{"id":12695,"date":"2018-08-28T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2018-08-29T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:58:54","slug":"michael-copeland-wins-wpt500-los-angeles-for-181950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/michael-copeland-wins-wpt500-los-angeles-for-181950\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Copeland Wins WPT500 Los Angeles For $181,950"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Poker Tour<\/strong>\u00a0traveled to the Bicycle Casino<\/strong> on Aug. 18 for the $1 million guaranteed WPT500 Los Angeles<\/strong> event. A total of 2,509<\/strong> entrants joined the action in the span of 16 starting flights to put the prize pool up to $1,254,500<\/strong>. Day 2 started on Aug. 26 with 125 runners and finished up with the final nine playing to a winner on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n

Michael Copeland<\/strong> finished on top of the field after starting the final table as chip leader to win the $181,950 first-place prize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Final table lineup<\/span><\/h2>\n

Seat 1: Jorge Pineda \u2013 7,200,000 (36 bb)
\nSeat 2: Erik Nason \u2013 5,375,000 (27 bb)
\nSeat 3: Michael Copeland \u2013 19,000,000 (95 bb)
\nSeat 4: Luke Nguyen \u2013 2,775,000 (14 bb)
\nSeat 5: Jose Torres \u2013 3,250,000 (16 bb)
\nSeat 6: Aaron Messmer \u2013 4,725,000 (24 bb)
\nSeat 7: Travis Tachibana \u2013 2,500,000 (13 bb)
\nSeat 8: Alexander Beleson \u2013 2,250,000 (11 bb)
\nSeat 9: Sanjay Mayekar \u2013 1,875,000 (9 bb)<\/p>\n

Pineda does the early dirty work<\/span><\/h2>\n

Copeland\u2019s wide chip margin at the start of the final table left a lot of ground to be made up by his competitors. Jorge Pineda<\/strong> did himself a few favors right away with two eliminations to bring the field down to seven.<\/p>\n

Pineda busted Alexander Beleson<\/strong> with pocket aces versus ace-queen in the first level of the day to pick up a dozen big blinds. In the same level, Pineda sent\u00a0Travis Tachibana<\/strong> out when his pocket queens held versus the ace-four offsuit of Tachibana.<\/p>\n

Copeland regains control<\/span><\/h2>\n

Pineda lightened the field and Copeland then resumed building his stack in anticipation of shorthanded play.<\/p>\n

With the blinds up to 125,000\/250,000, Copeland dispatched\u00a0Sanjay Mayekar\u2019s<\/strong> last 4.325 million as a result of pocket kings flopping a set versus ace-queen after all the chips went in preflop.<\/p>\n

Copeland added to his advantage by taking out Luke Nguyen<\/strong>. King-jack for Copeland turned a pair against Nguyen\u2019s pocket sixes to put Copeland in front for the remainder of the event.<\/p>\n

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