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2008 WSOP - The Best is Yet to Come!

 

The wsop 2008 is almost over, but the most exciting part is yet to come – the final table of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event! The so called “November Nine” will return to the Rio Casino in Las Vegas to fight for the World Champion title and the $9 million first prize. Every poker magazine and online poker guide will be there to cover the conclusion of the biggest poker tournament in the world, and people who used to ask “What is WSOP?” will be talking about chip counts, big bluffs and bad beats.

We’ll get back to that, but let’s first have a quick look-back at what happened at the World Series of Poker during the summer:

Scotty Nguyen became HORSE champion. The $50,000 HORSE event is the most prestigious of all WSOP tournaments, perhaps with exception of the Main Event. All the big pros come to play, and just as usual one of them won, this time it was Scotty Nguyen, also known as “The Prince of Poker.” Scotty’s behaviour at the final table might have been questionable, but he definitely earned the title and the $1,989,120 in prize money thanks to his superior poker skills.

John Phan won two bracelets. “The Razor” was the only player to score twice at the 2008 WSOP – first he took home Event 29, $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em, and a couple of weeks later he triumphed in Event 40, $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit).

Phan didn’t win the 2008 WSOP Player of the Year race, however. That prestigious title went to Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren instead. E-Dog won his first ever WSOP bracelet in Event 4 $5,000 Mixed Hold’em, and finished in the top 20 four more time, including two final tables.

A lot of other famous pros won bracelets as well: Nenad Medic, David Singer, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Dario Minieri, Layne Flack, David Benyamine and J.C. Tran, just to name a few.

In November another player will become a legend. These are the nine who have the chance to write poker history:

Dennis “Fordman” Phillips (St. Louis, MO)
Chips: 26,295,000
Age 53
Account manager for a commercial trucking company

Ivan Demidov (Moscow, Russia)
Chips: 24,400,000
Age: 27
Professional Poker Player

Scott Montgomery (Perth, Ontario – Canada)
Chips: 19,690,000
Age 26
Professional Poker Player

Peter Eastgate (Odense, Denmark)
Chips: 18,375,000
Age 22
Professional Poker Player

Ylon Schwartz (Brooklyn, NY)
Chips: 12,525,000
Age 38
Professional Poker Player

Darus Suharto (Toronto, Ontario – Canada)
Chips: 12,520,000
Age 39
Accountant

David "Chino" Rheem (Los Angeles, CA)
Chips: 10,230,000
Age 28
Professional Poker Player

Craig Marquis (Arlington, TX)
Chips: 10,210,000
Age: 23
College Student

Kelly Kim (Whittier, CA)
Chips: 2,620,000
Age 31
Professional Poker Player
 

 

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