Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017
- Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Results
- Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Leaderboard
- Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Winners
- Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Game
Alex Foxen has won the 2019 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event at Bellagio. The 28-year-old poker pro from Cold Spring Harbor, NY earned. In one of the very last hands on Day 1 of the $10K buyin World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio, Antonio Esfandiari could be seen standing from his chair, prematurely.
WPT Season 11 Episode 5 - Part 2. 2.5 Day 5 Ryan Tosoc outlasted 812 players and bested his last year’s runner-up finish in this same event to claim his first WPT title when he won the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,958,065. Ryan Tosoc has won the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 no-limit hold’em main event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Tosoc’s win is particularly special because he.
Let’s just say that Ryan Tosoc will be staying at the Bellagio whenever he is in Las Vegas. This weekend, Tosoc won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event and nearly $2 million, just a year after finishing this same tournament as the runner-up and earning over $1.1 million. Methinks he can splurge for the Bellagio’s Presidential Suite* during his next stay.
Last year’s event was the largest-ever for the Five Diamond, as it garnered 791 entries. This one was bigger, with the re-entry format helping the field climb to 812 $10,000 entries. If you did the math above (with my rounded-off numbers), Tosoc has now won more than $3 million at the Five Diamond, accounting for the vast majority of his live tournament earnings. He has a nice list of cashes, but only one other is even in the low six-figure range (and it is at this point that I give my usual disclaimer that I would KILL for a low six-figure poker score).
“It feels unreal,” Tosoc told WPT.com afterward. “I kind of feel like I’m in a dream right now.”
Poker can be an emotional game, especially since you can make perfect decisions and still come out on the losing end, but Tosoc tried not to get too high or too low during the Main Event.
“During the tournament, I like to just keep even-keeled,” he said. “The only time like I felt like I was going to win was when I was all in with Queen-Ten. I just felt that jack coming.”
It is not every day that players feel ultra-confident when all-in with just Queen-Ten, but I guess that’s the mojo you get when you are on your way to winning one of the World Poker Tour’s most prestigious events.
That Queen-Ten was on the final hand of the tournament and frankly, Tosoc had every right to feel that victory was coming, as he had an enormous chip lead at that point over Alex Foxen, 21.450 million chips to just 2.925 million.
Tosoc raised pre-flop with the aforementioned hole cards, as one would expect, and then Foxen shoved all-in with a dominated A-T. With little to lose by calling (and not REALLY all-in), Tosoc looked him up.
The flop was 9-3-K, a good one for Foxen, though Tosoc did gain a gutshot straight draw. As he already told WPT.com, he felt the Jack coming and it certainly did so on the turn. Foxen, though, now had a chance at a better straight. Another Jack was dealt on the river, shutting the door on Foxen’s chances and given Ryan Tosoc a one-spot better finish than last year and his first WPT title.
2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event – Final Table Results
Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Results
1. Ryan Tosoc – $1,958,065
2. Alex Foxen – $1,134,202
3. Mike Del Vecchio – $752,196
4. Sean Perry – $504,090
5. Away Chabra – $350,500
6. Richard Kirsch – $271,736
*I do not know if the Bellagio has something called the Presidential Suite.
Ryan Tosoc has won the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 no-limit hold’em main event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Tosoc’s win is particularly special because he finished runner-up in this same event in 2016, and somehow managed to return a year later and improve on his previous finish. Tosoc outlasted a field of 812 entries on the way to securing the title, the largest field in this event’s history. Tosoc earned the massive first-place prize of $1,958,065 and added his name to the WPT Champions Cup as a result of emerging victorious in this event.
“It feels unreal,” Tosoc told WPT reporters after it was all over. “I kind of feel like I’m in a dream right now.”
The 27-year-old Tosoc Las Vegas resident has now earned more than $3 million in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic over the past two years, having cashed for more than $1.1 million as the second place finisher in 2016.
Tosoc came into the final day of this event in second chip position with six players remaining. He was able to navigate his way to heads-up play with 26-year-old poker pro Alex Foxen, who is having a breakout year on the live tournament circuit.
Tosoc started heads-up play with roughly a 3-to-2 chip advantage over Foxen. The two battled for 49 hands, and in the end it took Tosoc’s Q10 outrunning Foxen’s A10 for him to secure the title. The board ran out K93JJ to give Tosoc the straight. Foxen earned $1,134,202 as the runner-up, by far the largest payday of his career.
Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2017 Leaderboard
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Ryan Tosoc | $1,958,065 | 2280 |
| 2 | Alex Foxen | $1,134,202 | 1900 |
| 3 | Michael Del Vecchio | $752,196 | 1520 |
| 4 | Sean Perry | $504,090 | 1140 |
| 5 | Ajay Chabra | $350,500 | 950 |
| 6 | Richard Kirsch | $271,736 | 760 |
| 7 | Daniel Zack | $208,725 | 570 |
| 8 | Lauren Roberts | $153,590 | 380 |
| 9 | Ray Pulford | $107,119 | 190 |
Winner photo credit: WPT / Joe Giron.