The Magician Antonio Esfandiari holds most of the headlines of what should be one heck of a final table at the WPT Five Diamond Sunday at Bellagio.
Efandiari has a small mountain to climb, trailing the chip leader 4:1 in chips. Antonio won this very event last season and he's looking to join Vanessa Selbst and Jason Mercier as back-to-back champs this season - both Selbst and Mercier accomplished the feat earlier in the year at NAPT Mohegan Sun.
Speaking of Selbst, she has also found her to the final table. Selbst held the chip lead at one point in the tournament, it's actually been a little bit of a roller coaster ride for Selbst, sitting fourth in chips.
Leading the way is 2010 November Niner Soi Nguyen. The part-time poker player from California is low on total results in his career but, he surely knows where to show up to pickup some major dough! Nguyen is the only player over 4 million in chips, in fact, he's one 5K chip away from 5M!
The man in second place, Brighton's James Dempsey might not have the results in 2011 - but, his great run at the 2010 WSOP surely makes him ready for this moment, and he may very well be the overall favourite coming into today's play.
Take away the Heads Up Championship at the EPT Grand Final and you can consider 2011 as a quiet year for Andrew Lichtenberger. Lichtenberger will certainly be looking to redeem himself with a win later on today.
Rounding out the Final Six is Vitor Coelho. Coelho has a 15th and a 10th place finish at the last two WPT Southern Poker Championships - this is the deepest he's been at any major tournament - he comes to the final table with a very small chip stack, he will need to double play early in order to get back in this thing.
WPT FIVE DIAMOND FINAL TABLE IN-FOCUS:
105. Vanessa Selbst, 138 PTPR Points
516. Vitor Coelho, 50
571. Antonio Esfandiari, 45
2471. James Dempsey, 7
This is the first PTPR Score of 2011 for Lichtenberger and Nguyen.
WPT FIVE DIAMOND FINAL TABLE SEATING ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS:
Seat 1. James Dempsey - 3,860,000 (64 BBs)
Seat 2. Vitor Coelho - 560,000 (9 BBs)
Seat 3. Antonio Esfandiari - 1,255,000 (20 BBs)
Seat 4. Andrew Lichtenberger - 3,605,000 (60 BBs)
Seat 5. Vanessa Selbst - 2,250,000 (37 BBs)
Seat 6. Soi Nguyen - 4,995,000 (83 BBs)
WPT FIVE DIAMOND FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS:
1- $821,612
2- $517,478
3- $338,351
4- $218,933
5- $159,224
6- $119,418
PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Five Diamond NLH Main Event
December 6-11, 2011
Bellagio | Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $4,006,100 | Entries: 413
PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 129
2nd position 79
3rd position 49
4th position 39
5th position 34
6th position 29
LARRY WELLS 29
BRADEN HALL 14
ANTHONY YEH 14
DAVID WILLIAMS 14
RUDY MAAREK 14
KYLE JULIUS 12
WILLIAM REYNOLDS 12
BLAKE KELSO 12
MATT MARAFIOTI 12
TOMMY CHEN 9
TY REIMAN 9
TONY DUNST 9
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