2015 WSOP Main Event Chip Leader Wins Poker Tournament Two Weeks Before November Nine

Joseph McKeehen

In keeping with this burgeoning tradition, 2015 WSOP main event chip leader Joseph McKeehen tried his hand in this year’s Wynn Fall Poker Classic $300,000 guaranteed $1,600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event earlier this week. From a field of 267 entries he emerged victorious, defeating Seth Berger heads up to capture the title just under two weeks before the WSOP main event is set to resume.

For the win McKeehen earned $90,125 and 432 Card Player Player of the Year points. Perhaps more importantly, he also gained crucial experience in closing out a final table as his impending showdown for a top prize of $7,680,021 and the title of World Champion loomed.

McKeehen comes into the final table with 64,100,000 in chips, or 158 big blinds when play resumes with limits of 200,000-400,000 with an ante of 50,000. McKeehen ran away with the lead as the main event field was narrowed down to just nine, sending poker’s biggest star Daniel Negreanu to the rail in 11th place en route to bagging up 32.76 percent of the chips in play (the most of any November Nine chip leader).

Also of note is the fact that McKeehen played with 2008 WSOP November Niner Dennis Phillips at the final table of this Wynn event. Phillips, who finished third in the 2008 main event for $4,517,773, placed fourth in this tournament.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table:

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