It's Go Time!

Antoine Saout Media Day Interview

The pandemonium inside the Penn and Teller Theater would likely remind most people of a World Series of Baseball Game 7 or a World Cup in Soccer. However, the excitement that has fans wrapped around nearly the entire length of the Rio Casino hallway, even though the Penn and Teller Theater is already filled to maximum capacity, is the World Series of Poker!

As the players re-stack their seats at the table that will ultimately decide their fate in the Main Event today, lets take a look at the breakdown of where the players are seated today, as well as where their chips left off in the Main Event on that unforgettable day July 15, 2009 at 10:59PM:

Starting Field: 6,494

Total Final Table Prize Pool: $27,220,989

First Place Money: 8,547,042

Guaranteed Cash: $1,263,602

Seating Assignments and Chip Counts:

Seat 1: Darvin Moon (58,930,000)

Seat 2: James Akenhead (6,800,000)

Seat 3: Phil Ivey (9,765,000)

Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel (12,390,000)

Seat 5: Steven Begleiter (29,885,000)

Seat 6: Eric Buchman (34,800,000)

Seat 7: Joseph Cada (13,215,000)

Seat 8: Antoine Saout (9,500,000)

Seat 9: Jeff Shulman (19,580,000)

Now of course we will be bringing you all the action here today, with a special focus on our own Team Everest Poker Pro Antoine Saout! Antoine has been in Las Vegas vacationing with friends since late October, and while he calls Saint Martin Des Champs, France his home, he is excited to make the WSOP Main Event Final Table his home for the next 72 hours or so, long enough to get heads up and take down the first place prize.

Stay Tuned as the tournament director announces all the Final Table participants and prepares to have a special guest announce "Shuffle Up and Deal!"