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One of the biggest events on the annual World Poker Tour schedule reached its final table this week. The group of six players remaining in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic went home.

They will not complete the tournament until they travel to Las Vegas on April 2 to do so under lights, in front of cameras, and on the stage of the HyperX Esports Arena.

The first WPT tournament of this year – of this season, actually – with a delayed final table was the WPT Gardens Poker Championship. In early January at Gardens Casino in Los Angeles, the field of 257 thinned to six final tablists, each guaranteed at least $111,795. They will reconvene at the Luxor in Las Vegas to compete for the $554,495 first-place prize and WPT title on March 31.

Then there was the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open that took place during the last week of January. What started with 1,290 entries worked its way down to just six finalists at the Borgata in Atlantic City. At that point, they left the casino with the knowledge that they secured at least $143,264 each, but they will head to the Luxor to play for the $674,840 top prize on April 1.

LAPC: Smaller but Still Mighty

The L.A. Poker Classic Main Event at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles is one of the highlights of the annual WPT schedule. Not only is it one of the few $10K buy-in events, but it is one of the longest running events in the tour’s 18-year history. On top of that, it was a freezeout tournament with no reentries.

Players gathered there on February 29 for the $10K WPT Main Event. In fact, there were 461 of those players who entered on Day 1. And when registration finally closed on Day 2, the final numbers were in. They were lower than the previous year but still solid:

Total entries: 490 (546 last year)

Total prize pool: $4,727,550 ($5,169,270 last year)

Paid players: 62

Minimum payout: $16,905

The #WPTLAPC numbers are in! 490 players and a prize pool of $4.65 million 👍@CommerceCasino is adding $75,000 to first place making the 🏆worth $1 million along with a $15,000 seat to the WPT Tournament of Champions presented by @Baccarat Crystal👏https://t.co/FOQmsrNz1Npic.twitter.com/dUPZZcSxyB

— World Poker Tour (@WPT) March 2, 2020

Day 1 finished with just 271 players remaining and Demo Kiriopoulos in the chip lead. Day 2 pulled the field together and brought the number down to just 104. Isaac Baron was that night’s chip leader.

Getting to the Money Part

Day 3 brought those 104 players back and saw many of them quickly depart the tournament area. On the money bubble, Claude Codru ousted Jordan Cristos in 63^rd place. Barry Greenstein was then one of the first players to cash, and others who followed included Garrett Greer, Arden Cho, Jesse Sylvia, Toby Lewis, Steve Sung, Chance Kornuth, and Lee Markholt. That left 39 still in contention and Balakrishna Patur in the lead.

Ali Imsirovic was the first to leave on Day 4, taking home $24,375 for 39^th place. Donald Maloney and Danny Wong followed, as did John Hennigan, Demo Kiriopoulos, JC Tran, Blair Hinkle, Matt Giannetti, and Dylan Linde. Eleven players survived, and Isaac Baron held the chip lead.

$1 million and 6 seats at @HyperXESALV are on the line when #WPTLAPC Day 5 starts at 12:00 pm. Catch up on all the action with 4 WPT Champions remaining out of 11 players. https://t.co/FOQmsrNz1Npic.twitter.com/fNU09gz9Wi

— World Poker Tour (@WPT) March 4, 2020

Finding the Final Table

It didn’t take long for two of the shorter stacks to double through Baron. Ultimately, Baron had a tough start to the day and busted in 11^th place via Scott Hempel. And it was Hempel again who busted Kevin Eyster in 10^th place.

The final nine took their places at a single table, Daniel Strelitz eventually doubled through Hempel, but it was the latter who eliminated Charles Kassin in ninth place for $90,010. But Balakrishna Patur took a huge pot from Hempel, while Matas Cimbolas ousted Daniel Strelitz in eighth place for $113,425.

Ka Kwan Lau then doubled through Shi Chen, and Upeshka De Silva busted Chen in seventh place for $144,735.

Play then stopped with six players remaining. They were all guaranteed at least $185,330 but will head to their final table in Las Vegas on April 2 to compete for more than $1 million in first-place prize money.

The players will find these chip stacks waiting for them:

–Balakrishna Patur (6,320,000 chips)

–Matas Cimbolas (4,310,000 chips)

–James Carroll (4,125,000 chips)

–Ka Kwan Lau (2,250,000 chips)

–Scott Hempel (1,670,000 chips)

–Upeshka De Silva (930,000 chips)

New Jersey quantitative analyst Balakrishna Patur leads the #WPTLAPC final table. The @CommerceCasino 6⃣ resume play at @HyperXESALV on April 2 to play for $1 million. https://t.co/FOQmsrNz1Npic.twitter.com/TnTrPHJKfs

— World Poker Tour (@WPT) March 5, 2020

And the payouts that await the final six are as follows:

1^st place: $1,015,000

2^nd place: $600,060

3^rd place: $431,585

4^th place: $323,485

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5^th place: $243,330

6^th place: $185,330

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A total of 490 entries were made in 2020 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, creating a prize pool of $4,727,550. After five full days of tournament action, the field has been narrowed down to just six players left to battle it out for the title and the top prize of $1,000,000.

A champion won’t be decided in this event for nearly a month, as the final table doesn’t resume until 4:00 p.m. on April 2 at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. This is the third delayed final table of 2020 for the WPT, which introduced the new approach to filming their tournaments for televised broadcast in early 2019. The players that have made these delayed final tables will all have their travel accommodations and hotel stays covered by the WPT.

The chip leader heading into the final table is Balakrishna Patur with 6,320,000, which will be good for 158 big blinds when play picks up with betting limits of 20,000-40,000 and a 40,000 big blind ante. The Canadian’s largest prior live score was for $113,020, which he earned as the 11th-place finisher in the 2019 European Poker Tour Barcelona main event. The final six are all guaranteed to cash for at least $185,330, which means that Patur is in fantastic shape to dramatically increase his career live tournament earnings.

Matas Cimbolas will enter the final table in second chip position with 4,310,000 (108 big blinds). Cimbolas finished as the runner-up in this event in 2019, earning $646,930 for his strong showing in this event. The Lithuanian poker pro and 2014 partypoker WPT UK main event winner will have a chance to improve upon that finish when play resumes in April.

Hot on Cimbolas’ heels is two-time WPT champion James Carroll with 4,125,000 (103 big blinds). The 2014 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star and 2019 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown winner will be looking to become just the seventh player to win three or more main event titles on the tour.

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The next largest stack belongs to Ka Kwan Lau, whose 2,250,000 will represent 56 big blinds when cards are next in the air. The Spanish player has seven-figures in prior live tournament earnings, including $390,424 earned as the fourth-place finisher in the 2013 EPT Prague main event. Regardless of where he finishes from here on out, his payday in this event will be at least the second-largest of his career.

Scott Hempel enters the final table in fifth chip position with 1,670,000 (42 big blinds). This is by far the biggest score on the Canadian’s tournament resume, with his largest previous cash being for $20,411.

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Rounding out the final table is short stack Upeshka De Silva with 930,000 (23 big blinds). The Katy, TX resident is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, but will be looking for his first WPT title in this event.

Here is a look at chip counts of the final six players:

La Poker Classic 2019 Results

Player photo credits: Joe Giron / WPT.