Patty Landis, who takes care of Negreanu - including preparing his vegan meals - is about to enter new territory later today in Las Vegas. Landis is one of 9 players coming back to fight for the Ladies Championship at the World Series of Poker.

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Landis, who has four career cashes to her credit, including a win in a No-Limit Hold’em Survivor event at the Venetian Casino in April, will certainly have the best coach of all final table participants behind her on Sunday.

Mikiyo Aoki will have the chip lead once the cards are in the air at 1pm PT today. $153,470 awaits today’s winner.

45th WORLD SERIES OF POKER EVENT #53: LADIES’ CHAMPIONSHIP$1,000 buy-in | 793 Entries | $713,700 Prize Pool Final Table Chip Counts

Mikiyo Aoki 742,000 Meikat Siu (USA) 460,000 Haixia Zhang (USA) 311,000 Pat Landis (USA) 219,000 Kendra Wray (USA) 214,000 Elizabeth Montizanti (USA) 184,000 Persia Bonella (USA) 128,000 Patricia Cahill (USA) 66,000 Stacey Sullivan (USA) 64,000