After more than 76 hours of competition, the 2015 World Series of Poker’s main event is up to only three players to compete for the most prestigious title in poker and the top prize of $7,683,346.
Game resumes Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Las Vegas at the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio All-Sweet Hotel & Casino, running until the winner is decided. ESPN will be postponing all of Tuesday’s last-table action at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. ET.
The remaining three players are all worth millions of payday guarantees, with the runner-up worth $4,470,896 and the third-place finisher worth $3,398,298. Of course, on top of the $7.68 million prize money, there is only one world champion to win the first WSOP Gold Bracelet and put it in the history books. 온라인카지노
Joe McKeon – 128,825,000 – Seat 6
The chipleader remains Joe McKeon, a 24-year-old poker specialist from North Wales, Pennsylvania. He has tournament revenues totaling $3,514,982, including $883,494 in previous WSOP cash. McKeon won two WSOP circuit rings, and his biggest cash before this finals table was $820,863 when he finished second in the WSOP’s first monster stack event, another huge field of 7,862 players, in 2014. Joe played 22 games during the 2015 WSOP and earned cash in four games, including the main event. His previous best finish at this event was in 2013, when he finished 489th. McKeon entered the final table as a chip leader with almost 33 percent of chips, and it was himself who dropped 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th, and 7th in a row. He entered Monday’s game, where six players had 47 percent of chips. It was a rather uneven day for him, but he used 67% of his 128,825,000 chips in the game, eliminating Max Steinberg from the final hand of the night that would end with a commanding lead heading into the final day of the game.
Neil Blumenfield – 40,125,000 – Seat 9
Blumenfield, 61-year-old from San Francisco, California, is looking to become the first 61-year-old winner of the WSOP main event since Noel Furlong in 1999. In fact, at 61 years, 5 months, and 2 days, Blumenfield looks to beat Furlong’s age by two weeks, making him the oldest main event winner since Johnny Moss was 67 in 1974. Blumenfield plays poker as a hobby, and he looks to be the event’s first amateur winner since Jerry Yang in 2007. Shortly before entering this year’s main event, he was fired from his software job, and he wasn’t even sure if he would have to spend $10,000 to enter, given his uncertain job status. He is a UC Berkeley graduate and former high school debate champion. Blumenfield earned $44,395 in two previous cash at the WSOP, winning a total of one tournament and a poker tournament of $130,468. This is Neil’s fifth consecutive postponement of the WSOP main event, and he had one previous cash when he finished 285th in 2012. He took 21 percent of the chips in the game, finishing second.
Joshua Beckley – 23,700,000 – 좌석 3
Beckley is a 25-year-old poker pro from Marton, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. He has cashed in $19,403 (all of this year) the past four times at the WSOP, with his lifetime live tournament total coming in at $219,526. He played 14 games during the 2015 WSOP, won five times, and this is his first finals table at the WSOP. He started the last table at No. 7 on the chip, but he patiently and carefully selected his spot throughout, where he could endanger the chip, and was able to reach the final day of the tournament at No. 3 with 12 percent of the chip.
Once the game resumes, players will return to level 39 of the structure. Players must hit 150,000 on each hand and 500,000-1,000,000 in blinds’ heights. So players will put at least 1.95 million chips in the pot per three hands. Each player started the tournament with 30,000 chips.
The final round kicked off with nine players on Sunday at 5 p.m. It ended at 10:45 p.m., following a match of 72 players and elimination of three players.
Patrick Chan, 26, from Brooklyn, New York, was eliminated first. Chan, who finished last on the chip when the first game began, called it McKeon’s all-in bet with the king-queen. His hand didn’t get better, and he lost to McKeon’s ace, Hai. He finished in ninth place, earning $1,001,020.
Federico Butteroni, 25, from Rome, Italy, competed in the shortest stack and managed to climb one spot to finish eighth. He finished in eighth place, taking home $1,097,009.
Pierre Neuville, a 72-year-old Belgian resident, came in seventh with $1.203,293. Neuville, the oldest player to reach the final since Johnny Moss in 1985, entered the final table with fourth place in the chip category, but despite holding a very powerful card, he did not win.