William Vo Leads 2016 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event Final Table

From a field of 687 entries now only six players remain in the 2016 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $4,000 no-limit hold’em main event at The Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Bell Gardens, California. Of the six remaining only one player will walk away as the next WPT champion and earn $615,346 when play resumes for the televised final table at 4 p.m. local time on Thursday, September 1.

The chip leader heading into the final table is 77-year-old William Vo with 5,260,000. The Bike regular has $309,245 in prior career live tournament earnings and is guaranteed to add at least $85,760 to that total in this event.

Vo will have some stiff competition to deal with at the final table, including 2015 World Series of Poker bracelet winners Upeshka De Silva (4,475,000) and Benjamin Zamani (3,210,000). Zamani is now a five-tome WPT final tablist. In fact this is his third final on the tour in the past ten months. As a result he has taken the lead in the WPT’s Player of the Year race.

Day four of the this event resumed with 13 remaining, including notable players such as two-time WSOP bracelet winner and Card Player CEO and publisher Barry Shulman (12th – $29,060), WSOP bracelet winner Will Givens (11th – $29,060), Ray Qartomy (10th – $29,060), another two-time bracelet winner in David Pham (9th – $39,940) and five-time WPT final tablist Garrett Greer (8th – $52,190).

Turnout for this event grew by 15.8 percent year-over-year, with 687 entries this year and 593 in 2015. This was the first year that the event took place after the seven-story, 117,907 square-foot boutique luxury hotel addition opened on Dec. 1, 2015.

Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final table:

Photo courtesy of World Poker Tour / Joe Giron.

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