WSOP Main Event: Final Nine Set

Filed in archive WSOP News on July 16, 2008

"The November Nine" they will be known as for the next three plus months. Lives under a microscope of 2+2 message boards about who's getting coached by whom, what the major endorsement deals the online sites will be offering and most of all who is the favorite to win. The 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event officially ends in November, but for all practicality the tournament at the Rio is finished until next year.

Three tables started the final day in the Amazon Room, and went amazingly fast with the deep stacks compared to the blinds. With 10th place getting $591,869 for his/her effort, the big dollar signs would be signed by those who took home ninth place money today and will return to play for the nine million dollar first prize. Tiffany Michele who came into the day with high hopes as the last woman standing, busted out in 17th place. Bubble boy honors unfortunately went to Dean Hamrick as Craig Marquis' pocket queens held up over the A-J of Hamrick.

Pokernews.com's Amy Calistri has the call from Jack Effel in her feature post found here along with the chip count of the 2008 WSOP ME:

Play slowed appreciably and predictably as no one wanted the dubious honor of final-table bubble boy. Dean Hamrick finally swung for the fences and came up short. Tournament Jack Effel announced the final-table participants to thunderous applause, adding "Players, you may now go on your 117-day break! Good night from the World Series of Poker!"

The 2008 WSOP $10,000 NLHE World Championship Final Table:

Dennis Phillips 53, St. Louis, Missouri, 26,295,000
Ivan Demidov, 27, Moscow, Russia, 24,400,000
Scott Montgomery, 26, Perth, Ontario, Canada, 19,690,000
Peter Eastgate, 22, Odense, Denmark, 18,375,000
Ylon Schwartz, 38, Brooklyn, New York, 12,525,000
Darus Suharto, 39, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 12,520,000
David Rheem, 28, Los Angeles, California, 10,230,000
Craig Marquis, 23, Arlington, Texas, 10,210,000
Kelly Kim, 31, Whittier, California, 2,620,000