Event #401's Final Table: Nine Players, Zero Bracelets, One on the Line

WSOP Event #401 just went nine-handed at the final table, and every single player at the table has fewer lifetime cashes than most weeknight regulars at your local card room.

The $400 Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold'em at Horseshoe/Paris ground from 48 players down to nine overnight. Zero bracelets. Zero rings. The most "experienced" player left — Vitaly Kovyazin — has $1,201 in lifetime tournament earnings. That's less than 3x his buy-in for this event.

Who's at the Table

Christopher Gatley, representing Great Britain, is the only non-U.S. player remaining. His tracked tournament earnings: zero. He's playing for a piece of gold that would quite literally be the first recorded line on his Hendon Mob page.

Maanit Madan ($3,200 lifetime) and Benjamin Tomerlin ($670 lifetime) round out the players with any recorded cashes at all. William Fagerbakke, also at the final table, has no tracked earnings whatsoever.

Vitaly Kovyazin has $1,201 in lifetime tournament earnings — less than 3x his buy-in for this event.

Why You Should Be Watching

This is what makes the $400 Deepstacks appointment viewing. No one at this table has ever been here before. No one has a coach in the stands or a backer on the rail texting GTO adjustments. These are nine people grinding a $400 bullet at 4 a.m. in Las Vegas on July 3, and one of them is about to become a WSOP bracelet winner.

The field collapsed from 54 to 9 across a single session. Whatever stack information emerges as play continues, the story is already written: somebody with under $3,200 in lifetime earnings is going to put on a gold bracelet.

Stream coverage continues through the conclusion of the final table.