants to the WPT-themed poker room of Foxwoods.

Click here to read about the first event.

The second event was a $600 seven-card Stud event that attracted a respectable 192 entrants. It was won by Neal Friets, who took home $22,152 of the $98,707 prize pool.

Wednesday’s $600 no-limit event attracted 938 entrants, who generated a prize pool of $492,226. Andrew Kloc would end up with all of the chips and $115,797. Kloc, of Naugatuck, Connecticut, now has more than $215,000 in tournament winnings in a career that goes back to 2005.

Thursday’s $600 limit hold’em event attracted 179 entrants, underlining the popularity of no limit. Bryan Tessier won $22,500 for taking down this event.

Friday’s $1,000 no-limit hold’em event brought in 582 players who generated a prize pool of $513,731. William Hill won $108,329, bringing his tournament winnings total to more than $400,000. Christopher MacNeil finished second and won $97,900.

Saturday was a $600 ladies event that attracted 204 players. The $32,018 top prize went to Karen Goncalves.

The series continues this week with more prelims, including a $3,000 event tomorrow and a one-day $5,000 event Wednesday.

CardPlayer.com’s entire tournament team will be at the championship event to cover it from start to finish. Please click here to view a schedule of the events and to follow all of the championship action.

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