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Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka Looking to “Flush” Competition at WPT Bellagio Cup V*


Faraz 'The-Toilet' Jaka (not pictured above) is looking to dump the rest of the final table and claim his first WPT title today.

Faraz 'The-Toilet' Jaka (not pictured above) is looking to dump the rest of the final table and claim his first WPT title today.

Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka continued his dominance yesterday of the WPT Bellagio Cup V, increasing his chip lead as they played down to the TV final table.

Jaka, whose name we still wouldn’t want to see on a airline passenger manifesto, is stacked at 5,041,000. He’s followed by Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith, who has continued his good run from the WSOP, with 2,992,000.

The rest of the final table is filled out by Alec Torelli (2,623,000), Erik Seidel (2,170,000), Christopher Sonesson (1,671,000), and Alexandre Gomes (1,586,000).

Interestingly or not interesting at all depending on how much you care about these types of things, Erik Seidel said in this interview that he thinks this is “the toughest final table the WPT’s ever had.” This one and this one might beg to differ, but whatever.

Follow the final table action online starting at 4 p.m. PT here.

* Uh oh. We’re going there. Let’s hope he doesn’t “stink up” the joint at the final table.

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Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka Leads On Day Whatever Of Bellagio Cup V


Miranda Kerr's new Victoria's Secret photos have little to nothing to do with poker, which means they have something in common with our brains after six-plus weeks at the WSOP.

Miranda Kerr's new Victoria's Secret photos have little to nothing to do with poker, which means they have something in common with our brains after six-plus weeks at the WSOP.

We ain’t gonna lie, we’re nowhere near the Bellagio right now, and after a month and a half of covering the 2009 WSOP, we’re beat. But we’ll feign at least some interest in the WPT Bellagio Cup V, which is going on right now and drew a ridiculously low, Season 6 Tunica-like 268 players. 

And by feign interest we mean copy and paste the current chipleaders from the WPT site. There are ten remaining. They play down to the TV final table, which takes place tomorrow. Faraz Jaka, who we’ll add to the list of names we wouldn’t want to see on an airline passenger manifesto (new WCP club in the works?), has had the chip lead the past couple days. 

Here they are: Faraz Jaka (3,299,000), Justin Smith (2,620,000), Alec Torelli (1,919,000), Erik Seidel (1,799,000), Alexandre Gomes (1,713,000), Ray Taylor (1,085,000), Christopher Sonesson (786,000), Mimi Tran (690,000), Sam Stein (666,000), Pavel Reshetov (507,000).

Follow the action at the Bellagio Cup VI here. View more of Miranda Kerr’s new Victoria’s Secret photos here.

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