The World Series of Poker television series broadcast on ESPN offers the second installment of the 2005 season on Tuesday, July 26. This week's show features the final table from Harrah's Atlantic City Casino, a regular stop on the World Series of Poker Circuit tour. Ten events were played at the Harrah's earlier this year with the tenth event being the $10,000 Championship. The final event attracted 249 players and accumulated a prize pool of $2,365,500. The winner received $780,615 and one of the gold WSOP Circuit Champion rings. The complete results for every event of this World Series of Poker Circuit tournament are available at Poker Player Newspaper.

Tuesday evening's final table will feature the follow players listed with their finish, hometown and the prize money received.

1. Nghi Van Tran Toronto, Canada $780,615
2. Erick Lindgren Las Vegas, NV $430,521
3. Nick Frangos Mays Landing, NJ $236,550
4. Mimi Tran Torrance, CA $189,240
5. Aaron Bartley Cary, NC $141,930
6. Stan Goldstein Cypress, CA $118,275
7. Chad Brown Los Angeles, CA $94,620
8. Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson Pacific Palisades, CA $70,965
9. Michael Esposito Seaford, NY $47,310

Winner, Nghi Van Tran, of Toronto, Canada walked away with the top prize of $780,615, and a WSOP Circuit ring in his first ever win or cash in a major poker tournament. Two other final table players, Aaron Bartley and Michael Esposito, will remember this event as their first ever cash in a major tournament. The remainder of the field is another who's who list of poker players with well known professional player, Erick Lindgren, taking the second spot and $430,521. The only female to make the table, Mimi Tran, a tough professional out of California. Stan Goldstein, another solid pro from California, lasted into the sixth spot to collect $118,275. The 2004 Ultimate Poker Challenge on-air host, Chad Brown, finished in seventh place to receive $94,620 while the always familiar professional, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson takes $70,965 back to California for his eighth place effort.

The show promises to offer some exciting poker from some of the sport's best known professionals. Tune in at 8:00 Eastern time (be sure to check the schedule for broadcast times in your area) for all the action and to learn how the top players play. The ESPN WSOP TV series will continue with WSOP Circuit events through late August, then the 2005 World Series of Poker events will begin airing. I was there for all of the final tables at the 2005 WSOP and am anxiously awaiting the telecast with the hole card cameras to answer some lingering "did they have it?" questions. Prior to each week's show we will provide links to the event article we ran on LasVegasVegas along with a link to Dr. Pauly's live blog of the same. Have your computer handy during the 2005 World series of Poker broadcast for a total WSOP event experience.

Elsewhere on the net:
Pokerati.com - Poker News
Party Poker Blogs - Uber Poker Posts
Noble Poker - Play Poker Online
In addition Noble will be running an interesting competition starting on Aug. 1st.

From the Press Release:

The first player who wins 7 consecutive $10 Sit & Go tournaments will walk away with a cool million!

As with our other Jackpot Sit 'n' Go tournaments, there are additional prizes to be won:
Win 6 tournaments in a row and you'll get $75K!
Win 5 consecutive tournaments and we'll pay you $25K
Finish in one of the top 2 positions of this tournament 5 consecutive times and you'll take an easy $300.
Noble Poker's Million Dollar Sit & Go Challenge will start on August 1st.
For further information about the Million Dollar challenge click here.