WSOP 2010 50k Players Championship

Lon McEachern en Norman Chad presenting the $50k Players Championship:

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Part 1
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WSOP in the money infosheet

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The WSOP 2010 Main Event November Nine is set

After 78 hours of poker played over 8 days starting with 7319 players, 9 players remain: the WSOP 2010 Main Event november nine. The unfortunate “bubble” finisher was Brandon Steven, from Wichita winning a price of $635,011.

The november nine:

SEAT 1: Jason Senti
Hometown: St. Louis Park, MN (USA)
Age: 28
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: This is Senti’s first time to ever cash in a WSOP event. He picked the right tournament and the right year to achieve a poker breakout, since he’s now guaranteed more than $800,000 in prize money.
Chip Count: 7,625,000

SEAT 2: Joseph Cheong
Hometown: La Mirada, CA (USA)
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: Cheong earned a degree in psychology from UC-San Diego last year. He also won a WSOP Circuit gold ring at Harrah’s Rincon four months ago. When Cheong won his victory, he promised himself he would play in the Main Event. Here he is now, competing on poker’s grandest stage.
Chip Count: 23,525,000

SEAT 3: John Dolan
Hometown: Bonita Springs, FL (USA)
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: Dolan has six WSOP cashes, including three in-the-money finishes at this year’s series. He has been one of the more consistent performers on this tournament, hanging around the leader board much of the way.
Chip Count: 46,250,000

SEAT 4: Jonathan Duhamel
Hometown: Boucherville, Quebec (Canada)
Age: 22
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: This is Duhamel’s third time to cash at this year’s WSOP. This has been a huge year for Canadian players so far, with five gold bracelet winners. Duhamel hopes to become number six.
Chip Count: 65,975,000

SEAT 5: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi
Hometown: Miami, FL (USA)
Age: 29
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: “The Grinder” is among the most successful tournament performers since the poker boom began. He won his first WSOP gold bracelet and $1,559,046 in this year’s Poker Players Championship, which took place during the opening week of the series.
Chip Count: 14,450,000

SEAT 6: Matthew Jarvis
Hometown: Surrey, BC (Canada)
Age: 25
Profession: Poker Pro/Student
Note: Jarvis is primarily an online player. This marks his first time to cash in a WSOP tournament. Jarvis would become the first Canadian world champion in history should he win the Main Event.
Chip Count: 16,700,000

SEAT 7: John Racener Hometown: Port Richey, FL (USA)
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: Racener is one of the stars of the national WSOP Circuit, with more than $500,000 in earnings, including the 2007 Main Event championship victory at Harrah’s Atlantic City.
Chip Count: 19,050,000

SEAT 8: Filippo Candio
Hometown: Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy)
Age: 26
Profession: Poker Pro
Note: Candio is the first Italian player ever to make it to the Main Event final table. He has a number of cashes at major tournaments held in Europe.
Chip Count: 16,400,000

SEAT 9: Cuong “Soi” Nguyen
Hometown: Santa Ana, CA (USA)
Age: 38
Profession: Sales (Medical Supplies)
Note: Nguyen is the senior player at this final table, at the advanced age of 36. He’s also the only two amateur sitting among the final nine. Nguyen has been near the chip lead during the past three days of competition. He cashed in the 2008 Main Event (614th place).
Chip Count: 9,650,000

The championship final table will be played starting on November 6th 2010 and teh nine players will battle for a 1st price of $8,944,138!

The prize money payouts:

1st place – $8,944,138
2nd place – $5,545,855
3rd place – $4,129,979
4th place – $3,092,497
5th place – $2,442,960
6th place – $1,772,939
7th place – $1,356,708
8th place – $1,045,738
9th place – $811,823

Phil Hellmuths entrance WSOP Main Event 2010

Phil Helmuth, dressed as a MMA fighter, begins play on the third day of the opening round of the World Series of Poker Main Event on Wednesday at the Rio. It didn’t bring him much, he left the Main event on day 1.

Watch his entrance:

Kassela WSOP Player of the Year 2010

With the start of the WSOP main event all other events are played and therefore the player of the year can be announced. Where there were all known names in the past few years (see below) this years WSOP player of the year is the 42-years old semi-pro Frank Kassela.

Past WSOP players of the year:
2004: Daniel Negreanu
2005: Allen Cunningham
2006: Jeff Madsen
2007: Tom Schneider
2008: Erick Lindgren
2009: Jeff Lisandro

He won 2 bracelets this year in Stud-8 and Razz and cashed 5 times. Though his biggest cash was a 3rd place finish in the $25,000 NLHE 6 max.

Overview of his results:
Event 12, 1.5k Limit Hold’em: 5th $11.027
Event 15, 10k Stud-8 World Championship: 1st $447.446
Event 40, 1.5k Razz: 1st$214.085
Event 48, 2.5k Mixed Event: 36st $5.376
Event 52, 25k NL Hold’em 6-handed: 3rd $556.053

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