Televised Final Table Set For WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic

Poker pro Ted Forrest is one of the chip leaders at the final table of the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. (Bodog Beat Image)

It only took 72 hands and just over three hours for the field to shed three of of its nine participants and get down to the final six who will play the televised final table of the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. So, if you took the "over" on the three-hour line we put on it yesterday, you are the winner. Congratulations, you get the satisfaction of knowing you picked right.

There's not really a whole lot to say about the action yesterday as it went down pretty much as it "should have." The three short-stacks coming into the day - Michael Farris, Natale Kuey and Allen Bari - were also the three who went home, which makes the most sense.

The shortest stack, Farris, was the first to go out at the hands of Robert Richardson, then Andrew Barta sent Bari home in eighth place. Kuey tried desperately to hold on and managed to double-up through chip leader Erik Seidel but would meet his inevitable fate at the hands of Ted Forrest, ending the day and putting Forrest in second place.

Here are the full final table chip counts:

Erik Seidel — 3,820,000
Ted Forrest — 2,347,000
Adam Katz — 2,311,000
Andrew Barta — 1,522,000
Robert Richardson — 526,000
Frank Cieri — 403,000

Play gets underway again at 5 p.m. EST and will continue until the victor is crowned. As you can see, the two most accomplished pros are atop of the leader board and it will be difficult to dethrone them, but should make for a great heads-up match between the two. Stay tuned to the Beat for a wrap-up.WPT online poker qualifiers