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WPT: Dan Smith leads the final six of the Big One for One Drop

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Today we meet four millionaires
 

The historic fifth edition of the Big One for One Drop attracted 17 brave souls willing to invest a million-dollar buy-in during the WPT World Championship Festival. The first day of play brought a slow start that sent just two players out of the game, which meant that 15 players played for a spot in the 6-seed final yesterday.

WPT: 45 players remain in the Main Event, the million dollar One Drop has also startedWPT: 45 players remain in the Main Event, the million dollar One Drop has also started

Right from the start of the day, Chris Brewer had to say goodbye to the tournament after a missed flip with A J against a pair of 7 7 , followed by Martin Kabrhel just a few minutes later. The latter got into a spot from which there was no escape when he ran into a pair of Q Q with his 15bb into a pair of K ​​​​​​​ K ​​​​​​​ under the hand of Jason Koon. The board didn't bring any miraculous help and the hope of a Czech 7-figure win was quickly extinguished.

The second day's play eventually saw 6 players successfully battle their way through, still led by Day 1 chipleader Dan Smith. The final showdown is scheduled for today from 23:00 our time, when we will be able to watch the astronomical 7-figure bubble in the live stream. The chipcount for the final day looks as follows:

Seat Name Stack BBs
1. Santhosh Suvarna 1,845,000 23 bb
2. Dan Smith 4,865,000 61 bb
3. Nick Petrangelo 1,445,000 18 bb
4. Mikita Badziakouski 2,935,000 37 bb
5. Isaac Haxton 2,570,000 32 bb
6. Mario Mosboeck 3,340,000 42 bb

Final Day payout structure:

  1. 7,114,500$
  2. 4,663,950$
  3. 2,806,750$
  4. 1,224,800$


The last two tables in the Main Event

While many fans have been following the progress of the aforementioned One Drop honestly, the Main Event of the entire series is still going on nearby. The latter had a fifth day of play on the schedule during the night, with 45 players jumping in. The star-studded field of players managed to whittle down to the last two tables during the day, with 16 of the participants now playing for spots in Thursday's final table.

Ben Jacobs settled on the overall chiplead with 77bb, but the field still includes names like Artur Martirosian, Ben Heath, Chris Moorman and Andrew Lichtenberger. Each of this group has already pocketed a $291,700 cashout for sure, but the plan for tonight will be to see the 6-seed final table.

Seat Name Stack BBs
1. Ben Jacobs 46,400,000 77 bb
2. Maxime Chilaud 38,200,000 64 bb
3. Artur Martirosian 36,200,000 60 bb
4. Carl Shaw 29,000,000 48 bb
5. Daniel Sepiol 27,900,000 47 bb
6. John Richards 26,400,000 44 bb
7. Georgios Sotiropoulos 24,600,000 41 bb
8. Ben Heath 22,300,000 37 bb
9. Chris Moorman 21,200,000 35 bb
10. Andrew Lichtenberger 19,500,000 33 bb
11. Jason Min 19,200,000 32 bb
12. Henrique Zanetti 17,300,000 29 bb
13. Ade Olonoh 15,500,000 26 bb
14. Raphael Blouet 15,400,000 26 bb
15. Mark Mounsey 14,000,000 23 bb
16. Paulius Vaitiekunas 10,000,000 17 bb


Source - WPT, PokerNews, YouTube, Flick