2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship Final Table Set

I've been following the live updates over at cardplayer.com more closely than I usually do during the World Poker Tour's current event at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. I usually just stop in to check once or twice a day until the final table, as there's only so many chip count reports one can read and the action doesn't really get exciting until the final two days of a poker tournament. But this time I checked an lo and behold, someone I knew was at the top of the heap: Alex Outhred (here's a pic of Alex), who is not only a producer for the World Poker Tour show and teacher at the WPT Boot camp, but someone I went to High School (Stuyvesant in NYC) and college with (University of Michigan ... go blue!). Outhred won his way to the big tournament through a super-satellite and now he's #1 in chips at the final table! So you know who I'm routing for in this lineup:

Mandalay Bay Poker Championship Final Table

• Alex Outhred $1,743,000
• Burt Boutin $1,729,000
• Brad Booth $1,659,000
• Joe Tehan $1,371,000
• Al Stonum $263,000
• Steve Vincent $219,000

More on Alex Outhred:

• Alex's WPT Instructor Bio
• Alex talks about how he chooses what to show when editing WPT shows
• Alex's Tournament results