World Poker Tour 2018 Prize Money

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World Poker Tour Prize Money
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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is 'the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world'. It is held annually since 1970 in Las Vegas. Since 1972, the Main Event of the WSOP has been the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament. A charity poker tournament in Illinois is in hot water with poker players after participants were shorted in their prize pool payouts. Over the weekend, the Midway Poker Tour hosted its inaugural.

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The final table is set in the 2018 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event. From a field of 7,874 entries, the second largest field in the tournament’s history, now only nine players remain to battle it out for the championship gold bracelet and the first place prize of $8,800,000. By making the final nine each player remaining has locked up at least a million-dollar payday.

There are two players essentially tied for the chip lead after the final hand of the night saw Nicholas Manion win a three-way all-in that vaulted him to the top of the leaderboard. Manion raised to 1,500,000 from under the gun. Antoine Labat called and bracelet winner Yueqi Zhu moved all in for 24,700,000 from the hijack.

Manion then shoved for 43 million and Labat, who had everyone else in the hand covered, made the call with the KK. Zhu, who was the shortest stack, also held pocket kings with the KK. Manion had picked up the AA to find himself in an incredible position on the final table bubble. The board ran out J743J and Manion’s aces held up to see him soar to 112,775,000.

Zhu was eliminated in 10th place, taking home $850,025 for his impressive run while Labat fell to the short stack. Manion shot to the top of the chip counts, surpassing Michael Dyer who had held the lead for much of the day. Dyer ended the day with 109,175,000.

The two leaders each have more than 180 big blinds in their stack. While those two have the most chips, the undisputed headliner of the final table is none other than 2009 WSOP main event champion and three-time bracelet winner Joe Cada.

Cada already has a special place in poker history as the youngest main event champion ever, having become world champion at just 21 years and 11 months old. Now Cada will have a chance to become the first two-time main event winner in poker’s modern era. Stu Ungar’s third main event win in 1997 marked the last time a previous world champion came out on top in the WSOP main event. Cada will enter the final table with 23,675,000 in chips, or just shy of 40 big blinds.

Here’s a look at the final nine players (by seat position) who will come back with 300,000-600,000 blinds with a 100,000 ante.

1. Artem Metalidi (15,475,000):

The Ukranian poker pro is one of the most accomplished players at the table outside of Cada. The native of Kiev has more than $2.1 million in prior lifetime live tournament earnings before making this final table, including second place finishes in the 2012 WSOP $3,000 six-max no-limit hold’em event and the 2017 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $5,000 main event. The 29-year-old is not the first Ukranian player to make the main event final table (Anton Makiievskyi earned that honor in 2011), but he does have the chance to become the first champion from Ukraine. He will start the final table with 26 big blinds.

2. John Cynn (37,075,000):

You may recognize John Cynn from when he finished 11th in this very event just two years ago. That’s right, he placed 11th out of a field of 6,737 players and now will finish at worst ninth from an even larger field of 7,874. The 33-year old from Evanston, Illinois earned $650,000 for his 2016 deep run in this event, which accounts for the majority of his $944,786 in lifetime live tournament earnings. He has 28 career cashes, but no titles to his name. That could all change if he is able to run up his 62 big blinds (good for fourth on the the leadeboard) and take down this event.

3. Alex Lynskey (25,925,000):

Australia’s Alex Lynskey is also quite the accomplished poker player. He has 42 career live tournament cashes, totaling just shy of $1.5 million dollars worth of earning. The 28-year old from Brisbane’s biggest score came when he finished second in the 2017 WSOP ‘Marathon’ no-limit hold’em event, taking home $426,663. He has also made the final table of the Aussie Millions main event, finishing fourth in 2016. With 43 big blinds, he will enter the final table in fifth chip position.

4. Tony Miles (42,750,000):

bestbet Jacksonville had 25 players win packages for the 2018 WSOP main event through the cardroom’s two $590 buy-in with $60 rebuy MEGA satellites. One of the packages ended up being transferred to 32-year-old poker pro Tony Miles, who now finds himself in third chip position at the final table. Miles has $53,288 in prior live tournament earnings to his name, but that number is soon to grow dramatically with Miles having locked up at least $1,000,000 by making the final nine.

5. Nicolas Manion (112,775,000)

Nicolas Manion surged up the leaderboard in the final hand of the night to enter the final table with the chip lead. With 188 big blinds, the 35-year-old has nearly 29 percent of the chips in play. The Muskegon, Michigan native has only $10,970 in recorded prior live tournament earnings. Manion was given a freeroll into a few $2,175 satellites into the main event by some friends who work with Solve For Why Academy and managed to win two seats into the big dance. Now he is the player to beat with just nine remaining.

6. Aram Zobian (18,875,000)

Cranston, Rhode Island’s Aram Zobian came into day 7 of the main event as the chip leader with 26 players remaining. He started with more than 41 million in chips, but ended up putting just shy of 19 million in the bag. Despite losing chips during the playdown day, he still will enter the final table with 31 big blinds. The 23-year-old poker pro had $112,011 in live tournament earnings before entering this year’s main event, with 25 cashes to his name. His largest score prior to this tournament came when he finished second in a $1,675 Megastack Challenge event for $47,000 earlier this year.

