Leading the way into the final table is Internet phenom Vivek "psyduck" Rajkumar, who has racked up eight WSOP cashes – including one final table – and two WPT cashes in only two short years of playing tournament poker. He is followed closely by long-time poker pro Mark Seif with his two WSOP bracelets and $2 million in career earnings. Unfortunately for him, Rajkumar has almost two million chips more than him.

Sitting in third is Dan Heimiller who was the chip leader heading into the day and managed to keep himself close to the lead throughout the day and will be making his first WPT final table appearance in his 16-year poker tournament career. Heimiller is followed by those other guys we mentioned before.

Here are the official chip counts going into the final table:

1. Vivek Rajkumar — 6,480,000
2. Mark Seif — 4,665,000
3. Dan Heimiller — 3,360,000
4. Sang Kim — 3,085,000
5. Jason Strochak — 1,650,000
6. Andrew Knee — 1,475,000

Final table play begins in just a little bit and will wrap up when a champion has been crowned and the $1.4 million first-place prize awarded. If you want a piece of that poker tournament prize money for yourself, check out the online WPT satellites to win a $12,000 Player's Choice prize package to the upcoming WPT event of your choice.

Once the chairs were pushed back from the table last night, poker tournament veteran Dan Heimiller led the way with 2.8 million in chips. The evil soul-less ginger (as some would have you believe) is followed not-so-closely by the two noted online poker pros we also predicted would do well yesterday, Vivek "psyduck" Rajkumar and Thayer "thayer" Rasmussen. What? Wait, you didn't see that in our post? It's right there, you just kinda have to squint, tilt your head a bit and read between the lines.

Anyway, after a good night's sleep due to the short day, those three players plus poker pros Michael Binger, Steve Dannenman, Ted Forrest and Nam Le will all return to the Borgata poker room today to play toward the WPT televised final table and the $1.4 million first-place prize. Heimiller does hold a 1 million chip lead over Rajkumar in second place and 1.5 million over Rasmussen in third, so these players further down the leaderboard have an even more ridiculous task ahead of them than the two online guys. But, this is poker, so anything can happen, and usually does.

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Heading into Day 2 of the event, only 68 players remain out of the original crowd of 516, but among those players are poker pro Michael Binger and noted online poker players Vivek "psyduck" Rajkumar and Thayer "thay3r" Rasmussen, who led the field going into today's play. They will all be gunning to make the six-person WPT televised final table and walk away with the $1.4 million first-place prize.

Play will continue today until there are 27 players remaining, then the players will head out to take in the sights of <sarcasm>beautiful Atlantic City</sarcasm> before coming back tomorrow to continue their march toward the trophy and that potentially life-changing money.

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The Borgata Poker Open’s first event began on Wednesday and saw a massive field of 1,192 pay the $300 buy-in. With a prize pool of $357,600 event No.1 is looking like a good indicator that the rest of the 16-event series will be well attended and dripping with cash.

It’s tough to say whether this turnout marks growth over last year’s event No. 1 which only had 797 entrants but had a $500 buy-in that generated a larger prize pool of $398,500. When it comes to poker people tend to ascribe value using winnings so it might be tempting to say that the larger prize pool in the previous year indicates shrinkage. But if money’s going to be your only measuring stick then you would be left calling Jamie Gold (most tournament winnings) the greatest poker player in the world.

I’m not saying that he’s not, but I will say that most poker players would slap your face if you said that in public. So let’s just say that the Borgata has grown this year, shall we?

The Borgata Poker Open culminates with the $10,000 World Poker Tour event and its $5 million guaranteed prize pool.

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