The annual World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino saw 681 players pony up $10,000 for a total prize pool of $6,537,600.  63 players made the money, including Team Israel's Michael Mizrachi in 48th place,  Team Lebanon Co-Captain Dany Georges in 39th place, Team Germany Captain Dan Heimiller (who also made the WPT Celebrity Invitational final table) in 20th place, Team Germany's Kathy Liebert in 18th place and Team USA's Allen Cunningham in 8th place.

Team Spain's Captain Carlos Mortensen has made the final table, which will be played on March 3, 2011.  Vying for a shot at the $1,654,120 first prize payday are:

1  Carlos Mortensen  5,235,000 
2  Vivek Rajkumar  5,185,000 
3  Amir Lehavot  4,115,000 
4  Gregory Brooks  2,300,000 
5  Darryll Fish  2,275,000 
6  Steve Gross  1,320,000 

Carlos goes to the final table as chip leader, but everyone at the final table is a professional poker player, and with the stacks this deep, anything can happen.  This will be Carlos' fifth World Poker Tour final table.  If Carlos wins he will be the first player to win four World Poker Tour titles.