From 6,352 entries down to nine players in July and then, the November Nine cut down to two players to battle heads up for the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event title and over $8.3M in cash prize for the champion’s purse.

Jay Farber and Ryan Riess both from the United States of America face off on Wednesday to begin their head-to-head battle for the most prestigious and one of the richest titles in the world of poker.

Farber and Reiss started the final table play with 25.9M and 25.8M in chips, respectively, but outperformed the other seven WSOP gold bracelet contenders for much of the day. On Tuesday, Farber has the slight edge over Reiss, 105M to 85.6M in chips, entering the final day of play of the main event.

Erstwhile chip leader JC Tran, who entered final table play with 38M in chips, couldn’t perform as well as the winning pair and settled for 5th place ($2,106,893)

2013 WSOP Main Event Payouts
 1st place - $8,361,570
2nd place - $5,174,357
3rd place – Amir Lehavot (Israel) - $3,727,823
4th place – Sylvain Loosli (France) - $2,792,533
5th place - JC Tran (USA) - $2,106,893
6th place - Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (Canada) -$1,601,024
7th place - Michiel Brummelhuis (Netherlands) - $1,225,356
8th place - David Benefield (USA) - $944,650
9th place - Mark Newhouse (USA) - $733,224

The 2013 WSOP Main Event resumes play at 6:00 pm in Las Vegas time or 1:00 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time.

2013 WSOP Main Event Live Reporting Links: LINK 1 | LINK 2
2013 WSOP Main Event Live Streaming Links: LINK 1 | LINK 2 | LINK 3 | LINK 4 | LINK 5

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