$10,000 tournament plays down to a final table at Wynn/Encore Friday
The 1,328 entries that originally filled the field in the Wynn Millions are down to the final two tables. Only 18 players remain in the $10,000 buy-in tournament, which resumes today at Wynn/Encore in Las Vegas.
All remaining players will earn at least the 18th-place payout of $97,724, with $2,018,666 on the line for the first-place prize. Today’s Day 5 action will see the tournament play down to a final table.
The final nine then return Saturday and play to a champion. The $10,000 buy-in Wynn Millions presented one of the most ambitious live tournaments in the history of poker, with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool.
The actual prize pool far surpassed $10 million, hitting $12,483,200. Here’s a look at the payout structure for the top 18 places in the Wynn Millions:
$10,000 Wynn Millions payout structure
| Place | Prize |
| 1 | $2,018,666 |
| 2 | $1,248,886 |
| 3 | $871,314 |
| 4 | $619,160 |
| 5 | $456,629 |
| 6 | $360,140 |
| 7 | $289,361 |
| 8 | $240,302 |
| 9 | $202,765 |
| 10-11 | $172,564 |
| 12-13 | $148,456 |
| 14-15 | $128,645 |
| 16-17 | $111,671 |
| 18-20 | $97,274 |
Clayton Maguire ends Day 4 with the tournament chip lead
Thursday’s Day 4 action began with many of poker’s most famous names still in contention for the championship. The field trimmed from 61 at the start of Day 4 to 18 by the end of play Thursday.
Some of the players exiting the tournament on Day 4 included Maria Ho (20th - $97,274), Jesse Sylvia (21st - $84,956), Cliff Josephy (27th - $74,522), Jared Jaffee (30th - $65,485), and Tom Marchese (38th - $57,952).
Clayton Maguire ended Day 4 with 4.93 million chips, and that stack is tops in the room as the tournament resumes today. The chip counts for the final 18 players heading into Day 5 look like this:
$10,000 Wynn Millions Day 5 chip counts
| Player Name | Chip Count* |
| Clayton Maguire | 4,930,000 |
| Salim Admon | 4,575,000 |
| Phillip Shing | 4,320,000 |
| Dylan Smith | 4,140,000 |
| Julian Milliard | 3,865,000 |
| Sandeep Pulusani | 3,845,000 |
| Jaime Cervantes | 3,720,000 |
| Santiago Soriano | 3,685,000 |
| Yiming Li | 3,605,000 |
| Andrew Moreno | 3,255,000 |
| Toby Lewis | 2,665,000 |
| Ilyas Muradi | 2,300,000 |
| Anthony Huntsman | 2,100,000 |
| Jesse Yaginuma | 1,915,000 |
| Valentyn Shabelnyk | 1,720,000 |
| Hyon Kim | 1,180,000 |
| Joe Kuether | 825,000 |
| Anthony Marquez | 825,000 |
Other names hitting the rail on Day 4 included Ari Engel (41st - $57,952), Kristen Bicknell (53rd - $51,650), Alex Foxen (57th - $46,406), and Aram Zobian (60th - $46,404).
Check back with Poker.org for continuing coverage of the Wynn Millions, as the final stages of the tournament play out this weekend.
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