Chino Rheem and Erick Lindgren Lead World Poker Tour $25,000 Championship Main Event Final TableStacked Final Six Will Battle For Title and $1,150,297 First-Place Prize |
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The final table is set in the 2013 World Poker Tour Championship $25,000 no-limit hold’em main event at the Bellagio. From a field of 146 entrants, now only six remain to battle it out for the $1,150,297 first-place prize and the title of WPT Champion.
The chip leader heading into the final table is Chino Rheem with 5,495,000 of the 14.6 (~38%) million chips in play. Rheem has had quite a run so far at the Five Star World Poker Classic (the Bellagio series that features the WPT Championship.) Prior to the main event he made three prelim final tables, finishing fourth once and runner-up twice. Now he is looking to take down his second WPT main event title, having won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic main event in 2008 for $1.5 million.
Second in chips is two-time WPT champ in Erick Lindgren, who will bring 3,355,000 to the final table. Lindgren eliminated televised-final table bubble boy Daniel Negreanu on the final hand of day 5, with his J
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besting Negreanu’s A
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For his seventh-place finish Negreanu earned $137,085 and 252 Card Player Player of the Year points. Negreanu was already in second place in the overall POY standings, but now sits only 332 points behind current leader Paul Volpe.
Rounding out the televised final table of six is 2012 WPT Montreal champ Jonathan Roy, Matt Hyman, Brandon Steven and David Peters.
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final table:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Chino Rheem | 5,495,000 |
| 2 | Erick Lindgren | 3,355,000 |
| 3 | Jonathan Roy | 1,900,000 |
| 4 | Matt Hyman | 1,560,000 |
| 5 | Brandon Steven | 1,210,000 |
| 6 | David Peters | 1,085,000 |
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