Hands #1-4: The WPT Final Table Begins

Photo:  Final Six Players

After the elimination of Jianfeng Sun in seventh place, the tournament clock is briefly stopped for the six-handed WPT Final Table. The remaining players receive an additional five Time Chips (their last of the tournament), and then play resumes without a break.

For consistency with all other WPT events, our hand-for-hand updates will reset to Hand #1 with six players remaining.

Hand #1: A walk for Kyle Bao Diep.

Hand #2: Florent Remi raises to 200,000 in the cutoff and folds to a shove by Motoyoshi Okamura, exposing the .

Hand #3: Konstantin Held raises to 200,000 from under the gun to collect the blinds and big blind ante.

Hand #4: Amit Kaushik limps the button and Held checks his option in the big blind. Held then bets all the way for 125,000 on the flop, 200,000 on the turn and 1,000,000 on the river.

Kaushik calls the first two bets quickly, then uses three time banks on the river to make the call once more. Held flips over the for a six-high straight and further cements his lead.

Konstantin Held – 13,600,000 (136 bb)
Amit Kaushik – 5,825,000 (58 bb)

Konstantin Held