Team Bodog's Danilo Paulsen at Irish Poker Open Final Table

Team Bodog online poker player Danilo Paulsen is at the final table of the 2008 Irish Poker Open. (Bodog Beat Image)

The final table of the 2008 Irish Poker Open will be getting underway any minute now, and Team Bodog online poker player Danilo "kingkai" Paulsen is sitting in fourth place. What started with 667 players four days ago is now down to only six remaining players and just a few more hours of play.

The Norweigian online poker player battled through one of the toughest and largest European poker fields in recent memory, outlasting poker pros like legend Doyle Brunson, his son, Todd Brunson, JJ Liu, Sorel "imper1um" Mizzi, Roland de Wolfe, Julian Thew and Irish poker heroes Andy Black, Alan Smurfit, 2007 WSOP bracelet winner Ciaran O'Leary and Padraig Parkinson.

The final table participants will all have an uphill battle to catch chip leader Neil Channing who has almost a third of all the chips in play with 2,748,000. Sitting in second place is Donal Norton with less than half that amount of chips at 1,167,000. In third place is Tim Blake with 912,000, just barely ahead of Team Bodog's Paulsen, who is sitting at 716,000. The two short-stacks are Edwin Tournier (574,000) and Thomas Dunwoodie (544,000).

The telecast of this final table will be turned around with lightning speed and broadcast later tonight on RTE, so if you've got a satellite dish, tune it in and check out the action. Actually, we're not sure how that would work, so it would probably be better for you to head back here for an update once play wraps up.