2014 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Final Table SetMukul Pahuja Leads Final Six Battling For $1,081,184 First-Place Prize |
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The 2014 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown main event set a lofty $5 million guarantee in it’s $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 1,795 entries were made, setting a record as the largest field in the 12-year history of the WPT and bringing the total prize pool to $5,763,150. From that ocean of starting players now only six remain to battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of $1,081,184.
The chip leader heading into the final day is Mukul Pahuja with 18,895,000. Pahuja has been on a tear lately, both on the WPT and at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, where he finished third in the $10,000,000 guaranteed event last August. He’s already made two WPT final tables in 2014, finishing 8th in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open and then fourth in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star main event. He currently sits in 41st place in the Card Player Player of the Year race, but could move inside the top five with a win on Wednesday.
It won’t be easy for Pahuja, however, as he will have to overcome a final table filled with top tournament professionals. The other five at the final table are all notable players with impressive resumes, including WSOP bracelet winners James Mackey and Chance Kornuth as well as Matt Stout, whose combined live and online tournament winnings exceed $3.8 million.
The final table will resume at 4:00 PM local time and will be filmed for and later aired on Fox Sports Networks.
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final table:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Mukul Pahuja | 18,895,000 |
| 2 | James Mackey | 11,680,000 |
| 3 | Jacob Bazeley | 7,305,000 |
| 4 | Eric Afriat | 6,760,000 |
| 5 | Chance Kornuth | 5,315,000 |
| 6 | Matt Stout | 3,665,000 |
Photo courtesy of World Poker Tour.
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