The World Series of Poker Main Event has reached the final table with more stories than a Hans Christian Andersen notebook, including Antoine Saout & Ben Lamb making repeat final table performances, and John Hesp making dreams come true for amateur players the world over.

World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year winners, bracelet winners, high stakes poker pros, former near misses, and 64-year olds who play once a month in a £10 rebuy at the local casino – this is the final table of the 2017 WSOP Main Event.

7,221 players entered, nine remain, and the ESPN scriptwriters couldn’t have done a better job if they were to handpick a cast worthy of this most amazing tournament.

Leading the way is Scott Blumstein with 27% of the chips in play. Blumstein is making his third WSOP cash of his career, with nothing much to shout about before this. Before locking up a million bucks, Blumstein had earned $312k playing live tournaments, with most of that coming in 2016 after defeating 2,368 entrants to capture the $200k first prize in the Deepstack event at the Borgata, in Atlantic City.