LAS VEGAS (AP) The World Series of Poker main event returns Sunday offering a $7.6 million prize to the victor and it appears to be 24-year-old Joe McKeehen's to lose.
The Pennsylvania poker pro and mathematics graduate will have more than twice as many chips as his nearest competitor when the cards get dealt for no-limit Texas Hold `em at the Rio All-Suites Las Vegas casino-hotel on Sunday.
Its eight Davids versus a self-described ''average Joe'' with a Goliath chip stack at the final table. Or if 61-year-old Neil Blumenfield gets his way, he has another tale in mind: going head-to-head with 72-year-old Pierre Neuville, ''and the young kid wins it all.