Zobian Leads the $1,500 Freezeout Final Table — Live Now

Nine players are seated at the WSOP Event #65 final table right now at the Horseshoe, and the most decorated player in the field isn't the chip leader.

Aram Zobian — one bracelet, three Circuit rings, 42 career final tables, $5.27 million in lifetime earnings — sits with 2,675,000 chips. That's a playable stack but far from dominant. The reason to watch: Zobian has been here before, dozens of times, and he's hunting bracelet number two in a format that doesn't offer a second bullet.

The Freezeout Factor

This is a freezeout. No re-entries. Every player at this table survived a single starting stack through the entire field. That changes the texture of a final table — nobody bought their way back.

The chip leader is Cohen Nethanel, a French player with 8,125,000 chips and just $1,440 in prior WSOP earnings. Behind him, Octavio Borra of Argentina (5,900,000), Kyle Lin (5,550,000), and Julian Eibel of Germany (5,375,000) all have stacks that dwarf Zobian's. None of them have a bracelet. None have a ring. Their combined lifetime WSOP earnings don't crack $55,000.

Why This Is Worth Your Screen

The gap between Zobian's résumé and everyone else's is the whole story. He's the short stack among the top five but the only player at the table who has closed one of these before. Nethanel has nearly six times the chips and roughly 0.03% of the experience.

That asymmetry — a proven closer fighting from underneath against a table of first-timers sitting on big stacks — is exactly the kind of final table that produces a memorable sweat.

The stream is live now from the Horseshoe. Cards are in the air.