Jeffrey Pollack is the co-founder of the Federated Sports and Gambling company, which will organize this league. He will also be the chairman of this league. Two hundred players will get invites to take part in this league, with the invites being given based on formulas which consider money earned, major live events finishes and history in tournaments.

There were plenty of well known poker players here and among them were Katchalov (15th), Ramdin (12th) or Beth Shak (11th). Waxman, even though he got his spot at the National Championship event was hoping to make his mark here as well, but he only got 10th place unfortunately.

Chris Bell was the winner of the final table in the end and he received a gold Championship ring and a prize of $358,295 as a reward. We will see him at Caesars Palace National Championship on May 27th. Chris Klodnicki got the second place and he took home $221,452.

There weren’t that many well known players at the final table. The chip leader at the beginning was Brandon Croft, but it wasn’t a huge lead over the final winner, Matthew Waxman.

The order of the table and the final payouts are below:

1. Matthew Waxman – $117,797

2. Jesus Cabrera – $72,824

3. Mark Sykes – $53,126

4. Chris Bonita – $39,406

5. Dave Cubeta – $29,685

6. Mike Summers – $22,704

7. Tam Ly – $17,618

8. Brandon Croft – $13,869

9. Manish Patel – $11,073

The ones creating the design will be the On Tilt Designs Pty. Ltd and they will cover the players from “head to wrist”. The centrepiece of this nice collection is the sponsorship of WSOP bracelets for the Las Vegas & European events, for which On Tilt selected Master Artisan and jeweler designer Steve Soffa.

Leading the field was 24 year old company director Aman Atwal of Birmingham on 117,600. After the first day 160 people survived from the 382 who were at the beginning of the competition. The 2^nd day will start with 279 players and there are still some top names there like: Julian Thew, ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson and Poker News Headline’s very own Paul Sandells. Let’s see who manages to steal the light and the pot.

The final table players were:

1 – Liv Boeree, UK, €1,250,000
2 – Jakob Carlsson, Sweeden, €750,000
3 – Toni Pettersson, Finland, €420,000
4 – Michael Piper, UK, €345,000
5 – Alexey Rybin, Russia, €270,000
6 – Giuseppe Diep, Italy, €210,000
7 – Claudio Piceci, Italy, €150,000
8 – Atanas Gueorguiev, Bulgaria, €90,000

If you want to buy in directly you will need $500, but you can qualify with a smaller amount. You can enter the satellites for the competition for as little as $4.