WPT World Championship: Bubble Looms At End Of Day 4
Bizarre rulings aside there is still plenty to play for in this event and some world class poker players still in with a shout of the $1,196,858 first place prize.
Day 4 of the World Poker Tour World Championship has been written into the poker history books and if you checked them right now they would show that just 19 players remain in the $25,500 buy-in event and these 19 are being led by Hafiz Khan who has 1,966,000 chips.
The decision to stop the tournament with 19 players remaining has caused plenty of discussion on poker forums around the world not only because it is a ridiculous number of players to stop on but because only 18 spots are paid. This means one man will return to the Bellagio for his fifth day of play and will still walk away empty handed. According to the WPT Live Reporting team one player said he had plans so the Bellagio stuck to the original schedule. What are your thoughts on this? Should the majority over-rule in situations like this?
Bizarre rulings aside there is still plenty to play for in this event and some world class poker players still in with a shout of the $1,196,858 first place prize. As mentioned it is Khan who leads the way when play resumes at 1200 Las Vegas time but a young man by the name of "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier is hot on his heels with 1,870,000 chips. The young German has recently signed a sponsorship deal and what a way to pay back their faith than by taking down one of the biggest live tournaments of the year.
Making up the top six places, that is who would make the final table if matters stay as they are, would be Nick Schulman (1,315,000), Trevor Pope (1,300,000), Wil Wilkinson (1,197,000) and Moon Kim (1,194,000) but along with these players there are the likes of former World Series of Poker Europe champion Barry Shulman, the flamboyant pink-haired Frenchman Guillaume Darcourt, Josh Arieh, Farzad Bonyadi, Joe Serock, Steve O'Dwyer and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi!
All in all it should be a thrilling finale and one that will reach the six-handed final table later today; that is unless one of the players has plans and they decide to stop play with seven remaining.
WPT World Championship Top 10 Chip Counts
1st: Hafiz Khan - 1,966,000
2nd: Marvin Rettenmaier - 1,870,000
3rd: Nick Schulman - 1,315,000
4th: Trevor Pope - 1,300,000
5th: Wil Wilkinson - 1,197,000
6th: Moon Kim - 1,194,000
7th: Michael Mizrachi - 1,168,000
8th: John Esposito - 1,080,000
9th: Steve O'Dwyer - 1,079,000
10th: Matt Juttelstad - 935,000
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