The WPT World Championship at the Wynn Las Vegas is slowly coming to a close. However, we have yet to meet the champion of this $10,400 buy-in tournament, where the entry count has reached 2,392 and the prizepool has reached $23,441,600.
The winner will be awarded $3,138,900, which includes a $10,400 ticket to next year's WPT World Championship. There were 61 players in the field yesterday, but only the top 16 made it to Day 5.
All players already have at least $176,000 in the bag. The chipleader here is the legendary Chris Moorman, who has a wealth of success in both online and live tournaments. Chris was also the chipleader last year at the same stage of the tournament. This year he holds a stack worth 30,600,000. He also made the final table a year ago, from which he took home his biggest career win of $2,095,300 for 4th place.
The WPT Prime Slovakia Championship champion, German player Fabian Gumz, is still in contention, having bagged the 8th largest stack. Mikita Badziakouski, who was the Day 4 chipleader for most of Day 4, busted out just before the end of the day. Mikita took home $176,000 for his 19th place finish. Niall Farrell has also already finished in the tournament. He finished in 55th place for $71,000.
Play will also begin today at 12:00 local time when the 125k/250k/250k blinds level will be played. There are still 15 minutes left to play from this level, after which the levels will last 90 minutes. The challenge for today's Day 5 is to finish down to the last six players. Of course, there is also a live stream, which can be found on our website around 22:00.
Seating and stacks:
Seat 1. San Kim - 6,600,000 (26 bb)
Seat 2. Andrea Dato - 7,725,000 (31 bb)
Seat 3. Scott Stewart - 29,125,000 (117 bb)
Seat 4. Jonathan Willis - 19,275,000 (77 bb)
Seat 5. Fabian Gumz - 14,800,000 (59 bb)
Seat 6. Anže Šmajd - 9,775,000 (39 bb)
Seat 7. A.J. Kelsall - 4,600,000 (18 bb)
Seat 8. Chris Moorman - 30,600,000 (122 bb)
Seat 1. Ryan Yu - 20,000,000 (80 bb)
Seat 2. Brian Yoon - 22,550,000 (90 bb)
Seat 3. Christian Roberts - 22,050,000 (88 bb)
Seat 4. Jeremy Wien - 7,250,000 (29 bb)
Seat 5. Mykhailo Lendel - 3,600,000 (14 bb)
Seat 6. Joshua Lisberger - 19,325,000 (77 bb)
Seat 7. Robert Sherwood - 8,950,000 (36 bb)
Seat 8. Edward Pak - 13,250,000 (53 bb)
Payouts:
1st: $3,138,900*
2nd: $2,075,000
3rd: $1,550,000
4th: $1,150,000
5th: $875,000
6th: $665,000
7th: $515,000
8th: $400,000
9th-10th: $310,000
11th-12th: $255,000
13th-15th: $215,000
16th: $176,000
WPT Alpha 8 recognized its winner
The final day of the WPT Alpha 8 was also on the schedule yesterday, which had a buy-in of $25,800 and brought 111 entries with a prizepool of $2,775,000. A $787,959 prize awaited the winner, and 22 finalists battled it out.
They were led by Shannon Shorr, who eventually made it to the final table, but here he finished in 9th place with a prize of $79,088. Naj Ajez and Travis Egbert entered the final heads-up. The players made a deal together here, after which they both secured $600,000 and finished for another $84,684 and the winner's trophy. Travis Egbert was the eventual winner.
1st. Travis Egbert - $684,684*
2nd. Naj Ajez - $600,000*
3rd. Noel Rodriguez - $345,488
4th. Sam Soverel - $253,219
5th. Brock Wilson - $190,781
6th. June Obara - $145,688
7th. Sean Winter - $115,856
8th. Igor Kurganov - $94,350
Source - wpt, flickr
