On Thursday night, the final table of the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship was set. Just six players remained from the record-breaking 1,312-entry field, and Nathan Bjerno led the way in enormous fashion with a stack of 12.415 million in chips.
Bjerno, who finished Day 4 with 31.6 percent of the chips in play, bagged up nearly double his closest competitor, Jia Liu with a stack of 6.815 million.
The final six players have locked up a payday of $184,787, but it’s the $892,433 first-place prize and the World Poker Tour title that they’ll all be gunning for at Friday’s final table.
Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship Final Table
Seat 1: Jia Liu – 6,815,000 (85 bb)
Seat 2: Tyler Kenney – 6,030,000 (75 bb)
Seat 3: Nathan Bjerno – 12,415,000 (155 bb)
Seat 4: Nicholas Immekus – 3,550,000 (44 bb)
Seat 5: Richard Foster – 5,130,000 (64 bb)
Seat 6: Daniel Weinman – 5,410,000 (68 bb)
When Day 4 began, 34 players remained in the field, with Charles Coates in front. WPT Champions Club members Tony Ruberto, Anthony Gregg, Asher Conniff, and Olivier Busquet also remained, and of that bunch, Busquet was the first to fall.
Busquet hit the rail in 33rd place when his 
couldn’t win a flip against the 
of Blake Bohn, and he took home $15,749. After that, the next WPT Champions Club member to fall was Conniff in 21st place when, like Busquet, he couldn’t win a flip for his tournament life. For Conniff, it was the 
that couldn’t come from behind against the 
of Adnan Mohammad. Conniff earned $18,605.
Gregg was the next of the WPT Champions Club members to fall when he was bounced out the door in 14th place for $33,598, and then the field worked its way down to 11 players as the dinner break approached.
On the final hand before the remaining field went on the dinner break, in Level 27 with the blinds at 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante, Richard Foster got involved in the biggest pot of the tournament up until that point against Bohn, who was the leader at the time.
Foster limped in from the small blind, Bohn raised to 450,000 out of the big blind, and then Foster jammed for 3.46 million. Bohn called with the 
, but his hand couldn’t hold up against the 
of Foster. The flop, turn, and river ran out 
, and the pot was shipped to Foster.
Coates, who began the day with the lead, fell in 10th place for a score of $49,767, and then Ruberto, the final WPT Champions Club member left, fell in ninth place for $75,595.
Bohn’s tournament came to an end in eighth place for $104,993. Despite still being third in chips after the huge clash with Coates, nothing went Bohn’s way after that clash to cause his demise.
Bohn busted to Bjerno, which helped the latter secure such a big stack going into the final day. With the blinds at 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante in Level 29, Bohn raised to 175,000 from early position, and Bjerno reraised to 530,000 out of the small blind. Bohn moved all in for 2.78 million, and Bjerno called with pocket tens. Bohn held the 
, but once again he couldn’t win with big slick. This time the board ran out 
.
To end the night, Thomas Penza was eliminated in seventh place for $142,748, and that set the official WPT final table for the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship.
The Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship final table will commence on Friday, February 3, 2017, at 2 p.m. ET. For coverage, you can follow along at WPT.com, or you can check out the live stream of the event starting at 2:30 p.m. ET on the WPT Twitch channel.