The final 36 players at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic are taking their seats and getting ready to shuffle up and deal. Nine of these players will walk home empty-handed, but the final 27 are all guaranteed a minimum payout of $28,569. Today play will continue for five levels or until 10 players remain. Blinds will begin at 5,000/10,000 ante 1,000.

Daniel Alaei leads the field with 1.6 million and his next closest competitor is Josh Arieh with 1.1 milloin. P5ers Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen, Chad “lilholdem954″ Batista, Brent “BHanks11″ Hanks, Matt “AllInAt420″ Stout, Joe “BigEgypt” Elpyaa, Amit “amak316″ Makhija and Carter “ckingusc” King are just some of the players who remain in the field.

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