There are seven players remaining in the World Series of Poker National Championship being held at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina (pictured below). Just a few weeks after his 11th place finish in the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, Daniel Negreanu (pictured) is making another deep run and sits in third place with a stack of 543,000.

The field is chasing Loni Harwood, who has 1.3 million in chips, double what second place bagged up on Thursday night. Harwood is looking to become the first woman to win the National Championship. She already has a WSOP bracelet, which came in 2013 in a $1,500 buy-in event, as well as two Circuit rings and more than $1 million in career WSOP winnings.

Harwood trimmed the field to nine in dramatic style with a double knockout. The money went in before the flop with Harwood’s K-K going up against A-K and 10-10. The board came Q-5-3-2-2 and the kings held, shooting her stack past one million in chips, a stranglehold on the final table.

Then there’s Negreanu, the crowd favorite and owner of a half-dozen bracelets. The poker world was crushed when “Kid Poker” failed to make the 2015 WSOP November Nine. Now, he has a chance at a little bit of redemption as well as bracelet #7. Negreanu joked on Twitter, “I made the final 7 of the WSOP National Championship. I’m the oldest one left! Times change. I still got it.”

The National Championship was the first tournament Negreanu had entered since the Main Event ended earlier this month. He added on Twitter that his “Kid Poker” moniker might be going the way of the dodo after the North Carolina tournament: “I’m thinking about changing my nickname to KoleFo since I am such a wild man at the poker table. A regular cold 4 bettin’ machine.”

Read about two of Negreanu’s Main Event mistakes.

Here’s how the field looks entering Friday’s finale, which begins at 1pm ET. The blinds will be 5,000-10,000-1,000 and everyone left is guaranteed $49,000. The top prize is $341,000 and a bracelet:

Seat 1: Vincent Moscati – 463,000 (46 bb)
Seat 2: Darryll DFish Fish – 648,000 (64 bb)
Seat 3: Daniel Negreanu – 543,000 (54 bb)
Seat 4: empty
Seat 5: Paul Mattioda – 167,000 (16 bb)
Seat 6: Loni Harwood – 1,340,000 (134 bb)
Seat 7: Alex Masek – 100,000 (10 bb)
Seat 8: empty
Seat 9: Brad St. Vincent – 410,000 (41 bb)

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