Meet the Six WPT Final Tablists

Seat 1:  Griffin Paul  –  14,290,000  (143 bb)

Hometown:  Calabasas, California

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $74,616

Biggest Tournament Cash:  $25,746 in 2014 WSOP Main Event

This is the second WPT cash for Griffin Paul, who also has two WSOP cashes.

Seat 2:  Joe Ebanks  –  6,585,000  (66 bb)

Hometown:  Lubbock, Texas

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $2,392,278

Biggest Tournament Cash:  $1,158,481 for winning the bracelet in the 2011 WSOP $10,000 NLHE 6-Max event

This is the second WPT Final Table for Ebanks, who finished 3rd at WPT Bucharest in 2010. Ebanks has tournament cashes in 17 different countries around the world.

Seat 3:  Ryan Rivers  –  4,170,000  (42 bb)

Hometown:  Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $214,493

Biggest Tournament Cash:   $151,430 for finishing 3rd in the 2014 PokerStars Canada Cup

This is the second WPT cash for Rivers, and he also has a WSOP cash to his credit.

Seat 4:  Shawn Nguyen  –  3,615,000  (36 bb)

Hometown:  Born in Vietnam, Lives in West Palm Beach, Florida

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $28,078

Biggest Tournament Cash:  $12,667 for a 10th-place finish at the 2011 Isle Open Poker Championship

Nguyen is primarily a cash game player, and this is his first big buy-in tournament.

Seat 5:  Brian Green  –  5,205,000  (52 bb)

Hometown:  Arlington, Texas

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $779,873

Biggest Tournament Cash:   $122,248 for a 5th-place finish in the $2,500 NLHE Main Event of the River Poker Series

Rivers has some high-profile final table experience, with two WSOP final tables and one WPT final table (a year ago at the WPT Jacksonville bestbet Open) on his resume. Overall, he has 11 WSOP cashes in his career, and this is his fifth WPT cash.

Seat 6:  Andre Crooks  –  10,350,000  (104 bb)

Hometown:  Lake Worth, Florida

Career Live Tournament Earnings:  $75,527

Biggest Tournament Cash:  $20,900 for a 2nd-place finish in an $1,100 NLHE event here at the Seminole Hard Rock.

This is the second final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown for Crooks, as he finished fourth two weeks ago in the $350 NLHE Black-Chip Bounty event.