The Pahrump Valley High School Athletics Boosters Club will benefit from a poker tournament, to be played Nov. 25 in the Pahrump Hotel and Casino convention center.

The no-limit hold'em tournament will start at 6 p.m., with only 100 seats available. The buy-in will be $60, with $10 going to the poker room for expenses and the rest equally divided between the boosters club and the prize pool.

There will be add-ons and rebuys for the first hour. A raffle and door prizes are also scheduled.

Any business interested in sponsoring seats, tables or door prizes should contact Jeff Von Alst, the poker room manager, or Troy Tillett at 751-6508, or booster club member Bob Gang at 727-8179.

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The 40th World Series of Poker resumes at noon Saturday in the Penn & Teller Theatre at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, with nine players seeking the first-place payoff of $8.5 million.

At 10 p.m. PST Monday, the final two players will start heads-up play. ESPN will have a special telecast Tuesday, starting at 9 p.m. At the moment, the November Nine are:

* Darvin Moon, $58,930,000 in chips;

* Eric Buchman, $34,800,000;

* Steven Begleiter, $29,885,000;

* Jeff Schulman, $19,580,000;

* Joseph Cada, $13,215,000;

* Kevin Schaffel, $12,390,000;

* Phil Ivey, $9,765,000;

* Antoine Saout, $9,500,000;

* James Akenhead, $6,800,000.

The second-place prize is $5.2 million, with subsequent payoffs, $3.5 million, third; $2.5 million, fourth; $2 million, fifth; $1.6 million, sixth; $1.4 million, seventh; $1.3 million, eighth, and $1.25 million, ninth.

The 10th-, 11th- and 12th-place finishers -- Jordan Smith, Jamie Robbins and Billy Kopp -- each earned $896,730.

Ivey boosted his personal bracelet total to seven with two wins in the 2009 WSOP. His lifetime earnings are $3,457,488, including $356,554 in 2009.

Jeffrey Lisandro, with three wins and $807,521 in earnings, was the player of the year in the WSOP. A total of 60,875 players competed for more than $174 million in prize money this year.

Poker tourneys

Three Pahrump casinos schedule tournaments throughout the week.

The current schedules:

At Terrible's T-Town

Sundays -- Ladies, $25 buy-in, no-limit hold'em, 1 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays -- No-limit hold'em, $20 plus $3, 10:30 a.m.

At the Nugget

Sundays -- No-limit hold'em, $40, noon

Monday through Friday each week -- $25 no-limit hold'em tournaments, 11 a.m.

Mondays -- Ladies, $25, no-limit hold'em, 6 p.m.

Thursdays -- Omaha hi-lo split, $40, rebuys, 6 p.m.

Wednesdays -- No-limit hold'em, $40, 7 p.m.

At Club MVC

(At computer tables

at Mountain View Casino)

Sundays -- Omaha (pot limit, hi-low split, high), $30, 7 p.m.

Wednesdays -- No-limit hold'em, $30, 7 p.m.

Thursdays -- Ladies, $25, no-limit hold'em, 7 p.m.

Fridays -- No-limit hold'em, $30, 7 p.m.

Saturdays -- 7-card stud, $30, 7 p.m.