Welcome to Day 3 of 2019 HPT Ameristar East Chicago Main Event
Nine players remain and one will win $183,899 and a $3,500 Heartland Poker Tour Championship package. It's time for the final day and the final table of HPT Ameristar East Chicago.
From 570 entries, just these nine remain, and a look at the chip counts tells it all when it comes to the landscape of the final table. It's Chris Moon in the driver's seat and Moon by a country mile. Nobody is even all that close to his monstrous stack of 200-plus big blinds.
HPT Ameristar East Chicago Final Table
| Seat | Player | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Salazar | 760,000 |
| 2 | Craig Casino | 2,750,000 |
| 3 | Bret Martin | 545,000 |
| 4 | Dennis Ng | 1,000,000 |
| 5 | Paul Elfelt | 1,265,000 |
| 6 | Artem Zverkhovskyy | 2,160,000 |
| 7 | Mike O'Neill | 970,000 |
| 8 | Chris Moon | 6,195,000 |
| 9 | Bryant Miller | 1,470,000 |
Plenty of accomplished competition does remain, though. Mike O'Neill and Craig Casino, for example, are no strangers to the HPT spotlight, each having at least one HPT title in the bag. And Eric Salazar, while he does have one of the shortest stacks, has been one of the most successful players grinding the WSOP Circuit this season.
The streamed and televised final table is set for a noon kickoff, although the stream won't come online for a little while after that, closer to 12:30 local time. There's still 52 minutes left in Level 24 (15,000/30,000/30,000). Play will continue with one-hour levels until heads-up time, at which point they are cut to half an hour.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who grabs the trophy, or catch the stream at the HPT Twitch channel.