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The turn of a single card can do you in no matter what form of poker you're playing, but there's probably no variant where the wrong card at the wrong time feels more brutal than Razz. Whether it's pairing your board on fifth street, watching an A-2-3 starting hand go south with the addition of a few face cards, or losing with a 6-4 to a player who started with a king in the door, few games can bring the pain like this lowball stud variant. The pain never seems to stop players from showing up to play, though, and today was no exception. By the time late registration closed the field was up to 2,192 players, building a prize pool worth $53,813.60 and setting up a top prize of $9,243.37. After 10 and a half hours of play the final table finally arrived with the limits at 80K/160K and these eight players still in the running: Seat 1: scroosko (1,568,065 in chips) Seat 2: TomaszRa (611,552 in chips) Seat 3: Kazerog (900,084 in chips) Seat 4: Jomppeli_32 (871,384 in chips) Seat 5: margenov (391,408 in chips) Seat 6: erot1 (3,662,726 in chips) Seat 7: Jesseb888 (2,292,277 in chips) Seat 8: ViTaMin_F22 (662,504 in chips) The early stages of the final table saw Finland's Jomppeli_32 surge to a stack of 1.97M chips, thanks to two pots worth 472K each and two more worth 312K each. The United Kingdom's TomaszRa, who had been second-lowest on chips coming into the final table, also managed to stack up. First TomaszRa doubled through Canada's Jesseb888 for a 696K-chip pot; both players had made hands by fifth street, but Jesseb888's 7-6 was beaten by TomaszRa's 6-5. Then, on Hand #15, with limits now up to 100K/200K, TomaszRa opened the betting with the [4d] showing. Russia's Kazerog raised to 200K, leaving just 192K behind and showing the [Ah]. All the rest of the chips went in the middle to build a 974K-chip pot with Kazerog holding ([5s] [2d]) / [Ah] [Qs] against TomaszRa's ([8s] [2h]) / [4d] [4s]. But Kazerog caught the [Qs], [Jh], and [6c] before pairing with the [5c] for a J-6 low. TomaszRa showed down and 8-6 for the pot and Kazerog was out in 8th place ($538.13). The very next hand saw another elimination. China's ViTaMin_F22 started off with ([4c] [Ac]) / [2c] and called an opening raise to 100K by Jomppeli_32, who showed the [5d]. Jomppeli_32 caught the [8h] on fourth and bet again; ViTaMin_F22 called after catching the [Jh] and then got the last 430K in on fifth street with ([4c] [Ac]) / [2c] [Jh] [3h] showing against Jomppeli_32's ([As] [6h]) / [5h] [8h] [9h]. Jomppeli_32 didn't improve on that 9-8, but ViTaMin_F22 caught the [Qh] and paired with the [3h] for a J-4 low to leave the tournament 7th place ($1076.27). Only three more hands would pass before the next player was eliminated. Bulgaria's margenov, who had come to the table with the shortest stack, started with ([2c] [6d]) / [7d] and raised to 100K after Jomppeli_32 called the bring-in; the Finn called that raise to make a 350K-chip pot and then called down the rest of the way as margenov's last 326K went in the middle on fourth, fifth, and sixth streets. The board ran out [2d]-[Jd]-[Th]-[Ad] to make a T-7 low for margenov, but Jomppeli_32's([3d] [5s]) / [9h] [2h] [Kc] [4d] / ([Qs]) was good for a 9-5 and the pot. That bounced margenov in 6th place ($1,614.40). The fall of erot1 That left these five players still in contention with limits at 100K/200K: Seat 1: scroosko (1,248,065 in chips) Seat 2: TomaszRa (1,590,660 in chips) Seat 4: Jomppeli_32 (3,048,560 in chips) Seat 6: erot1 (3,608,726 in chips) Seat 7: Jesseb888 (1,463,989 in chips) Jomppeli remained the most active player at the table and chipped up over 3M. But it was Jesseb888 who won the biggest pot of the tournament so far against the incoming chip leader, Norway's erot1, after the limits had gone up to 120K/240K: RSS readers, please click through for replay Two hands later erot1 would suffer another blow, this time losing a 2.55M-chip pot to Jesseb888 after starting off with ([A

