Event #8 Final Day
Phil Ivey tops the list of most well known competitors in the final seven, but he doesn't top the leaderboard. That honor goes to John Monnette, who will come into the final table with 259,000 chips. Raphael Zimmerman is the only other player to eclipse the 200,000 mark and is hot on Monnette's heels with 238,000. Here's the official seating chart and chip counts for today.
Seat 1: Raphael Zimmerman - 238,000
Seat 2: Eric Kesselman - 119,400
Seat 3: John Monnette - 259,000
Seat 4: Rodeen Talebi - 94,500
Seat 5: Yan Chen - 159,000
Seat 6: Elia Ahmadian - 136,900
Seat 7: Phil Ivey - 106,300
Only Phil Ivey and Eric Kesselman have ever tasted WSOP gold before, but they won't be giving up easily. Both of them would love to return to the winners' circle. Everyone else at the table is clawing and scratching just as hard to get their first gold bracelet wrapped around their wrist and pocket the nearly $100,000 first-place prize money.
Stay tuned as we'll return back here at 2:00 PM local time for all the live action from the final table!