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:

1st: [...]

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

With 21 players left the tournament was put into hand for hand play since the pay jump from 21st to 20th was a difference in $65,370 and $49,025 and the three remaining tables were all playing short handed with 7 players each.  Hand for hand play lasted for about 25 minutes until Matt Hyman ended [...]

The day got off to a great start for Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke but it didn’t take longs for things to take a turn for the worse.  Jimmy got an early double up when his AK outran the pocket jacks of Christian “charder” Harder but in a role reversal a little later in the level Harder [...]

Now back from dinner break and midway through Level 4, play continued in the Amazon room with the blinds at 150/300 and an ante of 25. And then there was madness.
One of the chip leaders at the end of last level, Brian “tsarrast” Rast (pictured at left), has been experiencing a rough go for [...]