Josh Hale Wins World Poker Tour Legends Of Poker Main Event At The Bike

Josh Hale

This $3,500 buy-in WPT main event drew 622 entrants to build a total prizepool of $2,111,690. After four long days of play, only six remained to battle for this prestigious title.

Hale entered the final table with a sizable chiplead, but it was Max Steinberg, the shortest stack at the start of the night, who ended up eliminating four of the six finalists. As a result, Steinberg took a roughly 3-to-1 chip advantage in to heads-up play.

Hale turned things around on the twelfth hand of heads-up play, getting all-in with a flush draw against Steinberg’s two pair and making the queen-high flush on the river.

Max Steinberg

For his runner-up finish, Steinberg earned $293,490 and 1,050 POY points. Earlier this year Steinberg won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet, topping a field of 2,795 in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event for $440,238. As a result of these two massive scores, Steinberg has moved into 18th place in the overall Player of the Year standings.

Fifth-place finisher Greg Mueller also climbed the POY rankings to 42nd place as a result of making his third final table of the year.

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

Winner photo courtesy of WPT and BJ Nemeth

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