Andrew Lichtenberger Leads WPT World Championship At Wynn Las Vegas Final Table

After four starting flights and five more days of action, the largest World Poker Tour main event field ever has been thinned to a final table. A total of 3,835 entries were made in the 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, setting a new turnout record for the main tour while falling just short of the $40 million guarantee. From that sea of contenders, there are now just six players remaining with a shot at the title and the top prize of $5,678,000.

The final table is stacked with accomplished players, with more than $65.3 million in combined earnings between the final six. Here is a look at their chip counts heading into the final table, which kicks off at 4:00 PM local time on Thursday, Dec. 21.

The chip leader heading into the final day is Andrew Lichtenberger with 148,200,000 (123.5 big blinds). The 36-year-old bracelet winner based out of Las Vegas has nearly 39 percent of the total chips in play, and is well situated to add to his $17,850,223 in career earnings in a major way.

Two-time bracelet winner and 2014 WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event champion Chris Moorman will enter the final table with the second-largest stack with 88,300,000. The longtime online tournament crusher from the UK has already guaranteed himself a new career-high payout by making it this far, with the top six all having locked up at least $1,207,000.

Greece’s Georgios Sotiropoulos has the third biggest stack with 46,200,000. The three-time bracelet winner has more than $4.2 million in prior earnings but will earn his first seven-figure payday in this event.

British poker pro Ben Heath sits in fourth place with 36,700,000. The bracelet winner from Brighton came into this event with more than $19.9 million in career cashes.

Hot on Heath’s heels is Daniel Sepiol with 34,300,000. The 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Riverside main event champion can more than double his lifetime live tournament earnings of $1.6 million by surviving to the top four in this event.

The short stack is 2021 European Poker Tour Sochi main event champion and two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian. The Russian poker pro has more than $14 million in career cashes, with more than half of that being won so far in 2023.

Here is a look at the payouts up for grabs at the final table:

Photo credits: WPT.

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