The televised final table is set for the Season XIV WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star, and the only bounty remaining could make history on Friday night in San Jose.
Maria Ho enters the six-handed final table third in chips with 3.115 million. If she can navigate her way to the winner’s circle and add her name to the WPT Champions Cup, she will become the first woman to do so in an open event on the World Poker Tour.
She would also pocket the nearly $1.3 million first-place prize, earn a luxurious Hublot watch, and lock up a seat in the upcoming WPT Tournament of Champions.
Here are the official chip counts for the televised WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star final table, which begins at 4 pm PT:
Seat 1. Griffin Paul – 5,205,000 (87 bb)
Seat 2. Bryan Piccioli – 1,535,000 (26 bb)
Seat 3. Adam Geyer – 2,030,000 (34 bb)
Seat 4. Stefan Schillhabel – 8,720,000 (145 bb)
Seat 5. Maria Ho* – 3,115,000 (52 bb)
Seat 6. Andjelko Andrejevic – 1,985,000 (33 bb)
Leading the way at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star final table is Stefan Schillhabel with 8.72 million chips. If Schillhabel can go wire-to-wire at the final table, he would be the second German to win an event on the 2016 California Swing – Dietrach Fast captured more than a million dollars for his victory at Commerce just a week ago.
Griffin Paul, champion of the Season XIII WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, commands the second-largest stack (5.205 million chips), and can become the 26th player to win multiple titles on the World Poker Tour.
Andjelko Andrejevic, who already has third and seventh-place finishes at WPT Maryland Live and WPT Borgata Poker Open respectively this season, has 1.985 million chips and can overtake Mike Shariati as the leader in the Season XIV Hublot WPT Player of the Year race with a win. He can tie Shariati with a runner-up finish.
Short stacks Bryan Picciolo (1.535 million) and Adam Geyer (2.03 million) both have multiple WPT cashes, and look to become first-time champions on the World Poker Tour.
Be sure to return to WPT.com at 4 pm PT for complete hand-for-hand coverage of all the action at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star final table.
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