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If Chino Rheem wins the event, he will the join the elite club of three-time WPT winners that currently consists of Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno.
The $10,000 buy-in WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale kicked off on April 17 with 342 entries, creating a prize pool of $3,249,000.
By April 19, there were only 27 players in the hunt for the final table with two-time WPT champion Chino Rheem as the chip leader.
Plenty of big names were eliminated before the final table, including Ari Engel, David Paredes, Jon Turner, Noah Bronstein, Jonathan Little, Anthony Zinno, Dietrich Fast, Giuseppe Pantaleo and Jared Jaffee.
The 6-handed official final table was set with the elimination of Lyle Vincent. During Level 24 (20,000/40,000-5,000 ante) he shoved all-in for 350,000 from the cutoff and was called by Richard Leger.
Vincent showed 9-6 offsuit and needed plenty of help to overcome Leger's Q-Q. The board ran out A-Q-7-5-K and Vincent was gone in seventh.
Leger will start the finale as the chip leader, but he has very tough competition to face, including Chino Rheem, Bryan ''theczar19'' Piccioli and WSOPE Main Event and EPT Grand Final champion Adrian Mateos.
If Chino Rheem wins the event, he will become the fourth player ever to win three WPT titles. Currently the three-time winners are Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno.
Final table
Seat 1. Chino Rheem – 3.430.000 (86 bb)
Seat 2. Bryan Piccioli – 535.000 (13 bb)
Seat 3. Richard Leger – 4.010.000 (100 bb)
Seat 4. Adrian Mateos – 850.000 (21 bb)
Seat 5. William Benson – 2.230.000 (56 bb)
Seat 6. Aditya Prasetyo – 2.620.000 (66 bb)
Payouts
1. $705.885
2. $484.130
3. $311.305
4. $200.510
5. $154.585
6. $127.905
7. $107.370
8. $88.125
9. $69.080
10-12. $58.210
13-15. $49.640
16-18. $41.070
19-21. $33.955
22-24. $27.620
25-27. $23.865
28-36. $20.150
37-38. $16.525