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Poker pro David Benyamine is at the WPT televised final table of the Bellagio Cup IV. (Bodog Beat Image)

Well, it's been about 48 hours since the decidedly non-star-studded final table of the 2008 WSOP was set and the WPT has already produced a final table that contains several big names. No pressure WSOP, but how's about stepping it up a bit?

Anyway, the WPT televised final table for the Bellagio Cup IV was set very early this morning and six players (remember, the WPT goes down to six) will be battling it out for the $1,673,770 first-place prize. The leader of those six is noted online poker pro Mike "SirWatts" Watson with about 5 million in chips. He is followed by poker pros David Benyamine, just 200k behind at 4.8 million, and John "The Razor" Phan, who has 4.5 million. The bottom half of the chip counts belongs to online poker pro Luke "IWEARGOGGLES" Staudenmaier, poker pro Ralph Perry and Gabriel Thaler.

Yesterday's play began with 32 players and went on for more than 12 hours. During that time, we lost David "The Dragon" Pham, Hevad "Rain" Kahn, Barry Greenstein and Daniel Alaei before cementing the final six. As a sidenote, Bodog poker pro Justin Bonomo cashed in this event, finishing 93rd for $19,390.

The WPT final table gets underway in the Grand Ballroom at the Bellagio at 5pm local time, so come back here for updates on all the action. If you want a chance to become a WPT-Made Millionaire, then head over to Bodog Poker and check out all of the WPT online poker qualifiers and get the chance to travel to exotic locations and play in world-class poker tournaments.