Monster WPT Tournament of Champions Day 2: Jaffe Leads Final Table, Mizrachi Second

The final table was set in the Monster World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions on Saturday with Jonathan Jaffe leading the way with 996,000 in chips. The last six players will return on Sunday at 4 p.m. local time to play down to a winner in the inaugural event, and what a final table it is going to be.

WPT Tournament of Champions Final Table

Day 2 of the tournament took place on Saturday with 31 of the 64 entrants returning to action. The top eight spots were set to pay out, and after the elimination of Justin Young in 10th place, the final nine joined at one table to burst the bubble. The last person to go home empty-handed proved to be Ravi Raghavan, earning the unwanted title of “bubble boy.”

On his final hand, Raghavan was all in with the and racing against the of Noah Schwartz. The flop and turn kept Raghavan in the lead, but the on the river nailed Schwartz with the winning hand to bust Raghavan out on the bubble.

With his elimination, the top eight finishes reached the money, with a minimum payout worth $38,160. Yevgeniy Timoshenko was the first to bust, falling in eighth place to Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. Then, to finish out the day and set the official WPT final table, Andy Frankenberger short stack finally succumbed and he busted in seventh to Schwartz, earning $47,700.

Winning that final hand of the day allowed Schwartz to bag up 532,000 in chips, which was good enough for third place on the leaderboard heading into Sunday’s finale.

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