The final table of the $1,100 World poker Tour Prime Championship is all set.
Up for grabs on top is $1,177,880, which includes a $10,400 entry into next season’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. The WPT Prime Championship will conclude in front of cameras on Saturday, Dec. 20.
The tournament easily surpassed its $5 million guaranteed prize pool thanks to the player’s 9,876 entries through four starting days. The largest chunk of the $9,579,720 prize pool gos to the winner, but the players are in the money for at least a quarter-milly:
1st: $1,177,880 (includes WPT ticket)
2nd: $775,000
3rd: $575,000
4th: $430,000
5th: $325,000
6th: $250,000
Meet the players
Qing Liu is the chip leader with 126.6 million in front of him (63 bb). His cash of at least $250,000 here pushed his lifetime winnings total over the $4 million mark. His biggest cash came in the $5,000 Main Event at the Venetian DeepStack Showdown Poker Series in 2021 ($752,880).
Second in chips is Fernando Martin Del Campo with 85.5 million (43 bb). He multiplied his lifetime tournament winnings at least by 10.
Behind him is Aaron Johnson with 65.9 million (33 bb). Johnson has been cashing events since 2010, and is one of the beasts on MSPT. He won his second MSPT title in Chicago just a few weeks ago for $92,000, following a second-pace finish in Riverside, Iowa, where he took second. He’s booked 66 cashes and 13 top 10 finishes on that tour. Now he has one in a WPT event.
Tim Burden is next with 49.5 million (25 bb) chips, a hair in front of Uri Foox with 48.9 million (24 bb).
Burden is a regular on the MSPT and World Series of Circuit tours, but this is his first six-figure cash.
“Words cannot describe. I mean, this is just crazy to be able o go through that many people and to make the final six, it’s just crazy,” he said.
Foox also scores his first six-figure cash here. He adds it to the $146,000 he’s won in the last 15 years.
Safiya Umerova brings a WSOP bracelet into the final table, which she won in 2016. With this cash, she now has $1 million in tournament cashes, but she has a lot of work to do with her nine big blinds (18.8 million) in order to contend for the big money on top.
WPT Prime is part of WPT’s Championship series. It’s World Championship is currently in Day 4.
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