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Poker pro Gavin Smith was the final table bubble boy at the WSOP Circuit event in Tunica. (Bodog Beat Image)

The WSOP Circuit events just ain't what they used to be. Big name pros used to come out, there were TV cameras, and now the only people following the Circuit are dedicated poker tournament reporters like Owen from PokerListings and the PokerNews army. However, thanks to them we get to know what's going on down there because there's no way in hell we're going to Tunica ourselves.

Two days ago, 154 entrants ponied up their $5,000 buy-ins to enter in the event and generated a total prizepool of $735,900. 145 eliminations later and there are now only nine players remaining to battle it out for the $183,974 first-place prize and one of them is in commanding position to take that home.

Online poker pro Matt "Allinat420″ Stout holds a commanding lead over the final table with more than double the chips of Jeremy Byrum, who is currently sitting in second place. In fact, if you added second and third place together, you still wouldn't have enough chips to cover Stout. So, while the final table seems like a mere formality at this point, this is poker, so you never know.

Here are the full final table chip counts.

1. Matt Stout – 1,000,500
2. Jeremy Byrum – 404,500
3. Kai Landry – 375,000
4. Leonard Eidson – 375,000
5. Mike Leah — 335,000
6. Glynn Hyde – 155,000
7. Brian McCoy – 150,200
8. David Dao – 150,000
9. Frank Wyville – 138,500

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