$585 Mega Satellite Final Table Live: A $10K Seat Could Double One Player's Career

Eight players are seated at the final table of the $585 Landmark Mega Satellite, and for Janardhana Pulugurtha, the math is almost too clean.

Pulugurtha's lifetime tournament earnings sit at $10,040. The prize he's chasing: a $10,000 Main Event seat. Win it, and he doubles his entire career total in a single hand's worth of survival.

Pulugurtha's lifetime tournament earnings sit at $10,040, and the prize he's chasing is a $10,000 Main Event seat.

Who's Still In

The final table of WSOP Event #432 thinned fast. The field dropped from 27 to 13 in roughly 30 minutes, then down to 8 for the unofficial final table. Among those who made it through the two-table gauntlet:

• Sanjay Mayekar ($124,956 in lifetime earnings, one career final table) is the most credentialed player still seated.
• Patrick Eskandar, a bracelet winner with $1.49M in career cashes and 31 final tables, busted before this stage. So did Justin Kelley, a ring holder with $94,187 in earnings. The big names are gone.
• Christopher Lambert, Anton Vucinaj, and Rey Roca have no tracked WSOP earnings on record. For them, like Pulugurtha, this seat would be a career-defining score.

Why This One's Worth Watching

Mega satellites are poker's purest zero-sum theater. There is no pay jump ladder. You either win a Main Event seat or you walk away with nothing. Every all-in is binary: career moment or bus ride.

For Pulugurtha specifically, the stakes are absurd relative to his track record. A player with five figures in lifetime cashes is eight-handed for a five-figure seat. The satellite started at 4 PM PT on July 4. It is now past midnight on July 5, and the table is still going.

Mayekar is the steady hand at the table. Pulugurtha is the story.

Stream ends when the last seat is awarded.