We're nearing a special day here at PokerStars with tomorrow's 10th anniversary of Chris Moneymaker's historic win in the 2003 World Series of Poker. One aspect of Moneymaker's story that has always intrigued many is the coincidence of Moneymaker's last name and the huge cash prize that came with winning the event. Sometimes in these SCOOP events we'll see uncannily-named players similarly doing well and occasionally winning events, and such was certainly the case in Event #30-M, the $215 razz event, appropriately won by lowballeric of the U.K. lowballeric was one of 461 entrants in this one, with the $92,200 prize pool built by that group coming close to doubling the event's $50K guarantee. In addition to the SCOOP watch, lowballeric earned $17,518 of that prize pool after successfully making enough lowball hands to outlast the field. It took nearly six hours for that field to shrink down to 100 players, led at that point by Bodhisattva6 (60,973), wadzon (59,967), and Chiesaraise (54,982). Also still alive and with an above average stack then was Team Online member Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara sitting just outside the top 20. Alas for Kihara, he wouldn't quite make it to the cash after being ousted in 67th, just three spots shy of the money. Soon after the bubble burst, at which point eventual champ lowballeric had pushed past all into first position as the only player with more than 100,000 chips. Eventually just 16 were left as they crossed the nine-hour mark, with Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter (50th, $345.75), Rens "Rens02" Feenstra (49th, $345.75), Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb (46th, $291.85), Mike "Tîmex" McDonald (45th, $391.85), Steve "Illini23" Barshak (36th, $485.05), Paul "paulgees81" Volpe (26th, $599.30), Mayu "marroca5" Roca Uribe (23rd, $806.75), and Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis (19th, $806.75) among the eliminated. It would take another half-hour to play down to eight, with Gigaloff building a big stack of more than 700,000 to assume the lead with krec23 the nearest foe with more than 500,000. zzzFFFzzz (16th), nilsef (15th), F3nix35 (14th), and RuudGullit (13th) each earned $1,060.30 for their finishes, while mapocalyps (12th), valera3000 (11th), mendozoQ (10th), and Bodhisattva6 (9th) made $1,383 apiece. The final table was underway. Seat 1: krec23 (Russia) -- 565,930 Seat 2: capeta333 (Brazil) -- 165,200 Seat 3: Paul "padjes" Berende (Netherlands) -- 171,182 Seat 4: Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen (Mexico) -- 112,264 Seat 5: Gigaloff (Russia) -- 789,779 Seat 6: Desslock (Canada) -- 78,400 Seat 7: shrek7771 (Russia) -- 143,784 Seat 8: lowballeric (United Kingdom) -- 278,461 THAY3R thwarted in eighth The stakes were 12,000/24,000 to start the final table, and on just the second hand Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen was eliminated in eighth after losing the last of his short stack. That hand started with a THAY3R raise over a bring-in from Paul "padjes" Berende. Desslock then three-bet and got two callers in shrek7771 and lowballeric, and when it folded back around to Rasmussen he typed "gg" and "gl all in" before reraising with the last of his chips to 27,864. All three of his opponents called, then shrek7771 led with bets on the next three streets with Desslock folding on fourth and lowballeric calling all of the way. When checked to on seventh lowballeric then bet and Desslock called. lowballeric showed [3][5] / [6][Q][6][2] / [T] for a ten-low while shrek7771 had [5][6] / [3][9][9][5] / [4] for a 9-6-5-4-3. shrek7771's hand was better than whatever THAY3R had as he mucked, and they were down to seven. Desslock done in seventh About an orbit later Desslock was down to just 8,936 and was open-raising all in with a [3] showing. shrek7771 reraised with an [A] up and everyone else folded, and the pair drew out their hands thusly: Desslock: [J][A] / [3][A][4][2] / [Q] (J-4-3-2-A) shrek7771: [6][T] / [A][4][5][9] / [Q] (9-6-5-4-A) It was a disappointing card on seventh street for Desslock whose tourney run e

