Last year the Bellagio Cup drew more than 500 players and made other WPT man of deeds a wealthy man
. That of late minted rich man was Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul. He follows Amnon Filippe and Shannon Shorr in the line of Bellagio Cup winners.

This year 446 players turned out for the sequent, and answerable to three Day 1's there are bushel of big names shush left in the helmet.

Hevad Khan is spirit with a musical hefty rick of rhino, and Joe Sebok, Lee Markholt, Barry Greenstein, Steve Zolotow, Gavin Smith, Tom Dwan, Isaac Haxton, David Chiu, Kirill Gerasimov, Darrell Dicken, Sammy Farha, Shawn Buchanan, Nenad Medic, Eric Froehlich, Ram Vaswani, David Levi, John Phan, Joe Tehan and Scotty Nguyen are all a cut above the prescriptive in simoleons so far.

Sitting in hellfire average, but very much riding at anchor in the game, are Allen Cunningham, Jennifer Tilly, Shane Schleger, Ted Forrest, David Pham, Raymond Davis, Phil Laak, Alex Bolotin, Phil Laak, J.C. Tran, Mark Newhouse, Billy Baxter, Freddy Deeb, Erik Seidel, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Todd Brunson, Bill Edler, Kristy Gazes, Justin Bonomo, Men "The Master" Nguyen, JJ Liu, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda and more.

There are acres of big names who have erstwhile been cut from the taking a role field contemporaneousness as well. Playing in what is most assuredly his home turf, Doyle Brunson scorched today.

Joining him midst the players at the rail are Michael Binger, Alan Smurfit, Scott Clemens, Jared Hamby and Blake Cahail.

The WPT Bellagio Cup IV is in the works to play until Thursday when a easy winner will be rest during the televised straight-out table.

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