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67 players are left fighting for a top prize of $1,150,297 as the WPT’s World Championship event enters its third day of action.

With registration open until midway through Day 2 the final numbers for this year’s WPT season finale were only confirmed late yesterday when the prizepool had managed to top $3.5 million.

The final field for this year’s $25,500 final stood at 146, which means this year winner walks away with a top prize of just over $1 million.

Leading the way at the close of yesterday’s session was Mike Linster. Having won his first WPT earlier this season in Florida at the bestbet Open, Linster continued his recent upswing by raking in 744,000 chips throughout the day.

Linster’s position at the top is far from secure, however, as the likes of Dan Shak (617,300), Antonio Esfandiari (536,100) and yesterday’s WPT player of the day, Jake Cody (453,500), are close behind.

 Cody eliminated Phil Ivey (Cody’s four bet pocket jacks and Ivey 5 bet shoved A-T) to complete a second day within the top five overnight chip counts.

In before claypole.

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standard!

glgl obv  :)up

Seat draw for day 3 and updates later at...

http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Live.aspx?q={3DF385FB-2DC2-4F12-B900-457FD389D78E}&blogId={0A284C1D-8032-47EC-B191-00993CFCE49F}

The WPT World Championship is down to its final 24 players with recent WPT Canadian Spring Championship winner Amir Babakhani carrying the chip lead into Day 4.

Babakahani and Jonathan Roy, who like Babakhani won a WPT title at the Playground Poker Club this season – back in November – are the only two players standing between Matt Salsberg and the WPT Player of the Year title. Either Babakhani or Roy would have to win the WPT World Championship in order to win POY. Interestingly enough, all three contenders have ties to the city of Montreal.


Jake Cody has 365,000

http://www.worldpokertour.com/Live_Updates/Full_Chipcount_Ranking_List.aspx?q=

Here are the chip counts heading into the final table:

Chino Rheem, 4,839,000
Erick Lindgren, 2,518,000
Jonathan Roy, 1,987,000
Matt Hyman, 1,940,000
Brandon Steven, 1,235,000
David Peters, 858,000
Rocco Palumbo, 680,000
Daniel Negreanu, 545,000

Here are the payouts for the eight remaining players:

1st, $1,150,297
2nd, $650,275
3rd, $421,800
4th, $289,988
5th, $223,203
6th, $173,993
7th, $137,085
8th, $101,935

Reem knocked out Cody c18th

im sure Erick Lindgren has a healthy rail.

i doubt he's the only one! if him and rheem chop it up that's gonna be one interesting queue at the cage

Was regularly checking the updates to see jake's progress unfortunately bad news,does anyone know why the numbers are so low for this tournement the last few years?

Conclusive proof that the Poker Gods don't do Karma.

Was that intentional?

Channel 4 used to put on some great things back in the day.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112024/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112024/).  Surprised it is rated only 6.8.

No promise it wasn't intentional I've never heard of it :D

Day 5 of the 2013 World Poker Tour World Championship at Bellagio was one of the shortest in the tour's 11-year history. The penultimate day of the $25,000 buy-in event began with eight players attempting to make the six-handed televised final table, and after two hours it was over. Former WPT champs Rocco Palumbo and Daniel Negreanu began Day 5 as the shortest stacks, and they were both eliminated, setting the stage for Friday's final table. The winner will walk away with a top prize of $1,150,297, which includes a seat into next year's WPT World Championship.

Chino Rheem will enter the final table as the leader with 5,495,000 in chips. He'll be joined by Erick Lindgren, Matt Hyman, Brandon Steven, David Peters and Jonathan Roy, who can still claim the WPT Season XI Player of the Year award by winning this event.

Here's how the final table will stack up:
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Jonathan Roy   1,900,000
2   David Peters   1,085,000
3   Erick Lindgren   3,355,000
4   Brandon Steven   1,210,000
5   Matt Hyman   1,560,000
6   Chino Rheem   5,495,000

Final Table Results:

1: Chino Rheem - $1,150,297
2: Erick Lindgren - $650,275
3: Jonathan Roy - $421,800
4: Matt Hyman - $289,988
5: Brandon Steven - $223,203
6: David Peters - $173,993

http://www.worldpokertour.com/media_library/Videos/Live_Updates/Season_11/WPT_World_Championship/winner.aspx

wow what a result for all those owed money.



real question is, does that even pay it all off?!?

not even close obv.

yeh it's so sick, kinda happy for those they owe money whilst at the same time they are such scummers they don't deserve positive variance.

Lindgren prob needed 1st and 2nd combined to weigh Voulgaris alone in.

Might be mistaken but I think Chino owes a fraction of the amount Lindgren owes.

that prob just mean lindgren owes the world. chino seems like a colossal colossal douche.

Lindgren had his own WPT update thread on 2p2 :D

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/edog-wpt-championship-1334413/

According to this thread http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/chino-rheem-scum-part-two-more-scams-1080717/index29.html

Chino is backed by Michael Mizrachi, so not sure how that all works out...

I was thinking that, does he pay Chino his % of winnings and let him sort out people he owes or does he give him pocket money and sort out some of the people owed?

Remind me why edog is scum?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/erick-lindgren-owes-over-100-000-fantasy-league-wont-pay-1174966/

So a guy who is always slow at paying but is a monster fish is being slow at paying? How does this make him scum?

I think trousering that extra $2m in overpaid dividend probably doesn't make him look any better either.  And if that wasn't enough, don't forget he was a Full Tilt pro.  * innocent face *

Because he bets with new people who don't know he is slow at paying? People are often unsuspecting of supposedly respectable players, it happens a lot.

Fair enough in that instance.

Personally though if i have a fish i don't bemoan his late paying and certainly would never out him on a forum for it.

There are those that know they have a fish on their hands.  They might be a 1:2 fav against the fish so getting evs and accepting slow payment is fine.  However, lots of people that knowingly did this moaned like **** when they didn't get paid on time.  Zero sympathy.

There were plenty of regular gamblers that had no idea about any of that ^^ partly because he had never been outed before, so for some, the slow-pay was factored in and for others, it wasn't.  Apparently Lindgren was actually pretty good at fantasy picks, but the edge crept in when he was too lazy to keep up with it and his team was full of injuries and benched players.

Lindgren obviously a sick puppy, easy to get very lazy and gamble high when the monthly FTP payments were rolling in.  Ofc, in the end, even betting that high was not enough and iirc he actually started betting some of his FTP% too ... with predictable results.

Obv the FTP gravy train came off the rails, and this is where he can be fairly judged imo.  It is one thing saying "ooops sorry guys, FTP happened.... will pay you when I can, no more betting for me" but instead he was more than happy to continue gambling sky high with new people freerolling that he knew he could not pay them if he lost.