FORMER NOVEMBER NINER JOHN DOLAN WINS THE MILLION DOLLAR HEATER!

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SOURCE: GULFCOASTPOKER.net, @SpamBx392

A special thank you to Ross Leitz (@SpamBx392 on Twitter) and Gene Dudek at GULFCOASTPOKER.net for their help in gathering these results.

John Dolan is the Mississippi King! Dolan defeated a star-studded final table at the Beau Rivage Resort Casino and captured the Million Dollar Heater Main Event - collecting 336K of the +1M prizepool that was up for grabs!

At the final table, Dolan - the former November Niner (2010 - Jonathan Duhamel) - had to fend off a bracelet winner (Ryan Welch), a two-time WPT Champion (Randal Flowers) a former Gulf Coast Champion (Mark Rose) and a recent WPT Regional Series winner (Daniel Clemente) - not an easy feat, that's for sure.

Surprisingly, this event marks the first significant live win of Dolan's career. His highest winning cash was in the 30K range ... although he did collect 1.7M with his 6th place finish at the 2010 Series - not bad at all!

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in USD) 1st John Dolan 336,105 2nd Glenn Poole 185,367 3rd Kirill Kruglov 101,850 4th Mark Rose 81,480 5th Ryan Welch 61,110 6th Matt Stout 50,925 7th Dan Clemente 40,740 8th Hamib Jahangard 30,555 9th Randal Flowers 20,370 RELATED POSTS >>LOOKING FOR A HEATER IN MS >> KUZMIN WINS WPT SOUTHERN >> FLOWERS POWERS - WPT FESTA

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT The Million Dollar Heater NLH Main Event January 21-25, 2012 Beau Rivage Resort & Casino | Biloxi Buy-in: $5,175 | Prizepool: $1,018,500 Entries: 210 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JOHN DOLAN 102 GLENN POOLE 62 KIRILL KRUGLOV 37 MARK ROSE 27 RYAN WELCH 20 MATTHEW STOUT 12 DAN CLEMENTE 10 HAMIB JAHANGARD 7 RANDAL FLOWERS 7

WELCH, DOLAN, STOUT AND FLOWERS LOOKING FOR A HEATER IN MISSISSIPPI

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SOURCE: GULFCOASTPOKER.net, @SpamBx392, @RandALLin

It's final table time at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Mississippi as the Million Dollar Heater reaches it's final stage today in Biloxi.

We have a very impressive final table at Beau Rivage ... we have a WSOP bracelet winner, a November Niner, a two-time WPT Champion, a WPT Regional Champ and a Gulf Coast Champion all battling for the 336K top prize.

Bracelet winner Ryan Welch (pictured) is the chip leader. Welch (2011 PTPR Rank: 502nd) has a little over 870K in chips. Welch is followed closely by former November Niner John Dolan. Dolan (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) is about 20K behind the chip leader.

Two-time World Poker Tour Champion Randal Flowers is the small stack but, Flowers (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) is surely hoping his previous final table experience will help him survive today.

2010 Gulf Coast Poker Championship winner Mark Rose (2011 PTPR Rank: 1262th) and current WPT Regional Tampa Champ Daniel Clemente (2011 PTPR Rank: 836th) are two other big names to look out for later today.

FINAL TABLE CHIP COUNTS
Ryan Welch 871,000 Twitter: @gutshtallin
John Dolan 849,500 Twitter: @JRD312
Kirill Kruglov 697,500
Matt Stout 486,500 Twitter: @MattStoutPoker
Daniel Clemente 345,000
Habib Jahangard 310,000
Glenn Poole 300,000
Mark Rose 221,500
Randal Flowers 142,500 Twitter: @RandALLin

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in USD) 1st - 336K 2nd - 185K 3rd - 101K 4th - 81K 5th - 61K 6th - 51K 7th - 40K 8th - 30K 9th - 20K EVENT COVERAGE GULF COAST POKER RELATED POSTS >> KUZMIN WINS WPT SOUTHERN >> FLOWERS POWERS - WPT FESTA

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT The Million Dollar Heater NLH Main Event January 21-25, 2012 Beau Rivage Resort & Casino | Biloxi Buy-in: $5,175 | Prizepool: $1,018,500 Entries: 210 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 102 2nd place 62 3rd place 37 4th place 27 5th place 20 6th place 12 7th place 10 8th place 7 9th place 7