With 8.46 million chips, good for 141 big blinds, WPT Champions Club member Brian Altman leads the televised partypoker.net WPT Montreal final table at Playground Poker Club. Altman was one of three WPT Champion Club members still in contention in Day 3 – both Darren Elias (11th) and Giacomo Fundaro (9th) failed to survive the day – and will be in search of his second title on Thursday at 4:30 pm ET at the live-streamed final table on Twitch.tv. partypoker qualifier and top professional Mike McDonald will host the stream, alongside a myriad of guests.
Altman won the Season XIII WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open, besting a field of more than 1,000 entries to earn the top prize of $723,008.
Here’s who will be joining Altman at the final table:
Seat 1. Brian Altman – 8,460,000 (141 bb)
Seat 2. Carter Swidler – 1,395,000 (23 bb)
Seat 3. Jared Mahoney – 1,260,000 (21 bb)
Seat 4. A.J. Gambino – 1,625,000 (27 bb)
Seat 5. Darryll Fish – 5,160,000 (86 bb)
Seat 6. Rainer Kempe – 2,955,000 (49 bb)
And the remaining prizepool:
1st: CAD $453,122*
2nd: CAD $304,343
3rd: CAD $195,940
4th: CAD $144,780
5th: CAD $108,410
6th: CAD $87,520
* First prize amount includes a USD $15,400 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.
Note: Amounts listed here in the updates will be in Canadian dollars (CAD $), while the amounts that appear on the Payouts page are listed in U.S. dollars for consistency across all WPT events around the world. The conversion rate is CAD $1.28 per USD $1.00, which is the current exchange rate used here at the Playground Poker Club.
Cards will be in the air on Thursday at 4:00 pm ET, and you can follow live updates right here on WPT.com.
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