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Chris Reslock has won the WSOP circuit event at the Showboat casino in Atlantic City after final table play had started with John Juanda as the chip leader.

The final table included two very distinct phases. The first phase went by in a flash, at least when compared with most major poker tournaments. Eight players were eliminated in a lightning-fast pace -- just under three hours. But if anyone in the audience was thinking of making early dinner reservations, such arrangements would be rudely postponed. It might have been wiser to make breakfast reservations for the following morning.

It was an 11-hour final table that, despite an interesting mix of personalities and obvious talent, did not produce many exciting moments. Oddly enough, there were few, if any bad beats, miracle draw-outs, or emotional outbursts. It was, for all intents and purposes, perhaps the only final on record where the smaller stack (when ‘all in”) failed to double up each and every time.

Heads up play between Reslock and Juanda lasted 7 hours, before an advantage was finally gained when Reslocked scored AA to Juanda's JJ and scored a commanding 754,000 to 205,000 chip lead. Juanda held on for a while longer before finally succumbing when his AK did not hold up when he went all in on a flop of 7-6-3.

Here are the final table participants and payouts.

1 Chris Reslock $335,235
2 John Juanda $186,240
3 Chad Moore $102,430
4 Nick Schulman $74,495
5 John Spadavecchia $65,185
6 Daniel Tolly $55,870
7 Eracles Panayiotou $46,560
8 Julian Studley $37,250
9 Daniel Shak $27,935