Who is the New WPT World Champion 2024?

Chris Moorman

Chris Moorman is making his second consecutive appearance at the WPT World Championship final table. Last year, he finished fourth for a career-best $2 million. This year, he’s back and starting six-handed play second in chips. With a WPT title already under his belt, Moorman aims to add another and potentially claim the biggest payday of his career.

Eddie Pak

Leading the pack is Eddie Pak, who holds a slight chip advantage over Moorman. Pak, 31, from Los Angeles, is making his first major final table appearance. He manoeuvred himself into the chip lead on Day 5, eliminating three players, including five-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Yoon. With $431,609 in lifetime earnings, Pak is guaranteed to surpass his total career winnings in this single event. He’s determined to avoid past mistakes and make sure to act correctly now since he is in the lead. Last summer, he already had a massive in an Main Event, but failed in pulling of a stunt. This time it might just turn out to be different!

Scott Stewart

Scott Stewart sits in third place and brings plenty of personality to the table. Known for his fun-loving attitude, the six-time WSOP Circuit ring winner from Long Beach, California, is no stranger to deep runs. This final table marks the biggest opportunity of his career, and Stewart is eager to claim his first WPT title and the massive $3.1 million prize. Rather naturally, he sees Moorman as his biggest rival, and he had mentioned in recent interviews that he bested Moorman during a heads-up match for the title years ago.

Christian Roberts

Christian Roberts, the 29-year-old from Venezuela, starts in fourth. Roberts, a WSOP bracelet winner, has been a chip leader multiple times throughout the tournament. With a supportive rail behind him, led by his love partner, he is determined to try and do the unthinkable; Becoming World Champion!

Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood, a 46-year-old from Manchester, England, won his way into the tournament through a $1,100 satellite. Sherwood’s career holds up nearly two decades, but this marks his biggest stage yet. Ironically enough, when checking out his The Hendon Mob profile, a database with poker results from all over the world, I discovered he had became runner-up during this year’s The Hendon Mob Championship during the Malta Poker Festival, in October of this year.

Ryan Yu

Finally, Ryan Yu, the 41-year-old from Seoul, South Korea, rounds out the final six. Yu, a former runner-up at the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic, fought hard to navigate a short stack on Day 5. Despite ups and downs, he definitely earned his spot at the final table, by showing off strong plays throughout the entire tournament.

Here’s what’s at stake:

WPT World Championship – The Final Day!

When you are in the United States of America, and especially in the world of TV and showbiz, you know that everything just needs to be as big as possible. The stage what had been set up for this event is one of the finest tv-stages in the entire poker industry. Combined with the elegancy of the Wynn Poker Room, it is sure that this was going to be one hell of a show.

All six players were asked to be present at the poker room already four hours prior the moment cards would go in the air. Interviews, explanations about the house rules, and making sure their audience would be taken care of properly, the players had much to think of prior to their moments to shine. Chris Moorman is one of the players which is used to this, as it’s not the first time he has been part of this particular stage.

Seat		Player	Chip Count
1		Eddie Pak	66,200,000
2		Scott Stewart	40,400,000
3		Christian Roberts	23,600,000
4		Chris Moorman	60,800,000
5		Ryan Yu	22,600,000
6		Rob Sherwood	25,600,000

Christian Roberts hits Rock Bottom

Once the cards were in the air, they really went in the air. Where you would expect the players to take it easy from the beginning, as the lowest stack still had like 20 big blinds, it was fireworks from the get-go. Roberts 4-bet shoved, in the 4th hand of the day, his stack into the middle with A Q , but saw himself being quickly called by fan-favourite Scott Stewart who had the goods with A A . The flop would give Roberts a flush draw, but it remained a draw after the board had been completed. Roberts was sent to the rail in 6th place, good for $665,000, a new career best for the player from Venezuela.

Next Hand: Ryan Yu hits the Showers

Chris Moorman min-clicked from the cut-off and Ryan Yu went all-in from the button for around 20M chips, Eddie Pak woke up with the Big-Slick and went over all-in over the top. The players, as well as the audience, was ready to go to the races! Pak’s A K eventually made a boat on the board A K J A K , while the hand from Yu was left to nothing with pocket 9’s.

Moorman’s Dream Ends Again in 4th Place!

Where Moorman first had lost a significant amount of his stack with a pair of 6’s, against the Queens of Sherwood, he found his Waterloo again in 4th place when he was all-in and at risk in the 10th hand of the day. Eddie Pak, who had been on-fire so far, had all of his chips in the middle against Moorman on a flop J J 7 . Moorman was in good share with his pair of Queens, but it was Pak who found a miracle turn card with the 10 , giving him the two-outer he was looking for with 10 10 . No help on the river for the online poker legend Moorman, making him going back-to-back finishing 4th, this time for $1,150,000!

Eddie Pak Out in 3rd!

After a deal had been consolidated among the three remaining players, it was Eddie Pak who found himself at risk for his tournament life against Scott Stewart. Pak arrived at a difficult spot on the river when he rivered the second-highest flush with Q 10 on a board which had ran out 3 4 K 3 J . He was put to the test by Stewart, who had rivered a full-house with pocket Jacks. Pak’s dream finishes in 3rd place, and after the deal they had made, he pockets himself presumably not one, but Two Million Dollars.

Heads-Up: England vs. America

Scott Stewart  –  161,300,000  (134 bb)
Rob Sherwood  –  77,900,000  (65 bb)

Stewart and Sherwood arrived at the heads-up match for the biggest scores of their lives. Stewart kicked off with a 2:1 chip lead over the Englishman, and was determined to finish of the work he started six days ago in pure fashion, in front of all his friends and family in the stands. As you might are used to, during competitive events, the Americans love to scream USA! USA! USA! when their hero(es) are doing well in the designated event. Same here at the Wynn Poker Room, where 99% of the crowd is cheering for the American Scott Stewart.

Stewart took off where he started with today, by firing the right moments and actively. He gathered small pots up until he got it in finally with pockets Queens against the Ace-Jack from Sherwood. Sadly for the noisy crowd, and for Stewart, an Ace arrived straight on the flop, and no two-outer could be found on the turn, nor on the river. Sherwood suddenly set up a comeback in this heads-up match!

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