The most prestigious event on the World Poker Tour’s yearly schedule starts tomorrow at the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, and today is the last chance to qualify in a super satellite for the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship that is sure to feature a multi-million dollar prize pool.
The last two $2,500 buy-in super satellites ran yesterday at 1 p.m. and 10 p.m. Day 1A of the event begins tomorrow at noon.
The following are the past WPT Championship winners:
2007─ Juan Carlos Mortensen 
- First-Place Prize: $3,970,415
- Entrants: 639
- Prize Pool: $15,495,750
2006─ Joe Bartholdi
- First-Place Prize: $3,760,165
- Entrants: 605
- Prize Pool: 14,671,250
2005─ Tuan Le
- First-Place Prize: $2,856,150
- Entrants: 452
- Prize Pool: $10,961,000
2004─ Martin de Knijff
- First-Place Prize: $2,728,356
- Entrants: 343
- Prize Pool: $8,342,000
2003─ Alan Goehring
- First-Place Prize: $1,011,886
- Entrants: 111
- Prize Pool: $2,691,750
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The Card Player reporting will be at the event to provide chip counts, live updates,
