"ElkY" Finishes Day 3 With Massive Stack of Nearly 17 Million Chips
Published on June 5th, 2017 3:33 pm EST
Event #6 ($111,111 High Roller for One Drop) of the 2017 World Series of Poker is set to conclude on Monday evening. The tournament received a total of 130 entries and after three full days of play, the event is down to just nine people.
The top of the leaderboard is occupied by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who finished Day 3 with a massive 16,825,000 chip stack. "ElkY" has plenty of experience in big tournaments and a massive stack, so he will be tough to top.
The chip stacks heading into the final table look like this:
1. Bertrand Grospellier, 16,825,000
2. Martin Jacobson, 8,890,000
3. Dario Sammartino, 7,975,000
4. Chris Moore, 7,600,000
5. Andrew Robl, 6,670,000
6. Doug Polk, 6,090,000
7. Rainer Kempe, 5,760,000
8. Michael Kamran, 3,470,000
9. Haralabos Voulgaris, 2,865,000
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The top 20 spots in this event ended up paying out, with names such as Phil Hellmuth (10th, $312,006), Antonio Esfandiari (11th, $257,072) and Dan Colman (16th, $187,772) managing to make it through to Day 3 before busting out.
Here are the final table payouts for this event:
1st - $3,686,865
2nd - $2,278,657
3rd - $1,608,295
4th - $1,158,883
5th - $852,885
6th - $641,382
7th - $493,089
8th - $387,732
9th - $312,006
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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has over $11 million in lifetime "live" tournament cashes and would move to #22 on the all-time tournament money list (from his current position of #43) with a win in the $111,111 High Roller for One Drop.
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Filed Under: The World Series of Poker
