WPT Amneville Final Table: Let's Meet The Players

Good afternoon and welcome to the final table of WPT Amneville.

The event, which many of the professionals dub as one of the softest WPT events on the tour, attracted 379 players and a prize pool of $1.6 million. Over five days of pulsating play we have our final six players. But only one of them can walk away with the $452,816 first prize and all of the trappings that come with the success of being a World Poker Tour champion.

Lets meet the players:

Scott Baumstein – 3,910,000 chips

Scott Baumstein has been the chip leader since Day Two of this event, which is quite an achievement when you consider the variance in this great game. Finding the luck when he needs it, combined with a fearless and aggressive style, Baumstein has managed to turn himself into the man everyone wishes to avoid.

Baumstein comes into this table with a mammoth looking 130 big blinds. The 27-year old from New York City is the only non-French national who has made it to this final table. Baumstein wants nothing more than the number one spot and as any winner will also tell you his favourite hand is pocket aces.

Six figure cashes are not an unfamiliar sight to the man who has been playing professionally for only three-years. Baumstein has won $431,813 playing live tournament poker and his two previous six-figure cashes both came this year. He won the PCA Heads-Up championship for $120,000 and then finished 4th in the $5,000 Bounty tournament for $146,639 at this summers WSOP in Vegas.

So with great form also on the mans side you wouldn’t want to bet against him grabbing his first major title today.

Adrien Allain – 2,675,000 chips

Adrien Allain looks like he was born to play at a poker table. If he ever stopped playing he could get a job as a poker playing extra on a James Bond movie! Allain, who is 25-years of age, sits in his seat with his Aviator sunglasses looking as cool as a cucumber. So far during this competition only the chip leader himself has been able to rattle this contender.

Allain won a huge flip on day one when his ace-queen defeated his opponents pocket kings. Back then he told us that he was willing to flip for a 100,000 stack and it turns out that it was a great decision to make. Yesterday Allain found a little bit more luck when the board helped him out to eliminate both Arnaud Mattern and Jean Phillipe Rohr. After that he systematically dismantled the stack of Nesrine Kourdourli to position himself just behind Baumstein in the chip counts.

Allain first burst onto the poker scene in 2009 when he won the Asian Poker Tour in Macau for a $391,580. Just like Baumstein he is also on a good run of form with two cashes in this years WSOPE in Cannes, including a final table appearance in the €2,500 six-max NLHE tournament. In the run up to that tournament he was responsible for taking most of Phill Hellmuth’s chips and causing the Poker Brat a myriad of problems.

With his 89 big blinds keep your eye on Adrien Allain.

Jordane Ouin – 1,915,000

The PartyPoker qualifier Jordane Ouin is one of the more modest poker players at the table. Ouin has just got on with his job with the minimum of fuss and is currently 3rd in the chip counts with 63 big blinds.

The 29-year old from Lyon only has one former live cash on record and that was a 12th place finish in a side event at this seasons Partouche Poker Tour. Ouin is already guaranteed a minimum of $65,618 making this his biggest live score to date.

Thibaud Guenegou – 1,500,000 chips

There is something about the way Thibaud Guenegou presents himself at the table that tells you that he will be in and around the top contenders for the title. His confident demure not only attracted our attention but it also attracted the attention of a sponsor. Guenegou recently won a contest to become a BWIN sponsored pro and he has already started to pay back their faith in him in a short period of time.

The 29-year old from Bourges has only been a professional for 3 months but what a great 3-months it has been. He finished an impressive 12th place at the WSOPE €10,000 Main Event in Cannes for $90,171 and is now guaranteed another impressive score in his first ever WPT final table appearance.

Guenegou, who comes to the final table with 50 big blinds, counts Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier as his favourite player and his superstition at the table is Adrien Allain!

Arnaud Trouer – 1,005,000

The 39-year old PMU qualifier from Nancy is our oldest player at the table. Trouer is not only our eldest player but he is also our most inexperienced. With no live tournament cashes on his resume he will be delighted at being guaranteed a nice juicy pay day today.

The salesman comes to this final table with 33 big blinds, which is plenty for the tight style of Trouer. Trouer has been so impressed with the play of the chip leader Scott Baumstein that he now classes him as his favourite player!

Michel Konieczny – 295,000

33-year old Michel Konieczny comes into this final table as the short stack with 9 big blinds. Keep your eyes peeled for a series of early shoves from the man from just down the road in Metz.

Michael Jackson fan Konieczny, has moon walked his way onto this final table, a final table that is his first ever live cash.

Action starts at 15:00 (CET)