Meet the Final Seven
Although the official final table will be set when when one more player makes his exit, we thought we'd let you know a little bit about each player seated at the felt in front of us.
Seat 1: David Chiu is a 49-year-old poker pro from China who resides in Rowland Heights, California. He cashed in the 2009 WSOP six times and has four WSOP bracelets. Chiu's lifetime career earnings is $6,758,729.
Seat 2: Jameson Painter is from Goodfield, Illinois. He is not a stranger to the WSOP, he finished in eighth place at the 2009 WSOP and also cashed in 2007.
Seat 3: Leonard Martin was the runner-up in the 2007 WSOP 2-7 triple draw lowball rebuy event. He has $147,000 in career lifetime earnings and is looking to take home a bracelet.
Seat 4: Raphael Zimmerman resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has three WSOP cashes and finished in sixth place in this same event last year. He has a lifetime cash total of $167,817.
Seat 5: Don McNamera currently resides in Menlo Park, California. He has two previous cashes in the WSOP. If he makes the "official" final table, it will be his second. In February finished in second place in an Omaha 8 or better event at the LA Poker Classic. His lifetime cashes are $133,544.
Seat 6: Peter Gelencser comes to us from Budapest, Hungary. He cashed twice in the WSOP last year and barring an exit in seventh place, this will be his first official WSOP final table.
Seat 7: Shunjiro Uchida is a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2008 he finished second in the limit 2-7 lowball event. He has $207,683 in career cashes.