The Mad poker "scientist" has taken the WPT World Championship by storm! Marvin Rettenmaier entered Day 6 play as the chip leader ... only a few hours later, our WPT Final Table is set, and Rettenmaier holds a substantial chip lead at Bellagio.
At 6.7M, Rettenmaier is the only player that holds over 2.6M chips as we'll play to find the latest WPT World Champion in the event.
Two-time WPT Champion - Michael "The Grinder" Mizarachi - is one of two former WPT Champs remaining in the field ("The Takeover" Nick Schulman being the other) and sits second in chips with 2.56M.
Coming off an amazing past six months in Europe, Steve O'Dwyer's homecoming is complete, a trip to the WPT World Championship Final Table. O'Dwyer is the only other player with 2M+ chips heading into Final Table play.
The aforementioned Schulman, Trevor Pope and Philippe Ktorza round-out the Final Six.
The WPT final table bubble boy is WPT Bay 101 winner Moon Kim. Kim, who had an opportunity to catch Joe Serock for WPT Player of the Year, was unable to survive as his ace-queen lost to Rettenmaier's pocket nines.
FINAL TABLE CHIP COUNTS/SEAT ASSIGNMENTS:
Seat 1: Michael Mizrachi - 2,560,000 (43 BBs)
Seat 2: Marvin Rettenmaier - 6,715,000 (112 BBs)
Seat 3: Steve O'Dwyer - 2,035,000 (34 BBs)
Seat 4: Nick Schulman - 1,555,000 (26 BBs)
Seat 5: Trevor Pope - 1,480,000 (25 BBs)
Seat 6: Philippe Ktorza - 895,000 (15 BBs)
Thank you to WPT.com for this information
The final table players will be taking Friday off while the WPT films it's Super High Rollers Final Table ... the WPT Championship Final Table will begin Saturday at 4pm PT.
FT PAYOUTS (USD) 1st: $1,196,858 2nd: $805,310 3rd: $424,618 4th: $256,235 5th: $192,176 6th: $155,571 DEFENDING CHAMPION Scott Seiver (Eliminated) LIVE UPDATES WORLD POKER TOUR RELATED POSTS > MADNESS AT BELLAGIO > CUNIX WINS WPT JAX | PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT World Poker Tour World Championship WPT World Championship NLH Main Event May 19-26, 2012 Bellagio | Las Vegas Buy-in: $25,500 | Prizepool: $3,660,500 Entries: 152 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 151 2nd place 91 3rd place 76 4th place 66 5th place 61 6th place 56 MOON KIM 51 WIL WILKINSON 46 HAFIZ KHAN 36 JOE SEROCK 26 RON COURY 21 JOHN ESPOSITO 19 MATT JUTTELSTAD 19 TOM MCCORMICK 19 BARRY SHULMAN 16 RINAT BOGDANOV 16 FARZAD BONYADI 16 GUILLAUME DARCOURT 13 |
