Andrii Novak Leads Entering Tonight's WPT500 Final Table at partypoker
March 16, 2024
Jason Glatzer
The World Poker Tour has returned to 🌻 partypoker with the WPT500 festival
with 25 numbered events from March 7-25.
Two of the events boast tastyR$1 million
guarantees for 🌻 a buy-in ofR$530, including the WPT #01: WPT 500 on March 7-16 and the
WPT #13: WPT500 Knockout on March 🌻 15-23.
The WPT #01: WPT500 is down to a final table
of nine players with all players guaranteed at least aR$13,802 🌻 payout. Andrii Novak
will enter tonight's action in the captain's chair with the chip lead and his eyes on
theR$181,545 🌻 top prize.
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WPT500 Day 2 Action
partypoker Ambassador Kristen
Bicknell
Yesterday's WPT500 action 🌻 began with the final of nine opening flights. The
loftyR$1 million guarantee was already met before the flight began and 🌻 the field grew
to 2,420 entrants to generate aR$1,211,000 prize pool by the time late registration was
closed.
Day 2 began 🌻 shortly after the conclusion of Day 1h with 361 players advancing
to Day 2 with at least a min-cash in 🌻 their pocket worthR$1,086. Manuel Ruivo began the
day with the chip lead but was unable to parlay this into a 🌻 final table appearance
after bowing out in 63rd place forR$2,362.
Four partypoker Ambassadors advanced to Day
2 but none found their 🌻 way to the final table. Kristen Bicknell was the last Ambassador
remaining. She was eliminated in 80th place forR$2,016 with 🌻 fellow partypoker
Ambassadors Patrick Leonard (174th -R$1,366), Dzmitry Urbanovich (255th -R$1,189), and
Matthew Staples (281st -R$1,189) all finding themselves on 🌻 the rail earlier.
The day
ended after the eliminations of Daniel Smiljovic and Day 1a chip leader Roman
Matveichuk in 10th 🌻 and 11th places forR$10,323 to set-up tonight's nine-max final
table.
Andrii Novak Leads the partypoker WPT500 Final Table
The final table will 🌻 kick
off tonight at 8:05 p.m. GMT with blinds at 2,500,000/5,000,000/625,000a and increasing
slowly at every 24 minutes. The action 🌻 will be broadcasted on a small delay with hole
cards exposed on the partypoker TV Twitch and YouTube channels with 🌻 James Dempsey and
Henry Kilbane providing a blow-by-blow commentatary until a winner is crowned.
Novak
enters tonight's action with a tournament-leading 🌻 stack of 241,624,576. Meanwhile,
Lukas Wimmer (190,243,307), Stoyan Kitanov (175,842,504), Dylan Rowe (162,834,053), and
Deividas Kvaselis (110,453,978) will also start 🌻 off with stacks north of 100 million in
chips.
Don't count the players with shorter stacks out just yet as there 🌻 are many
accomplished pros in this group with Pedro Padilha Chaves (94,463,576), David
Singontiko (94,243,469), Aaron Been (84,330,612), and Brandon 🌻 Adams (47,481,660)
rounding off the final table.
Final Table Chip Counts
Place Player Country Chips Big
Blinds 1 Andrii Novak Ukraine 241,624,576 🌻 48 2 Lukas Wimmer Austria 190,243,307 38 3
Stoyan Kitanov Bulgaria 175,842,504 35 4 Dylan Glen Rowe New Zealand 162,834,053 🌻 33 5
Deividas Kzaselis Lithuania 110,453,978 22 6 Pedro Padilha Chaves Brazil 94,463,576 19
7 David Singontiko Netherlands 94,243,469 19 🌻 8 Aaron Been Mexico 84,330,612 17 9
Brandon Adams Canada 47,481,660 9 Total 1,201,517,735 240 Average 133,501,971 27
Final
Table Payouts
Place 🌻 Prize 1R$181,545 2R$123,255 3R$84,064 4R$55,719 5R$37,895 6R$28,887
7R$22,358 8R$17,716 9R$13,802
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Lead 🌻 image courtesy of the World Poker Tour
Flickr account
