Another report from the PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship as the $25,000 event that’s stunned the poker world reaches a final table, and two Platinum Passes are in with a shot of winning $5.1m.

Marc Rivera and Scott Baumstein

When the thought of creating the $25,000 PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship first came into view the innovators hoped that giving away 320 $30,000 Platinum Passes would create one or two Moneymaker type stories that could be used to ferry poker into more mainstream waters.

Well, the final table is here, and we do have two Platinum Pass winners who are guaranteed to send a wire to their bank for $509,000 and could still increase that to $5.1m. The people responsible for selling the narrative will have their fingers crossed.