After over 14 hours of play, the final table for this year’s World Series Of Poker (WSOP) is down to two competitors and the pair will battle it out this evening for the $8.5 million top prize.

Joseph Cada, a 21-year-old professional poker player from Michigan, is set to face Darvin Moon, a self-employed logger who, until this year’s WSOP, had never been on an airplane or gambled for high stakes.

The final nine began proceedings on Saturday and the UK’s James Akenhead was the first to bust out after his threes lost all in versus the nines of Kevin Schaffel. The PokerStars.com qualifier took home $1.2 million for his ninth-place finish while fellow online qualifier Schaffel was eliminated a few hands later by Eric Buchman to walk away with $1.3 million.

Professional poker player Phil Ivey was the next to go after pushing all-in against 46-year-old Moon. Although Ivey’s ace/king combination dominated the ace/queen of his opponent, Moon caught one of three remaining queens on the flop to move ahead. With the turn and river helping neither player, Ivey went home in seventh with $1.4 million.

New York investment banker Steven Begleiter was soon eliminated in sixth for $1.5 million after Moon caught a river ace to beat his queens while the Editor of CardPlayer magazine, Jeff Shulman, was the next to leave the table after going all in with pocket sevens against Antoine Saout. Shulman retired with $1.9 million after Frenchman Saout hit one of his over-cards as a nine came on the flop.

New York native Eric Buchman finished in fourth spot to take away a prize of $2.5 million after going down to Moon on Saturday evening while dawn broke with Cada’s ace/king beating Saout’s pocket eights with a river king. Saout entered the WSOP through a $50 online satellite and now has a $3.5 million return on his investment.

Moon and Cada are set to resume play tonight from ten o’clock Los Angeles time at the Penn And Teller Theater of the Rio All-Suite Hotel And Casino with the younger competitor holding a two-to-one chip advantage. Moon has just under $59 million in chips while Cada sits atop a $135,950,000 stack. If Cada were to win, he would become the youngest WSOP main event champion in history while the runner-up will walk away with a consolation prize of $5.2 million.