WSOP 2010 - November Nine

The 41st annual World Series of Poker® is drawing to a close and the final 9 players have been selected to play through to a close of the Main Event, the winner will be crowned the World Champion of Poker. 

The official final table was only decided when 10 players became 9 after nearly 6 hours of play.  Brandon Steven was the unfortunate 10th placed player when his AK couldn't hold up against Matthew Jarvis and his QQ hand.

Let's take a look at the players who made the November Nine and the prize money on offer.

The 9 poker players who will play the WSOP Main Event to a finish in November are:

1. Jonathan Duhamel with 65,975,000 chips
2. John Dolan with 46,250,000 chips
3. Joseph Cheong with 23,525,000 chips
4. John Racener with 19,050,000 chips
5. Matthew Jarvis with 16,700,000 chips
6. Fillipo Candio with 16,400,000 chips
7. Michael Mizrachi with 14,450,000 chips
8. Soi Nguyen with 9,650,000 chips
9. Jason Senti with 7,625,000 chips

Each of the nine remaining players received the minimum payout, along with some rather tasty sponsorship deals, so they all received $811,823 as the minimum payout.  In November, 8 poker players will walk away with more and only one player will get no extra.  The WSOP Main Event prize money is:

1st place – $8,944,138
2nd place – $5,545,855
3rd place – $4,129,979
4th place – $3 092,497
5th place – $2,442,960
6th place – $1,772,939
7th place – $1,356,708
8th place – $1,045,738
9th place – $811,823

Michael Mizrachi will be very pleased with his World Series performance having had major problems with the IRS directly before the event.  Mizrachi has already won Event number 2, The Poker Players Championship, for a $1,559,046 payday.

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