WPT: Seminole Six play for WPT title at Luxor
The World Poker Tour hosts the first of two final tables when the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown plays down to a winner on Wednesday. The World Poker Tour hosts the first of two final tables when the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown plays down to a winner on Wednesday. 
Matt Hansen Posted on: May 29, 2024 14:51 PDT
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Aaron Kupin will enter the day with the short stack and just over $600K in lifetime earnings. He’ll take around 25 big blinds out of the bag — a far cry from when he finished Day 1 with just 17,500. Kupin has already locked up his top score with a sixth-place finish.
Aaron Kupin enters the day on the short stack. Also near the bottom of the leaderboard is red-hot Jesse Lonis, one of the best young players in the game with over $8 million in earnings. Lonis has stacked up the accolades over the past few years, but he’s still looking for his first WPT title to add to a collection that includes two WSOP bracelets and a win at the U.S. Poker Open in the PokerGO Studios.
Alex Queen starts the final table in the middle of the pack and he is also looking to add WPT Champion to an already-full resume. Queen won the Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship in January to add more than $600K to bring his lifetime earnings to just over $2.5 million.
Landon Tice is looking for a career-defining win. While Queen and Lonis have filled up the trophy case lately, Landon Tice is looking for a big win and he has a great chance to get it. Tice is a co-host on the Only Friend Podcast and one-half of the Tice vs Jeremy Becker bet at the WSOP this summer, but he’s still looking for a career-defining win. The young pro will cross $1m in earnings just by sitting down on Wednesday and he can pick up his biggest score with a fifth-place finish or better.
In the second spot on the leaderboard is WSOP Circuit grinder Josh Reichard with just over 20 million in chips. The Janesville, Wisconsin native has 15 WSOP circuit rings and several WPT cashes, but this is his best chance at a spot on the Mike Sexton Cup. Reichard has $3.1 million in career earnings with wins all over the country on mid-major tours.
Dylan Smith enters the final table with one-third of the chips in play. Reichard is trailing the leader, Dylan Smith, who ran deep in the 2023 version of this event. Smith has $1.8 million in earnings throughout his career, and he mostly focuses on pot-limit Omaha, and he’s one table away from his first WPT title. The leader will sit down with 28 million — around one-third of the chips in play — but it’s going to take a peak performance at a tough final table to close the deal.
Cards go in the air at 4pm at the Luxor with just a few minutes remaining in Level 30 and blinds of 100,000/200,000/200,000. Stay tuned with the PokerOrg team, who will be on-site for a full recap of the action after the confetti falls.
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