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The Main Event of the World Series of Poker has finally played through its 7,319 player field to arrive at a final table of 9. The November Nine will resume their play at the Penn & Teller Theatre to crown the final champion of the summer series in the 2nd largest live poker tournament field ever assembled. The lead story is the continuing resurgence of poker superstar, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, who enters into the final table 7th in chips with more than 14 million. In what was already a fantastic Main Event run for every player named Mizrachi (all four brothers cashed in the Main Event, which set a WSOP record), The Grinder looks to continue his 2010 hot streak. After winning the first open event of the summer in the $50,000 Player Championship, Mizrachi is aiming to cement his name among the games elite with a win on Poker’s greatest stage, and an almost $9 million 1st place prize. Here’s a look at the final table chip counts and his table mates that he’ll have when play resumes in November:

Jason Senti – 7,625,00
Joseph Cheong – 23,525,000
John Dolan – 46,250,000
Jonathan Duhamel – 65,975,000
Michael Mizrachi – 14,450,000
Matthew Jarvis – 16,700,000
John Racener – 19,050,000
Fillipo Candio – 16,400,000
Soi Nguyen – 9,650,000

The rundown to the final table included a number of exciting hands, including two separate instances of Aces getting cracked, in which the Amazon Room exploded in excitement. The television cameras were there with the action, and audiences will have an opportunity to view the best hands when ESPN begins televising their WSOP Coverage beginning tomorrow on the World Wide Leader. But for now, the debate rages on as to who will be crowned the next world champion of poker.

The WSOP continued to sparkle in the news this week outside of the main event, by releasing the 2010-2001 WSOP-Circuit schedule with some revamped areas and some significant changes. There will be 12 stops on the circuit this season with the first on coming in August at Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa. Considerably larger fields are expected at the series of events as their will now be a cumulative rankings system throughout the season awarding points for each WSOP-C “Ring” open-event. 100 player will be qualifying through this ranking system to play in a season-ending national championship tournament culminating with a coveted WSOP Bracelet. There will also be 4 regional WSOP-C championship $10,000 Buy in events, plus two hours of national television coverage per stop. But in perhaps the best news for WSOP-C players, the structures and payouts at all the events will be standardized, and the Main Events, outside the regional championships, will see the buy-ins lowered to $1,500, offering many more opportunities to play.

Ted Forest showed up at the WSOP lean and fit, in the midst of his prop bet with Mike Matusow and Justin “BoostedJ” Smith. Forest had $2 million on the line as he jumped on the scale and weighed in at 130 pounds, which meant that he’d lost the necessary 50 pounds prior to July 13th.

Finally, September will signal the close of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour with a $5,000 buy-in Grand Final from September 22nd though 26th at the City Center Casinio in Rosario, Argentina. LAPT has also announced the final schedule for LAPT Brazil Poker Festival which will take place August 4th through 8th in Florianopolis at the Costao de Santinho Resort. Buy-ins begin at just $120 with a rebuy event that guarantees $45,000, and a Main Event with a $2,700 buy-in, as well as the first ever pot-limit Omaha event in the LAPT series.

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