Winner to be Crowned in the 2024 WPT Prime Gold Coast Championship
Mar 25, 2025
Nine players remain in the 2025 WPT Prime Gold Coast Championship Event at The Star Gold Coast Casino out of a field of 1,106 entries and they will be competing for the biggest share of the AUD $1,918,500 (US $$1,203,091) prize pool as of noon local time. Besides the WPT Prime champion’s title and six-figure payday, the final nine hopefuls are also competing for an entry to the WPT World Championships in December as well.
It is an Aussie and Kiwi affair with Jiaxu “Josh” Chen topping leaderboard with a stack of 9,850,000, followed by Daniel Klinger (7,300,000). Among the notable finalists are Patrick Yazbeck (5,275,000), Michael Egan (5,100,000) and rising young gun Gary Lin (4,525,000).
There are 23:13 minutes left in level 27 at blinds of 50,000-100,000 with a big blind ante of 100,000 and all of the levels continue at a duration of 60 minutes until the heads-up stage, after which they are halved to 30 minutes.
Final Table Seat Assignments
Seat 1. Matthew Woodhall – 600,000 (6 bb)
Seat 2. Daniel Klinger – 7,300,000 (73 bb)
Seat 3. Wiremu Renata – 1,425,000 (14 bb)
Seat 4. Joshua McSwiney – 4,075,000 (41 bb)
Seat 5. Michael Egan – 5,100,000 (51 bb)
Seat 6. Joseph Antar – 6,125,000 (61 bb)
Seat 7. Jiaxu Chen – 9,850,000 (99 bb)
Seat 8. Gary Lin – 4,525,000 (45 bb)
Seat 9. Patrick Yazbeck – 5,275,000 (53 bb)
The WPT.com hand-for-hand coverage will provide all of the action from the final table. All of the nine finalists have locked up AU$32,001 (~US $20,068) for their efforts but with each elimination, the pay jumps will get steeper. Here is what they are competing for:
1st: AU$320,003* (~US $200,674*)
2nd: AU$213,333 (~US $133,781)
3rd: AU$157,726 (~US $98,910)
4th: AU$117,802 (~US $73,874)
5th: AU$88,892 (~US $55,744)
6th: AU$67,773 (~US $42,500)
7th: AU$52,218 (~US $32,746)
8th: AU$40,659 (~US $25,497)
9th: AU$32,001 (~US $20,068)
* The winner also receives the US $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
NOTE: For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of AU$1.00 = US $0.6271.
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