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The Big Event Final Table LIVE

No Limit Hold’em Event No. 5
MAIN EVENT

Buy-In: $4750.00 + $250.00
Prize Pool: $1,921,327

Entries: 417
Players Left 8

Average Chip Stack 1,563,750
Total Chips 12,510,000

After just over five hours of play and the exit of David Paredes in 9th place, The Big Event No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event #5) Final Table is set. The final eight players will return on March 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm to resume play at Level 23 (Blinds 12,000 / 24,000 Ante 2,000) as they complete for the top prize of $500,000, the trophy and championship bragging rights. Also, for the first time in Bicycle Casino history, the final table will be webcast onLive at the Bike and viewers can tune in at 2:30 pm PST viaLiveattheBike.com.

Live at the Bike is the first and only live cash poker game captured specifically for the web and is webcast direct from the world famous Bicycle Casino. Live at the Bike is unlike anything you've ever seen on television. Now with 17 cameras in and around the specially designed Live at the Bike table, viewers get a first-hand look at the reality of live cash game poker.


Seat	Player	Chips
1	Govert Metaal	149,000
2	Taylor von Kriegenbergh	1,810,000
3	Santiago Nadal	943,000
4	Jeremy Ausmus	4,008,000
5	Bryan Leskowitz	1,087,000
6	Joe Hachem	1,666,000
7	Jose De Noronha	568,000
8	Victor Ramdin	2,279,000

Poker enthusiasts can watch as the Main Event final tablists are filmed live (with a 90 minute delay) from the Plaza of the Bicycle Casino. Viewers will see the players from multiple camera angles and hear what they are saying at the table, uncut and unedited. The specialized Live at the Bike table boasts built in pocket cams that may be used at each players' option to show the internet audience their hole cards. Commentators (Nichoel Jurgens, Bart Hanson, David Tuchman, andAdam Strohlman) will be conducting player interviews and calling the action, they will also explain game theory and answer forum questions posted in the live chat forum or via twitter (@liveatthebike).

At the table will be Jeremy Ausmus (@JeremyAusmus), who is leading the pack with 30% of the chips in play, while Govert Metaal will take his seat with approximately 6 big blinds. Second in chips is Victor Ramdin (@victorramdin), who took the chiplead early in the tournament, but was surpassed by Ausmus when he steamrolled his way up from the shortstack in just a few levels of play. 2005 WSOP Champ Joe Hachem (@JoeHachem) will also take his seat and is sure to be entertaining as prior to the final table, Hachem had been keeping his fans up to date with enthusiastic tweets like, "First break, 18 left still have 600k. Totally focused on final table and nothing else, Bring it on!" Rounding out the table are Taylor von Kriegenbergh, Bryan Leskowitz (@BryanLeskowitz), Santiago Nada (@Nadal08), Jose De Noronha. All eight finalists are exceptional poker players and, for the first time ever, poker fans all over the world will be able to simultaneously experience the intensity a high-stakes tournament final table hand-for-hand, pot-for-pot as they sweat their top pick to for 2011 Big Event Champion.