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)]

[Paluka]

Anyone know any of these guys online handles? Matusow's are well-known to be MrPokeJoke on Stars and I think he is dill pickle on UB.

[Kevmath]

The two remaining from PokerStars:

Daniel "Berka" Bergsdorf
Brad "Bogey54" Kondracki

From Bluesquare.com here's the Final Table Odds:

Black 9-2
Barch 5-1
Kanter 5-1
Matusow 11-2
Hachem 6-1
Bergsdorf 7-1
Dannenmann 7-1
Lazar 10-1
Kondracki 16-1

Kevin...

[2planka]

Dynasty - what level/blinds do they start at today? (CP refuses to load for me here at work).

[Kevmath]

About 40 minutes left of 10k Ante, 50k/100k blinds.

[Easy E]

So we don't get all of the questions again when CP doesn't have updates early on.

Unless Harrah's changes it, the cards will be dealt at 7:00 pm EDT (4 pm local)

[Legian]

Andy Black - Good story.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tour...writeup_id=267

[TylerD]

Very interesting story. Use the URL Instant UBB Code to post a link next time though.

[Ghazban]

Can anyone point me to a good picture of the big-denomination chips used at the ME final table?

[krimson]

Is 4pm "local" vegas time, or 2+2 time?

Also, I know this has been asked before but I lost the link in the sea of wsop threads. What is the site which is providing the live coverage like Stars did last year?