James Obst Leads Final 16 Players After Day 3 of the 2024 WPT Australia Championship Event

James Obst

With more than $4 million in cashes on the live poker circuit, James Obst is one of the most accomplished poker players in Australia and he showcases his talents once more on home soil. The Aussie, who won his second WSOP gold bracelet earlier this year, leads the final 16 players at The Star Gold Coast after Day 3 with 3,450,000 in chips.

Obst was responsible for the elimination of Daniel Neilson to conclude the action for the day and has already established a gap to second-placed Matthew Wakeman (2,395,000) as well as Yuanting Wang (2,025,000) in third place.

Other notables still in contention include Travis Endersby (1,700,000), Malcolm Trayner (1,595,000) and Van Marcus (840,000). Last year’s finalist Romain Morvan remains in the mix to reach back-to-back final tables. He will return for Day 4 as one of the shorter stacks with 730,000.

Romain Morvan

The penultimate tournament day will kick off tomorrow, Tuesday, September 24, at 11.30 am local time with 54:08 minutes left in level 20 at blinds of 10,000-20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000.

Day 4 Chip Counts

James Obst – 3,450,000 (173 bb)
Matthew Wakeman – 2,395,000 (120 bb)
Yuanting Wang – 2,025,000 (101 bb)
Travis Endersby – 1,700,000 (85 bb)
Malcolm Trayner – 1,595,000 (80 bb)
Afshin Behniya – 1,375,000 (69 bb)
Oleg Ivanchenko – 1,060,000 (53 bb)
Daniel Murphy – 915,000 (46 bb)
Joshua Barrett – 850,000 (43 bb)
Van Marcus – 840,000 (42 bb)
Romain Morvan – 730,000 (37 bb)
Joel Turner – 725,000 (36 bb)
Dillan Patel – 665,000 (33 bb)
Gautam Dhingra – 580,000 (29 bb)
Joseph Vinecombe – 545,000 (27 bb)
Loy Abdo – 305,000 (15 bb)

Remaining Payouts

1st:  AUD $585,359*  (~US $398,512*)
2nd:  AUD $389,478  (~US $265,157)
3rd:  AUD $285,669 (~US $194,483)
4th:  AUD $211,929  (~US $144,281)
5th:  AUD $159,024  (~US $108,264)
6th:  AUD $120,694  (~US $82,168)
7th:  AUD $92,649  (~US $63,075)
8th:  AUD $71,930  (~US $48,970)
9th-10th:  AUD $56,481  (~US $38,452)
11th-12th:  AUD $45,555  (~US $31,014)
13th-14th:  AUD $37,325  (~US $25,411)
15th-16th:  AUD $31,076  (~US $21,157)

Day 3 begins tomorrow (Tuesday, September 24) at 11.30 am local time with 54:08 minutes left in level 19 at blinds of 10,000-20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000. You can follow all of the action right here on WPT.com for our continuing coverage of WPT Australia.

* The winner also receives the US $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship in Las Vegas.

NOTE:  For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of AUD 1.00 = US $0.6808.