A total of 1,179 entries were made within the" 2016 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event,":http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/6105-2016-2017-wpt-borgata-poker-open/1114437 surpassing the $3 million guarantee to construct a last prize pool of $3,773,979. From that massive starting field now only six players remain within the fight to become the newest WPT champion and take home the $821,811 first-place prize.

The chip leader with 15,735,000 of the 35.25 million chips in play is Farid Jattin. The Colombian poker player finished fifth on this year’s WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event for $238,070. He has had prior success in WPT events held on the Borgata, finishing sixth within the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open main event for $174,352 in 2014. With roughly 45 percent of the chips in play he has a superb opportunity to enhance on those finishes on this event.

Jattin is joined on the final table by two notable pros in 2012 World Series of Poker main event runner-up finisher Jesse Sylvia and previous online tournament superstar Zachary “HustlerGrune” Gruneberg. Gruneberg will enter the overall day in second chip position with 5,390,000, although his stack is purely roughly a 3rd of the dimensions of Jattin’s. Sylvia is the quick stack with 3,035,000 but he's hardly in panic mode, as which will be worth 30 big blinds with the players returning to limits of 50,000 – 100,000 with an ante of 10,000.

Play resumes at 4 p.m. Eastern standard time on Friday, Sept. 23. The general table can be recorded for TV broadcast and will also be live-streamed at the WPT Twitch account starting at 4:30 pm ET. The stream will feature commentary from poker pros Kane Kalas, Jamie Kerstetter, Michael Gagliano, and Nick Binger.

Here is a glance on the chip counts heading into the overall table:

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	Farid Jattin	15,735,000
2	Zachary Gruneberg	5,390,000
3	Taha Maruf	4,405,000
4	Chris Limo	3,460,000
5	Simon Lam	3,230,000
6	Jesse Sylvia	3,035,000

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