7. Michael Dyer (109,175,000)

If it weren’t for Manion’s meteoric rise up the leaderboard in the final hand of day 7, Dyer would have been the runaway chip leader heading into the final table. The 32-year-old from Houston, Texas knocked out Paulo Goncalves in 21st place to take the lead early in the day, and then scored four more knockouts before the final table was set. Dyer has $136,418 in prior live tournament cashes, with his largest score being an eighth-place showing in a $2,000 no-limit hold’em event at the 2009 WSOP. Dyer’s 182 big blinds mean that he has just shy of 28 percent of the chips in play.

8. Joe Cada (23,675,000)

Nine year’s after he became the youngest main event winner in WSOP history, Joe Cada is back at the main event final table. The 30-year-old poker pro from Shelby Township, Michigan has won two bracelets since then, including taking down the $3,000 no-limit hold’em shootout earlier this summer for $226,218. With $10,780,089 in lifetime earnings, Cada is by far the most accomplished player at the final table. He won $8,546,435 as the champion in 2009, and is looking to add another $8.8 million to his earnings by the end of the week.

9. Antoine Labat (8,050,000)

Antoine Labat’s pocket kings in the final hand of the night cost him more than 80 percent of his stack. He spent much of the later part of day 7 as one of the larger stacks in the room, but now enters the final table as the shortest stack with just 13 big blinds. The 29-year old Frenchman from Paris had $99,023 in live earnings coming into this tournament, a number which will greatly increase regardless of how he fares at the final table.

Here is a look at the payouts for the final table:

Place	Payout
1	$8,800,000
2	$5,000,000
3	$3,750,000
4	$2,825,000
5	$2,150,000
6	$1,800,000
7	$1,500,000
8	$1,250,000
9	$1,000,000

Check out _Card Player TV’s preview of the final table below:

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Valerie Cross

It was a stacked final table in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown held at the Luxor HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 30 with WPT Champions Club member James Carroll and Maria Ho coming in as the frontrunners, the only two players to start with over 100 big blinds.

Ho with over $3 million in live earnings was still looking for her first major title while Carroll already had a WPT title from winning the 2014 $7,500 Bay 101 Shooting Star for seven figures. Ho's bid for her first major career title would end in a third-place finish, while in the end, it would be the only two former WPT champs left to battle for another title in the $3,500 World Poker Tour Showdown Championship.

$3,500 World Poker Tour Showdown Championship Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize Money
1	James Carroll	USA	$715,175*
2	Eric Afriat	USA	$465,120
3	Maria Ho	USA	$344,960
4	Jerry Wong	USA	$257,815
5	Ami Alibay	Canada	$194,610
6	Chad Eveslage	USA	$148,380

*_{Includes entry to $15,000 Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions}

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Final Table Action

One of the shorter stacks to start the day was former November Niner Jerry Wong, who found a lucky queen on the river to double early through Carroll with ace-queen versus ace-king., according to the WPT live updates.

Another short stack to start the day, two-time WPT champ Eric Afriat had to find some doubles in the early levels of play to avoid being the first player eliminated. He did so first when his ace-jack suited bested Ho's king-queen and after losing a flip to double up Chad Eveslage, Afriat was at risk again. This time he was behind, but he found an ace on the river with ace-queen to pull ahead of Carroll's pocket kings and stay alive.

'The first one felt good, but I’ve been through some super tough times for the past five years, so this feels good.”

The well-known Circuit grinder Eveslage rode the short stack for nearly 70 hands before losing a flip to Ho to hit the rail in sixth place for his largest career score at $148,380. Soon after, the only non-American finalist, Canada's Ami Alibay got his last 11 big blinds in with pocket nines and was at risk against Wong's pocket eights after Afriat folded jacks. The board ran out with four hearts though to give Wong a flush and end Alibay's tournament run in fifth.

Four-handed, the short stacks fought for their lives, Wong first doubling through Ho, who then doubled through Carroll both in blind versus blind confrontations. As Carroll's stack continued to swell as he applied pressure on his opponents, Wong slipped to eight big blinds and got them in flipping with ace-nine against Afriat's pocket fours, which held up.

The Hunt for the Title

The three-handed battle commenced with Ho trailing, but she found a double through Afriat by winning a big flip with pocket tens versus ace-queen. They couldn't shake Afriat, who found a call for his tournament life against Carroll's triple-barrel queen-high bluff with second pair to soar back into contention and close the gap for the chip lead.

As Afriat chipped up further, Ho treaded water and got her last 16 big blinds in with ace-five. Carroll looked her up with king-queen and made two pair on the turn to take down Ho's flopped pair of aces. She adds $344,960 to the $277k she earned in March for taking down the $25k LAPC High Roller. Ho now has over $3.7 million in earnings and more shots at a major title right around the corner with the WSOP freshly kicked off.

Afriat started the heads-up battle with a two-to-one chip lead over Carroll and the match went back and forth, with both players taking the lead multiple times. The third time Carroll took the lead from Afriat would be the last as he would close it out, winning a flip in the final hand by flopping trip kings with king-eight against Afriat's pocket sixes.

World Poker Tour Prize Money

After just missing out on the televised WPT LAPC Main Event final table in March with a seventh-place finish, Carroll got to more than make up for it in this one. Compared to his first WPT victory which brought an even bigger payday, Carroll told WPT reporters: “This one is actually somewhat sweeter. The first one felt good, but I’ve been through some super tough times for the past five years, so this feels good.”

Carroll's win put him third in the WPT POY race and he'll have the chance to carry his momentum into the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions that kicks off Saturday, June 1, entry for which was included in his prize money.