Two WPT Final Tables Set, WSOPC National Begins

WPT Championship Sets Final Table

The season finale of the World Poker Tour still rages on at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, but the final table is now set for the $25,500 WPT World Championship. The reentry tournament drew 146 entries for a $3,540,500 prize pool, and the money bubble burst on Day 4 to start paying out the top 15 players.

Day 4 ended with players like Byron Kaverman and Dan Shak at the cashier cage, and the final elimination of the night saw Chino Rheem eliminate Amir Babakhaniin ninth place. The final eight players ended play with Rheem as the chip leader.

Day 5 started with the eighth place elimination of Rocco Palumbo, and then Erick Lindgren eliminated friend Daniel Negreanu in seventh place to set the final table. The players and chip stacks for the May 24 final are:

Seat 1: Jonathan Roy (1,900,000)

Seat 2: David Peters (1,085,000)

Seat 3: Erick Lindgren (3,355,000)

Seat 4: Brandon Steven (1,210,000)

Seat 5: Matt Hyman (1,560,000)

Seat 6: Chino Rheem (5,495,000)

Updates provided by WPT Live Updates team.

WPT Super High Roller Finds Final Six

Running alongside the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio was a game for the high stakes players. The WPT Super High Roller tournament boasted of a $100,000 buy-in with reentries allowed and 12 levels of registration open. The first day of action brought in 15 players, but the eliminations of Erik Seidel, Marvin Rettenmaier, Cary Katz, and Tom Marchese left only 11 standing at the end of the night. Steven Silverman led the 11 remaining players with 962,500 chips.

Day 2 started with a rebuy from Katz, and Jason Mercier also bought in twice, as did Seidel and Jean-Norel Thorel. When registration closed, there were 21 total entries, creating a prize pool of $2,047,000. That was enough to pay out the top three players with more than $1 million going to the winner. Play ended with the final table set for May 23 as follows:

Seat 1: Joseph Cheong (1,646,000)

Seat 2: Andrew Robl(169,000)

Seat 3: James Courtney (1,690,000)

Seat 4: Steven Silverman (1,339,000)

Seat 5: Daniel Perper (164,000)

Seat 6: David Sands (1,286,000)

WSOPC National Championship Gets Underway

The end of the World Series of Poker Circuit season was almost complete but not without the grand finale – the Southern Comfort 100 Proof National Championship in New Orleans. The tournament had a $1 million guarantee and was a freeroll for players who finished atop the WSOPC leaderboard, or won a Main Event or Casino Championship along the way. Also, any of the top 100 WSOP Player of the Year earners could get in on the action for a $10K buy-in.

The field boasted of names like Vanessa Selbst, Matt Glantz, and David Baker, as well as others like Dominik Nitsche and Jason Mercier. More than 125 players were in the tournament into the evening hours but registration remained open until the start of Day 2.