After a starting field of 309-strong, the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown has been narrowed down to its final 18 players, and those left vying for the $1.06 million first-place prize include some of the most talented poker players in the world, both online and live. The level of skill at the table means that any of them has the potential to make a move up the leader board at any point.

Heading into Day 4, Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken (1.167 million in chips), considered by many to be one of the best players online, holds an almost two to one chip lead over the player in second, Cory Carroll (697,000), a ranked Internet gun coming off a big win at the Caesar’s Palace WSOP Circuit championship.

Close behind the top two is five-time WSOP-bracelet winner Phil Ivey (475,000), who somehow has never won a WPT title despite having made six televised final tables. Not to say Ivey isn’t the Tiger Woods of Poker, but if Woods was among the final six players on the final day of six different golf matches, he surely would have walked away with at least one title. Just saying.

Other big names left at the final two tables include tournament pro Amnon Filippi (532,000), past WPT champ Nam Le (136,000), Mirage Poker Showdown Heads-Up winner David "The Dragon" Pham (107,000), past WPT World Champion Alan Goehring (60,000), John D’Agostino (186,000), Davidson Matthew (111,000) and Shannon Shorr (197,000).

To remind you, we’re not just naming players we think are really good at poker. This is the list of remaining players at the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown. Sick, isn’t it?

Day 4 beginswhere the field will play down to the final six for the WPT. Along with revealing the first winner of the WPT’s Season VI, the final table should also reveal the next hot blonde to host the tour’s telecasts after the reported ouster of Season V hot blonde host Sabina Gadecki, who had replaced hot blonde predecessor Courtney Friel, who in turn replaced the hottest blonde host of them all, Shana Hiatt.

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