WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas Day 6 Update

After over a week of intensive poker playing, the $40m guaranteed WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has reached its final table. Just six players are left with a shot at the $5,678,000 first prize and place in WPT history, with their name being added to the Mike Sexton Cup. All six remaining players will walk away with seven-figure scores. 

These are the chip counts and final table seating draw of the Super Six who will fight it out for the big money.

Day six was a relatively short session and once it got down to the (unofficial) final table of nine players, it took just half an hour for the last three eliminations of the day. It was a day dominated by one player, Andrew Lichtenberger, as he accounted for several of the exits and ended up as the runaway chip leader. The LearnWPT pro goes into the final with almost twice as much as second placed Chris Moorman, who also dispatched a few players on the penultimate day of play. 

Maxime Chilaud, who commanded the second largest stack going into the day, capitulated in 11th place, when his A♠10♣ was bettered by ACR sponored pro Chris Moorman’s A♣A♦. They got it in on a 10♥ 2♥5♣9♠ board and the Frenchman was eliminated when he failed to hit a further ten on the river. Play was brought to a close when Moorman’s 10♦9♦made a straight against Carl Shaw’s A♦K♦, boosting the UK player’s stack by over 20m and setting himself up nicely for a tilt at the top prize.

It’s a very experienced final table, all players already had over a million in lifetime winnings from live tournament poker. With the exception of American Daniel Sepiol, they have all won at least one WSOP bracelet. If Sepiol finishes in 5th place or better he will exceed his combined lifetime earnings in this event alone. 

Chris Moorman, in second place overnight is the only remaining WPT main event champion, however chip leader Andrew Lichtenberger has won a high stakes WPT Alpha8 event. The online tournament legend, who’s father Simon Moorman is a GUKPT champion brought his pet dog “London” to the tournament yesterday as a lucky mascot. 

Georgios Sotiropoulos from Rhodes in Greece has three WSOP bracelets, including one in Las Vegas, one in Europe and one online. He is now looking to add a WPT title to his resume.

Russian Artur Martirosian has the biggest single cash of the final six, having banked $3.27m earlier this year when he finished second in the WSOP $250k Super High Roller. His sole WSOP bracelet was won just nine days ago at the WSOP Paradise event in the Bahamas. In fact, on the day he won his bracelet, day 1a of this WPT World Championship was already underway.

This is what they are playing for when the final begins at 4pm local time (midnight in the UK) on Thursday 21st December. 

The action is being live streamed on a 30-minute delay and can be viewed on the WPT's Youtube channel.