Political polling analyst Nate Silver reaches WSOP final table

Political polling expert Nate Silver has made a last array astatine the World Series of Poker.

Silver, who runs the website FiveThirtyEight.com, is 1 of 10 players remaining successful the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em Championship astatine the Rio. The last array begins astatine 2 p.m. Saturday and volition beryllium live-streamed starting astatine 5 p.m. connected the subscription video work PokerGO.

Silver gained fame for analyzing polls to marque predictions connected governmental races. FiveThirtyEight.com offers statistical investigation of sports and different topics successful summation to politics.

Before that, Silver played nonrecreational poker for a fewer years.

Silver comes into the last array sixth successful chips with 440,000. Leader John Racener has 1.09 million.

First spot volition person $245,680. Tenth is guaranteed $18,506.

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