Andy Frankenberger entered the final table with the chip lead at the World Poker Tour stop at the Bicycle Casino. Nearly 12 hours later, he would finally stand up from the table with all the chips and money in hand as the newest WPT champion. Frankenberger earned $750,000 in prize money, plus a $25,000 seat into the WPT Championship by winning this event. It was only Frankenberger's second World Poker Tour event. After his victory he acknowledged he'll be playing in a lot more.

His journey through the final six wasn't an easy one. His stack fluctuated significantly throughout the lengthy play at the final table and he'd need to hit some key cards to emerge victorious.

"I'd been the chip leader for so long and had an aggressive style," Frankenberger told the World Poker Tour's Kimberly Lansing after play had ended. "Then suddenly I had to completely shift gears and play defense, and I hadn't done that in a while.

"I had the worst streak of hands. The hand that I won with 7-2 [which he ended up with two pair], was indicative of what I had to do to survive. … Every hand that I won early on I had to work for."

Frankenberger now has over $952,000 in tournament earnings in 2010 and will be one to watch on the tournament trail in the future as it seems his career is just getting started.

Even though he emerged victorious, Frankenberger said he believed that there was one aspect of the action Wednesday night that greatly affected his play: the cameras. After so many televised poker shows, it's customary for fans to see the action on TV and think it's perfectly normal. Frankenberger felt differently after his first televised final table appearance and believed that the pressure the public seeing his actions weighed heavily on his strategy.

"My immediate goal was to not do anything stupid on television," he said. "It's a whole different game when you have that pocket cam. It's just a completely different experience. I'm used to being the only one who is ever going to know what I was doing so, there's a sense of, let's not do anything really stupid and I almost did that … but I guess it worked out in the end."

Here are the results of 2010 Legends of Poker ($5,000 buy-in, 462 entrants):
1. Andrew Frankenberger ($750,000)
2. Kyle Wilson ($370,000)
3. Tom Lee ($174,772)
4. Tom Braband ($109,000)
5. Jared Jaffee ($86,000)
6. Franco Brunetti ($63,000)
7. Steve Reitzfeld ($45,000)
8. Wade Woelfel ($35,000)
9. John Smith ($29,000)
10. Hoan Ly ($24,000)
11. Tyler Cornell ($24,000)
12. Jonathan Little ($24,000)
13. Florentino Ornelas ($19,500)
14. Ben Keiley ($19,500)
15. Adam Schiffer ($19,500)
16. Jason Dorfman ($15,500)
17. David Sands ($15,500)
18. Micah Raskin ($15,500)
19. Darryll Fish ($13,000)
20. Allen Kessler ($13,000)
21. Charles Hook ($13,000)
22. Huy Lam ($13,000)
23. James Hong ($13,000)
24. Ed Hanson ($13,000)
25. Todd Barlow ($13,000)
26. Mario Delis ($13,000)
27. Peter Rho ($13,000)
28. Ethan Foulkes ($11,500)
29. Philip Collins ($11,500)
30. Erica Schoenberg ($11,500)
31. Craig Bergeron ($11,500)
32. Joe Sebok ($11,500)
33. Marco Johnson ($11,500)
34. Soi Nguyen ($11,500)
35. Elliot Smith $11,500)
36. Jong Jin ($11,500)
37. Ari Goott ($10,200)
38. Juan Carlos Alvarado ($10,200)
39. Jeff Clayton ($10,200)
40. Pavel Milanov ($10,200)
41. Michael Benvenuti ($10,200)
42. Ali Eslami ($10,200)
43. Joe Hachem ($10,200)
44. Jonathan Aguiar ($10,200)
45. Amit Makhija ($10,200)

Small blinds: Soi Nugyen, who cashed in 34th place at the Legends of Poker, will be our guest on ESPN Inside Deal next week. … Poker players are speaking out against the Commerce Casino who testified that they were not in favor of HR 2267, the proposed Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. … The WSOP Circuit event in Iowa is underway. … Victory Poker has now joined the Cake Poker network. … Evander Holyfield is going to appear at the London Poker Festival to share his thoughts on the similarities between poker and boxing. OK then. … On a similar note, Liv Boeree will be in attendance and open the "Poker In The Park" portion of the event which, as explained, is something like the WSOP's Pokerpalooza.