In addition to the coveted gold bracelet and prestige that comes with the WSOP Main Event win, 2009’s winner is going to pull some serious cash. 6,494 competitors will be playing for an $8.5 million top prize.

In a pretty loaded year, 648 players are going to finish in the money. The top 60 players will finish $100,000+.

Players began the tournament slugging it out on 308 tables spread throughout the Rio Poker Room, The Miranda Room, Brazilia Room, and Buzio’s Seafood Restaurant

Here is how the Final Table will shake out in November:

1 – $8.5 Million
2 – $5,182, 601
3 – $3,479,48
4 – $2,502,787
5 – $1,953,39
6 – $1,587,133
7 – $1,404,002
8 – $1,300,228
9 – 1,263,602

For those of you keeping track at home, the prize pool is over $61 million. This is the third largest Main Event prize ever.

We’re heading into the first of the Day 2s, inching towards the biggest event of the poker calendar in November.

With many multiple bracelet winners and cashers in this year’s World Series of Poker, there are plenty of players on hot streaks.

The rich prize pool and hyped coverage are going to turn 2009’s Main Event into quite a spectacle. Keep reading the CarbonPoker blog for more coverage, updates, leaders and forecasts.

Remember four days ago when Brock Parker won the $2,500 Six Handed Limit Event? Well, he’s back to his previous magic – as if taking down Daniel Negreanu wasn’t enough, he had one hell of an encore.

Parker beat out 1,068 competitors in the $2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event to net more than half a million dollars in prize money.

Parker says that he loves the six-handed games so he can see more hands and action: “I get to play in a lot of pots. It’s more fun.” I’m pretty sure that the winning percentage really increases the fun factor.

I love it when traditionally online players cross over and dominate on the felt. ‘t sprano’ has had a massive week of payouts bagging $223,688 first and $552,745 most recently. For you math whizzes, that’s $776,433 in four days of playing poker in Vegas. Quit making the rest of us look bad, Parker.

Here’s how the rest of the money broke down:

Parker: $552,745 | Joe Serock: $341,783 | Russell Crane: $220,633 | Jesse Rios: $148,661 | Alexander Wilson: $104,323 | Clayton Newman: $76,123