Final Table Is Set at WPT Prime Liechtenstein

A long day of high-level poker action saw a field of 179 shrink down to just eight final tablists at the WPT Prime Liechtenstein Championship.

Those eight return today at 02:00 PM to play down to a champion at Grand Casino Liechtenstein, led by Swill player Leandro Dirlewanger who will be coming into the day as a massive chip leader.

The remaining players are all guaranteed at least CHF 25,500 (approx. $30k), while the eventual winner will take home CHF 209,120 (approx. $248k) for his efforts.

The live action will start at 02:00 PM, and you will be able to watch it all with a 30-minute delay on a live stream available at WPT.com, showing all the action as it unfolds.

Wildhaber and Kostas Make Way for Final Eight

The final two tables played late into the night on Sunday, with the short stacks looking to survive the day and the chip leaders pouncing on every opportunity they could.

The final table was set in an interesting fashion, as one player busted on the featured table and the outer table at almost the same moment.

On the outer table, Marc Sen opened to 400,000 with pocket Tens, only to see Sven Wildhaber move all-in for 2.9 million in chips.

Sen made the easy call very quickly, but got some bad news as Wildhaber turned over J♥J♣, making him an 80% favorite to double up and stay in the game.

It wasn’t meant to be for Sven, however, as the board ran 10♠3♥2♠3♠K♦, giving Sen a set of Tens and eliminating the young Swiss player in 10^th place for a payout of CHG 19,800.

Almost at the same time, the action unfolded on the featured table as well, with Radek Kostas opening to 700,000 A♣7♠ and getting action from chip leader Leandro Dirlewanger, who was holding 8h6c.

The flop brought K♣10♦5♥, giving Dirlewanger a gutshot straight draw, which was enough for him to check-call a c-bet of 700,000.

The turn brought the 6♦ and gave the chip leader a pair, so he proceeded to check-call another bet of 1.5 million.

When the river came a 9♣ and Kostas moved in for his remaining 3.2 million, it seemed like he would take the pot down. However, Dirlewanger used a time bank and decided to make a call after all despite holding only the fourth pair.

This time around, Kostas was indeed bluffing with the solitary A♣, and Dirlewanger’s pair of Sixes was good enough to send Kostas to the rail.

As Radek made his way out of the room with CHF 19,800 in his pocket, the remaining eight players bagged up their chips and called it a night ahead of their final table appearance.

Dirlewanger a Massive Chip Leader, Sen Looking to Improve His Result

It was a day of Leadnro Dirlewanger yesterday, as he was able to steamroll his opposition and build up a massive chip stack worth 29,350,000 chips, good for 147 big blinds and over 50% of all chips in play.

The massive chip lead will work in his favor when action resumes today, as he will be able to take any hit from other players and apply maximum pressure as ICM pressures all other stacks into submission.

He is followed by Marc Sen, whose stack of 8,150,000 may seem tiny next to that of Dirlewanger but is actually good for a healthy 41 big blinds on the first level of Day 3.

Sen came into this year’s WPT Prime Liechtenstein as last year’s runner-up and will be looking to repeat or improve on that result, although that might prove difficult next to the superior chip leader.

Matej Michalek will be looking to use his 5,275,000 chip stack to build some early momentum, move away from the short stacks, and solidify his spot in the top three.

Everyone else left in the field will be playing with fewer than 20 big blinds, which means it will be interesting to see who can maneuver the best and make the valuable pay jumps in the early going.

Here is the full look at the remaining players in this year’s WPT Prime Liechtenstein Championship:

• Leandro Dirlewanger – 29,350,000 (Seat 3)
• Marc Sen – 8,150,000 (Seat 1)
• Mateh Michalek – 5,275,000 (Seat 2)
• Manfred Eberhard Frick (Seat 4)
• Nico Frenn – 3,300,000 (Seat 7)
• Milad Sheva – 3,000,000 (Seat 6)
• Alexis Tremblay – 1,975,000 (Seat 5)
• Phuong Nguyen – 1,900,000 (Seat 8)

A Quarter Million Dollars Up for Grabs

While this year’s WPT Prime Liechtenstein was not able to break the attendance record of 2023, the 1,411 players who did show up created a monster prize pool worth over CHF 1.4 million.

Now that the action is down to just eight players, they will all be eyeing that CHF 209,120 first-place prize, and while it may have Dirlewanger’s name on it, there is no real telling what can happen once the cards are in the air.

Converted to US dollars, the prize is worth nearly a quarter of a million, which is quite a payday considering the buyin for the event was just CHF 1,100, once again demonstrating the immense value of the WPT Prime tour for players looking for a big break in the game.

Of course, all remaining players will be looking at a big payday and should be able to walk away from the final table with their heads held up high.

Here is a look at the payout players can expect today:

• 1^st: CHF 209,120 ($243,056)
• 2^nd: CHF 132,000 ($156,577)
• 3^rd: CHF 98,000 ($116,247)
• 4^th: CHF 73,000 ($86,592)
• 5^th: CHF 55,000 ($65,240)
• 6^th CHF 42,500 ($50,413)
• 7^th: CHF 32,500 ($38,551)
• 8^th: CHF 25,500 ($30,248)

Action continues at 02:00 PM today, with final table action available via a live WPT stream starting at 02:30 for all the fans of the game.

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Tadas Peckaitis

Tadas played poker professionally for over a decade and founded mypokercoaching.com to offer training resources to players. During the years, he became one of the leading experts in the poker niche and wrote countless guides for mypokercoaching and other leading online publications. Now he concentrates on building an iBetMedia agency and helping other gambling brands reach their targeted customers. You can connect with Tadas via his LinkedIn profile.