High-stakes standout chip leader for WSOP Main Event final table

The last array of the World Series of Poker Main Event is set.

Koray Aldemir of Austria has the spot pb with 9 players remaining successful the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship.

Demosthenes Kiriopoulos was the last elimination aboriginal Tuesday astatine the Rio, earning $585,000.

Every subordinate astatine the last array volition gain astatine slightest $1 million. The victor gets $8 million. The lawsuit had 6,650 entrants.

Aldemir has much than $12 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database. He has much than $3 cardinal successful net successful WSOP events, but has ne'er won a bracelet. (The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tourney victories.)

On the flip side, George Holmes is 2nd successful chips but has lone 1 erstwhile tourney cash, finishing 213th for $50,855 successful the 2019 Main Event.

Here are the last 9 players, successful spot order:

— Koray Aldemir, Austria, 140 million

— George Holmes, U.S., 83.7 million

— Alejandro Lococo, Argentina, 46.8 million

— Joshua Remitio, U.S., 40 million

— Jack Oliver, United Kingdom, 30.4 million

— Ozgur Secilmis, Turkey, 24.5 million

— Hye Park, U.S., 13.5 million

— Chase Bianchi, U.S., 12.1 million

— Jareth East, United Kingdom, 8.3 million.

Play ended conscionable aft 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

In the last hand, a short-stacked Kiriopoulos was all-in preflop with ace-three of spades against Aldemir’s queen-ten. Aldemir deed a queen connected the flop and dodged Kiriopoulos’ flush gully to nonstop him packing.

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