Day 4: Official Seating & Chip Counts

Day 3 has come to an end with 24 players remaining, and the chipleader is Season V WPT Player of the Year J.C. Tran with 3,061,000. Day 4 begins tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:00 noon PDT, when they will play down to the six-handed televised WPT Final Table.

Here are the official seating assignments and chip counts, followed by the remaining prizepool:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.  J.C. Tran  –  3,061,000  (191 bb)
Seat 2.  Ben Nguyen  –  1,273,000  (80 bb)
Seat 3.  Alex Greenblatt  –  1,310,000  (82 bb)
Seat 4.  Paul Balzano  –  330,000  (21 bb)
Seat 5.  Allan Le  –  182,000  (11 bb)
Seat 6.  Mike Heshmati  –  965,000  (60 bb)
Seat 7.  Art Papazyan  –  808,000  (51 bb)
Seat 8.  Oddie Dardon  –  1,116,000  (70 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Lawrence Ma  –  199,000  (12 bb)
Seat 2.  Jason Les  –  466,000  (29 bb)
Seat 3.  Marvin Rettenmaier  –  628,000  (39 bb)
Seat 4.  Adam Swan  –  1,636,000  (102 bb)
Seat 5.  Arkadi Onikoul  –  323,000  (20 bb)
Seat 6.  David Liu  –  243,000  (15 bb)
Seat 7.  Garrett Greer  –  360,000  (23 bb)
Seat 8.  Phil Hellmuth  –  790,000  (49 bb)

TABLE 3
Seat 1.  Steven Tabb  –  2,128,000  (133 bb)
Seat 2.  David “ODB” Baker  –  1,675,000  (105 bb)
Seat 3.  Jared Griener  –  872,000  (55 bb)
Seat 4.  D.J. Alexander  –  1,258,000  (79 bb)
Seat 5.  David “Doc” Sands  –  814,000  (51 bb)
Seat 6.  Srihari Mupparaju  –  849,000  (53 bb)
Seat 7.  Tuan Le  –  1,200,000  (75 bb)
Seat 8.  Igor Zektser  –  502,000  (31 bb)

PRIZEPOOL
1st:  $668,692*
2nd:  $364,370
3rd:  $217,040
4th:  $161,490
5th:  $120,775
6th:  $91,825
7th:  $72,985
8th:  $57,190
9th:  $43,570
10th-12th:  $31,510
13th-15th:  $26,550
16th-18th:  $22,685
19th-21st:  $19,880
22nd-24th:  $17,430

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.