WSOP 2024 Main Event Final Table Player Bios

Country: USA

Hometown: Schaumberg, IL

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 4

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 1

WSOP Bracelets: 0

Lifetime Winnings: $47,000

Chips: 143,700,000

Seat: 6

Jordan Griff is the big chip leader going into the final and this result, wherever he finishes, will dwarf his lifetime live poker earnings of $47,000. His previous best cash was for less than $20,000 and this is certainly a life changing event for the Illinois native. Jordan, who is 30 years old now lives in Arizona, where he works as a data and analytics manager. 

Jordan might consider himself very lucky to have got this far, as he was one card away from hitting the rail at the beginning of Day 8, when his pocket queens looked doomed to a set of threes, however a queen on the river kept him in the game and helped propel him to the top of the chip charts.

Country: USA

Hometown: Walnut, CA

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 9

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 0

WSOP Bracelets: 1 

Lifetime Winnings: $7.3m

Chips: 94,600,000

Seat: 3

Brian Kim will be a familiar face for PokerGo viewers, as the American, who now resides in Australia is a high stakes player who has regularly played on the Poker Go Tour and the Triton Poker Series. He has over $7m in lifetime cashes.

His best ever live score was earlier this year in Jeju, where he banked $954,000 for 3rd place in the $50,000 super high roller. He followed this up with a second place finish in a $25,000 event at the next Triton Poker Series festival in Budva, Montenegro. 

Kim’s sole WSOP bracelet was won online in 2022, when he topped a field of 85 players in a $5,000 NLH High Roller event. The Main Event has been a bit of a rollercoaster for him so far, with ups and downs during the 8 days of play that have so far been completed. 

At the end of the fifth day of play he was one of the shorts stacks, but on Day 8 he was the first player to build a stack of over 100m chips. He goes into the final with the second biggest stack and will be one of the favourites to life the title.

Country: Sweden

Hometown: Gothenburg

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 51

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 4

WSOP Bracelets: 0 

Lifetime Winnings: $3m

Chips: 94,200,000

Seat: 4

Swedish online pro Niklas Astedt will be considered the favourite by many people on this year’s final table. He is one of the biggest ever winners in online tournament poker and once topped as poll on PocketFives for the best online poker player ever. 

His online resume includes six SCOOP and three WCOOP titles. The majority of Astedt’s 51 WSOP cashes were in online events

The majority of the 51 WSOP cashes that the 33-year old Gothenburg native he has were earned online and although he has not yet won a WSOP bracelet, he has been runner up in an online event. 

While Astedt is primarily an online player, he is no stranger to the live poker world and wins and several cashes on the EPT and at many other live poker festivals in Europe.

Country: USA

Hometown: Las Vegas, NV

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 113

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 9

WSOP Bracelets: 1

Lifetime Winnings: $4.5m

Chips: 83,600,000

Seat: 5

Joe Serock is the only other former bracelet winner left in the field. Like Brian Kim, Serock’s bracelet came in an online event, as did the majority of his impressive 113 WSOP cashes. He is an experienced player who has been on the poker scene for over 20 years 

Serock is a former WPT player of the year and has twice been runner up in live WSOP events. he qualified for the 2024 WSOP Main Event via GG Poker, which means that if he wins the title, he will also win an additional $1m from the world’s largest online poker site, who have promised an extra million if one of their qualifiers wins.

Joe has been near the top of the chip counts since day 6 and would have been the chip leader on the final table had he bot lost a huge pot to Jordan Griff near the end of Day 8.

Country: Canada

Hometown: Niagara Falls, ON

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 29

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 7

WSOP Bracelets: 0

Lifetime Winnings: $1.6m

Chips: 67,300,000

Seat: 9

Jason Sagle is the last remaining Canadian player in the field. He has been playing poker for most of his life and has live cashed going as far back as 1997.  This is not Jason’s first6 deep run in the Main Event, as he finished in 23rd place in 2004, which was the last year that the WSOP was fully held at Binions Horseshoe downtown.

He’s been a regular player at the Series over the years and 2024 has been one of the best years on his record, cashing seven times before the Main Event began, starting with 74th place in the event 1.

Despite having 29 WSOP cashes, this is only Sagle’s second final table at the series, his first appearance being in 2005 when he took 5th place in a $2,000 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet event.

Country: Bulgaria

Hometown: Sofia

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 16

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 5

WSOP Bracelets: 0

Livfetime Winnings: $900k

Chips: 52,900,000

Seat: 1

Bulgarian Boris Angelov began as an online player and he did not venture into the live poker world until two years ago. Since then he has tasted success in several events in Europe, most recently and notably finishing second in the EPT Montecarlo Main Event for his lifetime best cash of €620,000. 

That best live result will be short lived, as wherever Boris finishes in the 2024 WSOP Main Event final table will be his new best ever result. Angelov goes into the final 6th in chips with 52,900,000.

Country: USA

Hometown: Humble, TX

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 66

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 5

WSOP Bracelets: 0 

Lifetime Winnings: $2.3m

Chips: 26,700,000

Seat: 7

The player with the best first name of the remaining nine players is Jonathan Tamayo, however I am a little biased in that respect. The Texas goes into the final seventh in chips with 26,700,000. Jonathan is a highly experienced tournament pro with $2.3m in lifetime winnings, including four WSOPC gold rings. 

Like Jason Sagle, this is not his first deep run in the Main Event, as he notched up a 21st place finish in 2009 for over $350,000. This is his first final table at the WSOP in over ten years, but he has good support here and will be strategising in advance with friends and fellow pros Joe McKeehan, a former Main Event winner and Dominik Nitcshe, to try and find a path to victory.

Country: France

Hometown: Paris

WSOP Lifetime Cashes: 0

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 0

WSOP Bracelets: 0

Lifetime Winnings: $96,000

Chips: 25,500,000

Seat: 2

Malo Latinois is one of the few French players to have ever made the WSOP Main Event final table. Antoine Saout famously has made two final tables, but there has never been a French winner. Malo has his work cut out if he is to become the first French Main Event winner, as he goes into the final with just 25,500,000 chips and is in eight place of the remaining nine players.

Malo is quite new to the game of poker, having only 14 previous live results on his Hendonmob profile. This is his first WSOP cash and in total he had less than $100,000 in live cashes in his short career. His best previous result was 16th place in the EPT Paris Main Event in 2023 for just under €50,000.

Country: Spain

Hometown: Manana

WSOP Cashes: 28

WSOP 2024 Cashes: 2

WSOP Bracelets: 0

Lifetime Winnings: $294,000

Chips: 18,300,000

Seat: 8

Spain’s final table representative is Andres Gonzales from Cartagena. He has been playing poker for over ten years, but most of his activity has been since 2018, when he secured his first WSOP cash, in the $1,500 Monster Stack. 

Since then he has cashed a further 27 times, live and online for just under $300,000 in lifetime earnings. This is his third cash of the 2024 series and his second final table, having secured his best lifetime cash of $201,000 for a third place finish in event 28, the $1,500 NLH Freezeout.

He goes into the final table with the shortest stack of 18,300,000, but all you need  is a chip and a chair and Andres has both of those. Anything can happen…and probably will.