WPT Final Table Preview: Will Dan Colman Add a WPT Title to His $28 Million Resume?

Photo:  Chipleader Dan Colman has nearly $28 million in live tournament earnings, but this is his first WPT Final Table.

After two days off for the final six players, who played until nearly 4:30 am Monday morning, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown final table begins at 12:00 noon ET, and it will be broadcast on a 30-minute delay with hole cards and expert commentary via the WPT Live Stream. As always, there will be live hand-for-hand coverage right here on WPT.com.

The big story at the final table is Dan Colman, who is at his first WPT Final Table even though he already has nearly $28 million in live tournament earnings. Darryll Fish, on the other hand, is at his fifth WPT Final Table, but still looking to add his name to the WPT Champions Cup.

Here are the official chip counts for the final six players, followed by the remaining prizepool and player bios:

Seat 1.  Tony Sinishtaj  –  9,515,000  (95 bb)
Seat 2.  Darryll Fish  –  7,525,000  (75 bb)
Seat 3.  Dan Colman  –  9,975,000  (100 bb)
Seat 4.  Eric Beller  –  2,960,000  (30 bb)
Seat 5.  Simeon Naydenov  –  3,115,000  (31 bb)
Seat 6.  Robert Mizrachi  –  3,100,000  (31 bb)

1st:  $661,283*
2nd:  $453,185
3rd:  $293,864
4th:  $217,686
5th:  $164,438
6th:  $132,889

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

Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com

Seat 1.  Tony Sinishtaj  –  9,515,000  (95 bb)

Twitter:  @ToNiSiNz
Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $540,689
Best Cash:  $107,673 (2nd in a $1,675 WSOP Circuit Main Event in Atlantic City in March, 2013)
WPT Career:  1st cash, 1st WPT Final Table

This may be the first WPT cash for Tony Sinishtaj, but he does have five WSOP cashes to his credit, including finishing 14th (out of 7,862) in the 2014 WSOP Monster Stack, and 38th (out of 7,192) in the 2015 WSOP Monster Stack.

Seat 2.  Darryll Fish  –  7,525,000  (75 bb)

Twitter:  @DarryllFish
Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $2,544,736
Best Cash:  $235,350 (6th at the 2011 WPT L.A. Poker Classic)
WPT Career:  15th cash, 5th WPT Final Table

Darryll Fish is a regular player on the World Poker Tour, and while he has several victories on his poker resume (including a WSOP Circuit Championship to win a WSOP ring), he is still looking for a signature victory on a major tour.

In addition to his WPT results (this is his 15th cash and fifth WPT Final Table), Fish has 33 WSOP cashes dating back to 2009, and he has made four WSOP final tables.

Seat 3.  Dan Colman  –  9,975,000  (100 bb)

Twitter:  @DanielColman_
Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $27,967,060
Best Cash:  $15,306,668 (1st in the $1,000,000 WSOP Big One for One Drop in June, 2014)
WPT Career:  3rd cash, 1st WPT Final Table

Dan Colman was thrust into the poker spotlight in 2014 when he won the $1 million buy-in WSOP Big One for One Drop, earning more than $15 million. But you shouldn’t let that one victory define Colman’s career. He had already earned more than $2.8 million in his career at that point, and he’s earned an addition $9.7 million since.

Colman has six victories in high-roller events with a buy-in of at least $25,000, including a victory in the 2014 WPT Alpha8 London, but don’t delude yourself into thinking that Colman can only handle small fields. Just a few months after his victory in the WSOP Big One for One Drop, Colman won the $5,300 buy-in Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open main event, outlasting a field of 1,499 entries to win more than $1.4 million.

Now Colman is looking for his second SHRPO trophy and his first WPT title, and he enters the final table with the chip lead.

Seat 4.  Eric Beller  –  2,960,000  (30 bb)

Occupation:  Lawyer
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $17,294
Best Cash:  $9,551 (1st in a $350 Bounty No-Limit Hold’em Event at the 2013 Isle Poker Classic)
WPT Career:  1st cash, 1st WPT Final Table

Local player Eric Beller, a lawyer from Miami Beach, is the only one at this final table who isn’t a professional poker player, so no matter how he finishes today he will have completely eclipsed the $17,294 he has earned from poker tournaments so far.

Beller does have a victory on his poker resume, however, beating a field of 158 to win the $350 buy-in Isle Poker Classic in 2013.

Seat 5.  Simeon Naydenov  –  3,115,000  (31 bb)

Twitter:  @NaydenovSimeon
Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $2,427,576
Best Cash:  $672,190 (2nd at the 2017 WPT L.A. Poker Classic)
WPT Career:  2nd cash, 2nd WPT Final Table

Simeon Naydenov is the only foreigner at this final table, hailing from Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. But he’s no stranger to the USA, with 17 cashes at the WSOP in Las Vegas, and in 2013 he won a WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout.

Earlier this season, Naydenov finished second in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic, and if this weren’t the last event of the season, he’d be making a serious run at the Hublot WPT Player of the Year title. A victory here today would give Naydenov a season-long total of 2,400 POY points, which would put him third on the POY leaderboard, only slightly behind Benjamin Zamani and Sam Panzica.

Seat 6.  Robert Mizrachi  –  3,100,000  (31 bb)

Twitter:  @PokerRob24
Occupation:  Professional Poker Player
Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $6,144,673
Best Cash:  $768,889 (1st in $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2007 WSOP)
WPT Career:  12th cash, 3rd WPT Final Table

Robert Mizrachi has a solid WPT career with 11 cashes and two final tables, but it’s been a while — this is just his second WPT cash since 2010 and his first WPT Final Table since 2007.

Mizrachi’s dry spell on the World Poker Tour is more of a fluke than anything else, because he’s won millions in other events during that time. Mizrachi has more than $6.1 million in career earnings, 48 WSOP cashes, and 4 WSOP bracelets.

You might consider Mizrachi to be part of South Florida’s poker royalty, as the Mizrachi family is one of the most successful poker families in history — Robert’s brother is two-time WPT champion Michael Mizrachi, who has more than $15 million in poker earnings of his own.