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The World Poker Tour Venice Main Event has seen the 213 entrants whittled down to the final table of six and it is Michele Caroli who everyone has to catch if they want to become a WPT champion.

Caroli starts the day armed with 2,097,000 chips, having won most of his chips in a massive pot between himself and Marvin Rettenmaier. In that particular hand Caroli raised to 50,000 from cutoff with blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000a, itself an unconventional play and then he decided to call Rettenmaier's 156,000 three-bet from the big blind. Caroli then instantly called a 126,000 continuation bet on a Kd-Qh-9c flop and a 176,000 bet when the 6c landed on the turn. He then had an easy decision to make when Rettenmaier shoved for 220,000 on the arrival of the 7c on the river as he had made these calls holding Th8h and had backed into a straight!

Second in chips is Edoardo Alescio (1,714,000 chips) who does not have a single cash on his Hendon Mob Database. The youngster has, like Caroli, made some questionable plays throughout the day and has shown that he certainly has some gamble in him and should be entertaining to watch when play kicks off on Sunday afternoon.

Third place at the start of play is Andrea Benelli, a player the media have been most impressed with over the past week for his cool and calm approach the game and the fact he has rarely stepped out of line at all. He has some impressive results to his name including two final table appearances in European Poker Tour events and some wins in €1,000- €3,000 events in Italy and neighbouring Slovenia.

Fourth place currently belongs to Steve O'Dwyer, the American on a real heater at the moment, In 2011 alone O'Dwyer has won close to $1,300,000, the bulk of which was awarded for his runner-up spot at the EPT London Main Event, a result that netted him $726,790. He has also won the Bellagio Cup, made the final table of a $3,000 World Series of Poker events and gone deep in several side events. If he doubles up he will definitely be the favourite to walk away with the lion's share of the spoils.

Alexander Dovzhenko is the current fifth placed player with 480,000 chips. The Ukrainian has been a regular on the live tournament scene since 2001 but his best results have come recently and include a second place finish at EPT Kiev in 2009 and more recently a seventh place finish at the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event.

And last but certainly not least is Andrea Dato another player who has the skills to walk away with the title. Dato's largest cash to date was for $138,044 and he won that when he finished third in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Triple Chance at this year's WSOP. He is the shortest stack at the table with 461,000 chips but that will not really bother him as he has been short all of Day 4.

Play gets underway shortly after 1300CET and will continue until the WPT Venice Champion is crowned. Who will it be? Check in tomorrow to find out!