Charles Coates Leads the Final 34 Players Into Day 4
Feb 1, 2017
Day 3 of the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open comes to an end with 34 players remaining from a field of 1,312 entries, and Charles Coates of Raleigh, North Carolina (pictured) leads the pack with 3,371,000 (140 big blinds).
After play ended, Coates said, “Well I just made some pretty good reads and didn’t let people push me around, and I just got lucky, you know? Hands stood up, that’s pretty much it.”
There are four members of the WPT Champions Club still in the hunt — Tony Ruberto (1,528,000 in chips), Olivier Busquet (1,000,000), Anthony Gregg (635,000), and Asher Conniff (406,000). They’re all hoping to join the elite club of players who have won multiple WPT titles.
The seat draw for Day 4 won’t be released until tomorrow morning, but here are the official chip counts for all 34 players still in contention:
1. Charles Coates – 3,371,000 (140 bb)
2. Blake Bohn – 3,024,000 (126 bb)
3. Nathan Bjerno – 2,892,000 (121 bb)
4. Jia Liu – 2,561,000 (107 bb)
5. Adnan Mohammad – 2,325,000 (97 bb)
6. Richard Foster – 2,100,000 (88 bb)
7. Casey Yontz – 1,776,000 (74 bb)
8. Tony Ruberto – 1,528,000 (64 bb)
9. Bart Dowling – 1,400,000 (58 bb)
10. Jiqiang Tong – 1,365,000 (57 bb)
11. Millard Hale – 1,331,000 (55 bb)
12. Daniel Lim – 1,103,000 (46 bb)
13. Thomas Penza – 1,091,000 (45 bb)
14. Olivier Busquet – 1,000,000 (42 bb)
15. Mohammad Farah – 971,000 (40 bb)
16. David Stefanski – 907,000 (38 bb)
17. Daniel Weinman – 864,000 (36 bb)
18. Said Qartomy – 773,000 (32 bb)
19. Mike Liang – 766,000 (32 bb)
20. Mike Comisso – 747,000 (31 bb)
21. Nicholas Immekus – 726,000 (30 bb)
22. Shaun Deeb – 700,000 (29 bb)
23. Jon Hoellein – 688,000 (29 bb)
24. Anthony Gregg – 635,000 (26 bb)
25. Joshua Weizer – 634,000 (26 bb)
26. Jack Duong – 611,000 (25 bb)
27. Mike Del Vecchio – 604,000 (25 bb)
28. Eugene Fouksman – 528,000 (22 bb)
29. Marsel Backa – 518,000 (22 bb)
30. Matt Brady – 483,000 (20 bb)
31. Tyler Kenney – 467,000 (19 bb)
32. Shankar Pillai – 458,000 (19 bb)
33. Asher Conniff – 406,000 (17 bb)
34. Ryan Smith – 399,000 (17 bb)
Here is the remaining prizepool at stake:
1st: $892,433*
2nd: $524,964
3rd: $327,578
4th: $275,081
5th: $228,884
6th: $184,787
7th: $142,748
8th: $104,993
9th: $75,595
10th-12th: $49,767
13th-15th: $33,598
16th-18th: $22,468
19th-27th: $18,605
28th-34th: $15,749
* First-prize amount includes a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.
Day 4 of the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open begins tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:00 noon ET. Return to WPT.com for continuing live coverage as the field plays down to the six-handed WPT Final Table.
Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com
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