The ultimate desk of the $1,100 World poker Tour Prime Championship is all set.
Up for grabs on prime is $1,177,880, which features a $10,400 entry into subsequent season’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. The WPT Prime Championship will conclude in entrance of cameras on Saturday, Dec. 20.
The match simply surpassed its $5 million assured prize pool because of the participant’s 9,876 entries by 4 beginning days. The most important chunk of the $9,579,720 prize pool gos to the winner, however the gamers are within the cash for at the very least a quarter-milly:
1st: $1,177,880 (contains WPT ticket)2nd: $775,0003rd: $575,0004th: $430,0005th: $325,0006th: $250,000
Meet the gamers
Qing Liu is the chip chief with 126.6 million in entrance of him (63 bb). His money of at the very least $250,000 right here pushed his lifetime winnings complete over the $4 million mark. His largest money got here within the $5,000 Foremost Occasion on the Venetian DeepStack Showdown Poker Collection in 2021 ($752,880).
Second in chips is Fernando Martin Del Campo with 85.5 million (43 bb). He multiplied his lifetime match winnings at the very least by 10.
Behind him is Aaron Johnson with 65.9 million (33 bb). Johnson has been cashing occasions since 2010, and is among the beasts on MSPT. He gained his second MSPT title in Chicago only a few weeks in the past for $92,000, following a second-pace end in Riverside, Iowa, the place he took second. He’s booked 66 cashes and 13 prime 10 finishes on that tour. Now he has one in a WPT occasion.
Tim Burden is subsequent with 49.5 million (25 bb) chips, a hair in entrance of Uri Foox with 48.9 million (24 bb).
Burden is a daily on the MSPT and World Collection of Circuit excursions, however that is his first six-figure money.
“Phrases can’t describe. I imply, that is simply loopy to have the ability o undergo that many individuals and to make the ultimate six, it’s simply loopy,” he mentioned.
Foox additionally scores his first six-figure money right here. He provides it to the $146,000 he’s gained within the final 15 years.
Safiya Umerova brings a WSOP bracelet into the ultimate desk, which she gained in 2016. With this money, she now has $1 million in match cashes, however she has plenty of work to do along with her 9 large blinds (18.8 million) with a purpose to contend for the massive cash on prime.
WPT Prime is a part of WPT’s Championship collection. It’s World Championship is presently in Day 4.