If players were looking for a lot of action, they did not have to look much further than the Pot Limit Omaha Zoom Turbo SCOOP tournaments today. The structure combined with Zoom poker generated non-stop moves with a consistent parade to the rail. Just 250 of the nearly 1,500 starting players remained by the time late registration was closed and player were down to the final three tables in the blind of an eye. As players moved closer to the final table, much of the attention was on Randal "RandALLin" Flowers who was a chipleader for most of this tournament. Flowers was also having a very good day and looking for a unique outcome. Flowers battled down and won his first SCOOP title in the High version of the tournament earlier in the day and was looking to add the Medium tournament as well. Flowers ran into trouble in the later stages of the tournament when it seemed to be a final table race between him and Jon "Pearljammer" Turner. After a long than expect final table bubble, Turner was forced to take a stand but was knocked out in 10th place. SWFAZ began the final table with a large chiplead and the structure would dictate a lot of gambling throughout. Final table chip counts: Seat 1: Contado (685,066 in chips) Seat 2: SFisch4 (504,000 in chips) Seat 3: SWFAZ (2,639,836 in chips) Seat 4: Randal "RandALLin" Flowers (413,640 in chips) Seat 5: Dan "APowers1968" Colpoys (587,275 in chips) Seat 6: SP3WMONKEY (744,684 in chips) Seat 7: JokerTilt (601,168 in chips) Seat 8: julianherold (295,143 in chips) Seat 9: sonajero (959,188 in chips) RandALLin makes 2nd PLO Zoom Turbo final table, eliminated in 9th Flowers may have outlasted Turner to make this final table but his appearance last exactly one hand. Final table chipleader SWFAZ raised pot in early position before Flowers moved all-in for 413,640 total and was only called by SWFAZ. Flowers was ahead with [Ks][Kd][Ts][Tc] against [Jh][Th][9d][7d]. SWFAX picked up a bunch of outs on the [Ad][Qh][2h] flop and had Flowers drawing dead with the completed flush draw on the [8h] turn. Randal "RandALLin" Flowers was eliminated in 9th place for $3,061.16. JokerTilt finds Aces, eliminated in 8th place It took just one more hand to produce the next knockout and play continued at a blistering pace. JokerTilt bet pot for most of the remaining stack and called all-in when Contado pushed all-in to isolate. JokerTilt was ahead with [Ah][Ad][Tc][7s] against [Kd][Qc][9c][8s] but was outflopped by Contado when [Kh][9s][3c] hit the board. Contado's Kings up improved with the [Qh] flop and filled up when [Qs] hit the river. JokerTilt was the next out in 8th place for $5,646.80. SFisch4 goes fishing, eliminated in 7th place SFisch4 began the final table near the bottom of the chipi counts but held on to move up a few spots on the pay table. With action folding around to the button, SFisch4 raised the pot and was called by chipleader SWFAZ in the small blind, who immediately bet enough to put SFisch4 all-in after the [Ks][Js][9c]. SFisch4 called the bet and the cards were tabled. SFisch4: [Kh][Qh][9d][2s] SWFAZ: [Ad][Qs][9h][8d] SFisch4 was ahead with Kings up versus a pair of Nines for SWFAZ and stayed ahead with the [8c] on the turn. SWFAZ would add to the chiplead when the [Ac] hit the river for a bigger two pair. SFisch4 was ahead on the turn but had to walk away in 7th place for $8,618.80. APowers1968 can't match WCOOP title, eliminated in 6th place Dan "APowers1968" Colpoys began the final table looking for a SCOOP title to match his 2010 WCOOP title but ran into a series of hands which knocked his stack to the felt. Colpoys was playing for his tournament life when all his chips were in the big blind and it was folded around to chipleader SWFAZ in the small blind. SWFAX: [Ah][Kh][Td][6s] APowers1968: [Ad][Qd][Th][7c] Both hit the [Kc][Qs][2c] but SWFAZ was ahead and improved to Kings up on the [6h] turn, leaving Colpoys drawing to just the two remaining Queens. [9c] on t

Brad Willis, PokerStars' Head of Blogging, has made it known (repeatedly) how obsessed he is with Shaun Deeb. Brad has good reason - Deeb has won seven COOP titles on PokerStars, more than any other player. But if Brad ever gets tired of waxing eloquent about Shaun F. Deeb, he might turn his attention to Daniel "djk123" Kelly. Kelly, who leads the all-time WCOOP winners with 4 titles, captured his 2nd SCOOP title tonight in SCOOP 2013 Event 30-H, $2100 Razz. One man. Six COOP titles. Not a Deebian level yet, but impressive all the same. Kelly shows off some of his earlier hardware Razz isn't the most popular game out there. Only 97 players showed up to play this one. Deeb was one of them. He was also the first out the door (so maybe Kelly does have a little something on Mr. Deeb). There was no shame in busting early though. Plenty of well-known players joined Deeb in the Losers Lounge. It was not a good day for Team Pokerstars. Between