Michael Copeland Wins WPT500 Los Angeles For $181,950

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The World Poker Tour traveled to the Bicycle Casino on Aug. 18 for the $1 million guaranteed WPT500 Los Angeles event. A total of 2,509 entrants joined the action in the span of 16 starting flights to put the prize pool up to $1,254,500. Day 2 started on Aug. 26 with 125 runners and finished up with the final nine playing to a winner on Aug. 27.

Michael Copeland finished on top of the field after starting the final table as chip leader to win the $181,950 first-place prize.

Final table lineup

Seat 1: Jorge Pineda – 7,200,000 (36 bb)
Seat 2: Erik Nason – 5,375,000 (27 bb)
Seat 3: Michael Copeland – 19,000,000 (95 bb)
Seat 4: Luke Nguyen – 2,775,000 (14 bb)
Seat 5: Jose Torres – 3,250,000 (16 bb)
Seat 6: Aaron Messmer – 4,725,000 (24 bb)
Seat 7: Travis Tachibana – 2,500,000 (13 bb)
Seat 8: Alexander Beleson – 2,250,000 (11 bb)
Seat 9: Sanjay Mayekar – 1,875,000 (9 bb)

Pineda does the early dirty work

Copeland’s wide chip margin at the start of the final table left a lot of ground to be made up by his competitors. Jorge Pineda did himself a few favors right away with two eliminations to bring the field down to seven.

Pineda busted Alexander Beleson with...

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