Meet the Final Nine
We have an eclectic group comprising tonight's final table. Here's a little more about each player thanks to our friends on the WSOP staff.
Seat 1: Barry Leventhal (565,000)
Barry Leventhal’s biggest score came in 2008 when he took seventh in the Borgata Summer Open Main event for $69,000. Less than two weeks later, the Ohioan followed up that showing with a 150th place finish in the 2008 WSOP Main Event. Since then, Leventhal has posted a series of cashes up and down the East Coast. He has around $235,000 in career tournament earnings.
Seat 2: Trevor Deeter (460,000)
Trevor Deeter is an accomplished Circuit grinder with six Circuit final tables and a ring to his credit. His ring win came earlier this season in a $365 No Limit event at Horseshoe Southern Indiana. Thanks to all his Circuit success, Deeter earned an at-large bid to the 2011 WSOP National Championship. The Philadelphia resident has over $82,000 in career tournament earnings.
Seat 3: Pete Rios (1,885,000)
Pedro "Pete" Rios final tabled a WSOP Circuit event earlier this season when he finished sixth in the Horseshoe Bossier City Main Event and he is the first player this season to make multiple Circuit Main Event final tables. Back in 2006, the Texan final tabled the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout event, taking ninth. This is Rios’ fifth cash of this Circuit season. His career earnings currently stand at $55,000.
Seat 4: Sung Kim (1,860,000)
Originally from Seoul, Korea, Sung Kim currently lives in New York. Kim has one previous WSOP Circuit cash at an event at Harrah's Atlantic City, having taken 27th in a $345 buy-in event during the 2011-12 season.
Seat 5: Aaron Overton (2,065,000)
Philly poker player Aaron Overton came close to his first Circuit Main Event final table earlier this year at Caesars Atlantic City. Unfortunately for him, it was not to be back in March as he bubbled the final table in 10th place. Overton has a chance for redemption today, not to mention a chance to add to his $150,000 in career tournament earnings.
Seat 6: Adam Teasdale (1,850,000)
Start-of-Day 3 chip leader Adam Teasdale has had a strong few weeks. Less than a month ago, he made a run in the Borgata Fall Poker Open Main Event, taking 40th place. Teasdale resides in Wisconsin and his career earnings currently stand at $11,586
Seat 7: Ed Modlin (640,000)
This marks the first cash of note for Ed Modlin, a native of North Carolina.
Seat 8: Terry Grimes (2,090,000)
This is Terry Grimes’ first WSOP-related cash and his fourth career cash overall. His biggest score came at Borgata this past September. The New Yorker took third in a $1,500 Bounty event there for almost $23,000.
Seat 9: Wade Woelfel (915,000)
A professional poker player from Minnesota, Wade Woelfel has almost $360,000 in live tournament earnings, including an eighth place finish at the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event in 2010 for $35,000, his largest live cash to date. Woelfel also has over $1.8 million in online tournament earnings.