The best two players left in the field also happen to hold the number one and two spots on the leader board and have a significant edge over the remaining players. The winner is going to walk away with $771,106. Your standings and chip counts for the final table are:

1. Dan Heimiller (4,155,000)
2. Steve Sung (3,395,000)
3. Vilandos Panayote (1,940,000)
4. James Matz III (1,885,000)
5. Jeff Oakes (1,680,000)
6. Lary Sidebotham (1,500,000)
7. Phong Huynh (1,310,000)
8. Nathan Mullen (1,120,000)
9. Danny Fuhs (965,000)

The $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Event has also reached its final table. Event 5 also had a strong turnout with 809 players starting the event. An Tran and Jason Mercier are the two biggest names left playing, but the lead is held by Kevin Iacofano. He only had one WSOP cash under his belt and it was a 53rd place finish in a NL event. It will be interesting to see how he handles the final table pressure. Your final tables chip counts and standing are:

1. Kevin Iacofano (770,000)
2. Jonathon Tare (639,000)
3. An Tran (445,000)
4. Jason Mercier (384,400)
5. Dario Alioto (315,000)
6. Matt Giannetti (311,000)
7. Seven Burkholder (263,000)
8. Chris Biondino (182,000)

Event 6, The $10,000 7 Card Stud World Championship is the third final table of the day. There are only 11 players remaining and when this tournament gets back up, expect some chips to be flying with the remaining pros putting extreme pressure on the rookies. There are still some huge names left and this tournament is the best shot of a big name pro taking down a bracelet so far. Even though Negreanu is short stacked, do not count him out if he gets a couple of decent hands early. However, the smart money should be on Lisandro as he is sitting pretty and playing great cards. Rankings are chip counts are as follows:

1. Eric Drache (785,000)
2. Hasan Habib (593,000)
3. Freddie Ellis (580,000)
4. Jeff Lisandro (524,000)
5. Ville Wahlbeck (472,000)
6. Max Pescatori (401,000)
7. Ivan Schertzer (368,000)
8. Gret Mueller (208,000)
9. Daniel Negreanu (191,000)
10. Ray Dehkarghani (141,000)
11. Tim Phan (45,000)

In other tournaments…

Event 7, $1,500 NL Hold’em, started out with another large field. 2791 players showed up and almost 80% of them have been shown the door so far. The pro carnage in this tournament was worse than usual. One thing you can always count on though is an early exit from Chris Moneymaker. Once again, he busts out early and does not make the money. In addition to Moneymaker, Ferguson, Juanda, Deeb and Rousso are all looking on from the rail. 297 players will make the money and top prize is $666,727.

Event 8, the $2,500 Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball (No Limit) has had one of the smallest fields of the series so far. Only 148 players signed up and it would be highly surprising to see anyone but a pro take this one down. Mostly because the game is a little off the wall and many people don’t have a clue how to play it. If you ever want a real shot at a bracelet, learn how to play stud, razz and triple draw and you will find yourself in small fields that you just may be able to sneak your way through. Still standing in this event are the likes of Phil Ivey, Erik Lindgren, Freddy Deeb and Phil Hellmuth. The biggest surprise has to be Negreanu going out early as he had to be one of the favorites to take this one down.

Two more tournaments will kick off today so there will be plenty of action to catch up by the end of the night. Keep coming back for the latest at the 2009 World Series of Poker!