He’s second all-time on the cashes list at the Venetian Resort, and on Tuesday, Ben Palmer (pictured) enters WPT at Venetian Day 4 with the chip lead. Only nine players remain from a Day 3 field that started with 73 and Palmer is on top with 5.435 million. Right behind Palmer is 2013 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jay Farber, who sits with 4.56 million.
Along the way on Day 3, plenty of WPT title hopefuls had their dreams broken along the way. Season XVII WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic winner Dylan Linde had a chance to pass Erkut Yilmaz for the points lead in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year race but was cut down in 73rd place. Marc Macdonnell (69th place), Shankar Pillai (68th place), Maxx Coleman (67th place), and Amit Makhija (65th place), were among the players who didn’t make it out of the first level of play.
WPT Commentator Tony Dunst departed in 55th place, earning his first cash of Season XVII.
WPT DeepStacks champion Maria Ho (53rd place), former WPT Player of the Year Matt Salsberg (51st place), and Season XV Player of the Year Ben Zamani (38th place) are some of the other notables who made their charge but came up short.
Tony Tran (34th place), Ravi Raghavan (24th place), Freddy Deeb (23rd place), Matthew Waxman (22nd place), Nam Le (17th place), and David Williams (14th place) were the last of the WPT Champions Club members who were looking to enter the winner’s circle once more. Williams’ run marked his first WPT cash since the Season XV WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star and made waves on social media during the event.
If you like that pic of a million…#howbouttwo#WPTVenetian @WPT pic.twitter.com/KLxT0aeQMa
— David Williams (@dwpoker) March 25, 2019
WPT at Venetian Unofficial Final Table
Seat 1: Skip Wilson – 1,380,000
Seat 2: Jay Farber – 4,690,000
Seat 3: Sean Yu – 2,930,000
Seat 4: Danny Qutami – 2,205,000
Seat 5: Tony Gargano – 2,740,000
Seat 6: Will Givens – 4,045,000
Seat 7: Orlando Barrera – 4,115,000
Seat 8: Ben Palmer – 5,460,000
Seat 9: Mark Ioli – 1,660,000
The WPT at Venetian final table features players well-versed with WPT success, including WPT final tablists Skip Wilson, Danny Qutami, Tony Gargano, and Will Givens. Givens can jump up to fourth place in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year standings with a win at Venetian. Palmer almost made his first career WPT final table last season but fell in seventh place at the WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship. Qutami placed second in that event.
Also involved is Sean Yu, who won the WPT500 Las Vegas title in 2014. A win for Yu would make him the first player to win a WPT500 and WPT Main Tour event.
Play starts at 12 p.m. at Venetian and the latest WPT Champion will be crowned. Stay tuned to WPT.com for the final day of action from Las Vegas.
Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive
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