2010 WSOP: Final Table Set For The Poker Players Championship

Event # 2 of the 2010 World Series of Poker is called The Poker Players Championship, and has an impressive buy-in of $50,000.

116 entrants joined the event, which featured several types of poker games - Seven Card Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball , Limit Hold'em, No Limit Hold'em, Pot limit Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or better. Sounds confusing to you? Well, that's the reason why they call it The Poker Players Championship because only the real true poker players who are experts in these games have the balls and talent to play, especially with a $50K buyin. If you're going to sit in this event, then you better be a master of 8 kinds of poker games.

Of the 116 entrants, 16 players made it into the money with the final table of the remaining 8 players to be played on 3PM June 2, 2010 PST at the Rio in Las Vegas for a first prize of $1.55 Million, the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy and a WSOP bracelet.

Of the 8 hopefuls, there is the brother tandem of Robert Mizrachi and Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi. It is only the second time in the history of the WSOP that a pair of brothers will be at the final table. The first time it happened was in the 2002 Pot Limit Omaha event where Ross and Barny Boatman were in the final table. Robert Mizrachi will hope to add another bracelet from the one he won in the 2007 $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha Event while brother Michael is looking for his first.

Also gunning for their first bracelets are David Baker, Mikael Thuritz, David Oppenheim and Vladmir Schemelev. Daniel Alaei won his first bracelet last year in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo World Championship, and will look to add a second. Meanwhile, veteran poker player and four-time bracelet winner John Juanda is looking for his fifth bracelet.

The seating assignments and chip stacks are as follows:

David Baker - 3,095,000
Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Vladimir Schemelev - 1,925,000
John Juanda - 2,620,000
Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
David Oppenheim - 460,000
Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000