The pay day will come as little compensation to Barry Greenstein. After three days juggling the extreme swings this game brings, he arrived at the final table of the WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha with high hopes of securing his fourth bracelet and, of course, the bumper $679,379 first prize.

He had an up-and-down day, at one stage securing a huge double up against Noah Schwartz to give him the chip lead when there were 15 left, before making it to the final nine just below average in chips.

After a delayed start for internet broadcast reasons, the final got off slowly, but then Vitaly Lunkin, who won the $40,000 No Limit event earlier in the Series, busted Greenstein. The Team PokerStars Pro had built a huge pot on the flop knowing he had enough outs to make him a favorite, but the Russian called with his two aces and dodged Greenstein's flush draw, as well as the straight draw outs that would have chopped the pot.

Barry Greenstein

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Team PokerStars Holland Pro Lex Veldhuis was unable to win his second round $5,000 Shootout match, but collected $16,740 for his progress up to then. "I was just leaving the cashier when they said the $2,500 Razz event was starting, so I thought, 'Why not?'", and that's where he's sitting now, trying to make the worst hand possible.

Lex Veldhuis

After all the raising frenzy and wild swings earlier, it is perhaps not too surprising that the final table of the WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha has got off to a slow start.

Not that any of these nine finalists are prepared to sit back and climb the money positions, it's just that with a bracelet in sight, they want to feel each other out before getting committed early.

The final was delayed by more than 30 minutes as the internet broadcast got ready, and when the start came early skirmishes amounted to raise pre-flop and take it, as well as the occasional walk.

Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein, who began as one of the shorter stacks, decided to get things moving a little by raising four 24,000 limpers to 124,000. He got two callers and his 200,000 continuation bet on the [kc][qh][jh] flop was enough to take the pot - and his stack back above the million mark and slightly above average.

Expect things to get a little looser very soon.

Current chip counts:

Josh Arieh, 1,600,000
Matt Graham, 1,150,000
Barry Greenstein, Team PokerStars Pro, 1,114,000
Richard Austin, 1,050,000
Robin Keston, 1,012,000
Vitaly Lunkin, 880,000
Ferit Gabriellson, 760,000
Stefan Mattsson, 652,000
Van Marcus, 460,000

If you've been following our updates today you'll appreciate the road to the WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha final table has been a twisty and dangerous one.

Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein has driven down this particularly treacherous stretch of tarmac at death-defying speed, often cornering so fast I swear two of his wheels left the ground.

But he's made the final table in one piece, his first final table of this WSOP, albeit with a below average chip stack of 780,000. Before they get down to action on the feature stage area, there's food to be had: the nine final tablists are on a dinner break.

So happy to be in the final: Barry Greenstein

Greenstein is chasing his fourth WSOP bracelet and is already guaranteed a cash today of $82,746, which should help his food go down nicely. First place pays $679,379.

Here are the final table chip stacks:

Matt Graham, 1,400,000
Ferit Gabriellson, 1,200,000
Josh Arieh, 1,050,000
Richard Austin, 1,030,000
Robin Keston, 1,000,000
Stefan Mattsson, 850,000
Vitaly Lunkin, 850,000
Barry Greenstein, Team PokerStars Pro, 780,000
Van Marcus, 500,000