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15 years ago

Galen Hall leads final 15 at WPT Championship

Galen Hall, winner of the January PokerStars PCA tournament, leads with 15 players remaining in the season-ending $25k buy-in World Poker Tour World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prominent players still vying for the title and $1.6 million first place prize include last year's champion David Williams who is the short stack, Daniel Alaei, Scott Seiver, Shannon Shorr, Nenad Medic and Ashton "the ASHMAN103" Griffin.

The money bubble burst at 27 players on Tuesday with Christian Harder going out in 17th and Josh Bergman in 16th to end the day. Previous chip leader Abe Mosseri was eliminated in 19th for $37,167. Haralabos Voulgaris was out in 21st, Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliot in 22nd and Doyle Brunson in 24th.

Final 15 players:

1. Galen Hall - 3,438,000 (143 BBs)
2. Sam El Sayed - 2,774,000 (115 BBs)
3. Roger Teska - 2,194,000 (91 BBs)
4. Scott Seiver - 2,001,000 (83 BBs)
5. Shannon Shorr - 1,786,000 (74 BBs)
6. Steven Kelly - 1,674,000 (69 BBs)
7. Tony Gargano - 1,577,000 (65 BBs)
8. Ashton Griffin - 1,474,000 (61 BBs)
9. Nenad Medic - 1,282,000 (53 BBs)
10. Justin Young - 1,249,000 (52 BBs)
11. Freddy Bonyadi - 700,000 (29 BBs)
12. David Peters - 633,000 (26 BBs)
13. Daniel Alaei - 530,000 (22 BBs)
14. Will Failla - 393,000 (16 BBs)
15. David Williams - 318,000 (13 BBs)

The prizepool reached $5,309,500 from the 220 entrants, with remaining players seeing...

1 $1,618,344
2 $1,061,900
3 $589,355
4 $371,665
5 $278,749
6 $225,654
7 $172,559
8 $119,464
9 $84,952
10 $63,714
13 – 15 $53,095

Play resumes at 12pm PT on Wednesday to play down to the final table.

This year's WPT Championship is a seven-day event with the final table taking place May 20 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.