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The final table bubble burst right around midnight PT at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event in Bell Gardens, California, giving six players one more nervous night as they try to win the half million dollar first prize. Josh Hale is the overwhelming chip leader with 7.325 million chips – almost 40 percent of the chips currently in play. His total is more than double the amount of anyone else at the table.
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Josh Hale is the overwhelming chip leader with 7.325 million chips – almost 40 percent of the chips currently in play. His total is more than double the amount of anyone else at the table.
This would be the win of a lifetime for Hale, who has yet to win a major live poker tournament title. According to the TheHendonMob.com tournament database, he has just six live cashes dating back to 2007 for a total of $44,300. The vast majority of that sum came from a single score: a fifth place finish in the $125 No Limit Hold’em $1,000,000 Guaranteed Event at last year’s Legends of Poker which earned him $35,000.
Hale grabbed the bulk of his chips on two hands. The first came before dinner when after a flop of J-T-8, Hale check-raised David Marshall, only to see Marshall follow-up with an all-in for another 2 million chips. Hale called, flipping over 8-8 for bottom set. Marshall was in bad shape, with just A-T for middle pair, top kicker, needing some sort of combination of running cards to avoid elimination. Two more 3’s on the turn on river were not those cards and Marshall was out of the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event in 11th place.
At that point, Josh Hale was up to 4.835 million chips.
The other big hand determined the final table’s composition. Max Steinberg raised pre-flop to 150,000, after which Jim Willerson moved all-in for 1.025 million. Hale shoved over the top of Willerson and Steinberg bowed out. Willerson had to have been loving it, as he had two black Kings, but Hale did him one better, turning over Aces. The board improved neither players hand, allowing the Aces to hold, and Willerson was sent to the rail in 7th place.
The final table has the potential to shrink rather quickly, as there will be almost an hour left with blinds and antes at 30,000/60,000/10,000 and two players – Max Steinberg and Jeff Madsen – have barely over a million chips each. Greg “FBT” Mueller and Raouf Malek, despite being way behind Hale, still have fairly comfortable stacks of 3.49 million and 3.13 million, respectively. It will take some work to catch up to the chip leader, but they also aren’t at risk of being eliminated, unless they get cold decked or make a bad move against Hale.
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The final table of the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event will commence at 4:00pm PT. Every hand will be streamed nearly live with hole cards on WPT.com with just a 30 minute delay.
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1. Josh Hale – 7,325,000
2. Greg Mueller – 3,490,000
3. Raouf Malek – 3,130,000
4. Ali Eslami – 2,900,000
5. Jeff Madsen – 1,030,000
6. Max Steinberg – 1,020,000
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| Country | Place | Prize | GPI Points | POY Points | |||
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| 10-Sep-2020 | United States | $ 250 No Limit Hold'em - SuperStack (Event #6) Venetian DeepStack Showdown, Las Vegas | 5th | $ 2,904 | 58.95 | 58.95 | |
| 23-Jun-2019 | United States | $ 800 No Limit Hold'em - Deepstack 8-Handed (Event #53) 50th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2019, Las Vegas | 506th | $ 1,281 | 24.26 | ||
| 11-Jun-2019 | United States | $ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event #28) 50th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2019, Las Vegas | 21st | $ 11,095 | 37.77 | ||
| 26-Jul-2018 | United States | $ 200 + 50 No Limit Hold'em - Quantum Card Player Poker Tour VI - CPPT, Oceanside | 93rd | $ 505 | 2.82 | ||
| 16-Jun-2018 | United States | $ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack (Event #34) 49th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2018, Las Vegas | 739th | $ 1,598 | 5.35 | ||
