The $50 Gladiators Satellite Just Lost Three Players in 15 Minutes

Three players just busted from the $50 Gladiators of Poker Landmark Mega Satellite in under 15 minutes, and the eight who survived are now sitting on more equity than their entire poker careers have produced.

WSOP Event #468 went from 11 players to a final table of eight between 9:35 and 9:50 p.m. PT. That's one bust-out every five minutes — and the pace tells you exactly what you'd expect from a $50 buy-in satellite this deep: nobody is folding into a seat.

Most of these players have less in lifetime tournament cashes than a single dinner at SW Steakhouse.

Who's Still Alive

Lowell Sarrade leads the named players at the final table with $2,776 in lifetime tournament earnings — the most of anyone identified in this field. Pradeep Dewan ($600 lifetime) and Eduardo Espinosa Diaz ($630 lifetime) both survived the carnage from 11 to 8 and are still in.

David Batzer and Noam Shapira — an Israeli player — round out the identifiable names. Neither has recorded WSOP earnings on file.

Benjamin Barrows, who was among the 11 at the two-table mark with $269 in lifetime cashes, did not appear in the final-table snapshot. Whether he busted or simply fell off the named stack list isn't clear on stream.

Why This Table Is Worth Watching

The satellite awards seats into a larger WSOP event — meaning every player still alive is competing for a prize that dwarfs anything on their résumé. Sarrade's $2,776 lifetime total is the high-water mark at this table. Most of these players have never made a tracked final table.

The bust-out pace from 11 to 8 suggests the remaining players aren't interested in laddering carefully. At a $50 buy-in, the risk calculus is simple: the seat is everything, and the $50 is nothing.

Eight left. The stream is live from the Horseshoe.