Martirosian Leads Final Seven Players in Event #6: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em
With just under 33 minutes left in Level 13, Day 1 of Event #6: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end with seven players making it through to the official final table.
With 30 unique players and 5 reentries, a prize pool of $3,500,000 had been created. This means that five of the seven remaining players will cash at least $245,000 while the winner will walk away with a whopping $1,400,000.
Coming back with the commanding chip lead is Artur Martirosian with 2,495,000 in chips which is worth 100 big blinds. He took out both David Stamm and Cary Katz on the unofficial final table to get the tournament down to seven and increase his chip lead n the end.
He is joined by Chris Brewer and Selahaddin Bedir in the top three. Brewer is making his fourth final table appearance of the series while Bedir is on his third after finishing as the runner-up behind Johan Guilbert and winning Event #4 for $832,000 after defeating Phil Ivey.
Guilbert is back for the final table too and is sitting in fifth place with 27 big blinds as Chi Zhang is ahead of him with six more big blinds. Viacheslav Buldygin and David Peters are also still in the tournament with a shot at making the money stages.
Event #6: $100,000 Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Brewer | United States | 1190000 | 48 |
| 2 | Artur Martirosian | Russia | 2495000 | 100 |
| 3 | David Peters | United States | 430000 | 17 |
| 4 | Chi Zhang | United Kingdom | 835000 | 33 |
| 5 | Johan Guilbert | France | 665000 | 27 |
| 6 | Selahaddin Bedir | Turkey | 850000 | 34 |
| 7 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 535000 | 21 |
Play will resume at 1 p.m. local time with the action broadcasted on the PokerGO stream from 2 p.m. local time onwards. Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to find out who will be claiming the first 7-figure prize to their name.
This is what they are all battling for:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,400,000 |
| 2 | $910,000 |
| 3 | $560,000 |
| 4 | $385,000 |
| 5 | $245,000 |
to keep Martirosian ahead.
to give Katz some hope as he picked up the straight draw while Martirosian improved his hand to a set but the river completed the board with the 
instead for Katz to bust.
to not help Stamm as he was eliminated in ninth place.
for Zhang to flop top pair and for Leow to get a glimmer of hope on the turn when he hit too but he bricked the river to bust in tenth place.
for Leow to hold with the aces and for Chidwick to bust in fifteenth place. 
on the river for Brewer to double up.
for Ivey to flop top pair to double up and leave Malinowski short.
for Ivey to flop top pair to double up.