the Team Pros and the Team Online players, the Red Spade represented nearly 10% of the field, but none of them could break through to paydirt. Players like Eugene Katchalov, Alex Kravchenko, Bertrand Grospellier and Jose Barbero all came up well short of the top 12 "in the money" places that received prize money in Event 30-H. Team Online player Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome made the deepest run for Team PokerStars but found herself short as the money bubble approached with two tables left. On the other table, $kill Game was also short and began stalling. At the 8pm break, talonchick told $kill Game to knock it off. taIonchick [Team Online]: I have way more time bank than you $kill game taIonchick [Team Online]: play the hand or I can stall also $kill Game: lol $kill Game: you can do what you want my friend $kill Game: idc The rest of the table weighed in. Betudontbet: u like value, rite? Betudontbet: don't cost yourself value gunning4you: he doesn't care about value. gunning4you: have you seen his sports bets? ZeeJustin: stalling in a two table tournament is just mutually assured destruction $kill Game tripled up 10 minutes after the break with (improbably enough) a jack-six. Rowsome busted in 16th place. Three eliminations later the money bubble burst when $kill Game busted, and four eliminations after that the final table began with these eight players: Seat 1: SebbyGl (97030 in chips) Seat 2: ShellyCalls (73438 in chips) Seat 3: Daniel "djk123" Kelly (55801 in chips) Seat 4: redeste (46614 in chips) Seat 5: AceQuad (40452 in chips) Seat 6: villepn (68016 in chips) Seat 7: Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo (62802 in chips) Seat 8: blanconegro (40847 in chips) Level 19: stakes 2k-4k, ante 400 Average: 60,625 (15 big bets) For a fixed-limit tournament, the final table was deep in chips. This was not one that was going to be decided by a few quick hands. The chips moved around the table in the first 30 minutes, with ShellyCalls and villepn getting the best of things while djk123 and blanconegro took the worst of things. The end came for blanconegro first. Two big pots back-to-back went the wrong way. First, blanconegro was forced to fold x-x / 6-K-Q-T on 6th street after calling a bet on every street from SebbyGl, who showed x-x / T-2-9-8. Then blanconegro tangled with Bonomo, raising a 2 on 3rd street after Bonomo completed a 4. Bonomo called and caught a 7 on 4th street; blanconegro paired deuces. From there Bonomo led the betting on every street, all the way to showdown, where his 9-5 / 4-7-6-J / A made a 7-6 to drag the pot. blanconegro mucked a board of x-x / 2-2-5-J / X and was left with only 197 chips. Those chips went into the pot for the ante of the next hand and did not come back out. blanconegro blanked out in 8th place. Kelly reversed his fortunes over the next 40 minutes, climbing as high as 120k to take the chip lead. Bonomo remained strong as well, while villpen and AceQuad took the brunt of the damage. With the stakes up to 3k-6k, villepn completed a 4 and t

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Pot Limit Omaha is already considered an action game, but when you combine it into a Turbo structure and add PokerStars' revolutionary ZOOM format, then it provides a cracking few hours of poker entertainment. It took just over four hours to reduce a field of over five thousand to a lone champion as Bulgaria's FoRiu89 collected the top prize and the SCOOP title on a whirlwind, and very international, final table. A massive field of 5,419 turned out for Event #32-L $27 Pot Limit Omaha Turbo ZOOM, to confirm the growing popularity of PLO at the lower limits. They formed a prize pool of $133,036.45 which was over three times the advertised guarantee. Team PokerStars Pros Marcel Luske, Chad Brown, David Williams, Caio Pessagno, George Danzer, Fatima De Melo, Henrique Pinho, Lex Veldhuis, Andre Coimbra, Martin Hrubý, Mickey Petersen, Fredy Torres, Bertrand Grospellier and Nacho Barbero were all amongst the starters but fell short of the money. The top 720 places would be paid with a min-cash worth $42.57, but it would be another red spade falling painfully short of the money as former SCOOP title winner George Lind was the bubble boy in 721st place. Bubble is no fun for George Lind Two Team PokerStars members