Chris Moorman Headlines WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event Final TableMichael Rocco Holds Chiplead With Final Six Set To Battle Over $1 Million First-Place Prize |
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The final table is set in the 2014 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 534 players made their way to the Commerce Casino to play in this event, building a total prizepool of $5,126,400. Now only six players remain to battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of $1,015,460.
The chip leader heading into the final table is Michael Rocco with 5,615,000 in chips, about 35 percent of the chips in play. Second in chips is British poker pro Chris “Moorman1” Moorman with 3,190,000.
Moorman is the winningest tournament player in online tournament history, having become the first player to exceed $10 million in tournament earnings on the internet late last year. He has over $2.8 million in live tournament earnings as well, but is still missing a marquee win on one of the major live tours. With his experience and more than 100 big-blind stack, he is a threat to change that at this final table.
The televised final table of six was set with the elimination of Dan O’Brien in seventh place. Glenn Lafaye raised to 65,000 from the hijack, Michael Rocco called on the button and O’Brien three-bet to 250,000 from the big blind. Only Rocco made the call.
The flop brought the 10
9
8 and O’Brien check called 175,000 from Rocco. The turn brought the K
and O’Brien checked to Rocco, who fired 400,000. O’Brien tanked for a few minutes, and Rocco eventually called the clock. With time running out, O’Brien moved all-in for around 1.6 million and Rocco snap-called with the KQ.
O’Brien had the best hand at the moment with the A
A, but Rocco had a lot of outs. The 6 on the river was one of them, and when that fell it secured the pot for Rocco and sent O’Brien to the rail as the final table bubble boy. For his deep run O’Brien earned $137,900.
Other notables who made deep runs but fell just short of the final table include Joe Serock (10th – $100,480), Alex Masek (13th – $54,850) and Hasan Habib (16th – $54,850).
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final table:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Michael Rocco | 5,615,000 |
| 2 | Chris Moorman | 3,190,000 |
| 3 | Patrick Bruel | 2,280,000 |
| 4 | Josh Neufeld | 1,930,000 |
| 5 | Glenn Lafaye | 1,855,000 |
| 6 | Adam Friedman | 1,150,000 |
Photos courtesy of BJ Nemeth / World Poker Tour.
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