WSOP Main Event Winner to receive $12 Million.

The winner of the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship at the 37th annual World Series of Poker will take home a record $12 million, the largest single-event prize in live poker history.

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The Final payout, schedule for the championship, commonly known at the World Series of Poker Main Event, awards each of the top 12 finishers at least $1 million. The total net prize pool for the Main Event swelled to more than $82.5 million, bringing the total net prize pool for all 2006 World Series of Poker events to more than $154 million.

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1,159 players remain in World Series of Poker

After six days of poker, 1,159 players remain in the hunt for the $12 million top prize in the World Series of Poker. Dmitri Nobles topped the leader-board at 549,200 chips after play Wednesday night. After a day off Thursday, play will resume Friday at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Ken Jacobs, son of poker pro Tom Jacobs, was fourth with 375,300, while Canadian Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu was sixth with 331,000. On Friday, for the first time this tournament, all the survivors of the original pool of 8,773 entrants will be playing in the same room at the same time.

David Zeh still a player in World Series of Poker event

Hutchinson resident David Zeh is a step closer to cashing in at the World Series of Poker main event after making it through his second day Wednesday. But he'll have to work hard - and be lucky - to get there.

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With 1,159 players remaining, Zeh will sit down at noon Friday with 8,800 chips, in 1,148th place. Zeh will start Friday at table 24, seat 5, but his won't be the shortest stack of chips at the table. One player at table 24 will start the day with 3,800 chips. The chip leader at the table when play starts will have 80,800 chips.

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