Meet the Final Six of WPT Montreal

Here are the official seating assignments and chip counts for the televised WPT Montreal final table, which begins at 4:00 pm, and will be live-streamed on PokerGO (with a 30-minute delay) beginning at 4:30 pm.

Seat 1.  Eric Afriat  –  1,040,000  (17 bb)
Seat 2.  Maxime Heroux  –  5,345,000  (89 bb)
Seat 3.  Derek Wolters  –  1,095,000  (18 bb)
Seat 4.  Brendan Baksh  –  940,000  (16 bb)
Seat 5.  Pat Quinn  –  6,415,000  (107 bb)
Seat 6.  David Peters  –  3,345,000  (56 bb)

1st:  CAD $403,570*
2nd:  CAD $271,030
3rd:  CAD $173,220
4th:  CAD $124,310
5th:  CAD $95,370
6th:  CAD $78,050

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s US $15,000 entry into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

Note:  Players are paid in Canadian dollars, but the amounts listed on our Payouts Page have been converted into U.S. dollars (using the casino’s exchange rate) for consistency across World Poker Tour events around the world.

Seat 1.  Eric Afriat  –  1,040,000  (17 bb)

Occupation: Real Estate
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $1,828,420
Best Cash:  $1,081,184  (1st in 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown)
WPT Career:  8th cash, 4th WPT Final Table, 1 WPT title

Eric Afriat doesn’t consider himself a professional poker player — he’s a businessman who deals in real estate — but he’s the only player here who has a WPT title to his credit, and this will be his third televised WPT Final Table. And while it wasn’t televised, his other WPT Final Table came right here at the Playground Poker Club back in February.

Afriat is one of two players at this final table who were born and raised in Montreal (along with Maxime Heroux, who Afriat calls his “nemesis”), so he may have a lot of crowd support with the homefield advantage.

Seat 2.  Maxime Heroux  –  5,345,000  (89 bb)

Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $43,744
Best Cash:  CAD $21,000 (17th in Season XV WPT Playground)
WPT Career:  3rd cash, 1st WPT Final Table

There have been three WPT events held in Canada this year, and Maxime Heroux has cashed in all three — 34th at the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic, 17th at WPT Playground, and now sixth or better at WPT Montreal.

Born and raised in Montreal, Heroux will have plenty of local support as he looks to capture his first WPT title.

Seat 3.  Derek Wolters  –  1,095,000  (18 bb)

Occupation: Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $625,628
Best Cash:  $124,009  (2nd in 2015 Aussie Millions $1,150 NLHE Re-Entry)
WPT Career:  5th cash, 2nd WPT Final Table

Derek Wolters has 51 cashes on his poker resume since 2012, but his biggest poker score isn’t technically in his name, but Jake Balsiger’s. Wolters was one of the backers for the then-unknown 21-year-old Balsiger, who finished third in the 2012 WSOP Main Event. Wolters told that story (and explained backing and swapping to a non-poker audience) during an appearance on NPR’s Planet Money podcast in 2016. You can listen to the three-and-a-half minute episode or read the transcript by clicking here.

Wolters studied Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, and he says his biggest poker accomplishment is “Winning $100 from Max Silver.”

Seat 4.  Brendan Baksh –  940,000  (16 bb)

Occupation:  Operations
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $27,276
Best Cash:  $7,352  (160th in the 2016 WSOP Monster Stack)
WPT Career:  1st cash and 1st final table

From Costa Mesa, California, 29-year-old Brendan Baksh recorded his first WPT cash two days ago when the Money Bubble burst, and now he’s at his first WPT Final Table, about to play in front of the TV cameras for a global audience.

Seat 5.  Pat Quinn  –  6,415,000  (107 bb)

Occupation: Restauranteur / Pubs
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $50,394
Best Cash:  $16,892  (2nd in 2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open $570 NLHE)
WPT Career:  1st cash, 1st WPT Final Table

Born in Canada and raised in Ireland, Pat Quinn has been a restauranteur for the past 20 years, focusing on pubs. It seems that lately, he’s been focusing a bit on poker as well; while his poker resume isn’t long, all 10 of his live tournament cashes have come in the past two years. And this final table will more than double his career earnings, regardless of how he finishes.

And what Quinn lacks in depth of poker experience, he makes up for with his chipleading stack of more than 6.4 million.

Seat 6.  David Peters –  3,345,000  (16 bb)

Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $18,083,142
Best Cash:  $2,309,000 (2nd at WPT National Philippines $200,000 Super High Roller)
WPT Career:  13th cash, 2nd WPT Final Table

The most accomplished player at this final table with more than $18 million in career earnings, 30-year-old David Peters is looking to add a WPT victory to an ever-growing list of poker achievements in his young career. In 2016, he not only won his first WSOP bracelet, but he went on to win the GPI Player of the Year. Peters has 39 six-figure scores, and two seven-figure scores, and he is ranked 15th on the all-time tournament money list. Did we mention that he’s only 30 years old?

It’s only a matter of time until Peters adds a WPT title to his resume. His first WPT Final Table came back in Season XI, when he finished sixth in the WPT World Championship to earn $173,993.