Meanwhile, Tom is currently playing in the main event of the WSOP-Circuit event at Caesar\’s Indiana, where he has made yet another final table. He enters into tomorrow\’s action as a short stack, so he\’s got some of work to do and might need a little luck early on. (With blinds at 2000/4000 +500, he\’s got 45,000 chips.)
Beyond competing for the $223,000 first-prize payout, Tom is trying to stay alive in the overall Player of the Year race as the 2007 poker \”season\” comes into the homestretch. His placement in the CardPlayer rankings certainly stands out, and in fact looks similar to his situation at tomorrow\’s final table, which will be Tom\’s fifth of the year:
| RANK | PLAYER | LOCATION | PTS | F. TBLS | GROSS WINNINGS |
| 1 | David \”the Dragon\” Pham | Redondo Beach, CA | 5,410 | 10 | $1,528,480 |
| 2 | William \”Bill\” Edler | Las Vegas, NV | 4,696 | 6 | $2,690,704 |
| 3 | J.C. Tran | Sacramento, CA | 4,458 | 5 | $2,359,257 |
| 4 | Tom Schneider | Phoenix, AZ | 3,792 | 4 | $656,274 |
| 5 | Jonathan Little | Pensacola, FL | 3,672 | 8 | $1,788,240 |
| 6 | Jared Hamby | Las Vegas, NV | 3,573 | 5 | $1,252,311 |
| 7 | James Van Alstyne | Las Vegas, NV | 3,480 | 6 | $713,217 |
| 8 | Ted Lawson | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 3,335 | 8 | $1,083,407 |
| 9 | Scott \”BigRiskyy\” Clements | Mount Vernon, WA | 3,218 | 5 | $750,396 |
| 10 | Danny Wong | Los Angeles, CA | 3,022 | 6 | $792,920 |
| 11 | Robert Mizrachi | Sunny Isles Beach, FL | 2,984 | 4 | $1,331,042 |
| 12 | Jerry Yang | Temecula, CA | 2,880 | 1 | $8,250,000 |
| 13 | Randy Holland | Winnetka, CA | 2,854 | 14 | $453,903 |
| 14 | David Fox | Coram, NY | 2,828 | 7 | $385,788 |
| 15 | Gavin Griffin | Darien, IL | 2,760 | 3 | $2,605,706 |
| 16 | Will \”The Thrill\” Failla | Smithtown, NY | 2,700 | 6 | $610,643 |
| 17 | Mike Matusow | Las Vegas, NV | 2,688 | 4 | $1,196,804 |
| 18 | Cory Carroll | Dartmouth, CAN | 2,664 | 3 | $1,146,992 |
| 19 | Kirk Morrison | Wichita, KS | 2,615 | 4 | $2,368,938 |
| 20 | Alexander Kravchenko | Moscow, RUS | 2,579 | 3 | $2,159,483 |
| 21 | Paul Lee | Los Angeles, CA | 2,578 | 6 | $1,327,862 |
| 22 | Juan Carlos Alvarado | McAllen, TX | 2,551 | 5 | $643,140 |
| 23 | Gioi Luong | Westminster, CA | 2,517 | 6 | $547,061 |
| 24 | Juan Carlos Mortensen | Madrid, ESP | 2,496 | 1 | $4,058,741 |
| 25 | Chris Bjorin | London, GBR | 2,474 | 4 | $347,310 |
