WPT Finale: Meet Your Final Table Members

One World Poker Tour event is complete and it’s almost time to get the $10,000 WPT Finale final table underway with six very talented players.

The final table players have combined to earn nearly $30,000,000 in career tournament cash, three WSOP bracelet winners, two WSOP November Niners, a WPT Champions Club member, two WSOP Circuit rings, SHRP titles, and all but one player with more than $1,000,000 earned. Of course, one of the November Niners is Ryan Riess who turned his 2013 appearance into a WSOP Main Event bracelet.

Here are your six players who will return at noon to play on the live-streamed final table trying to win their way into WPT Tournament of Champions along with more than $700,000.


Seat 1: Tim West
Chip count: 1,995,000

From San Francisco with more than $3.5 million in career earnings, West is making his second WPT final table. He owns two WSOP Circuit rings, a 2012 Venetian DSE title, and a third-place finish in last year’s Showdown $25,500 High Roller.


Seat 2: Jason Koon
Chip count: 1,030,000

From Weston WV with close to $8.5 million in live poker earnings, Koon will sit down at his third WPT final table. He won $1,000,000 as the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open champion and another $1.65 million for winning the PokerStars Championship Bahamas Super High Roller in January.


Seat 3: Ryan Riess
Chip count: 3,090,000

From Michigan with $9.3 million earned in his career, Riess is most well known as the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. He also owns an SHRP trophy from the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Six-Max tournament.


Seat 4: Cliff Josephy
Chip count: 1,855,000

From Long Island, NY with $6.66 million in career tournament earnings, Josephy has three WSOP bracelets and finished in second place in the 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event. For his top tournament payout, he cashed big with a third place finish in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event.


Seat 5: Terry Shumacher
Chip count: 1,385,000

From Verviers Belgium with over $200,000 in earnings, Shumacher earned the biggest score of his career for winning the 2017 Aussie Millions Shot Clock Six-Max tournament for $110,000.


Seat 6: Alan Sternberg
Chip count: 4,605,000

From Belmore, NY with $1.2 million in career earnings, Sternberg is a member of the WPT Champions Club for his 2011 Bay101 Shooting Star victory. He picked up more than $1 million for the title and this is his first recorded tournament cash since 2014.