The ninth edition of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker started this week at the Bicycle in Los Angeles. The poker tournament attracted a total of 462 poker players, 66 percent more than last year when 279 players entered the event. However, since the buy-in was lowered from $10,000 to $5,000, the prize pool went from $2.63 million to $2.15 million.

The winner of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker will take home the $750,000 top prize, which makes the poker competition a pretty competitive one. The field featured 16 former WPT champions, including veteran pro player Kathy Liebert, who is playing her 100th WPT championship, a fact that makes the tournament even more exciting.

Mike Sexton paid tribute to Leibert, noting that she has established impressive benchmarks for women who play poker. She has six final WPT tables, 15 cashes and over $1.75 million in winnings. She still has to win a WPT main prize, but unfortunately this poker tournament won’t give her that chance because she was eliminated on day 1a.

Day two started with 241 survivors, including Phil Hellmuth, Joe Sebock, Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen, Jonathan Little, Shane Schleger and Adam Levy, but many of them went home as the game went on. By Sunday night only 115 poker players were left, with Vinny Vinh as chip leader with 530,000 in chips.