WSOP Main Event: Meet your November Nine
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Inside the Rio Convention Center, 7,319 players took their seats over the course of four day-1 starts. 27 were left standing as the final day arrived. 18 hours later, our November Nine was decided. Michael Mizrachi, Jason Senti, Joseph Cheong, John Dolan, Jonathan Duhamel, Matthew Jarvis, John Racener, Filippo Candio, and Soi Nguyen were the nine that remained at the featured table in the Amazon Room
The final nine will all go home with $811,823(9th place money), and some time to strategize their plans for the final table. The Champion will take home a prize of almost $9 million and, of course, the coveted WSOP Main Event bracelet.
Candio made history as the first Italian player to make the WSOP Main Event Final Table.
“I’m so happy. I started my career three or four years ago. I won an Italian Championship in 2009. I worked hard for this career and I think it’s important for my mission. Young guys try to become professional poker players, they say all is possible, if I do it, they can do it,” said Candio.
Going into November, Jonothan Duhamel is the overwhelming chip leader. Here he talks strategy and what he would do with the money:
But Michael “The Grinder” Mizarchi is showing no fear:
“Every time when I don’t have any chips, I end up winning the tournament, and it seems like it’s going to go this way again,” said Mizrachi. Michael also just won the $50,000 Player’s Championship.
Soi Nyugen and Jason Senti will be the short stacks heading into November.
Nguyen, from Santa Ana, Ca, has played in only three other live tournaments before and admits that it was watching poker on TV that got him in the game.
“I saw it on ESPN and Chris Moneymaker, figured, if he can do it, why can’t I.”
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July 25th, 2010
Poker News: Eastgate Quits Poker; WSOP Main Event
Posted by ThomasG | Filed under Stack Poker |
Just two years after becoming the World Series of Poker Main Event champion, Peter Eastgate is going to take a break from professional poker at the age of 24. The announcement came as a surprise to many in the poker world:
“When I started playing poker for a living, it was never my goal to spend the rest of my life as a professional poker player. My goal was to become financially independent. I achieved that by winning the WSOP Main Event in 2008. The period following has taken me on a worldwide tour, where I have seen some amazing places and met many new people; it has been a great experience. In the 20 months following my WSOP win, I feel that I have lost my motivation for playing high level poker along the way and I have decided that now is the time to find out what I want to do with the rest of my life. What this will be, I do not yet know. I have decided to take a break from live tournament poker, and try to focus on Peter Eastgate, the person. I want to thank PokerStars, my friends and family for their support over the last 20 months and for their support in my decision to take a break from poker.”
Good Luck to Eastgate in whatever he decides to do with all that time and money.
In other news…
The WSOP Main Event has started!
1,125 entrants took their seats for Day 1a on Monday. Chris Moneymaker, Corwin Cole, Jakob Karlsson and Barry Shulman each finished with more than 100,000 in chips. Corwin Cole led the day with 228,200. 2004 Main Event champion Greg Raymer, was eliminated early in the day. Victor Ramdin, Isaac Haxton, Mike Caro, Jimmy Fricke and Nikolay Evdakov also will not be back for Day 2.
Day 1b on Tuesday saw 1,489 players. By the end of play Tuesday, another 500 or so entrants were out of the tournament. With 201,050 in chips, James Danielson led the day. A few who will not be returning to the action include Arnaud Mattern, Jennifer Tilly, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Ivan Demidov, Liv Boeree, Joe Sebok and Erick Lindgren.
Come back for more poker news as the WSOP Main Event unfolds…
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July 8th, 2010