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WSOP – The November Nine Rise To The Top

For almost every single entrant in the 2011 World Series of Poker, this seven week gaming extravaganza has come to an end.  Many of those players won some money, many more did not and a select few walked away with a coveted WSOP bracelet – the prize awarded to the winner of each of the winners of the 57 events.

Event #58 carries on regardless though, although it’s taking a break at the moment and will return to the Rio All-Suite in November. The nine players who won through from the 6,865 entrants to the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em competition are more commonly known as the November Nine.  When ten players remain in the tourney, they are all moved to one final table and the last to be ejected will be decided.  In this case it was John Hewitt just outside the money bubble.

In November the other players will return to the exact same seats with the same neighbouring players and will start playing again with the same size chip stack.  Here’s the final nine and their final amounts:

Sam Holden and Anton Makiievskyi will be the weakest members of the nine but are certainly guaranteed a fair few blinds.  It may also be no consolation at the time but even ninth place will walk away with $782,115.  That scales up to a not-to-be-sniffed at $8,711,956.  Irishman Eoghan O’Dea was the overall chip leader for most of the final couple of days but was overtaken in a late run of successes by Russian Martin Staszko.  Staszko is something of an unknown quantity in the field while O’Dea hails from the poker lineage of his father, previous bracelet winner Donnacha O’Dea.

It’s an incredibly young field this year with the exceptions of Belize citizen Badih Bou-Nahra at 45.  It’s also a refreshingly international field with seven countries being represented.  The WSOP is starting to take on a truly international flavour.

 

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