Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | David "Doc" Sands |
| 1 | 2 | Galen Hall |
| 1 | 3 | Bill Perkins |
| 1 | 4 | Chance Kornuth |
| 1 | 5 | Tom Marchese |
| 1 | 6 | Will Molson |
| 1 | 7 | Eugene Katchalov |
| 1 | 8 | Bryn Kenney |
| 2 | 1 | David Benefield |
| 2 | 2 | Shawn Buchanan |
| 2 | 3 | Mike "Timex" McDonald |
| 2 | 4 | Daniel Negreanu |
| 2 | 5 | Masa Kagawa |
| 2 | 6 | Humberto Brenes |
| 2 | 7 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko |
| 2 | 8 | Erik Seidel |
| 3 | 1 | Isaac Haxton |
| 3 | 2 | Jonathan Duhamel |
| 3 | 3 | Philipp Gruissem |
| 3 | 4 | Terje Augdal |
| 3 | 5 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom |
| 3 | 6 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier |
| 3 | 7 | Jason Mercier |
| 3 | 8 | Scott Seiver |