Initially set for Might 5, the 2025 World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,800 no-limit maintain’em major occasion has been delayed for over three weeks.
Meaning the crowning of the champion will must be delayed that for much longer. The WPT match has performed all the way down to the ultimate six within the last levels at Choctaw On line casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, placing Mike Vanier within the lead. The video games will proceed in Las Vegas, with all six contenders having racked up at leas $70,000 a chunk. The general winner will take residence a large grand prize of $338,000.
The present chief and favourite Vanier has secured greater than $2.4 million in prior match scores, together with the $595,000 he earned for his second place that he earned in a earlier WPT major occasion in Las Vegas in 2022. This would be the third WPT last desk occasion the Nebraskan has made it to, with one other look again in 2023. Vanier is about for 80 large blinds when the video games resume, with 51:52 remaining in Degree 27.
Competitors is heating up within the World Poker Tour
There have been 586 entries within the World Poker Tour match, producing a large prize pool of $2,051,000. The cash was paid out amongst the highest 74 finishers, with some notable excessive finishers, together with earlier WPT champions Kevin Eyster (who got here in thirty first), Nick Yunis (who got here in thirtieth), bracelet winner Jeremy Wien (who got here in 14th), bracelet winner Faraz Jaka (putting thirteenth), and bracelet winner Mike Liang (putting ninth).
The ultimate six is made up of Charlie Adkins, Mason Vieth, Logan Hoover, Mike Vanier, Ryan Brown, and Lifu Zhang. There are additionally a lot of payouts nonetheless up for grabs, because the motion is way from over with six gamers nonetheless within the combine. That features 4 six-figure payouts, together with the much-anticipated grand prize:
- 1st: $338,000
- 2nd: $220,000
- third: $163,000
- 4th: $122,000
- fifth: $92,000
- sixth: $70,000
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