As people in the United States and around the world continue to wrap their heads about the news of Osama bin Laden's demise, six poker players must refocus their concentration on Hold'em Monday afternoon as the television final table commences at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown.

Leading the way by an impressive margin is Taylor Von Kriegenbergh with 4,384,000 chips. That is almost exactly double his nearest competitor, Justin Zaki, who has 2,197,000, and is exactly double the player currently in third position, Abbey Daniels, who is sitting on a stack of 2,192,000 chips. Not far behind those two is Allen Bari with 1,984,000 chips, followed by Tommy Vedes with 1,570,000. Bringing up the rear is Curt Kohlberg with 655,000 chips.

Von Kriegenbergh, who earned a degree in Marketing and Management from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell last year, made the jump to the top of the heap late during the five hours of play on Sunday. Just a couple hands after doubling-up Kohlberg to keep the Bostonian alive, Von Kriegenbergh mixed it up with the chip leader at the time, Abbey Daniels. With a chip stack of just over 1,900,000, Von Kriegenbergh took the initiative pre-flop and raised to 50,000 with blinds at 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 4,000. Daniels, who had close to 3,300,000, saw his raise and re-raised him to 150,000. Von Kriegenbergh made the call and the dealer laid out a flop of Kd-Qh-5h. Daniels continued her aggression, extending a bet of 200,000 chips. Von Kriegenbergh returned her favor from the pre-flop action, tripling her bet to 600,000. Daniels called and the dealer put down a seemingly innocuous 2c, prompting Daniels to check. Von Kriegenbergh took that as an opportunity to push his remaining chips, all 1,146,000 of them, into the middle. After Daniels called, the two players revealed their cards: Von Kriegenbergh had 5s-5d, giving him bottom set, and Daniels showed Ah-Kh for both top pair, top kicker and the nut flush draw. Von Kriegenbergh had the lead and needed to fade a heart for the double-up.

Well, any heart except for one. The river brought the 2h, the lone heart that could make Von Kriegenberg a happy man, as while it gave Daniels a flush, it also gave Von Kriegenbergh a full house. Daniels actually thought for a brief moment that she had won the hand, but despite her best wishes, that 2 just wouldn't change to any other value and she saw more than half of her chip stack travel over to the young Von Kriegenbergh.

Von Kriegenbergh claimed the final pelt of the day just eight hands later when he got all of his chips into the pot pre-flop against short stack James Mackey. Mackey had a solid hand for making such a move, 5d-5h, but he was dominated by Von Kriegenbergh's 8d-8h. The Ah-Ks-9s gave Mackey little hope; just two cards left to hit one of his two outs. Neither of those outs made an appearance on the turn and river and Mackey hit the rail in 7^th place, setting up the TV final table.

To recap, here are the six members of the final table with their table positions and chip counts:

Seat 1 - Abbey Daniels – 2,192,000
Seat 2 - Tommy Vedes – 1,570,000
Seat 3 - Allen Bari – 1,984,000
Seat 4 - Taylor Von Kriegenbergh – 4,384,000
Seat 5 - Curt Kohlberg – 655,000
Seat 6 - Justin Zaki – 2,197,000

And the payouts for the final six players: