The 54th World Series of Poker is now in full swing in Las Vegas. Taking center stage for our first report is Poker Academy’s ambassador Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet, who will attempt to win his first gold bracelet today. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that he makes it happen!
Jonathan is one of the 1,735 entrants (including re-entries) participating in #44 $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event. After three days of intense action, 15 players have made it through to the final day. Van Fleet currently holds the 9th largest stack with 3.8 million, while Aram Oganyan is leading with a total of 9.9 million.
| # | Player | Country | Chip Count | #BB |
| 1 | Aram Oganyan | USA | 9,900,000 | 50 |
| 2 | Shannon Shorr | USA | 8,750,000 | 44 |
| 3 | Yang Zhang | China | 6,875,000 | 34 |
| 4 | Aleks Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 6,500,000 | 33 |
| 5 | Levente Szabo | Hungary | 5,150,000 | 33 |
| 6 | John Marino | USA | 5,100,000 | 26 |
| 7 | Ankush Mandavia | USA | 4,800,000 | 24 |
| 8 | Kartik Ved | India | 4,500,000 | 23 |
| 9 | Jon Van Fleet | USA | 3,800,000 | 19 |
| 10 | Alex Lynskey | Australia | 3,650,000 | 18 |
| 11 | Aliaksandr Shylko | Belarus | 2,975,000 | 15 |
| 12 | Aliaksandr Hirs | Belarus | 2,975,000 | 15 |
| 13 | Samy Boujmala | France | 2,525,000 | 13 |
| 14 | Frederic Normand | Canada | 2,000,000 | 10 |
| 15 | Justin Chu | Taiwan | 1,175,000 | 6 |
The prize pool for this event is $4,632,450. A total of 261 players have reached the ITM stage. Every remaining player will receive a minimum payout of $30,873. The champion will earn an astounding $717,879 and a priceless gold bracelet.
| Place | Prize (USD) |
| 1 | $717,879 |
| 2 | $443,680 |
| 3 | $323,610 |
| 4 | $238,546 |
| 5 | $177,732 |
| 6 | $133,862 |
| 7 | $101,928 |
| 8 | $78,475 |
| 9 | $61,098 |
Below, you can see a pivotal hand of this event for the “apestyles”. In the KK vs AQ confrontation on a Q-high board Jonathan scooped a pot worth of 3.6 mln in chips. Later he added 200k to finish the day.
Action resumes at 11 a.m. local time with blinds set to 100,000/200,000 and a big blind ante of 200,000. Play will continue throughout the day until one player is declared the winner. Live text coverage is provided by Pokernews.com. You can find it here.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the Poker Academy ambassador. We dream of writing about his historic WSOP win sometime tomorrow. Go, get’em Jon!