In 2016, he finished 344th for $32,130 in the WSOP Main Event. While Farah doesn’t have a tournament win in limited cashes, he does have one nice accomplishment on poker’s biggest stage. Certainly, he’ll be looking to top event that with a big breakthrough performance here. One of those came last year at this same event at Borgata, where he finished 75th for $8,623.įarah, 48, has career live tournament winnings of $80,062 and making this final table has already eclipsed that total with just a sixth-place paying out $154,734. On the WPT, he has two previous cashes for almost $23,000.

Farah may have the slimmest tournament poker record of those in the field. This becomes the biggest WPT cash and first final table on the tour for this player from Fairfield, New Jersey.

O’Hara likes to play big pots, has plenty of skills, and will certainly be a tough customer at the final table. He began playing poker at age 13 with friends in the garage. When not playing poker, O’Hara enjoys powerlifting and watching sports. He added another title in 2017 in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em event at Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, Florida, for $51,750. More success followed and he hit paydirt a year later by winning the $2,500 Seminole Coconut Creek Championship for $212,830. His first six-figure score came in 2015 when he finished runner-up in a $25,400 event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open for $527,313. He’s now already topped that at Borgata.Ī regular on the Florida poker tournament scene since 2012, O’Hara has been playing professionally for eight years and has numerous final table appearances and nice cashes.

That includes a ninth-place finish in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio in Season XV for $89,875 for a total of more than $100,000 on the tour. This 25-year-old rounder from Coconut Creek, Florida, brings a big background in poker to Las Vegas, however, with more than $2.1 million in live tournament winnings. This marks O’Hara’s third WPT cash and first final table appearance. Here’s a look at the final players heading to Vegas and hoping for the title. The action will be filmed for broadcast on FOX Sports and will become the second WPT Season XVII final table played at the arena.Īlong with adding his name to the Champions Cup, the winner takes home $728,430 in cash, 1,400 points in the Hublot Player of the Year race, and a $15,000 seat in the season-ending Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions. The final table is set in the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open with the six players remaining set to play to a winner on March 13 at HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas at Luxor Hotel and Casino.