After eight tumultuous and exhilarating days of action, the 2024 WSOP Main Event has reached its final table. With nine to go, American Jordan Griff bagged the lead with 143.7M at the end of Day 8. The final table also includes American pro Brian Kim (94.6M), Swedish online shark Niklas 'Lena900' Astedt (94.2), Joe Serock (83.6M), Jason Sagle (67.3M), Boris Angelov (52.9M), Jonathan Tamayo (26.7M), Malo Latinois (25.5M), and Andres Gonzalez (18.3M). Action resumes on Tuesday in Las Vegas and a new champ will be crowned on Wednesday.
And then there were nine! On Day 8 of the 2024 WSOP Main Event, the field was cut in half from 18 to 9 players. With two tables remaining, Kristen Foxen and Niklas Astedt were the best two players left in the hunt for $10 million and a coveted bracelet. Four-time bracelet winner Foxen didn't make it to the dinner break after a surging Joe Serock knocked her out in 13th place.
By the time action wrapped up late on Sunday, Jordan Griff seemingly came out of nowhere to make a late run and accumulate a big stack as the chipleader despite being on the brink of elimination earlier on Sunday.
Unfortunately for Portugal's Diogo Coelho, he bubbled the final table and got sent packing in tenth place. Tough and brutal break, but that's the merciless side of poker. The poker gods can be gruel and outright nasty. Play great poker with lots of luck flowing your way for nearly eight days, and the get shanked in the gonads and kicked to the curb.
Heading into Day 8, France's Malo Latinois was the chipleader and feel-good story of the weekend. His stack came under assault on Day 8, but he managed to stay alive and advance to the final table as the second-smallest stack.
With 15 to go, Jason Sagle led with 79.4M followed by Kristen Foxen (67.1M) and Niklas Astedt (61.2M). Malo Latinois took a huge hit and slipped to 33.6M. The shorties were Jordan Griff (12.6M) and Diogo Coelho (13.3M). The final 15 were on the cusp of Level 38 with blinds at 600K/1.2M and 1.2M big bind ante.
Yegor Moroz made a final stand with pocket Jacks but was ambushed by Brian Kim's pocket Kings. The cowboys held up and Moroz was picked off in 15th place. With the big pot, Kim seized the chip lead with 88M.
Jason James' run ended in 14th place when his pocket tens were outflopped by Joe Serock's :A
. Serock flopped top two pair, which held up.
Kristen Foxen's epic run came to a disappointing halt when the last woman standing was knocked out in 13th place. Joe Serock's surge continued when he flopped top two again, but this time with 
against Foxen's 
. Foxen flopped second pair and a Broadway straight draw that never materialized. She banked $600K for 13 th place, and Serock seized the lead.
At dinner break, 12 players remained. Serock led with 134.7M and Brian Kim was second with 111.1M. They were the only two stacks north of 100M, and opened a sizable gap over Niklas Astedt in third with 63M and Jason Sagle in fourth with 58M.
The three shorties had between 14M and 15.7M, and that trio was Diogo Coelho, Andres Gonzalez, and Gabe Moura. Mal Lathois was barely above them with 31.2M.
In a battle of the blinds, Jason Sagle raised with 
from the small blind and short-stacked Gabriel Mouramade shoved with 
. Sagle called. Moura flopped middle pair and a straight draw on a board of 
, but Sagle also picked up a gutshot draw. The turn was the 
and Sagle improved to a straight. Moura still had outs for a high straight but whiffed on the river. Moura was picked off in 12th place.
Malcolm Franchi bombed it all in with Ace-Queen and Jordan Griff accepted the challenge with Ace-King. Neither player improved but Griff won the pot with Ace-high and a King-kicker. Franchi hit the rail in 11 th place, and Griff chipped up to 82M.
Diogo Coelho and Niklas Astedt threw down on the bubble. Astedt held Big Slick and outflopped Coelho's Ace-Jack. Coelho picked up a Broadway draw but never got there. With his elimination, the final table of nine was set.
By the end of night Griff emerged with a monster stack worth 143.7M, which was a heck of a run considering he was on the ropes and on the verge of elimination earlier in the day as one of the shorties. High roller Brian Kim was second with 94.6M followed by Niklas Astedt (94.2), the lone Scandi at the final table and the online phenom. American pro and bracelet winner Joe Serock was fourth overall with 83.6M.
The rest of the final table includes Jason Sagle (67.3M), Boris Angelov (52.9M), Jonathan Tamayo (26.7M), Malo Latinois (25.5M), and Andres Gonzalez (18.3M)
On Day 8, the payouts jumped from $350K > $450K > $600K to $800K on the final table bubble. Day 8 eliminations included... Diogo Coelho (10th place), Malcolm Franchi (11th place), Gabe Moura (12th place), Kristen Foxen (13th place), Jason James (14th place), Yegor Moroz (15th place), Guillermo Sanchez Otero (16th place), Jessie Bryant (17th place), and Hector Hernandez (18th place).
The final table begins on Tuesday with the intention to play down to the final three. On Wednesday, a new champion will be crowned. Monday is a rest (and media) day.
Everyone at the final table locked up a cool million. Some of the pay jumps on Monday look like $1M > $1.25M > $1.5M > $2M > $2.5M > $3M. Most of the cheddar is set aside for the top three with $20 million out of the $94 million allotted to first, second, and third place.
2024 WSOP Main Event - Final Table
Buy-in: $10,000
Entrants: 10,112
Remaining: 9
Prize Pool: $94,041,600
Payouts: 1,517
Final Table Chip Counts:
1. Jordan Griff 143,700,000
2. Brian Kim 94,600,000
3. Niklas Astedt 94,200,000
4. Joe Serock 83,600,000
5. Jason Sagle 67,300,000
6. Boris Angelov 52,900,000
7. Jonathan Tamayo 26,700,000
8. Malo Latinois 25,500,000
9. Andres Gonzalez 18,300,000
Final Table Payouts:
1. $10,000,000
2. $6,000,000
3. $4,000,000
4. $3,000,000
5. $2,500,000
6. $2,000,000
7. $1,500,000
8. $1,250,000
9. $1,000,000
