At only 22 years old, Randal Flowers is becoming somewhat of a poker icon. The young pro made history Wednesday night, as he became the youngest player to win multiple World Poker Tour titles with his victory at the Festa Al Lago main event. Flowers defeated a field of 335 players to earn $831,500, giving him over $1.7 million in cashes in his young career. Of course, Flowers is found playing online, as "RandALLin," where he's earned nearly an additional million on the virtual felt. The Greenville, NC, native also has two WSOP cashes this year, including a 10th-place finish in the six-handed, $1,500 no-limit hold 'em event, and all this came after this his first title in June 2009, in which, at age 20, he defeated the 172-player field at the ¬5,000 WPT stop in Barcelona to earn $386,170.

World Poker TourRandal Flowers, 22, won his second WPT event at the 2010 WPT Festa Al Lago main event.

Impressed yet?

At wednesday's Festa event, Flowers defeated Michael Benvenuti heads-up for the title at a quick 96-hand final table that featured a solid cast of six. Benvenuti's second-place finish is the second of his career, after finishing second at the 2009 Caesar's Palace Classic main event to Issac Baron. More recently, he finished 28th at the WSOPE main event and has earned nearly $600,000 in the last month. Noah "McLovin" Schwartz, 27, finished third at his second WPT final table for $344,968.

Online pro Jason "jakoon1985" Koon finished fourth ahead of the main focus leading into the final table, Andy Frankenberger. Two months ago, Frankenberger earned $750,000 for his victory at the WPT's Legends of Poker stop. There have been two two-time WPT winners in the same season (Daniel Negreanu and Tuan Le), and Frankenberger was poised to become the third, entering the final table fourth in chips. This was only Frankenberger's fourth WPT event, and it ended in non-dramatic fashion, as he was all-in and severly behind, holding 5-5 to Flowers' 10-10. Even after falling short in this event, Frankenberger holds a significant lead in the WPT's Season Nine Player of the Year race four stops in.

62-year-old Skip Wilson, a retired businessman from Ohio, finished sixth for $112,840. In his career, he's earned $561,686 and has notched 11 WSOP cashes.

The next stop for the WPT is the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods. The $10,000 buy-in event is expected to pay out over $1 million to the champion. It begins on Thursday, Oct. 28, and will conclude on Nov 2.

Warming up for the final table

The last few weeks before the WSOP main event final table are the most crucial, in terms of staying focused and building confidence. Last week, two members of the WSOP main event final table, Matthew Jarvis and Joseph Cheong, notched victories in Festa Al Lago prelimiary events at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Jarvis took his second title of the hiatus, winning the $1,000 event for $71,895. The field of 136 created a tough final table that included 2009 CardPlayer Player of the Year Eric Baldwin, current Player of the Year contender Tom Marchese, 2010 WSOP bracelet winner Steven Kelly and top pro Justin Young.

Days later, it was Cheong's turn. Just weeks after Cheong salvaged his trip to Europe with a $235,951, second-place finish at European Poker Tour London's High Roller Turbo event, he came out on top of the $5,000 Festa Al Lago event to win $142,635. Cheong's final table included Brock Parker, Vivek Rajkumar and Las Vegas native Cary Katz. With the two victories, Cheong claims the title of most-successful November Niner during the break, but there is still a few weeks to go.

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