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    • The November Nine are back


    We left off back in July when the huge field for the World Series of Poker was whittled down to the final nine, popularly know as the November Nine. The names in the frame at that point were as follows and the chip counts they begun the final table with were exactly as they were left on July 23rd.


    WSOP November Nine

    They poker pros restarted the table in the same positions as they left them, meaning each will have been brushing up on the neighbours technique and on-table behaviour. The two with the lowest chip counts to begin with were Sam Holden (UK) and Anton Makiievsky (UKR) and not surprisingly their weak position led to their early exits, Holden with $782,115 and Makiievsky with a little more than $1 million. Badih Bou-Nahra from Belize was the next to depart with $1,314,097, leaving only Pius Heinz (GER) from the bottom four to survive. Irishman Eoghan O'Dea went to the rail in sixth place for $1,720,831, coincidentally the same position from which his father had exited the competition in 1983. At this point the big mover was Pius Heinz, working his way up the chip rankings and becoming a contender for the main prize himself.



    Next to be eliminated was Phil Collins (US), whose noisy supporters have taken to singing (the other) Phil Collins songs in support of their man. They couldn't save him from Heinz' set of nines however and away to the rail he went with $2,269,599. By this point Heinz was now top of the chip rankings and it looked as if it would take a lot to dislodge him. Starting the final table with just under 16.5 million chip count, he now has more than 100 million. One more was still to be eliminated though and that was Matt Giannetti (US), who suffered a huge loss to Ben Lamb (US) on hand number 174 which effectively crippled him. He struggled on until hand 178 but Lambs four Kings made sure that was to be Giannetti's last play for this year. However he will take home $3,012,700 as a consolation.



    That was where the action finished and today we await the start of the final stretch when Pius Heinz (107,800,000), Ben Lamb (55,400,000) and Czech Martin Staszko (42,700,000) will take their seats and battle it out until only one remains.



    Good Year For The WSOP


    Despite some dire predictions, largely revolving around Black Friday and the ability of some players to raise enough cash to partake at the Rio All-Suite Casino , this has in fact turned out to be a good year for the tournament. Numbers held up well from last year and perhaps the multinational make-up of the competition have swelled the ranks. Not too many years ago a final three made up of a German, an American and a Czech would have been unthinkable. For the good of the global game of poker it now appears to be the norm.




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