The WPT Championship is down to the final 10 players and the playdown day has just kicked off.  The action for today will continue down to the final 6 that will make up the members of the televised final table.  Here are the payouts the final 10 are battling for:

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1.) Scotty Nguyen - 5,880,000
2.) Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko - 5,105,000
3.) Christian “charder” Harder - 4,650,000
4.) Justin Young - 4,220,000
5.) Shannon Shorr - 3,155,000
6.) Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 3,025,000
7.) Eugene Katchalov - 2,385,000
8.) Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier - 1,965,000
9.) Ran Azor - 1,810,000
10.) Bruno Fitoussi - 1,615,000

The fourth day of play at the WPT Championship turned out to be a short one.  The schedule was for 5 levels or down to 10 players, whichever came first.  With one minute left on the clock for the third level of play Jennifer Harman was eliminated in 11th place when her aces were cracked [...]

Tournament poker can be brutal, and Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (right) took a brutal beat deep in the WPT Championship to see his shot at the $2 million first prize ended with a 20th place finish for $65,370.  Johnson had moved all in after Jeff Madsen raised to 95k, Justin Young called and Brian “tsarrast” Rast [...]