Kevin Song Leads The Closer Final Table With 33.4M Chips

Kevin Song, a one-time WSOP bracelet winner with $2.43M in lifetime cashes and 21 career final tables, holds a commanding chip lead of 33.4 million heading into the final table of Event #93, the $1,500 Closer, at the Horseshoe.

Song's stack dwarfs the rest of the field. Lithuania's Arturas Astrauskas sits second at 20.6M — a WSOPC ring winner with $180K in career earnings and three prior final tables. Stephen Decker of the United States holds 16.4M in his first WSOP final table appearance, carrying just $27K in lifetime results into the biggest spot of his career.

France's Safwane Bahri, who has one prior final table and $206K in lifetime earnings, sits fourth at 14.2M. Todd Lewis rounds out the top five at 13.5M.

The final table marks a sharp reshuffling from the two-table stage, where South Korea's Minjoo Cho held the chip lead at 7.625M. Cho's name does not appear among the final nine's reported top stacks. Also eliminated on the bubble of the final table: bracelet winner Jonathan Pastore of France, who entered the day with $2.43M in career earnings and seven final tables, and India's Ankit Ahuja, who carried the deepest résumé in the field at $1.88M in lifetime cashes and 13 final tables.

None of the nine remaining players besides Song hold a WSOP bracelet. A first gold bracelet is on the line for eight of them when play resumes.