WPT World Championship: Marvin Rettenmaier Leads With Nine Remaining

Rettenmaier was the player who burst the money bubble and from that point on he never looked back. Just 15 minutes had passed since Day 5 had restarted when Josh Arieh looked down at AdJs under the gun and decided to move all-in for his last 109,000 chips (8,000/16,000/2,000a). His move looked like ti was just going to pick up the blinds and antes - something he would have been happy with we are sure - but Rettenamier found a pair of kings in the big blind and obviously made the call. The board ran out 10h-9c-4s-Kd-As and with that Arieh busted in 19th place and the surviving players each locked up at least $40,266 for their efforts over the past week.

The first player to pick up this prize was Frenchman Guillaume Darcourt who will now have to wait until at least Season XI if he is to add to the WPT title he won in Bucharest back in 2010. He busted out shortly after Arieh's demise when he saw Wil Wilkinson open to 38,000 from early position and he opted to make the call from middle position. The duo shared a flop that read Ac-10d-7h. Wilkinson continued with a 55,000 bet and Darcourt stuck to him like glue. The turn brought the 8c into play and Wilkinson bet again, increasing his bet size to 80,000 and that seemed to give Darcourt some food for thought. He paused for a few moments before announcing he was all-in but he knew he was in serious trouble when his sole opponent snap-called him. Wilkinson turned over 8d8s for a set of eights and all Darcourt could muster was 9c7d for a pair with an open-ended straight draw. The river was the 3s and with that the pink-haired Frenchman headed to the rail.

Over the course of the next few hours the following players, in order of bust out, were sent for an early bath. First to go was Farzad Bonyadi, Rinat Bogdanov, former WSOPE Main Event champion Barry Shulman, Tom McCormick, Matt Juttelstad, Joe Esposito, Ron Coury and the last elimination of Day 5 Joe Serock.

The nine surviving players will return to their seats just before 12:00 noon Las Vegas time and if all goes to plan they should have a relatively short day because they only have to reduce the field by three players. Once this has happened and the six-handed final table has been reached the tournament will be paused for the last time and we will be one step closer to knowing who our WPT World Championship winner will be.

WPT World Championship Day 6 Seat Draw

Seat 1:  Wil Wilkinson  -  705,000  (14 BBs)
Seat 2:  Michael Mizrachi  -  3,124,000  (62 BBs)
Seat 3:  Hafiz Khan  -  1,641,000  (32 BBs)
Seat 4:  Marvin Rettenmaier  -  3,757,000  (75 BBs)
Seat 5:  Steve O'Dwyer  -  1,643,000  (32 BBs)
Seat 6:  Nick Schulman  -  1,350,000  (27 BBs)
Seat 7:  Moon Kim  -  1,139,000  (22 BBs)
Seat 8:  Trevor Pope  -  800,000  (16 BBs)
Seat 9:  Philippe Ktorza  -  977,000  (19 BBs)

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