| 26-Apr-2018 | United States | $ 200 + 50 No Limit Hold'em - Quantum Card Player Poker Tour VI - CPPT, Oceanside | 69th | $ 610 | 3.05 | ||
| 08-Feb-2018 | United States | $ 570 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack #39 World Poker Tour - WPT L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 64th | $ 1,570 | 5.34 | ||
| 14-Dec-2017 | Uruguay | $ 550 No-Limit Hold'em - Freezeout ( Ring Event #6 ) WSOP International Circuit - WSOPC Punta del Este, Punta del Este | 7th | $ 1,530 | 4.40 | ||
| 29-Jul-2017 | United States | $ 200 + 40 No Limit Hold'em - (Event #3) World Poker Tour - WPT Legends of Poker, Los Angeles | 101st | $ 692 | |||
| 01-Jul-2017 | United States | $ 888 No Limit Hold'em - Crazy Eights (Event #60) 48th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2017, Las Vegas | 1055th | $ 1,332 | |||
| 20-Apr-2017 | United States | $ 200 + 50 No Limit Hold'em - Quantum 2017 Card Player Poker Tour - Ocean's 11, Oceanside | 19th | $ 1,885 | |||
| 07-Mar-2017 | United States | $ 580 No Limit Hold'em #3 WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles | 12th | $ 1,240 | |||
| 26-Jan-2017 | United States | $ 200 + 50 No Limit Hold'em Quantum 2017 Card Player Poker Tour - Ocean's 11, Oceanside | 31st | $ 795 | |||
| 19-Nov-2016 | United States | $ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em Big Bounties #9 LA Poker Open, Los Angeles | 2nd | $ 3,780 | |||
| 08-Sep-2016 | United States | $ 300 No Limit Hold'em - Kick Start Deep Stack (Event #1) Heartland Poker Tour - HPT Colorado, Black Hawk | 2nd | $ 24,683 | |||
| 21-Apr-2016 | United States | $ 200 + 40 No Limit Hold'em 2016 Card Player Poker Tour - Ocean's 11, Oceanside | 4th | $ 19,465 | |||
| 18-Feb-2016 | United States | $ 1,650 No Limit Hold'em Playboy #40 World Poker Tour - WPT L.A Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 54th | $ 4,350 | |||
| 05-Jun-2015 | United States | $ 400 No Limit Hold'em Phamous Poker Series - Goliath, Las Vegas | 40th | $ 838 | |||
| 29-May-2015 | United States | $ 565 No Limit Hold'em The Colossus (Event #5) 46th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2015, Las Vegas | 656th | $ 4,474 | |||
| 17-Mar-2015 | United States | $ 365 Pot Limit Omaha #11 WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles | 1st | $ 8,065 | |||
| 03-Mar-2015 | United States | $ 2,140 8 Game Mix 2015 L.A Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 4th | $ 10,640 | |||
| 03-Feb-2015 | United States | $ 240 No Limit Hold'em 2015 L.A Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 83rd | $ 1,500 | |||
| 11-Oct-2014 | United States | $ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Card Player Poker Tour Main Event Big Poker Oktober - 2014, Los Angeles | 5th | $ 32,765 | |||
| 13-May-2014 | United States | $ 570 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo 2014 California State Poker Championship, Los Angeles | 31st | $ 1,020 | |||
| 16-Feb-2014 | United States | $ 350 No Limit Hold'em - Knockout Bounty (One Day Event) World Poker Tour - WPT L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 36th | $ 540 | |||
| 14-Feb-2013 | United States | $ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack 2013 L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 3rd | $ 91,730 | |||
| 26-Jan-2013 | United States | $ 340 No Limit Hold'em 2013 L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles | 24th | $ 1,230 | |||
| 24-Aug-2012 | United States | $ 3,500 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event 2012 Legends of Poker, Los Angeles | 1st | $ 500,000 | |||
| 03-Aug-2012 | United States | $ 125 + 25 No Limit Hold'em Mega Millions V - Re-Entry 2012 Legends of Poker, Los Angeles | 80th | $ 1,500 | |||
| 03-Jan-2012 | United States | $ 200 + 35 Triple Draw/Badugi WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles | 3rd | $ 1,105 | |||
| 28-Jul-2011 | United States | $ 125 + 25 No Limit Hold'em - $1,000,000 Guaranteed Event 2011 Legends of Poker, Los Angeles | 5th | $ 35,000 | |||
| 18-Jul-2009 | United States | $ 300 + 30 No Limit Hold'em Larry Flynt Grand Slam of Poker, Gardena | 3rd | $ 2,225 | |||
| 01-Aug-2008 | United States | $ 70 + 10 No Limit Hold'em No Limit Summer Summit, El Cajon | 1st | $ 3,610 | |||
| 03-Feb-2007 | United States | $ 150 + 10 No Limit Hold'em San Diego Superbowl of Poker, El Cajon | 8th | $ 860 | |||