WSOP Final Table: German Koray Aldemir Leads Heading into $8M Finale
The WSOP final table is set. After six years of busted draws, all-in jams, tough beats, three-bets, four-bets, and a smattering of game-theory-optimized check-raising, ennead players remain inwards poker’s biggest event. All are guaranteed at least $1 million. All are chasing the $8 meg first off prize.
The net ix were whittled downwards from a starting theatre of operations of 6,650 hopefuls at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. As ever, the finalists are a disparate mix in of nationalities, backgrounds, and acquisition levels.
Among them is an ex-US devil dog and a rapper from Argentine Republic known as Pappo MC. In all, in that location are quadruplet Americans, 2 Brits, a Turk, the aforementioned Argentine, and a German.
The latter, Koray Aldemir, holds a dominating microchip atomic number 82 of 140M. His closest competitor, the American George I Holmes, has 83M.
Aldemir Favorite
Bookies’ favorite Aldemir has been a fixture on the high-roller poker game scene for several years, with more than $12M inwards sack up tourney earnings in his career.
The 31-year-old Vienna, Republic of Austria resident’s biggest nock to day of the month was $2M for his third-place finishing at the High Roller for One Drop inward 2016. He has never ruined foremost inward a WSOP event, which way he does not give a sought after Au bracelet.
In contrast, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is the “Home Game Hero,” someone for the neutrals to base for. The Atlanta, Ga. resident has only when ace recorded tourney cash, for $50,855, next a 213th-place destination inwards 2019 inwards this really event.
Holmes isn’t the only when amateur, though. While genus Arizona aborigine Book of Joshua Remitio, inward quaternary place, has antecedently cashed inwards trio events, he has earned even less than Oliver Wendell Holmes inwards his poker game career. His topper unrecorded cash is just now $650, and this is his first of all WSOP event.
Shake Your Moneymaker
Holmes and Remitio will follow hoping to emulate Chris Moneymaker in 2003. The Tennessee accountant was a rank recreational when he spun an $86 wager into $4.5M by qualifying for the Main Event online.
He went on to win the unit thing. His unlikely victory and headline-grabbing last name helped ignite the stove poker thunder of the mid-2000s.
Moneymaker ran deep inwards this event, too. He was single of the early prominent stacks, prompting speculation that lightning mightiness ten-strike twice. But it wasn’t to be. He busted on Saturday in 260th come in for $38,600.
Chase Chasing the Pack
Oddly, the finalist with arguably the second-most telling fire hook take up after Aldemir bears to a greater extent than a passage resemblance to a young Moneymaker, albeit with the add-on of a massive beard.
Seattle native and committed Christian Salmon P. Chase Bianchi, a WSOP bangle holder, testament go into today’s net tabulate eighth in chips. But he won’t live praying to the poker game gods same his heretical fellow myopic stacks.
He told PokerNews that making the WSOP final tabular array was “a poke of shit compared to the treasure we hold in Christ.”
The last tabularize will be split up into deuce parts on Tues and Wed and will follow live-streamed for the number 1 clip by PokerGO.