The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas will play down to a winner later today. Each of the remaining six players are guaranteed at least $1,001,050 in prize money, but awaiting the winner is a massive $4,136,000 first-place prize.
The road to the final table was not an easy one. Day 5 of the tournament began with 37 players and took more than 18 hours to play down to the final table of six, which will be both live-streamed and filmed for television. During that marathon, several bad beats were doled out including a brutal one that ended the run of Daniel Negreanu in 17th place.