{"id":1559,"date":"2012-07-17T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2012-07-17T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T01:34:13","slug":"closer-look-at-2012-wsop-main-event-final-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/closer-look-at-2012-wsop-main-event-final-table","title":{"rendered":"Closer Look at 2012 WSOP Main Event Final Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 2012 WSOP Main Event final table is set now that there are only nine players remaining in the tournament. These lucky rounders made it through a brutal tourney that began with 6,598 entrants, and everybody is guaranteed to collect at least $754,798.<\/p>\n

Of course, nobody is thinking about the ninth place prize since all eyes are on the top payout of $8.5 million. At this point, chip leader Jesse Sylvia has the best chance of winning the $8.5m, and you can take a closer look at him along with the other competitors below.<\/p>\n

2012 WSOP Main Event Final Table Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobody at this year’s final table is a huge name, but there are plenty of well-established grinders and professionals. That said, the following players should make for an interesting couple days in late October, when the final table resumes play:<\/p>\n

Jesse Sylvia, 43,875,000 chips –<\/em> Before storming onto the final table with the chip lead, Sylvia was largely unknown outside of the Vegas mid-stakes cash games scene. Excluding the Main Event, he has just under $24k in live tournament cashes.<\/p>\n

Andras Koroknai, 29,375,000 chips –<\/em> The only non-American on this final table, Koroknai primarily makes his living through online poker games. However, the Hungarian did have a huge victory at the 2010 LA Poker Classic Main Event ($1,788,040).<\/p>\n

Greg Merson, 28,725,000 chips –<\/em> Merson is a skilled online cash games pro who really busted out this year after winning the 2012 WSOP Event #57 NLHE tournament along with $1,136,197.<\/p>\n

Russell Thomas, 24,800,000 chips –<\/em> An actuary by trade, Thomas also dedicates plenty of time to the poker tables and has $126,796 in live tournament cashes.<\/p>\n

Steven Gee, 16,860,000 chips –<\/em> At 57 years old, Gee is by far the oldest player at this final table. He makes a living through live cash games in California and won a bracelet in a 2010 WSOP $1k NLHE tournament ($472,479).<\/p>\n

Michael Esposito, 16,260,000 chips –<\/em> Esposito is another amateur and his full-time job revolves around commodity trading. He does have a nice poker resume though with $172,806 in live tourney cashes.<\/p>\n

Robert Salaburu, 15,155,000 chips –<\/em> Prior to Black Friday, Salaburu made his living by playing online tournaments and cash games. He has 10 live tournament min-cashes too.<\/p>\n

Jacob Balsiger, 13,115,000 chips –<\/em> An amateur poker player\/Arizona State\u00a0University\u00a0student, Balsiger seems to have the least experience on this final table.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Ausmus, 9,805,000 chips – <\/em>Ausmus is another Las Vegas cash pro who’s venturing into the live tournament arena more these days. He cashed an incredible nine times during the 2012 WSOP.
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The 2012 WSOP Main Event final table is set now that there are only nine players remaining in the tournament. These lucky rounders made it through a brutal tourney that began with 6,598 entrants, and everybody is guaranteed to collect at least $754,798. Of course, nobody is thinking about the ninth place prize since all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[929,933,931,935,930,934,745,581,936,932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}