Finalists of the WSOP 2024 Main Event

The final table (Day 10) of the most prestigious event in poker starts on Tuesday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. Every player seated at the final table will finish as a millionaire, while the winner is going to receive $10,000,000 at once.

In this article we combined short information about TOP-9 players of the WSOP Main Event 2024.

Reminder: The $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship 2024 broke the previous year’s record of entries, gathering 10,112 entries. This allowed the event to collect an enormous $94,041,600 prize pool.

WSOP 2024 Main Event Final Table Chip Count

Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
Jordan Griff	USA	143,700,000	90
Brian Kim	USA	94,600,000	59
Niklas Astedt	Sweden	94,200,000	59
Joe Serock	USA	83,600,000	52
Jason Sagle	Canada	67,300,000	42
Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	52,900,000	33
Jonathan Tamayo	USA	26,700,000	17
Malo Latinois	France	25,500,000	16
Andres Gonzalez	Spain	18,300,000	11

Jordan Griff

Since he already has a steady job in Meta, U.S. poker player Jordan Griff has been playing live tournaments only recreationally.

Between 2019 and July 2024, Griff made only 8 ITMs and a little more than $47K in total live winnings. His best ever cash is just $18,104 for taking 9th place in the $1,700 Main Event of WSOPC Northern California 2023; and now, he’s got a seat at the WSOP Main Event Final Table.

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Brian Kim

Korean-American professional high stakes player Brian Kim is one of the most recognizable faces of the WSOP 2024 Main Event.

Kim has been in the poker industry since 2010, rising to poker stardom in the last ten years thanks to his performance on live poker shows, including Live At The Bike, Hustler Casino and Bally Live Poker, and also Triton Poker Series.

While he hasn’t been able to win any live WSOP events yet, Kim’s already taken home one WSOP Online bracelet in 2022, after winning the $5,300 NLH – High Roller on WSOP.com (NV/NJ). As of now, his best live cash is $954,000 for a 3rd place finish in the $53,000 NLH – 8-Handed in the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju 2024.

Niklas Astedt

Swedish poker machine and honorary member of the GGPoker Team Champion Niklas Astedt, also known as “Lena900” has been playing poker professionally since 2008/2009. Even with such a long online career, Astedt only began playing live tournaments regularly in 2022.

His online results are so impressive that they can’t even be reliably collected and calculated. On July 15th, 2024, PokerStakes announced Astedt has won almost $50 million in online poker, scooping up countless titles along the way. Just as an example, Astedt has won SCOOP at least six times, the Super MILLION$ High Rollers events for times, and the WCOOP 3 times – to name a few that is.

In live tournaments, his total winnings sum up over $3 million, all from 110 ITMs. His best live cashes are listed below:

Place	Event	Series	Prize
4	€10,300 High Roller	EPT Barcelona 2015	€336,700
2	€25,000 NLH	EPT Paris 2024	€291,600
2	€10,200 PLO	EPT Barcelona 2022	€273,485
7	€50,000 Super High Roller	EPT Paris 2024	€145,800
2	€10,200 NLH	EPT Prague 2022	€112,540

Joseph Serock

U.S. professional poker player Joe Serock has been in the game since 2004. He already has one bracelet from the World Series of Poker, earning it last year by taking down the $500 PLO 8-Max on WSOP Online 2023 (US Only). For his win, Serock also went home with a $93,311 prize.

With that said, the above is not even close to his best cash, which he also secured online. In 2021, Serock made the final table of the $5K Main Event Online Championship on GGPoker WSOP Online. He finished 5th, taking down a $804,191 prize.

When it comes to live tournaments, Serock’s “binked” more than once, collecting in total over $4,5 million in live earnings. His five best cashes are:

Place	Event	Series	Prize
2	$2,500 NLH – Six Handed	WSOP 2009	$341,783
3	$10,000 Championship Bounty	WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star 2012	$320,400
3	$10,000 Championship Event	Seminole Hard Rock Showdown 2012	$306,240
2	$2,500 Main Event	Hollywood Poker Open 2015	$214,396
8	$10,400 NLH	WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic 2019	$213,225

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Jason Sagle

Seasoned Canadian player Jason Sagle, also known by nickname “Big Bird”, has a history of WSOP ITMs going all the way back to 2004. However, Sagle has been out of the game for almost ten years.

What makes his presence at the WSOP Final Table even more interesting, is his lack of victories in live events — among the 95 ITMs he’s played, there have been only three:

Event	Series	Prize
$340 NHL	The Wynn Summer Classic 2012	$4,400
C$1,100 NLH	Fallsview Poker Classic 2015	$155,599
$400 NLH	The Wynn Signature Series 2023	$13,639

His highest placement at WSOP dates all the way back to 2006, when he finished 5th in $2,000 Pot Limit Hold’em taking home a prize worth $64,428. However, his best World Series cash came even earlier, in 2004, when he took $120,000 for a 23rd place finish in the $10,000 World Championship Event.

Sagle’s best ever cash before Main Event WSOP 2024 was $600,455 for taking 2nd place in the C$10,300 WPT North American Poker Championships in 2006.

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Boris Angelov

Young Bulgarian poker pro Boris Angelov has been playing live poker for less than five years, with his first ITMs tournaments dating back to just 2021.

As a result, his WSOP performance before this Main Event can be considered quite humble — the highest places he took were:

Place	Event	Series
24th	$400 Ultra Deepstack	WSOP Online 2024 (MI/NJ/NV)
40th	€10,350 WSOPE Main Event	WSOPE 2021
72th	$2,500 NLH – Freezeout	WSOP 2024

As Angelov doesn’t have any victories in live tournaments to date — his best result is considered 2nd place in €5,300 EPT Monte Carlo 2024 Main Event, where he went home with a €620,500 prize.

Jonathan Tamayo

U.S. poker player Jonathan Tamayo came to the live events from the city of Humble. While his bio on X (ex-Twitter) echoes the city’s name — Tamayo refers to himself as a “huge underachiever” — we can’t say the same about his results.

Tamayo has been making ITMs in live tournaments since 2006. As of July 15th 2024, Tamayo has 143 of them. Four-of-five his victories were scored on the WSOP Circuit, bringing him more than $300 thousand in prizes:

Event	Series	Prize
$355 NLH	WSOPC New Orleans 2012	$28,168
$1,675 Main Event	WSOPC West Palm Beach 2013	$206,020
$365 NLH	WSOPC Hammond 2017	$101,404
$580 PLO	WSOPC Los Angeles 2018	$10,120

As of this article, his best cash is recorded to be at the WSOP in 2009 when he finished 21st in the $10,000 World Championship and took home a $352,832 prize.

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Malo Latinois

Frenchman Malo Latinois is playing the Main Event of World Series of Poker for the first time, meaning that an cash prize there will qualify as his best cash ever.

As of now, his best result was winning $52,951 for a 16th place finish in the €5.3K EPT Paris Main Event in 2023. His total live winnings until July 15th 2024 go a little over $96,5 thousand, with no victories to date.

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Andres Gonzalez

Spanish professional POKER player Andres Gonzalez de Agustin has already scored his best cash during WSOP 2024 when he finished 3rd in the $1,500 NLH – Freezeout. For this, he scored an impressive $201,518. 

Andres has been playing poker for more than 12 years at this point. However, in over a decade, he has never won a live tournament or collected more than $21,838 at once. So, his performance at WSOP 2024 already could be considered a success — no matter what place he takes ends up taking in the Main Event.

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