made the money with Marcin Horecki (570th - $46.56) and Japanese WSOP bracelet winner Naoya Kihara (237th - $71.83) the only red spades to cash. When a short-stacked pokerbossie1's two pair fell to the ace-high flush of badalhas, the official SCOOP final table of nine was formed: Final Table Line up Seat 1: FoRiu89 (7,234,824 in chips) Seat 2: mitsakos21 (4,944,388 in chips) Seat 3: Funeraler (502,002 in chips) Seat 4: ace201220 (1,041,822 in chips) Seat 5: N0b0dy (2,322,920 in chips) Seat 6: VernonH (2,332,156 in chips) Seat 7: badalhas (4,442,977 in chips) Seat 8: Alexx_N (483,613 in chips) Seat 9: JeffBaas (3,790,298 in chips) There was a fairly large chip discrepancy around the table as the final table kicked off with the blinds at 150,000/300,000. FoRiu89 held a commanding chip lead with mitsakos21, badalhas and JeffBaas also very well placed, while the pressure was on short stacks Alexx_N and Funeraler. However the short stacks fought back with ace201220's aces securing a double up, before Funeraler, Alexx_N and N0b0dy did likewise. Funeraler was still on the short stack and couldn't make it two in a row after committing preflop with [As][4c][4s][Qc] against JeffBaas' [Kd][4h][9h][8d]. The board fell [6c][Kh][Th][5d][7s] with Funeraler unable to improve on a pair of fours as JeffBaas ended with a straight to secure the pot and eliminate Funeraler in 9th place for $1,064.29. Just three hands later and we would see the floodgates open with three eliminations in three consecutive hands. First it was Alexx_N who moved all in from under the gun for less than three big blinds with [4c][Ks][As][7c]. Action passed to N0b0dy who isolated with [Ah][9d][4s][Ac]. The board rolled off [Kh][Jd][Ad][4d][Qh] with N0b0dy's set of aces proving too strong for Alexx_N who tabled two pair. Alexx_N picked up $1,662.95 for 8th place. Very next hand and VernonH moved all in from the button for a little over three big blinds with [Jh][2d][3d][Ad] as JeffBaas committed to call from the big blind with [8d][9h][5s][Ts]. The board landed [2s][Js][Qc][6s][Kh] to deliver a flush for JeffBass to remove VernonH in 7th place for $2,993.32. Another hand and another elimination, as ace201220 was a little unlucky: RSS readers click through to see replay Queens into kings was enough to send ace201220 to the rail in 6th place for $4,323.68. We then saw the biggest pot of the tournament unfold when N0b0dy three-bet jammed [Ac][Kc][9d][Qs] and mitsakos21 made the call with [Ts][6c][Th][9c]. The board fell [Qc][6d][As][8h][Ah] to give N0b0dy a big double up into the tournament chip lead. It was a blow that mitsakos21 was unable to recover from as the very next hand mitsakos21 was all in with [5d][Jc][Js][6s] only to run into JeffBaas'

Randal "RandALLin" Flowers is the youngest-ever two-time WPT champion. He has over $3.5 million in career online MTT earnings and another $1.9 million live. But until tonight, he had yet to ship a "COOP." At a final table that was stunningly fast even by turbo Zoom standards, Flowers arrived second in chips and eliminated six of his eight opponents en route to his first SCOOP title in Event #32-H ($2,100 PLO Turbo, Zoom). The turbo Zoom format drew 312 high-stakes PLO junkies to the felt, the prize pool topping out at $624,000. 36 spots were paid with $127,608 set aside for first. Team Pros David Williams, Theo Jorgensen, Nacho Barbero, ElkY, Johnny Lodden, George Danzer and Liv Boeree were among the Red Spade Army's representatives, but only Team Online's Isaac Haxton made the money, finishing in 34th place. Zoom play ceased when the field was down to 27, but the action didn't slow for a moment. With the blinds up to 10,000/20,000, the average stack was only seven big blinds. Play went hand-for-hand with ten remaining and despite sitting fourth in chips, Noah "Exclusive" Boeken met his tournament end on the final table bubble. Holding [Ad][Qs][Jc][7d], Boeken four-bet shoved preflop and zwacke called, revealing [As][Ah][Qd][3s]. Zwacke made aces up on the [Ks][8c][5h][5d][Qc] board and raked in the 436,000 pot, sending us to the final table. Final table chip counts Seat 1: kartt (32,536 in chips) Seat 2: vindog03 (77,747 in chips) Seat 3: greeno99 (27,509 in chips) Seat 4: jama-dharma (152,557 in chips) Seat 5: vegaspolotsk (93,652 in chips) Seat 6: Bandano (65,358 in chips) Seat 7: