A total of 27 players have made their way to Saturday’s Xpressbet Fun in the Sun final table, squaring off for a prize pool of $16,202.50. Five weekly leaders qualified among the six play-in rounds held in July and August, including dual qualifiers Gordon Maruya, Frank Nguyen and Paul Jannis. Competitors matched wits on races from Saratoga and Del Mar with 827 entries now whittled down to the final 30. This will be the fourth season with Fun in the Sun ending in the final table format.

Saturday’s final table players again will tackle the final five races at Saratoga and the first five races on the Del Mar card. The top five will cash out the $16,202.50 prize pool with 55% to the winner, 25% to the runner-up, 10% for the third-place finisher and 5% each to places fourth and fifth. Throughout the Fun in the Sun season, 100% of all contest fees have been returned to players in weekly and final table prize money.

Here’s the field for the Fun in the Sun final table (including their weekly bankroll totals):

Week 1 Qualifiers
Darelene Wolfson $336.00
Brett Wiener $286.50
Jason Phillips $280.00
Gordon Maruya $254.00
Paul Jannis $225.50

Week 2 Qualifiers
Joe Tambasco $298.00
David Nelson $264.00
Phil Caccamise $210.00
Scott Houston $197.50
Nicholas Alpino $176.00
 
Week 3 Qualifiers
Greg Knepper $361.50 (season-high)
Paul Jannis $345.50
Karla Hilbert $318.50
Alexander Bertram $309.00
Susan Velguth $281.00

Week 4 Qualifiers
Zack Carlson $358.00
William Blakeman $321.00
Frank Nguyen $300.50
Gordon Maruya $276.00
Joe Jarvie $271.50

Week 5 Qualifiers
Frank Nguyen $251.50
William Epp $248.50
John Wonkovich $232.50
Steven Kern $228.00
Donald Murdock $215.00

Week 6
Stephen Stange $322.00
Jeffery Coleman $287.00
Thomas Carroll $285.00
William Berard $277.00
Robert Rusden $260.00

Past Final Table winners include Robert Rosen (2020), Wayne Tam (2021) and Kevin Saunders (2022), the latter catapulting from a weekly fifth-place finish to take the top prize of more than $9,700 a year ago.