WSOP Final Table: "Official" News, Results, and Discussion

[Dynasty]

A new World Series of Poker champion will be crowned when play resumes today at 4pm (Las Vegas time) at Binion's. The championship will be contested by eight "unknowns" and "bad boy" (or just misunderstood?) Mike Matusow.

Everybody will be a millionaire after this tournament. For the first time, everybody who made the final table will take home at least $1,000,000. Here are the payouts.

1st $7,500,000
2nd $4,250,000
3rd $2,500,000
4th $2,000,000
5th $1,750,000
6th $1,500,000
7th $1,300,000
8th $1,150,000
9th $1,000,000

Chip stacks are particularly even in the middle of the pack and the chip leader doesn't have nearly as commanding a lead as Greg Raymer had a year ago. Here are the seating assignments and chip stacks at the start of play.

Joseph Hachem - $5,420,000 (seat 1)
Andrew Black - $8,140,000 (seat 2)
Tex Barch - $9,330,000 (seat 3)
Daniel Bergsdorf - $5,270,000 (seat 4)
Mike Matusow - $7,410,000 (seat 5)
Aaron Kanter - $10,700,000 (seat 6)
Brad Kondracki - $1,180,000 (seat 7)
Steve Dannenmann - $5,460,000 (seat 8)
Scott Lazar - $3,370,000 (seat 9)]