The Philippines-born, Texas-based Ignacio has locked up $81,700 for his efforts in this tournament, more than 12 times his previous best result. Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $18,091īiggest Lifetime Cash: 6th, 2014 Card Player Poker Tour $450 No Limit Hold’em for $6,296ĭojie Ignacio is one of two players who has already multiplied his career earnings by locking up a final table appearance at WPT Choctaw. Should he win both, he’ll instantly become the favorite for WPT Player of the Year honors for 2023.Įnd of Day 2 chips: 2,000,000 (3/28) Emmanuel Ignacio Weng will play for one title on May 25, and then his second on May 26.

He rarely dipped out of the top 10 chip counts from the end of Day 1 on at Choctaw. With just a couple of days to rest, Weng flew to Texas, drove to Oklahoma, played three more days, and repeated the feat. Then he bagged a massive chip lead in the WPT Main Tour stop after four days of poker.

With two major titles under his belt in 2023 before he ever set foot in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. There’s not much about Bin Weng that we haven’t already said over the last two weeks. Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $3,203,466īiggest Lifetime Cash: 1st, 2023 $5,300 Borgata: The Return Main Event for $1 million Seat 1: Bin Weng | 8,800,000 (big blinds, 1/6)Ĭurrently Resides: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The final six players will play everything out in Las Vegas on May 26, with $400,740 up top for whoever emerges as champion. There was nearly a third WPT Champions Club member in the mix, as Alex Foxen ran pocket aces into Mike Vanier’s pocket tens, falling just short of the TV final table in 9th place. He’ll take the chip lead into a final table that also features Season 17 WPT Player of the Year and two-time WPT champion Erkut Yilmaz and previous WPT champion Jared Jaffee. The 2023 World Poker Tour Choctaw final table is set, and in most instances, this story would be about two former champions and a former WPT Player of the Year being in contention to return to the winner’s circle.īut Bin Weng‘s unbelievable two-week stretch has overshadowed it all.įresh off bagging a major chip lead heading into the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown one week ago, Weng repeated that feat in Choctaw and became the first player in WPT history to book back-to-back appearances for delayed final tables at HyperX Arena Las Vegas at Luxor. Bin Weng (lower center) leads the final six players at WPT Choctaw final table.

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