mahtipeluri (275,738 in chips) Seat 8: zwacke (505,471 in chips) Seat 9: RandALLin (329,432 in chips) Start to finish, it took 15 hands and less than ten minutes to go from nine players to one. On the first hand of the final table, greeno99 open-shoved for 27,509 with [As][8s][8h][2d] and RandALLin made an isolation raise to 40,000 from the small blind. RandALLin's [Kh][Jc][9h][7c] flopped a pair of nines and rivered nines and sixes, the board running out [Ts][9h][4c][6h][6c] to end greeno99's run in ninth place. On the very next deal, the blinds rose to 12,500/25,000 and vegaspolotsk opened for 87,500. Kartt called all-in from the small blind, his [Js][9s][7s][3d] up against [Kd][9h][8h][8d]. Both players made middle pair on the [Jh][9d][6c] flop, but vegaspolotsk hit running diamonds to make an ace-high flush and eliminated kartt in eighth. Two hands later, vegaspolosk picked up [Ac][Ad][6c][2s] and three-bet shoved for 106,188 from the small blind. Initial raiser RandALLin called with [9s][Tc][Jd][Qh] and hit the nut straight when the flop fell [Jh][9h][8s]. Vegaspolosk couldn't catch him and exited in seventh place. RandALLin scored another KO two hands after that, calling vindog3's UTG shove for 52,747. Although vindog03 led preflop with [As][Qs][Qd][3h], RandALLin's [As][2s][2d][6d] made a set of deuces on the [Kc][2h][6c] flop. Vindog3 didn't improve and went out in sixth place, earning $28,080.00 for his run. The next deal saw RandALLin take a short breather while Bandano moved in preflop for his last 78,000 and jama-dharma called from the big blind with [Jh][7h][7s][8h]. Bandano's [Ac][Ah][Kh][4s] made aces up on the flop, the board finishing [Qh][Qs][4s][Jd][6d] to double his stack to 168,000. RandALLin's break was over on the next hand and he opened for 87,500 on the button. Jama-dharma called off his remaining 49,699 from the small blind and Bandano came along from the big. Bandano moved in for his last 80,716 on the [Ts][9c][7d] flop and RandALLin called. jama-dharma [Jc][8s][7h][3h] Bandano [Th][9h][7c][6c] RandALLin [Kh][Qh][9s][6h] Jama-dharma led on the flop with a jack-high straight but RandALLin spiked the [Jh] to turn a king-high straight. Both opponents had a three-outer going to the river to improve from two pair to a boat, but the [8d] fell instead, delivering a one-two punch to jama-dharma, wh

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With just eight players returning and only six needed to set the final table, two players were going to get the short end and that turned out to be Negreanu and Italian Rocco Palumbo. Coming into the day as the short stacks it was going to be an uphill battle for them but Negreanu more than doubled his stack to up over a million in the first half hour. A downswing shortly thereafter sent him back down the ranks before he finally busted in seventh for $137,085 and the satisfaction of his third consecutive major final table. Palumbo, meanwhile, never got anything going before busting in eight when he shoved J8 in the small blind into Brandon Stevens' KJ. Rheem, Lindgren Extend Lead Driver's seat for Chino.   Meanwhile at the top of the chip counts, the two leaders built their stacks up a little further for the final run n the $1.1 million first-place prize. Former November Nine Rheem, also a previous WPT champion, bagged 5,495,000 to end the day for a decided edge to start the final. Former Full Tilt pro and sportsbetting pariah Erick Lindgren also slightly increased his stack up to 3,355,000 and is looking for his first major title since 2008. WPT Montreal winner Jonathan Roy and pros Matt Hyman, Brandon Steven and David Peters round out the final six. The finalists will take a day off tomorrow while the $100k Super High Roller plays its final table before picking up again on Friday. The official chip counts and seating assignments: Seat 1. Jonathan Roy - 1,900,000 (47 bb) Seat 2. David Peters - 1,085,000 (27 bb) Seat 3. Erick Lindgren - 3,355,000 (83 bb) Seat 4. Brandon Steven - 1,210,000 (30 bb) Seat 5. Matt Hyman - 1,560,000 (39 bb) Seat 6. Chino Rheem - 5,495,000 (137 bb) The payouts:1st: $1,150,297 2nd: $650,275 3rd: $421,800 4th: $289,988 5th: $223,203 6th: $173,993 For a full recap of the Day 5 action, check the WPT Live Updates.Visit www.pokerlistings.com

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