The final six players are now set for Sunday's live broadcast of the final table at the WPT World Championship, where chip leader Soheb Porbandarwala has the rest of remaining field lapped for what will be a finale worth $2,520,000.
It will be up to the WPT to turn the lights off on on 2025, a year defined by the battle between poker's most recognizable brands. There was plenty to go around in the end, with the flagship tournament at Wynn Las Vegas adding more than $18 million to over $100 million in poker prizes on offer throughout December across the world. And while WSOP Paradise drew a lot of poker's star power, more than a few familiar faces found a part of the WPT World Championship story.
Porbandarala returns with the lead and it's a big one. He holds over 81 million, which will be good for 162 big blinds (500K) when players come back on Sunday with more than an hour left in Level 31. Behind him at a great distance is Schuyler Thornton with 73 big blinds, followed by another sizable gap before Jeremy Brown checks in with 43. Day 5 chip leader Jeremy Becker, Maxx Coleman, and Chad Lipton round out the rest of the six-handed final table.
Everyone is guaranteed at least $540,000 for showing up on Sunday, followed by $710,000 after the first knockout all the way up to $2,520,000 for first. Let's meet the final six:
Can they catch Soheb?
Seat 1: Schuyler Thornton - 36,500,000 (73bb)
- Career earnings: $2,010,090
The Texas native recently jumped over the $2 million mark on his Hendon Mob resume with a fourth-place finish in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Choctaw, a November score that earned Schuyler Thornton just over $70,000. Thornton is a consistent presence on the WSOP Circuit and at the summer series in Vegas, where he almost won a bracelet this summer in what ended up to be a runner-up finish in the $2,500 Mixed Lowball event. The half-million plus will be Schuyler's new high score, eclipsing the 2017 run to third place in a $1,500 buy-in at the WSOP for $191K.
Seat 2: Soheb Porbandarwala - 81,325,000 (162bb)
- Career earnings: $2,235,265
The runaway chip leader has also secured a new best finish with Porbandarwala passing his previous, a victory in last March's WSOPC Circuit Main Event at Horseshoe Hammond outside of Chicago. He nearly topped that this past September in Atlantic City, where he finished third in the $5,300 BetMGM Millionaire Championship at the Borgata Big Bet for $247K. Soheb has more than half the chips and a lot of experience, so it will be difficult to knock him off the perch.This will be a fantastic end to an already great year for the East Coast grinder.
Seat 3: Jeremy Brown - 21,675,000 (43bb)
- Career earnings: $2,235,265
The Scottsdale native spends a lot of his poker time in Arizona, where he recently picked up $18K for a 19th-place finish in the Arizona State Poker Championship. Brown has just over $1 million in earnings before you count what he has already locked in for this final table appearance, with most it coming in smaller tournaments at Talking Stick in Arizona. His previous best finish was his first one, a run to runner-up in the WPT Borgata Poker Open in 2009. Can Brown finally finish the job after 26 years?
Seat 4: Maxx Coleman - 15,250,000 (30bb)
- Career earnings: $5,301,406
Maxx Coleman is a regular at the biggest tournaments in Las Vegas and he's won the most money at this final table of six. The Kansas native already has a six-figure win at the 2025 WPT World Championships, a first-place run in the $3,000 5-Card PLO. He's a versatile poker player who is seen deep in tournaments of all variants all summer and in mixed events at the PokerGO Studio. And while Coleman has over $5M in earnings, he will only need to finish in fourth place to best his previous best win - a $750,000 prize from a 2015 Main Event at the River Poker Series in Thackerville.
Seat 5: Chad Lipton - 13,250,000 (26bb)
- Career earnings: $1,174,690
Chad Lipton is the short stack and another member of the seven-figure club with just over $1.1M in lifetime earnings, but he's already blown his best finish of $86,319 out of the water. The million dollar resume is made up of smaller and very consistent cashing finishes in Los Angeles and Las Vegas dating back to 2018. Lipton already has fond memories of 2025, whether it's the run to 31st in the NAPT Main Event or the final table finish in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Commerce last month, but the year will definitely finish out with a big bang for the man from San Diego.
Seat 6: Jeremy Becker - 18,200,00 (36bb)
- Career earnings: $3,798,071
The 'Wynn Wrecker' Jeremy Becker is a force at the Big Brown Building, where he's made a name for himself crushing one daily tournament after another since he popped onto the scene. His eyes, and the stakes, have grown bigger this year and the results are good with several deep runs in Florida and Las Vegas. This is the big one, however, and already the biggest cash of his young career. He parlayed a Day 5 chip lead into a spot at Sunday's final table, but he has some work to do from the short stacks if he wants to post a career-defining win.
They'll be back to Wynn Las Vegas on Sunday at 4pm Vegas time with a live broadcast to follow shortly after. Meanwhile, catch the thrilling conclusion to the WPT Prime Championship at the same time and place on Saturday.
Images courtesy of World Poker Tour.
Data courtesy of The Hendon Mob.
