There were 7,319 poker players entered into the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. The final table of 9 players will resume play after 110 days on Saturday, November 6^th at noon PST in the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They will play down to the final two players and they will finish it off on Monday starting at 8:00 PM PST in the same place. The seat assignments are as follows:

All but one of the players is in their 20’s. The old man at the table is 37 year old Cuong Nguyen. Nguyen is a Medical Supply Salesman and the only non-pro in the field. Six of the players are from the USA, two are from Canada, and one is from Italy. The chip leader is Jonathan Duhamel from Canada. No Canadian has ever won the WSOP Main Event however Canadians won 5 bracelets in the 2010 WSOP. The players will win:
 

There is one notable poker name in the field, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. He will start out in 7^th place in chips but, because of the seating assignment, he will have position on Jonathan Duhamel, the chip leader, for the balance of play. He is hoping to fair better than last year’s notable name at the final table, Phil Ivey. Mizrachi has already won a bracelet earlier in this year’s WSOP. Mizrachi has an opportunity to become the highest career earner in WSOP history.

The November 9 “bubble” player, the player who finished in the 10^th spot, was Brandon Steven of Wichita, KS, a 35 year old owner of an automobile dealership. Steven busted out holding A - K against Matthew Jarvis’ Q - Q when his hand failed to improve. Brandon Steven had to console himself with prize money of $635,011. That final hand was dealt at 5:45AM after a day of play that lasted a grueling 17 hours and 45 minutes.