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27 players took on to the felt on Monday, 14th July, at the Rio in Las Vegas to decide who will be the final 9 players to play it out for the most prestigious title in the poker world, the in $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship at the 2008 World Series of Poker. This final group of players had a lot on the line, despite the fact that every single one of them would walk away with at least $257,334 in prize money. A spot at the 2008 main event final table was on the line, and the shot at $9,119,334. The final nine players, dubbed by many the November Nine, will now take a break for almost four months and return to the Rio on the 9th of November to play the first part of the final table. The final two players will then return for a heads-up match on the 10th of November to determine the world champion.
Here is a look at the entire list of eliminations:
27th — Michael Carroll — $257,334
26th — Phi Nguyen — $257,334
25th — Niklas Flisberg — $257,334
24th — Aaron Gordon — $257,334
23rd — Tim Loecke — $257,334
22nd — Judet Tony Cristian — $257,334
21st — Paul Snead — $257,334
20th — Brandon Cantu — $257,334
19th — Albert Kim — $257,334
18th — Jason Riesenberg — $334,535
17th — Tiffany Michelle — $334,535
16th — Anthony Scherer — $334,535
15th — Owen Crowe — $463,202
14th — Gert Andersen — $463,202
13th — Nicholas Sliwinski — $463,202
12th — Chris Klodnicki — $591,869
11th — Joe Bishop — $591,869
10th — Dean Hamrick — $591,869
Here are the final nine for November (with seat assignment, chip counts, listed occupation, and hometown), all of whom have already received the ninth-place payday of $900,670:
Seat 1: Dennis Phillips — 26,295,000 — Account Manager (St. Louis, Missouri)
Seat 2: Craig Marquis — 10,210,000 — College Student (Arlington, Texas)
Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz — 12,525,000 — Professional Poker Player (Brooklyn, NY)
Seat 4: Scott Montgomery — 19,690,000 — Professional Poker Player (Perth, Ontario)
Seat 5: Darus Suharto — 12,520,000 — Accountant (Toronto, Ontario)
Seat 6: David “Chino” Rheem — 10,230,000 — Professional Poker Player (Los Angeles, California)
Seat 7: Ivan Demidov — 24,400,000 — Professional Poker Player (Moscow, Russia)
Seat 8: Kelly Kim — 2,620,000 — Professional Poker Player (Whittier, California)
Seat 9: Peter Eastgate — 18,375,000 — Professional Poker Player (Odense, Denmark)
Final-table payouts:
1st: $9,119,338
2nd: $5,790,024
3rd: $4,503,352
4th: $3,763,516
5th: $3,088,013
6th: $2,412,510
7th: $1,769,177
8th: $1,286,672
9th: $900,670
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