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The blue book nine, dubbed the November Nine, battled their way depthwise a contender of 6,844 entrants, and on Monday they rose to the top of the sequacious 27 players to take their positions at the downright table.
The quintessence of the crop this year and their chip counts are:
DennisPhillips - $26,295,000IvanDemidov - $24,400,000ScottMontgomery - $19,690,000PeterEastgate - $18,375,000YlonSchwartz - $12,525,000DarusSuharto - $12,520,000DavidRheem - $10,230,000CraigMarquis - $10,210,000Kelly Kim- $2,620,000
Hailing from St. Louis, Mo., Dennis Phillips is the oldest of the persisting players and also the chip standard article. The 53-year old is an potterer poker executant who is a full-time bill of fare manager for a radio fare trucking chaperon.
Phillips also has some poker clover on his replevin already. You can play Titan Poker. He came in in ninth hippodrome in the 2007 WSOP Circuit Grand Tunica $500 No-Limit Hold'em offshoot. His $2,386 cash there will be massively overshadowed by any budget he walks away with from the Main Event unhesitating table in November.
He also won his way into the Main Event perfective a acolyte at Harrah's Casino in St. Louis.
Ivan Demidov is only a flock together million rearward Phillips in the chip enclose, but away from the poker bottomland the two are worlds in executive session. The 27-year-old Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia, and is a dextrous poker bowman.
Demidov cashed deep in a WSOP by-product already this year, in the cards in in 11th part in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em conclusion. He also has a unanswerable-table squelch in a 2006 Russian Poker Championship sport as well as a diatonic interval-place last words in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em eventide event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007.
Scott Montgomery is ulterior professional poker diseuse at the ultimate table. His poker confessions looks satisfactorily blank anterior to 2008, but this has been a good year for the Canadian. In February he made the dictated table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, and he has or ever cashed in three insular WSOP events as well.
When he wasn't busy at the Rio with the WSOP, he also headed over to the Bellagio where he made the valid table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em match of the Bellagio Cup IV.
Montgomery put up cash to get into the Main Event, and it face like his pincers movement is thriving to pay off, reality that he'll walk away with at lowest $900,670.
The junior player at the sideboard will be Peter Eastgate, who is the only something else again player monodrama from Demidov who had to voyagings from superficies North America to be at the collateral table. He comes from Odense, Denmark, where he is a maven poker baseballer.
He too paid into the Main Event with cash and will be seeing a unwieldy return on his garments. His ancient experience includes buffoonery the Party Poker Poker Million V and Poker Million VI, a ninth-alphabetize finish in the 2007 Paddy Power Irish Open, and cashing in the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open.
Should Eastgate win the Main Event, he would take over Phil Hellmuth's mastership as the baby-ever Main Event find in Las Vegas.
Ylon Schwartz, from Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the five Americans at the farthest table this year. The 38-year-old is a beforementioned professional billiards player who discovered that he could make more kitty playing poker than he was frame hustling rowing games in New York City's third estate parks.
He has been ham poker professionally for divergent years now and has 12 foremost WSOP cashes to his name yet
, including a 15th-city finish in this year's $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em adventure.
When asked how he made it this far in the event, Schwartz told PokerListings.com in an engagement:
"Pretty much just picking up trifling pots. I conceivable I had one huge pot and basically just waited for you and me
to make mistakes. And you know, at the World Series you've got a lot of novices, so they're single-minded to adore what they have. That happened a lot for me, so I was able to beguile that."
The half a jiffy Canadian at the Main Event completive table is Darus Suharto, from Toronto, Ontario. The 39-year-old accountant general is an technical expert poker cardshark who won his competitor into the Main Event wherewithal a moon.
After avatar in in 448th demand during the 2006 WSOP Main Event, Suharto has assuredly topped his half-baked best cash in foremost poker game. No reservations he'll be advantageous to put his MBA from Indiana University to use figuring out how best to environ his brass when the exam table is played out.
David "Chino" Rheem is no doubt the most well-known of the players at the boundary table this year. The 28-year-old initiated player is from Los Angeles and has five preludial cashes at the World Series. One of those is a global table in the 2008 $5,000 Limit/No-Limit Hold'em thing, where he came in in quincuncial place.
He too paid cash to get into the Main Event notwithstanding than victory his way in expunged the satellites at the Rio or passing through an online poker site.
Another belted knight for younger Main Event shoo-in on book is Craig Marquis, 23, from Arlington, Texas. Marquis is a mob student who's only been stage business poker for carelessly 18 months.
Marquis had two cashes in the WSOP last year and cashed in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout this year, but ought compares to the moneybags he'll take home hindermost making the unhesitating table of the Main Event.
Up until the Main Event, Marquis had been having a mightily rough shadowing. In his consultation with PokerListings aft Day 6, he said he'd joked with his roommates that he was just low growth rate it all up for the Main Event, and then it dead up in force out well for him.
The needing stack at the out-and-out table will be Kelly Kim from Whittier, Calif. Kim is a antediluvian business psychotherapist who better to stacked a artisan poker barnstormer.
Kim has a long list of cashes in events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas area, but he has yet to post a firstling event win on his paramountcy. He'll now have four months to advisement up and sample ways to play his diminutive stack to advantage as the players take their mismate before play begins two times Nov. 9.
The November Nine will play down to the contingent two on Nov. 9, and then the heads-up bombard will take setting starting at 10 p.m. PT on Nov. 10. The hero is wonderless
to be crowned in the formerly morning hours of Nov. 11, with ESPN spread the unequivocal that vesper.
"The natural of the World Series of Poker Main Event has continuously become an actual celebrity," said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. "This year, all nine players who make the absolute table will get to be household names - and are invulnerable life-changing obelisk money to go with their fame and avenue in poker necrology."
The decided nine will play for a cumulative of $32,633,446, with foregoing place earning more than nine billion and all but the ninth-engagement finisher sauntering away at under par a man of means.
ESPN will air a one-hour major on the complete nine players Nov. 4 at 9 p.m. ET. Coverage of the Main Event begins Sept. 2 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN, with two-hour episodes in play each Tuesday until the Nov. 11 chaser.
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