Vince van Patten, Kimberly Lansing, and the Royal Flush Girls helped kick off the Foxwoods World Poker Finals earlier today. Among the players who will have to take advantage of late registration is Foxwoods spokesman Bernard Lee. You can't really blame him, though; he's a little busy playing the final table of the WSOP circuit event in Hammond, IN.

Perhaps the biggest news of the day, at least for the players, was the news that texting and Tweeting would not be allowed at the table. Christian Harder was determined to "fight the power", keeping us all up to date on his progress.

Congratulations to Randal Flowers, who takes home $831,500 as the WPT Festa Al Lago champion at the Bellagio. By the way, if you're curious, Festa al Lago means, "Damn, these young guys sure can play poker!" in English

The victory marks Flowers’ second WPT title, which is even more remarkable considering he is only 22 years old! He is the youngest player with multiple WPT titles. Flowers won his first WPT title last year at the WPT Spanish Championship in Barcelona. In addition to live tournament winnings totaling $1.8 million, Flowers also has accumulated over $2 million online. If you’re doing the math at home, that comes out to just about $3.8 million more than I earned before my 23rd birthday.

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Before play began at the final table of the WPT Borgata, Dwyte Pilgrim promised to "shock the world" with his "Brazilian Gracie jiu jitsu" brand of poker.

We're still trying to figure out exactly what that means, but one thing is abundantly clear: Pilgrim is now the reigning WPT champ. Having survived his baptism by fire, he dropped to his knees, tears of joy streaming down his face. Dwyte Pilgrim entered the WPT as a respected "minor league" player, and emerged as poker's next star.

We're down to 27 players as we enter day 4 at the Borgata, with fan favorite (and hall of famer) Mike Sexton hanging in there in 19th place, with 640,000 chips. Brandon Novena is the big chip leader with over 3.4 million chips.

Check out BJ Nemeth's live updates here. He's the best in the business!

We at Case Jack are thrilled to see that Fox Sports and the World Poker Tour have reached an agreement to provide three more years of primetime poker. It looks like some exciting changes are on the way and we can't wait to see what they have in store for us!