The 2024 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em important occasion drew 1,869 entries. That meant that the $3 million greenback assure was practically doubled, with $5,980,800 to be awarded amongst the highest 234 finishers. After two beginning flights and three extra days of event motion, a stacked closing desk of six contenders is all that is still.
The closing tablists have all locked up a minimum of $176,000 by making it this far, with the eventual champion set so as to add their identify to the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup. They may even stroll away with $839,300 in prize cash.
Action will resume in 5 weeks, with the televised WPT closing desk schedule to happen at May twenty ninth on the HyperX Arena positioned in Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The chip chief heading into the ultimate desk is Dylan Smith with 28,400,000 (142 bb). The Florida resident has extra $2 million in profession event earnings to his identify, and might be trying so as to add to that complete in a significant manner with a robust displaying on this occasion.
“This actual same tournament last year, I got 12th. So that was kind of heartbreaking,” Smith informed WPT reporters after the ultimate desk was set. “I’ve been trying to get myself onto a WPT final table for a while now. So yeah, I’m excited.”
The second-largest stack belongs to 15-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner Joshua Reichard. The Wisconsin resident has collected $3,098,248 in lifetime earnings, with the bulk coming from his success on the WSOPC scene. He is at present sitting in a three-way tie for second on that tour’s title leaderboard, with solely 17-time ring winner Ari Engel having secured extra victories. Reichard’s 20,575,000 might be good for 103 large blinds when play resumes.
Landon Tice sits in third chip place with 13,700,000 (69 large blinds). The Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian champion and Only Friends podcast co-host would safe a career-high event rating by making it to the highest 5 on this occasion. The Las Vegas resident already has greater than $1.1 million in profession earnings to his identify. This deep run comes simply earlier than he’s set to face off against Jeremy Becker in a widely-discussed bet that may run in the course of the WSOP.
Reigning Borgata Winter Poker Open important occasion winner Alex Queen kicked off 2024 with the most important payday of his profession, taking down the aforementioned occasion in Atlantic City for $613,063. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania resident has an opportunity to set a brand new private greatest on this occasion. He comes into the ultimate desk with 13,450,000 (67 large blinds), placing his in a digital tie with Tice for third.
Two-time bracelet winner and present prime Card Player Player of the Year race contender Jesse Lonis just isn’t too far behind Queen, along with his 12,350,000 good for 62 large blinds. Lonis has greater than $8.7 million in lifetime cashes beneath his belt, together with 12 final-table finishes already this 12 months. He already sits in second place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker, and will very properly take a giant lead in rankings relying on how this closing desk shakes out.
The brief stack is Aaron Kupin with 4,925,000 (25 bb). The Boca Raton resident has practically $600,000 in profession earnings, along with his prior prime rating being a seventh-place end within the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship on the 2021 WSOP for $60,040.
Play concluded with 8:10 remaining in Level 30, with blinds at 100,000-200,000 with a giant blind ante of 200,000. Bracelet winner and WPT champion Dylan Linde fell in seventh place, guaranteeing {that a} first-time WPT winner could be topped on this occasion. In addition to Linde, different large names that ran deep on this event included Mukul Pahuja (nineteenth(, Antony Spinella (twenty first), Michael Rocco (thirtieth), and Josh Arieh (forty fourth).
Here is a take a look at the chip counts for the ultimate six:
| Place | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Dylan Smith | 28,400,000 |
| 2 | Josh Reichard | 20,575,000 |
| 3 | Landon Tice | 13,700,000 |
| 4 | Alex Queen | 13,450,000 |
| 5 | Jesse Lonis | 12,350,000 |
| 6 | Aaron Kupin | 4,925,000 |
The remaining payouts are as follows:
| Place | Payouts |
| 1 | $839,300 |
| 2 | $550,000 |
| 3 | $410,000 |
| 4 | $305,000 |
| 5 | $230,000 |
| 6 | $176,000 |
Photo credit: Joe Giron / WPT.
