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The record-breaking 2024 WSOP Main Event was set on Sunday in Las Vegas, and just nine players remain from the 10,112-player field. The remaining nine players are each guaranteed $1,000,000, but all have their sights set on the enormous $10,000,000 first-place prize. Leading the way is Jordan Griff.
The 2024 WSOP Main Event can be watched live and on-demand on PokerGO.com. The final table will play out across two days, July 16-17, 2024.
Let's look at who made the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table.
Boris Angelov hails from Bulgaria and is a 27-year-old professional poker player. His largest career score prior to this run to the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table run is a $664,000 payday from a second-place finish in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event earlier this year.
It was almost 10 years ago that Angelov got his start playing poker in €2 sit-n-go tournaments with his friends when he was 18 years old.
Angelov has been playing poker professionally since 2016, but he’s not just a poker player. Angelov is also currently working on his thesis in order to obtain his bachelor’s degree.
Frenchman Malo Latinois is 28 years old and now a professional poker player. Previously, Latinois was an energy consultant. Prior to embarking on a poker career, Latinois built a strong educational foundation for his future by earning an engineering degree from the Grenoble Institute of Technology.
Further, Latinois has a master's degree in business management and enterprise administration from Grenoble IAE as part of a double-degree program, and also spent time as an exchange student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Transitioning to poker, Latinois applied his analytical skills and strategic mindset to help mold his game. He came into the 2024 WSOP Main Event with $96,000 in career live tournament winnings and this is his first World Series of Poker cash.
Born in California, Brian Kim now resides in Sydney, Australia. He’s a professional poker player who had a deep run in the WSOP Main Event not long ago. In 2022, Kim placed 23rd for $323,100 and feels more prepared this time around having the experience of that run under his belt.
Formerly a high-stakes cash game player, Kim has transitioned to tournaments and been playing the high-stakes circuit for the last two or three years, competing in some of the largest events in the world, including at the WSOP, PGT, and Triton. Although he’s had numerous six-figure scores and came into this event with more than $7,300,000 in live tournament winnings, reaching the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table has earned Kim the first seven-figure score of his career.
Widely considered the best online tournament player of all time, Niklas Astedt is having the live tournament run every poker player dreams of. In the online world, the man known as “Lena900” has amassed more than $48,000,000 in winnings and has often been ranked the No. 1 online poker player in the world.
Astedt is 33 years old out of Gothenburg, Sweden. He’s been married for three years, loves to travel, and considers himself a foodie. He’s been playing poker since the early 2000s, quitting school two years before graduating to pursue the game full time.
A longtime poker professional, Joe Serock has paid his dues on the felt for many years and is now playing for the biggest score of his long career. He began playing in 2004 after watching televised WSOP coverage, and now he’ll be front and center of the WSOP coverage for the Main Event final table.
Serock dove head first into poker, spending all his time playing the game, reading books about it, and engaging in different poker forums, all with the goal of trying to improve. He also said that poker served as a bit of a revelation for him after he was depressed during his high school years.
Serock is going for his second WSOP gold bracelet after winning his first in 2023 in a $500 online pot-limit Omaha event.
Jordan Griff was all in and needing one of the two remaining queens on one of the first hands of Day 8. The river delivered to save Griff from elimination and then he went on the run of a lifetime, bagging up the chip lead for the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table.
Entering this event, the 30-year-old supply chain manager had $47,000 in live tournament winnings, with $11,000 of that coming from WSOP cashes. With a guaranteed $1,000,000 score for reaching the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table, Griff is blowing any past poker result he’s had out of the water.
Griff began playing poker in 2015 and started with $1-2 no-limit hold’em cash games in college - he attended Arizona State University. Griff lists his biggest poker strengths as his abilities to understand his table image and play off the table dynamics.
Jonathan Tamayo has been in poker for many years, and now the 38-year-old professional player has reached poker’s pinnacle, the WSOP Main Event final table. Tamayo came into this event with $2,300,000 in live tournament earnings and several six-figure scores, but he’s never had a seven-figure score until now. Notably, Tamayo finished 21st in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for $352,000.
Tamayo credits the only tournament streets as the place where his game was forged. He’s spent a significant time playing at Turning Stone Casino during his time attending Cornell University, where he majored in hotel management.
These days, Tamayo mostly plays around his home in Houston, Texas, but he does travel to the WSOP every year.
Spain’s Andres Gonzales is a professional poker player out of Cartagena. He’s 30 years old and making his 32nd World Series of Poker cash. His previous best WSOP finish was a third-place result from earlier this summer in the $1,500 NL Hold’em Freezeout. In that event, he took third for $201,000.
Gonzales began playing poker with friends in 2014.
Brian Kim and Jonathan Tamayo aren’t the only members of the final table ot have fun extremely deep in the WSOP Main Event before. In 2004, Jason Sagle, a professional poker player out of Ontario, Canada, placed 23rd in the WSOP Main Event for $120,000. Other big scores on his résumé include a second-place finish in a WPT event in 2006 for $600,000 and a win at the 2015 Fallsview Poker Classic for $155,000.
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Sagle grew up with the dream of becoming a police officer. After a few different career paths, Sagle found himself making a living playing poker. He’s been playing since he learned the game from his grandmother, saying, “I guess it’s in my blood.”
The 2024 WSOP Main Event attracted a field of 10,112 players, creating the largest field in WSOP Main Event history. The prize pool exceeded $90,000,000 for the second consecutive year, topping in at $94,041,600.
The top 1,517 players were set to make the money, but thanks to a double elimination on the bubble, 1,518 spots paid with the first two payouts being worth $7,500 each. Reaching the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table locked up a minimum $1,000,000 for each player, with an eight-figure score of $10,000,000 up top for the winner.
WSOP 2024 Main Event Final Table Payouts
Place | Prize |
1st | $10,000,000 |
2nd | $6,000,000 |
3rd | $4,000,000 |
4th | $3,000,000 |
5th | $2,500,000 |
6th | $2,000,000 |
7th | $1,500,000 |
8th | $1,250,000 |
9th | $1,000,000 |
The 2024 WSOP Main Event final table starts on Tuesday, July 16. The final table is planned to be played in two parts. On Tuesday, July 16, the plan is to play from nine players down to the final three or four. Those players will then return on Wednesday, July 17, to play down to a world champion. PokerGO.com will have the WSOP Main Event livestream available to watch.
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