WSOP 2015 Main Event - Thomas Kearney leads final 27, Negreanu, Holz and Morgenstern still alive

69 players returned for Day 6 of the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Main Event, the chipleader was Poker Hall of Fame nominee Pierre Neuville, but Daniel Negreanu, Steve Gross, Toby Lewis, Fedor ''CrownUpGuy'' Holz, Justin Bonomo, Brian Hastings and Max Steinberg were also still in. By the end of the day the field dwindled to 27 players, the biggest stack belongs to Thomas Kearney and several of the big names also advanced.

On Day 6 of the Main Event the plan was to play five blind levels and reach the final three tables and plenty of big names were eliminated during the day.
Shortstack Justin Bonomo busted early in the day with A-T against George McDonald' 9-9, former chipleader Amar Anand was eliminated in 55th place and Toby Lewis (53rd, $137,300), former November Niner Matt Jarvis (51st, $137,300), Jeff Gross (47th, $137,300) and the last woman standing, Kelly Minkin (29th, $211,000) also couldn't make it to Day 6.

Daniel Negreanu had a good day however, he chipped up steadily during the day and busted Wasim Ahmar during the final few hands (8-8 vs. 2-2 preflop all-in) to finish on 9th place of the chipcount.

On Tuesday the final 27 players will play down to the 9-handed final table (November Nine), the biggest stack belongs to Thomas Kearney and there are several noteables in the field in addition to Negreanu, Neuville and Steinberg.

Anton Morgenstern has already made Day 6 of the Main Event just two years ago, but had one of the most famous blowups in Main Event history. Morgenstern started Day 6 with a huge, 29 million chip stack (for comparison, there was only one bigger stack by the time the final table was set) with 24 players left but he kept losing huge pots and eventually busted in 20th place (check out the video from around 12 minutes). He said he learned from the experience and will try to keep his cool this time around.

Fedor Holz, the winner of the 2014 World Championship of Online Poker is still alive aswell, if he won the Main Event he would become the first ever live/online poker world champion.

Chipcount

1. Thomas Kearney - 14.400.000
2. Matt Guan - 14.230.000
3. Erasmus Morfe - 12.085.000
4. Joseph McKeehen - 11.975.000
5. Mario Sequeira - 11.685.000
6. David Stefanski - 11.485.000
7. Alexander Turyansky - 10.785.000
8. Zvi Stern - 9.940.000
9. Daniel Negreanu - 8.495.000
10. Justin Schwartz - 7.510.000
11. Patrick Chan - 7.400.000
12. Anton Morgenstern - 6.955.000
13. Thomas Cannuli - 6.220.000
14. John Allan Hinds - 6.210.000
15. Pierre Neuville - 6.000.000
16. Chad Power - 5.300.000
17. Blake Bohn - 5.000.000
18. Federico Butteroni - 4.980.000
19. Fedor Holz - 4.645.000
20. Neil Blumenfield - 4.315.000
21. Christoph Brand - 4.120.000
22. Joshua Beckley - 3.745.000
23. James Magner - 3.500.000
24. Max Steinberg - 3.290.000
25. Kilian Kramer - 3.175.000
26. George McDonald - 2.875.000
27. David Peters  - 2.100.000

Payouts

1. $7.680.021
2. $4.469.171
3. $3.359.103
4. $2.638.558
5. $1.910.971
6. $1.440.072
7. $1.203.193
8. $1.097.009
9. $1.001.020
10. $756.897
11-12. $526.778
13-15. $411.453
16-18. $325.034
19-27. $262.574
28-36. $211.821
37-45. $164.086
46-54. $137.300
55-63. $113.764
64-72. $96.445
73-81. $79.668
82-90. $68.624
91-99. $55.649
100-162. $46.890
163-225. $40.433
226-288. $34.157
289-351. $29.329
352-414. $24.622
415-477. $21.786
478-549. $19.500
550-648. $17.282
649-1000. $15.000