The November Nine of the 2008 WSOP
Introducing, the 2008 WSOP’s November Nine.
The 2008 World Series of Poker already have its final nine players ready to compete when they resume play on November.
Dubbed as the November Nine, these nine finalists of the 2008 WSOP battled their way through a field of 6,844 entrants, rising to the top of the final 27 players to take their respective positions at the final table.
The final nine of the 2008 WSOP are; Dennis Phillips, Ivan Demidov, Scott Montgomery, Peter Eastgate, Ylon Schwartz, Darus Suharto, David Rheem, Craig Marquis and Kelly Kim. And just because this is the first of stories focused on the final nine participants vying for the 2008 WSOP bracelet, we found it only fitting to give ya’ll a glimpse.
Dennis Phillips, one of the oldest players of the ‘’November Nine’’ hails from St. Louis, Mo. and currently is the chip leader. Phillips has some poker success on his resume. He came in ninth place back in 2007 WSOP Circuit Grand Tunica $500 No-Limit Hold’em event.
Ivan Demidov, on the other hand, has $24,400,000, good for second. The 27-year-old Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia, and is a professional poker player.
Running in third is Scott Montgomery who is another professional poker player at the final table. His poker resume looks pretty blank prior to 2008, but this has been a good year for the Canadian. In February he made the final table of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, and he has already cashed in three other WSOP events as well.
The youngest player at the table will be Peter Eastgate, who is the only other player aside from Ivan Demidov who had to travel from outside North America to be at the final table. He comes from Odense, Denmark.
Next we have Ylon Schwartz. He is from Brooklyn, N.Y. and is one of the five Americans at the final table this year. The 38-year-old is a former professional chess player who has been playing poker professionally for several years now.
Another guy included in the final table is Dennis Suharto. Suharto does not play poker on a consistent basis, he only plays poker on weekends, getting in around 15 hours online and with friends. I wonder how far can this guy go at the final table.
David ‘’Chino’’ Rheem is probably the most well-known of the players at the final table this year. The 28-year-old professional poker player is from Los Angeles and has five prior cashes at the World Series. One of those is a final table in the 2008 $5,000 Limit/No-Limit Hold’em event, where he came in in fifth place.
Another contender for youngest Main Event winner on record is Craig Marquis, 23, from Arlington, Texas. Marquis is a college student who’s only been playing poker for about 18 months.
The short stack at the final table will be Kelly Kim from Whittier, Calif. Kim is a business-analyst-turned-poker-pro. Kim has a long list of cashes in events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas area, but he has yet to post a major event win.
Who will win the 2008 WSOP Main Event Final Table at the Rio in Las Vegas on November 9? Bodog sportsbook has the odds.
Dennis Phillips 4.00
Craig Marquis 11.00
Ylon Schwartz 9.00
Scott Montgomery 5.00
Darus Suharto 9.50
Chino Rheem 8.50
Ivan Demidov 5.50
Kelly Kim 26.00
Peter Eastgate 6.50
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2008 World Series of Poker WSOP November Nine
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