Thrill is On: Failla Leads WPT Legends Final Six
Failla, who has over $2 million in live tournament cashes in his career but no WPT final tables, has been circling the top of the chip counts since Day 1 at Legends and now holds the advantage coming in to the televised final table with 6.7 million in chips. He leads second-biggest chip stack Joshua Pollock by around 1.4 million in chips. Day 3 chip leader Jeff Vertes also held on to make the final table third in chips at 4 million. Ken Aldridge, Adam Aronson and 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Owais Ahmed round out the final six. Day 4 at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles started with 21 players remaining including former WPT Champion Shawn Buchanan and noted pros Dan Heimiller, David Daneshgar, Brent Hanks, Matt “Ch0ppy” Kay, Ray Henson and Christina Lindley.
Thrill is On: Failla Leads WPT Legends Final Six
Failla, who has over $2 million in live tournament cashes in his career but no WPT final tables, has been circling the top of the chip counts since Day 1 at Legends and now holds the advantage coming in to the televised final table with 6.7 million in chips. He leads second-biggest chip stack Joshua Pollock by around 1.4 million in chips. Day 3 chip leader Jeff Vertes also held on to make the final table third in chips at 4 million. Ken Aldridge, Adam Aronson and 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Owais Ahmed round out the final six
O’Dea Looks to Follow Father’s Footsteps in Main Event
Twenty-eight years ago Eoghan’s father, Donnacha O’Dea, made the final table of the 1983 WSOP Main Event but eventually fell short of the title, busting in sixth place. Eoghan is the chip leader with 12 players left and could potentially succeed where is father failed and become a poker world champion.
WPT Paris High Roller: Derwiche Does It
The €10k event drew 27 players to the Aviation Club de France in Paris, France, including names like Antony Lellouche, Nicolas Levi, Juha Helppi, Michael Tureniec, Max Lykov and last year’s winner Freddy Deeb. In all, a €256,642 prize pool that would pay only the final four was created. Two-time 2010 WSOP final tablist and 2009 WSOP Main Event 16th-place finisher Ludovic Lacay was the most well known player to make the final table.
McAdams Masters Manchester
But it was Peter McAdams who outlasted them all to win to win £58,100 at the G Casino.
Flowers Blooms at WPT Festa
The North Carolina native went wire-to-wire in the final six to win the 2010 WPT Festa al Lago title and $831,500 first prize. Flowers became the youngest WPT winner in history when he booked a win at the 2009 WPT Spanish Championship and is now the tour’s youngest two-time winner