After a day of rest for the nine remaining hopefuls, the final table of the record-breaking $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is upon us.
All remaining players aside from Toby Lewis, arguably the most accomplished player left in the field, are guaranteed their largest-ever poker payday with a minimum of $900,000 locked up for the ninth-place finisher. Should they make a pay jump, all players will receive at least seven figures with a record eight-figure of score of $12,100,000 up top for the winner.
2023 WSOP Main Event Final Table
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven Jones | United States | 90,300,000 | 75 | |
| 2 | Juan Maceiras | Spain | 68,000,000 | 57 | |
| 3 | Daniel Holzner | Italy | 31,900,000 | 27 | |
| 4 | Adam Walton | United States | 143,800,000 | 120 | |
| 5 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | 50,700,000 | 42 | |
| 6 | Dean Hutchison | United Kingdom | 41,700,000 | 35 | |
| 7 | Toby Lewis | United Kingdom | 19,800,000 | 17 | |
| 8 | Daniel Weinman | United States | 81,700,000 | 68 | |
| 9 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | 74,600,000 | 62 |
Seattle resident turned Las Vegas transplant Adam Walton is in familiar territory as he finished 42nd in the 2021 WSOP Main Event and now finds himself as chip leader at his first WSOP final table. Arizona's Steven Jones is next in the counts and behind him is a pair of bracelet winners in Germany's Jan-Peter Jachtmann and Georgia's Daniel Weinman, who will likely have the support of his good friends and recent six-time bracelet winners Shaun Deeb and Josh Arieh.
Day 7 chip leader Juan Maceiras dipped to the middle of the counts on Day 8 but now looks to add to his family's poker legacy that started with his father, Juan Antonio "Vietcong01" Maceiras, after a day of rest that may have involved some artillery.
"I might go shooting, I don’t know," he told PokerNews on Day 8 when asked what he was going to do on his off day. "I don’t know what to do, we’ll see. But no poker, for sure.”
Rounding out the counts are Ukraine's Ruslan Prydryk, Scottland's Dean Hutchison and Italy's Daniel Holzner, who perhaps has the most interesting Main Event story as he was staked by his friends and family as a birthday gift. A big party for them is surely in the works as the Italian farmer will likely return to the farm with seven figures.
Action on Day 9 will pick up at 1:30 p.m. local time on Level 38 with blinds of 600,000/1,200,000/1,200,000 with 1:49:10 left in the level. PokerNews will be reporting hand-for-hand coverage on an hour-long delay to prevent any spoilers of the PokerGO stream.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team provides updates every step of the way until a champion is crowned in the record-breaking 2023 WSOP Main Event.
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