Darren Elias is now gunning for his 3rd Title – Down to 6 Players
Will this be the 3rd WPT title for Darren Elias? Darren is going to be in 2nd place as the final table begins playing. The 2016 WPT Maryland has went from a total of 554 poker players down to the final 6 players at the final playing table. Darren Elias is already a 2 time WPT winner with his wins being back to back in the year 2014 during the Borgata Championship for a total winning of $843,744.00 as well as the St. Maarten Championship for a total winning of $127,680.00, so now he is seeking to be part of that exclusive group of 3 time winners that includes Carlos Mortensen, Anthony Zinno, Gus Hansen, as well as Chino Rheem.
Darren Elias has earned himself a 2nd place seating as the final table of this poker games gets started in Maryland. This is right behind Ryan Belz who has taken the lead.The remaining players are as follows:
1st place is taken by player Ryan Belz with a total of $4,865,000.00 81, 2nd place is taken by player Darren Elias with a total of 4,515,000.00 75, 3rd place is taken by player Mario Silvestri III with a total of 2,700,000.00 45, the 4th place spot is taken by player Ben Zamani with a total of 2,075,000.00 35, the 5th place seat is taken by player Zachery Smiley with a total of 1,255,000.00 21, and almost tied comes in the 6th place seat is player Cate Hall with a total of 1,235,000.00 21.
Other players that were progressing into the disbursements, which in fact were presented into the topmost 63 finishers included players Brain Altman, Brent Roberts, Jake Schwartz, Andjelko Andrejevic, Taylor Von Kriegenberg, Ryan Riess, Kane Kalas, Brian Green as well as Aaron Mermelstein.