The 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship drew 809 entries to the $5,250 buy-in tournament to put nearly $4,000,000 up for grabs.

It is down to the last nine players and they are set to take the final table stage on Tuesday at 1 pm in front of the Poker Night in America live-stream cameras.

High Roller regular Sean Winter comes into the last day with the chip lead with former November Niner and recent WSOP bracelet winner Joseph Cheong not far behind. It’s a stacked, talented final table and here they are.

Seat 1: Ben Farrell
Chip Count – 975,000

Ben Farrell is a 30-year-old former I.T. technician from Birmingham, England who is now a professional poker player. And he’s doing quite well, as he’s already made five final tables in the past four months, including two victories. In just those five events, he’s cashed for $411,160, and here at his sixth final table he can more than double that number.

Seat 2: Jordan Fisch
Chip Count – 2,220,000

Jordan Fisch is a 29-year-old part-time real estate investor from Toronto, Canada, who also earns a living as a part-time poker. Fisch focused on cash games for the past decade, and has just started playing tournaments seriously for the past month. Needless to say, this final table guarantees him the biggest cash of his one-month tournament career.

Seat 3: Joseph Cheong
Chip Count – 6,595,000

Finishing third in the WSOP Main Event in the post-Moneymaker era will often define someone’s career, but 33-year-old Joseph Cheong has built his career far beyond that — if you ignore the $4.1 million he earned in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Cheong still has $9.97 million in career earnings.

Among his many other accomplishments (16 victories on his tournament record), Cheong has won two trophies here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, and on his bio sheet he highlighted his victory in a $570 event back in January at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, which he proudly won outright.

Seat 4: Brandon Carl
Chip Count – 2,480,000

Brandon Carl is a 27-year-old software engineer from Yorba Linda, California, with less than $25,000 in career live tournament earnings. This is just the fourth final table of Carl’s recreational poker career, and the previous three had buy-ins of $600, $110, and $85. Final tabling this $5,250 SHRPO Championship is obviously on a completely different level.

Seat 5: Sean Winter
Chip Count – 9,490,000

Sean Winter is a professional poker player who is a regular in high rollers and super high rollers, and he has racked up more than $12.9 million in live tournament earnings dating back to 2011.

On a more personal level, Winter’s wife is pregnant with their first child, and the baby is due in just a couple of weeks.

Seat 6: Shalom Elharrar
Chip Count – 4,680,000

Shalom Elharrar is a 31-year-old business owner from Israel who stressed on his bio sheet that he only plays poker for fun. What business does Elharrar own? It’s Paranoia Horror Maze Miami, which the Miami Herald described as “part haunted, part escape room,” and their website proudly highlights the number of people who have chickened out of the experience before finishing — 3,118 and counting.

When it comes to poker, the highlight of Elharrar’s recreational career was finishing seventh in this summer’s WSOP Little One for One Drop, where he earned $177,639. On a personal note, Elharrar is engaged to be married.

Seat 7: Nick Schwarmann
Chip Count – 940,000

Nick Schwarmann is a 31-year-old professional poker player from Daytona Beach that has recently been turning his eyes to the business world with a couple of different ventures. The most interesting is the Flight Gymnastics Academy, in Ormond Beach (just down the road from Daytona Beach), which he owns with his brother, and they pride themselves on working to benefit kids and the community they call home.

Schwarmann started his career as an online player, but once Black Friday hit, he transitioned to live poker, focusing primarily on cash games. But Schwarmann has also had some success in tournaments, including a final table in the 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship, where he finished seventh to earn $80,771. And this final table in the SHRPO Championship guarantees that he will break the $1 million mark in career live tournament earnings.

Seat 8: Giuliano Lentini
Chip Count – 2,560,000

Giuliano Lentini is a 34-year-old professional poker player who is a former equity trader from Manhattan, New York. Lentini has had some success in tournaments, final tabling two WSOP Circuit main events in the past year, finishing third for $76,269 and sixth to earn $61,528. If he finishes eighth or higher at this final table, it’ll be the biggest cash of his career.

Seat 9: Jerry Robinson
Chip Count – 2,435,000

Jerry Robinson is a 41-year-old developer/builder from Raleigh, North Carolina. He doesn’t consider himself a professional poker player, but Robinson is having a strong 2019, as this is his sixth final table in an event with a buy-in of $3,500 or higher. Highlights from the past few months include a sixth-place finish at WPT Rolling Thunder in March, a 10th-place finish at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in April, and a sixth-place finish on the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour last month. On a personal note, Robinson is married with two young sons.