Evan Sandberg Leads Arizona Final Table for $627,050
The 20th-anniversary event set a 10-handed finish from a record 4,018 entries, with every finalist already locked for $25,801.
Evan Sandberg reached the Arizona State Poker Championship final table in the best spot, with the chip lead at Talking Stick Resort. The 10-handed finale came from a record 4,018-entry field, and the remaining players were already guaranteed $25,801 with $627,050 reserved for the winner.
As reported yesterday by PokerNews, Charlie Diep led 58 survivors into Day 3. The 20th-anniversary edition built a $4,018,000 prize pool, and the road to the final table ran through 482 Day 1 bags before the field was trimmed to the last ten.
Sandberg entered the final day with 36.6 million chips, ahead of Brandon Conrad on 31 million and Sergio Segura on 30.4 million. The rest of the table was well behind, with Hill Kerby next on 11.2 million and John Riordan on 10.2 million.
Jared Rogers had 9.6 million, Moussa Haddad 8.8 million, Jonathan Roeder 8.6 million, John Phan 8 million and Ronnie Bardah 4.2 million. Michael Bennett missed the final-table bubble when his pocket deuces failed against Conrad's sevens, and Erik Gault was the 12th-place finisher when Sandberg's nines held against his K-10. Play stopped with 38:00 left in Level 34 at blinds of 300,000/600,000.
