Here are the official chip counts and seating positions for the final nine players:
Seat 1. Ari Engel (Las Vegas, NV) - 1,506,000 (75 bb)
Seat 2. Oliver Entine (New York, NY) - 185,000 (9 bb)
Seat 3. Jared Jaffee (Brooklyn, NY) - 326,000 (16 bb)
Seat 4. Joseph Liberta (Berlin, NJ) - 545,000 (27 bb)
Seat 5. David Cossio (Las Vegas, NV) - 1,227,000 (61 bb)
Seat 6. Nenad Cvetkovic (Atlantic City, NJ) - 353,000 (18 bb)
Seat 7. Dorian Rios (Caracas, Venezuela) - 586,000 (29 bb)
Seat 8. Joseph Cappello (New Rochelle, NY) - 356,000 (18 bb)
Seat 9. Robert Kuhn (Barnesville, OH) - 2,326,000 (116 bb)
Robert Kuhn has a massive chip stack with more than 100 big blinds to work with, but he's facing a tough final table.
As mentioned earlier, Ari Engel is going for his ninth WSOPC Ring, which would tie him with Alexandru Masek on the all-time career leaderboard. Engel is one of the most consistently successful players in poker, with 14 live tournament victories in the past four years. Engel's biggest victory came just two months ago when he won the Aussie Millions Poker Championship for more than $1.1 million.
Jared Jaffee won a WSOP Bracelet in 2014 in $1,500 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em. Jaffee also has a WPT title on his resume, and more than $2.7 million in career live tournament earnings.
Joseph Liberta is going for his third WSOPC Ring, and he final tabled this event last season, finishing eighth.
Joseph Cappello has nearly $1.5 million in career live tournament earnings, and the two biggest victories of his career came right here in Atlantic City.
There were a total of 370 entries in this event, creating a total prizepool of $555,000. Here is the remaining prizepool at stake for the final table:
1st: $122,098
2nd: $75,452
3rd: $55,134
4th: $40.937
5th: $30,869
6th: $23,626
7th: $18,348
8th: $14,452
9th: $11,544
This final table begins tomorrow (Saturday) at 12:00 noon ET.
