Dream Final Table for the WSOP Main Event

With just over 200 players left, it's about time to start focusing on who has a shot to make it to the end -- and who you want to see at the final table.  Not always do these two groups overlap.  Still in the race are many online pros with notable screen names from Roothlus, to OMGClayAiken, to Dan Druff.   The man who helped make the WSOP the monster event it is with his screen debut in Rounders, Johnny Chan, and someone who is as famous for the game based around him as his poker playing, Johnny Lodden, are both moving on to Day 6 as well.

Youngsters Alexander Kostritsyn and John Racener are old compared with last year's winner and have no shot at setting any record, but we still have two Mizrachis vying to be the first pair of siblings at a Main Event final table. You have televised tournament alum Juha Helppi, Scott Clements, and Theo Tran, as well as their alliteratively-named counterparts Russell Rosenblum and Hassan Habib.
 
Based on names alone, who wouldn't want to hear Norm and Lon have to say Fokke Beukers or David Assouline or Flavio Ferrarizumbini or Vazgen Terpogosyan during their play-by-play?  And give the last woman standing, Breeze Zuckerman, kudos not just for that feat, but for having one of the great names of all time.
 
Now if you want to focus on something as irrelevant as chip counts when there are still so many players in, fine.  Here's the top ten starting the day:

1	Evan Lamprea	3,564,000
2	Michael Skender	3,527,000
3	Joseph Cheong	3,357,000
4	Duy Le	3,186,000
5	Theo Jorgensen	3,088,000
6	Bryn Kenney	2,902,000
7	Matt Affleck	2,896,000
8	Alexander Kostritsyn	2,564,000
9	Johnny Chan	2,559,000
10	Sebastian Panny	2,442,000

Not on that list are at least two I want to see at the final table.  The first is former Survivor contestant and all around cool guy, Jean-Robert Bellande (currently with 946,000).  He's great TV -- this would not be as quiet a final table as the last one! -- and wouldn't do anything as boring as investing his money were he to win it.  A Bellande win would be great for the economy.

My other pick is French hottie, David Benaymine, who has a paltry 353,000.  Yes, I know his chance to make it past the next two levels, let alone the next couple of days, is as good as my chance with him (and I'm competing with Erica Schoenberg who is younger, cuter, thinner, and blonder than me.  And I do have that pesky husband to deal with.)   But I can dream, can't I?  I enjoy watching him at the table, a lot more than some of those with a lot more chips right now.  Benyamine's got a sly, devilish (not to be confused with Devilfish, who would lose in a "who would you rather" to Matt Affleck) demeanor at the table and, if he can stay focused, can be an excellent player. But he's going to need some luck, and quick, to make that happen.