World Poker Tour Championship Starts Today

The most prestigious event on the World Poker Tour’s yearly schedule starts tomorrow at the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, and today is the last chance to qualify in a super satellite for the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship that is sure to feature a multi-million dollar prize pool.

The last two $2,500 buy-in super satellites ran yesterday at 1 p.m. and 10 p.m.  Day 1A of the event begins tomorrow at noon.

The following are the past WPT Championship winners:

2007─ Juan Carlos Mortensen 

• First-Place Prize: $3,970,415
• Entrants: 639
• Prize Pool: $15,495,750

2006─ Joe Bartholdi

• First-Place Prize: $3,760,165
• Entrants: 605
• Prize Pool: 14,671,250

2005─ Tuan Le

• First-Place Prize: $2,856,150
• Entrants: 452
• Prize Pool: $10,961,000

2004─ Martin de Knijff

• First-Place Prize: $2,728,356
• Entrants: 343
• Prize Pool: $8,342,000

2003─ Alan Goehring

• First-Place Prize: $1,011,886
• Entrants: 111
• Prize Pool: $2,691,750

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