Final Table Player Bio: Tim West

Seat 1.  Tim West

Tim West scored a big double up just before the field reached the final table of ten to vault his stack close to 2 million. He enters the final table in third chip-position. West will mark double-digit WPT cashes with his score tonight, and he will also increase his WPT earnings of $249,395. This is his second WPT final table; West took third at the WPT Celebrity Invitational back in Season V.

West is from Los Altos, California, and you can usually hear him on the tournament floor talking about his beloved Bay Area pro sports teams. The 31-year-old has $3,519,581 in career earnings, with an impressive 125 cashes at various poker tournaments. His biggest cash of $444,165 came when West won a $5,000 no-limit hold’em event at the DeepStack Extravaganza III at the Venetian in Las Vegas in 2012.

“It feels fantastic, it feels absolutely amazing, I’m elated just to be here, just to be breathing, so to be winning and doing something successful and fun at the same time, it’s just incredible,” said West about making the final table.

He scored a huge double on Day 3, and he walked us through his thought process for that hand. “I just didn’t want to be blown off my hand. I had an ace and a king, and I figure if I move all in the worst hand that can call me is probably two queens or kings, because they know what I have most of the time, and I wanted to put it on them. I didn’t want to be put to the test and have to put more money in with A-K. I wanted to put them to the test,” said West.