The WSOP Paradise Super Main Event started with 1,978 entries chasing a share of the $50 million guarantee and now only nine remain with $6 million waiting for the winner.
Three of the remaining nine are previous WSOP champions, including Michael Addamo, who will enter the final day with the biggest stack at the table. Also chasing another bracelet are Liv Boeree and Justin Bonomo — who will try to add to his $64 million in lifetime earnings.
The rest of the field joins the pursuit of the $6 million top prize and they are all guaranteed at least $750,000 for the final table appearance. Let’s take a look at the contenders:
Seat 1: Liv Boeree – UK – 111,400,000 (37bb)
Boeree earned her first WSOP bracelet in 2017 in the $10,000 Tag Team competition with her partner Igor Kurganov and this year’s Super Main Event run will take her over $4 million in lifetime earnings, at minimum. She returns to the scene after only making sporadic appearances lately, most recently at this summer’s WSOP where she found a small cash in the $5,000 8-Max. Boeree will move to at least sixth place on the women’s all-time money list and a victory would put her in the second spot behind Vanessa Selbst.
Seat 2: Marcelo Aziz – Brazil – 105,500,000 (35bb)
Brazil’s Marcelo Aziz has already tripled his lifetime earnings of $251K and he is coming off his first recorded live victory — a win in the Progressive KO event at the Brazilian Series of Poker just last month. This is the second deep run in a major of 2024 for the Sao Paulo native after he made it all the way to 162nd in this year’s WSOP Main Event.
Seat 3: Mustapha Kanit – Italy – 141,200,000 (47bb)
Mustapha Kanit is the most accomplished player at the final table without a WSOP win, sporting over $12 million in earnings and a long resume of impressive finishes throughout Europe. The Italian pro has won on the European Poker Tour, the Italian Poker Tour, and what was formerly known as the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour, but he has yet to break through in a WSOP tournament for his first bracelet. Kanit returns in third on the leaderboard just a hair behind Christopher Nguyen.
Seat 4: Vadzim Lipauka – Belarus – 66,400,000 (22bb)
Belarusian Vadzim Lipauka enters the final table with just over $1.5 million in career earnings, according to The Hendon Mob, and he sits in 13th on his country’s all-time money list. Lipauka has wins all over the world, most recently at the Sochi Poker Festival in June of this year, and a victory in the Super Main Event would move him to third on his country’s all-time ranking behind Mikalai Vaskaboinikau and Mikita Badziakouski.
Seat 5: Justin Bonomo – United States – 63,400,000 (21bb)
Bonomo, who avoided a disqualification just before the final table, has three WSOP bracelets, the first coming in 2014 in the $1,500 6-Max and two more in 2018 in the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship and the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop. Bonomo currently claims second on the all-time money rankings and a win would vault him over $70 million lifetime — within $3 million of leader Bryn Kenney. He will have some work to do, however, as he enters the day near the bottom of the leaderboard.
Justin Bonomo can move a lot closer to Bryn Kenney on the all-time money list with a $6 million win.
Seat 6: Michael Addamo – Australia – 196,800,000 (66bb)
Australia’s Addamo has poked his head back onto the poker scene after a relatively dormant few years since an amazing WSOP summer in 2021 where he claimed two bracelets and more than $9 million. He has already cashed this series in the $100,000 Triton Main Event, his first since he closed out the 2021 WSOP with a win in the $100,000 High Roller. The four-time WSOP champion has a huge chip lead, but his unpredictable style of play should make for a wild afternoon.
Seat 7: Georg Lehmann – Germany – 48,400,000 (16bb)
Georg Lehmann enters the final table on the short stack with what may be the least amount of experience out of the final nine. The German has just over $50K in lifetime earnings, the lowest at the final table, and only 10 recorded results on The Hendon Mob. His latest finish was in the WSOP Online series in 2020, and his most recent live cash was in 2016 at EPT Barcelona. Lehmann squeaked onto the final table when Chris Moneymaker bowed out in 10th place and he will have to get moving early to make a run at the $6 million top prize.
Seat 8: Yinan Zhou – China – 88,000,000 (29bb)
China’s Yinan Zhou also enters the table with a relatively short resume of $88K in lifetime live earnings – all since 2021. A good portion of that total is from last year’s WSOP Paradise Main Event, where he finished in 28th for just over $72K. Zhou spun it up on Day 4, going from 49M to 88M in chips, and he sits firmly in the middle of the pack with a chance at a seven-figure score.
Seat 9: Christopher Nguyen – Germany – 143,100,000 (48bb)
Nguyen will start the final day in second on the leaderboard behind the surging Addamo after he turned 49M into 143M on Day 4. The German cashed earlier in the series with an 18th-place finish in the $5,300 Deepstack for $17K. He will triple his lifetime earnings (at least) with a ninth-place finish and the top prize would be his first-ever victory after only seven recorded live cashes on The Hendon Mob. Nguyen is 253rd on Germany’s all-time money list and a victory would put him on a rocket ship to 19th.
The WSOP Paradise Super Main Event final table will kick off at 12pm local time with the livestream airing one hour later on a delay. Keep it with PokerOrg’s Instant Live coverage all day long for all of the updates live from The Bahamas.
Tournament results courtesy of The Hendon Mob