Sam El Sayed Leads with 52 remaining at WPT Championship
Day three of the season-ending $25k buy-in World Poker Tour World Championship completed Monday evening. Only 52 remain from the 116 that started the day with WPT Amneville winner Sam El Sayed leading with Nenad Medic and Steven Kelly both close behind with over a million chips at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 220 entrants created a prize pool of $5,309,500 with the winner to receive $1,618,344.
Phil Hellmuth would bust out on the second to last level of the day to end this season and every season of the WPT without a title.
Notable young guns still in include last year's winner David Williams, Galen Hall, Steven Kelly, Christian Harder, Justin Young, Sam Trickett, Roberto Romanello, Ashton Griffin, Joseph Cheong, Justin “boosted” Smith, Scott Seiver, Andy Frankenberger, and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger, as well as a few of poker’s old guard, most notably Doyle Brunson. Previous WPT winners David Chiu, Yevgeniy Timoshenko are still in the hunt for a second title.
Other notable bustouts included Eric Seidel, Jake Cody, Eugene Katchalov, Eric Baldwin, Barry Greenstein, and Daniel Negreanu.
Top chips stacks with 55 remaining and 27 making the money:
1. Sam El Sayed - 1,107,000 (138 BBs)
2. Nenad Medic - 1,098,500 (137 BBs)
3. Steven Kelly - 1,000,500 (125 BBs)
4. Christian Harder - 887,000 (110 BBs)
5. Roger Teska - 846,000 (105 BBs)
6. Shannon Shorr - 819,500 (102 BBs)
7. David Chiu - 772,000 (96 BBs)
8. Justin Young - 688,000 (86 BBs)
9. Alan Sternberg - 676,500 (84 BBs)
10. Galen Hall - 659,000 (82 BBs)
Play resumes at 12pm PT on Tuesday to play to the money bubble.
This year's WPT Championship is a seven-day event with the final table taking place May 20 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Players will make a minimum of $225,000 for making the final table. Here are the full final table payouts.
1 $1,618,344.00
2 $1,061,900.00
3 $589,355.00
4 $371,665.00
5 $278,749.00
6 $225,654.00
The 220 entrants created a prize pool of $5,309,500 with the winner to receive $1,618,344.
Phil Hellmuth would bust out on the second to last level of the day to end this season and every season of the WPT without a title.
Notable young guns still in include last year's winner David Williams, Galen Hall, Steven Kelly, Christian Harder, Justin Young, Sam Trickett, Roberto Romanello, Ashton Griffin, Joseph Cheong, Justin “boosted” Smith, Scott Seiver, Andy Frankenberger, and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger, as well as a few of poker’s old guard, most notably Doyle Brunson. Previous WPT winners David Chiu, Yevgeniy Timoshenko are still in the hunt for a second title.
Other notable bustouts included Eric Seidel, Jake Cody, Eugene Katchalov, Eric Baldwin, Barry Greenstein, and Daniel Negreanu.
Top chips stacks with 55 remaining and 27 making the money:
1. Sam El Sayed - 1,107,000 (138 BBs)
2. Nenad Medic - 1,098,500 (137 BBs)
3. Steven Kelly - 1,000,500 (125 BBs)
4. Christian Harder - 887,000 (110 BBs)
5. Roger Teska - 846,000 (105 BBs)
6. Shannon Shorr - 819,500 (102 BBs)
7. David Chiu - 772,000 (96 BBs)
8. Justin Young - 688,000 (86 BBs)
9. Alan Sternberg - 676,500 (84 BBs)
10. Galen Hall - 659,000 (82 BBs)
Play resumes at 12pm PT on Tuesday to play to the money bubble.
This year's WPT Championship is a seven-day event with the final table taking place May 20 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Players will make a minimum of $225,000 for making the final table. Here are the full final table payouts.
1 $1,618,344.00
2 $1,061,900.00
3 $589,355.00
4 $371,665.00
5 $278,749.00
6 $225,654.00
