Nguyen leads stacked WPT Five Diamond field

Nguyen leads stacked WPT Five Diamond field

Saturday, 10 December 2011

Just 13 players are still in contention for the WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic and what a 13 it is. Soi Nguyen is the chip leader on 3.1m chips but there are a host of big names looming close behind.

Andrew Lichtenberger lies second with 2,114,000 followed by Brighton's finest James Dempsey in third on 1,877,000. Antonio Esfandiari's quest for back-to-back Five Diamond titles remains on course with the Magician closing Day 4 fifth on the leader board with almost 1.1m chips.


Last year's Partouche Poker Tour winner Vanessa Selbst returns in tenth with 869,000 with 2004 WSOP Main Event winner David Williams eleventh on 748,000. NAPT High Roller champion William Reynolds is the short stack with 565,000 but at 28BBs it's still plenty of ammunition to make a deep run.


Play resumes at 8pm UK where the 13 players will be whittled down to a final table of six.


The full chip counts are as follows:


1. Soi Nguyen - 3,100,000 (155 BBs)
2. Andrew Lichtenberger - 2,114,000 (106 BBs)
3. James Dempsey - 1,877,000 (94 BBs)
4. Larry Wells - 1,327,000 (66 BBs)
5. Antonio Esfandiari - 1,099,000 (55 BBs)
6. Kyle Julius - 1,097,000 (55 BBs)
7. Anthony Yeh - 1,091,000 (55 BBs)
8. Vitor Coelho - 950,000 (48 BBs)
9. Braden Hall - 926,000 (46 BBs)
10. Vanessa Selbst - 869,000 (43 BBs)
11. David Williams - 748,000 (37 BBs)
12. Rudy Maarek - 706,000 (35 BBs)
13. William Reynolds - 565,000 (28 BBs)



Tags: James Dempsey, Soi Nguyen, Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Selbst, David Williams, William Reynolds, WPT Five Diamond