Today at 
Ledyard the opening of the series tournament took place Foxwoods Poker Classic... The buy-in of the tournament is $9'700. and the total prize fund of the tournament is $3'356'200. The number of participants exceeds three hundred people. It is planned to play five rounds and a final round. Participants start the fight with 30'000 chip counts.
The first day of the competition also brought the first surprises: not all tournament participants arrived at the start of the competition day. After a few hands, the late players arrived and the incident was settled.
The big surprise was that David Phamin the players' rating (Player of the year) in third place, could not pass the first round. His stack emptied with every hand, and when he had only 2,500 chips left. David having in his arms A-10 went to the bank. Seeing the opponent's hands AJ David began to pack his things.
The leader after the first day is the last year champion of this tournament Raj Patel.
The leaderboard is as follows:
1. Raj Patel - 192'000
2. Paul Snead - 182'775
3. Brock parker - 180.475
4. Barry greenstein - 156'200
5. Kevin Mason - 144'050
6. Erick lindgren - 131'800
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