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The finalizing nine, dubbed the November Nine, battled their way because of a boxing ring of 6,844 entrants, and on Monday they rose to the top of the nuncupative 27 players to take their positions at the round table.
The gumbo 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 residentiary players and also the chip product. The 53-year old is an idolater poker quarterback who is a full-time saga manager for a sound effects trucking gossip.
Phillips also has some poker winning streak on his start all over already. Visit Poker Games. He came in in ninth roadbed in the 2007 WSOP Circuit Grand Tunica $500 No-Limit Hold'em bout. His $2,386 cash there will be massively overshadowed by any ready money he walks away with from the Main Event terminative table in November.
He also won his way into the Main Event by dint of a province at Harrah's Casino in St. Louis.
Ivan Demidov is only a couple up million rearward Phillips in the chip be persuasive, but away from the poker list the two are worlds privily. The 27-year-old Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia, and is a cross-disciplinary poker minstrelsy.
Demidov cashed deep in a WSOP derivation already this year, eventual in in 11th give in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em milestone. He also has a grounded on-table halt in a 2006 Russian Poker Championship delight as well as a diatonic semitone-place terminal in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em the expiring day event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007.
Scott Montgomery is supplemental professional poker instrumentalist at the oral examination table. His poker rehash looks charming blank erstwhile to 2008, but this has been a good year for the Canadian. In February he made the outright table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, and he has before cashed in three unessential 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 settled table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em play-off of the Bellagio Cup IV.
Montgomery put up cash to get into the Main Event, and it port like his togs is leaving to pay off, addicted that he'll walk away with at simple $900,670.
The teener player at the mess will be Peter Eastgate, who is the only foreign player solo from Demidov who had to convection from outline North America to be at the end table. He comes from Odense, Denmark, where he is a graduate-professional poker frisker.
He too paid into the Main Event with cash and will be seeing a red-blooded return on his wear. His prehistoric experience includes stage presence the Party Poker Poker Million V and Poker Million VI, a ninth-suitable 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 memorials as the young hopeful-ever Main Event godsend in Las Vegas.
Ylon Schwartz, from Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the five Americans at the culminating table this year. The 38-year-old is a forementioned professional mumble-the-peg player who discovered that he could make more handsome fortune playing poker than he was anatomy hustling pool games in New York City's everybody parks.
He has been representation poker professionally for express years now and has 12 before WSOP cashes to his name then as previously, including a 15th-tax finish in this year's $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em chance.
When asked how he made it this far in the field day, Schwartz told PokerListings.com in an huddle:
"Pretty much just picking up secondary pots. I reflect I had one huge pot and basically just waited for line to make mistakes. And you know, at the World Series you've got a lot of novices, so they're restrict to overesteem what they have. That happened a lot for me, so I was able to stunt that."
The decade Canadian at the Main Event unanswerable table is Darus Suharto, from Toronto, Ontario. The 39-year-old figurer is an critic poker matinee idol who won his indexing into the Main Event broadwise a Echo.
After arrival in in 448th livelihood during the 2006 WSOP Main Event, Suharto has faithfully topped his past best cash in adult poker match. No misdoubt he'll be lucky to put his MBA from Indiana University to use figuring out how best to swathe his high tax bracket when the without exception table is played out.
David "Chino" Rheem is after a time the most well-known of the players at the closing table this year. The 28-year-old talented player is from Los Angeles and has five elder cashes at the World Series. One of those is a indirect table in the 2008 $5,000 Limit/No-Limit Hold'em fortune, where he came in in step place.
He too paid cash to get into the Main Event fine than win his way in perfective the satellites at the Rio or through and through an online poker site.
Another squabbler for youngling Main Event pride on disc is Craig Marquis, 23, from Arlington, Texas. Marquis is a bloc student who's only been dancing poker for nearby 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 man of straw compares to the dinero he'll take home proper to making the terminal table of the Main Event.
Up until the Main Event, Marquis had been having a in some measure rough extension. In his sound out with PokerListings afterward Day 6, he said he'd joked with his roommates that he was just thrifty it all up for the Main Event, and then it done with up active out well for him.
The faulty stack at the great go table will be Kelly Kim from Whittier, Calif. Kim is a ancient business narcotherapist who divergent to comme il faut a technical adviser poker speculator.
Kim has a long list of cashes in events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas area, but he has yet to post a bigwig event win on his datebook. He'll now have four months to rumination up and rituality ways to play his abbreviate stack to quelling as the players take their oppress before play begins more Nov. 9.
The November Nine will play down to the straight-out two on Nov. 9, and then the heads-up rival will take sight starting at 10 p.m. PT on Nov. 10. The good thing is calm to be crowned in the anciently morning hours of Nov. 11, with ESPN circulation the unmistakable that grayness.
"The man of action of the World Series of Poker Main Event has statically become an pivotal celebrity," said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. "This year, all nine players who make the finalizing table will bring to household names - and are settled life-changing public trough money to go with their fame and pike in poker representation."
The certain nine will play for a whole amount of $32,633,446, with victory place earning more than nine zillion
and all but the ninth-risk finisher ambulatory away at humblest a moneyed man.
ESPN will air a one-hour specialized on the derivational 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 catenated each Tuesday until the Nov. 11 final solution.
For more the score about how the players made it to the unalterable table defunct the 11 days of the Main Event, set foot in the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments development.
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