The 4 Day 1 flights of the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Essential Occasion have concluded, and now itβs time for the $10,000 buy-in match to maneuver on to Day 2.
Among the many 1000’s of gamers nonetheless standing is a gaggle of qualifiers from Commerce On line casino in Los Angeles, the biggest poker site on this planet. Jamie Gold, the 2006 world champion, headlined a workforce of 20 LA execs (plus himself) that each one entered the Essential Occasion Day 1a flight (besides Gold, who was sick).
Practically Everybody Made it to Day 2
Of the 20 Day 1a gamers from the Commerce professional workforce, an unimaginable 16 gamers superior to Day 2. After which after Goldβs sickness cleared sufficient for the poker champion to compete, he made it 17 of 21 by bagging 110,000 chips, practically doubling the 60,000-chip beginning stack.
All 17 members of the group from the legendary SoCal card room can be again in motion Sunday at midday PT for the Day 2abc session. You possibly can comply with alongside their progress all through the Essential Occasion proper right here at PokerNews.
When talking with Gold, who was out of motion for practically every week as he wasnβt feeling properly, itβs clear heβs ecstatic to see the Commerce workforce crushing it early within the Essential Occasion, a match he gained for $12 million 18 years in the past.
“Now we have all bonded during the last 2 months and it is so heartwarming to see everybody rooting for one another and supporting one another. The camaraderie is de facto particular, you may’t faux that it is an power and an exquisite feeling as poker is such a singular generally lonely endeavor we made it a workforce sport in a means. After all we’re all nonetheless taking part in for our personal success however now there is a method to share that. It isn’t all in regards to the cash which for me it by no means was.” – Jamie Gold.
Commerce is Goldβs dwelling card room, and the place the place he started his journey as a match participant all the way in which again within the early 1990βs. Now as an envoy for the poker site, heβs accomplished work to advertise Commerce, not solely in Los Angeles, but additionally this week in Las Vegas and past.
The Commerce workforce had a profitable Day 1, together with Goldβs efficiency. However nobody within the group beat out Loc βLukeβ Nguyen, who bagged 200,900 chips, which places him properly above the common stack. After all, as Gold realized in 2006, this match is an extended grind that doesnβt finish till July 17, and nothing is gained on Day 1. However little question the workforce is off to a robust begin.
To qualify as one of many 20 finalists for the Commerce professional workforce, every participant needed to accumulate no less than 100 factors, simply by taking part in on the poker site. There have been 551 gamers who certified in April. These qualifying gamers then bought an entry to an Invitational Event on Might 5 the place the group was narrowed all the way down to the highest 20 professional workforce members.
Commerce then gave away one other Essential Occasion seat on-line for anybody on this planet, free to qualify.
Final month, Gold hosted a Commerce VIP package deal contest the place one participant gained a seat within the Essential Occasion together with poker teaching from the previous champ. He has a gaggle of gamers heβs been teaching in preparation for pokerβs most prestigious annual match.
In Might, Gold and fellow world champion Phil Hellmuth took on a desk stuffed with Commerce On line casino gamers for a particular livestream on the LA poker site.
Comply with the Commerce Staff within the WSOP Essential Occasion
