Jul 23, 2017  Scott Blumstein dominated the final table from start to finish and finally took out Dan Ott early Sunday to win the 2017 World Series of Poker main event, taking home an $8.15 million purse.

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Only two more eliminations are needed before the 2017 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event champion is decided. From a field of 7,221 entries, there are now only three players remaining with a shot at the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $8,150,000.

The runaway chip leader is Scott Blumstein with 226,450,000, or just under two-thirds of the chips in play. The 25-year-old poker pro from New Jersey came into the final table as the chip leader and has now ended each of the first two nights of play on top of the leaderboard. By the end of play on Saturday, July 21 there will be no more chip leader, only a champion.

Joining Blumstein in the final three are Pennsylvania-based Daniel Ott and France’s Benjamin Pollak. Ott, a 25-year-old poker pro, will return for the final day of the main event in second chip position with 88,375,000. Pollak, a 34-year-old poker pro, rounds out the field with 45,850,000.

Blumstein entered the second day of the final table with roughly half of the chips in play, and although he increased his stack by nearly 50 million, he only scored one knockout from the four eliminations that took place.

The first player to hit the rail was 42-year-old Damian Salas, the first player ever from Argentina to make the main event final table. Daniel Ott raised and Salas called from the big blind. The flop brought the A32 and Salas checked. Ott moved all-in and Salas called instantly with the A10 for top pair. Ott held the 44 and was drawing to a straight or a set. The turn brought the 6 and the river the 5 to give Ott the straight and send Salas to the rail in seventh place, earning $1,425,000.

Ott also scored the second knockout of the night. Action folded to Bryan Piccioli in the small blind and he moved all-in for less than ten big blinds. Ott snap-called with the KK. The board improved neither player and the 28-year-old poker pro was awarded $1,675,000 for his deep run.

Blumstein was still well out in the lead at that point, and he only cemented his advantage further when he scored the next knockout. Blumstein raised to 4.2 million from the button and 2009 WSOP main event third place finisher Antoine Saout called from the small blind.

The J76 hit the flop and Saout checked. Blumstein checked behind and the 4 hit the turn.

Saout check-called a 5.6 million bet from Saout and the J completed the board. Saout checked yet again and Blumstein moved all in. Saout, who sat with 26.1 million, thought it over for a while before electing to call for his tournament life with the KJ for trip jacks, only to have Blumstein show him the 53 for a turned straight.

With that Blumstein surpassed the 200,000,000 mark while Saout was sent to the rail in fifth place with $2,000,000 for his second main event final-table finish.

Play ended for the night following the elimination of fan-favorite John Hesp. The 64-year-old father of four and grandfather to seven held the chip lead at one point during the first day of the final table, but his top two pair ran into the top set of Blumstein to see him fall to one of the short stacks.

Hesp was able to find a double up when his AA held up against Pollak’s AK, but after that ray of hope he was never able to build any momentum and he soon found himself as the shortest stack.

His stack was ground down to just under 12 million by the time his final hand arose. It folded to Hesp and he moved all-in from the cutoff and Benjamin Pollak moved all-in from the small blind. Nobody else called and Hesp revealed the 97. Pollak was ahead with the AJ and remained in the lead after a K10644 runout. With that Hesp was sent to the rail in fourth place, earning $2,600,000 for his incredible run in the biggest poker tournament in the world.

With Hesp’s elimination the remaining players guaranteed themselves paydays of at least $3,500,000. The final three will return to the Rio at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday with an hour and a half remaining in Level 41 and blinds of 1,000,000-2,000,000 with an ante of 300,000.

Here is a look at the chip counts for the final three:

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Here are the results from the final table so far:

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The 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. is down to just nine players. The final nine players are all guaranteed $1 million, but of course, each player has their eye on the first place prize of $10 million. The remaining players will have Saturday, July 13th as a day of rest and will return on Sunday, July 14th to play from 9 down to 6 players live on TV.
Yesterday, Robert Heidorn was eliminated in 10th place. Alex Livingston busted the final table bubble boy.
Coming into the final 9 as a massive chip leader is Hossein Ensan. He won of the EPT Prague Main Event back in 2015 and has over $2.6 million in live tournament cashes.
Garry Gates comes to the final table with the second biggest stack of 99.3 million in chips. Garry used to work at PokerNews and now works for PokerStars Live Events and VIP Services.
Zhen Cai comes into the final table 3rd in chips with 60.6 million. Cai primarily plays pot-limit Omaha cash, but his friend and poker coach, Tony Miles, knows a thing or two about deep WSOP Main Event runs. If you’ve been following the WSOP coverage, you may know Cai as the player who knocked out Richard Seymour.
Kevin Maahs will come to the final table 4th in chips with 43 million. The Chicago native played smaller tournaments in the midwest, but this year, he decided to come to to Vegas and play his first World Series of Poker Main Event. He max late registered the Main Event by buying in on Day 2.
Milos Skrbic heads into tomorrow 7th in chips with just over 23 big blinds. The Serbian pro recently made the switch from playing high stakes cash games to playing tournaments. December of last year, he got one of his biggest cashes losing heads up to Dylan Linde in the $10,000 WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic.
Alex Livingston will head into the final table 5th in chips with 37.8 million. Livingston finished 13th in the 2013 WSOP Main Event.
6th in chips is well known high stakes pro Dario Sammartino. He has over $8 million in live tournament cashes and is considered one of the best players in the world. Watch to hear Sarah explain what dealer error caused Sammartino to lose an over 60 big blind pot late into yesterday's play.
Nick Marchington comes to the final table last in chips with 20 big blinds. This is the first time Marchington is playing the Main Event because he is just 21 years old. If Marchington wis, he would be the youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event.
Timothy Su is second to last in chips. Su considers himself a mostly recreational poker player who makes his living as a software engineer. It was Su who now famously busted Sam Greenwood from the Main Event.

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