On Monday, the final 69 players in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event – a tournament that originally attracted 6,420 players and created a prize pool of $60,348,000 – returned to play down to the final 27.
After four and a half levels, and 42 crushed dreams, the goal was reached with Thomas "Butters" Kearney, a $1/$2 and $2/$4 regular on WSOP.com who often streams his exploits on Twitch, and his stack of 14.4 million leading the way.
"Where I’m at now, I’m happy," Kearney told PokerNews after bagging and tagging.