Griffin Paul Leads Final Six into the WPT Final Table

Photo: Chipleader Griffin Paul

Here are the official chip counts for tomorrow afternoon’s televised WPT Final Table. With just under 10 minutes remaining in Level 30, the big blinds have been calculated at the next blind level, which will be 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante:

Seat 1.  Griffin Paul  –  14,290,000  (119 bb)
Seat 2.  Joe Ebanks  –  6,585,000  (54 bb)
Seat 3.  Ryan Rivers  –  4,170,000  (34 bb)
Seat 4.  Shawn Nguyen  –  3,615,000  (30 bb)
Seat 5.  Brian Green  –  5,205,000  (43 bb)
Seat 6.  Andre Crooks  –  10,350,000  (86 bb)

And here’s the prizepool they’re playing for, followed by the 12 players who busted out today:

1st:  $1,000,000*
2nd:  $615,000
3rd:  $383,000
4th:  $323,500
5th:  $269,000
6th:  $217,500

7th:  Sean Syed Shah  –  $168,550
8th:  Dan Heimiller  –  $123,000
9th:  John Thrower  –  $88,500
10th:  David Peters  –  $58,500
11th:  Ely Levy  –  $58,500
12th:  Harvey Vandeven  –  $58,500
13th:  Gilbert Barrett  –  $39,000
14th:  Travis Northrope  –  $39,000
15th:  Mohsin Charania  –  $39,000
16th:  Lenny Duvdivani  –  $26,500
17th:  Cornel Cimpan  –  $26,500
18th:  Vladimir Dobrovolskiy  –  $26,500

* First prize amount includes a $15,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship.

The televised WPT Final Table is scheduled to begin at 4:00 pm, though the pre-game festivities will be underway at 3:00 pm. As always, there will be complete hand-for-hand coverage with chip counts updated after each hand here in the WPT Live Updates.

Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com.