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Seat 1 - Samuel Trickett
This is Trickett's first year competing in the WSOP, and today's final table marks his first-ever WSOP cash. He has eight career non-WSOP tourney cashes previously, totalling over $40,000 in winnings. Trickett is a former soccer player who suffered a major knee injury that ended his competitive playing career.
Shamus
We are about 10-15 minutes away from the start of today's final table of Event No. 46, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event. We have five relative newcomers to the big stage plus one bracelet winner, our short stack Davidi Kitai.
As we await the start of today's action, here are some brief bios of our six players . . .
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Richard Lyndaker leads the way into the final
Harrah's has now confirmed the seat assignments for this afternoon's finale in Event #46, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed. The finalists, with seat numbers, hometowns and chip counts, are as follows:
Seat 1: Sam Trickett (Nottingham, United Kingdom) -- 1,000,450
Seat 2: Davidi Kitai (Brussels, Belgium) -- 298,000
Seat 3: Joe Commisso (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 1,961,000
Seat 4: Richard Lyndaker (Chaumont, New York) -- 2,345,000
Seat 5: Tom Lutz (Dayton, Ohio) -- 1,493,000
Seat 6: Edward Ochana (Elgin, Illinois) -- 928,000
Action begins at 2pm this afternoon from the feature-table area. Check in here at PokerNews for the latest updates.