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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
World Series of Poker's "November Nine" Set Last Night
Posted by Brian Ries on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Last week I laid some groundwork for this year's World Series of Poker Main Event, how Harrah's planned to halt play once they got down to the final table of nine people until November in order to jack up mainstream media interest and let ESPN's not-so-live TV coverage catch up. Let the media frenzy begin.
The WSOP Main Event started July 3, with 6,844 people ponying up the $10,000 to participate, resulting in a prize pool of $64,333,600. Anyone who managed to beat out more than ten percent of the field managed to take home some dough, starting at $21,230 at 666th place. At 3:30 a.m. this morning, Michigan pro Dean Hamrick was in the uncomfortable position of being knocked out at 10th place, resulting in a booby prize of almost $600k.
The final nine received a payout of $900k -- the minimum they will be winning once play resumes -- and a 117 day vacation that they'll likely spend negotiating endorsement deals, studying opponents and training, training, training. $900k is a lot, but 1st place will take home over $9 million, along with an easy, almost-guaranteed lifetime income as a sponsored pro. There are a few amateurs, a few pros, a mix of ages, and five different countries represented among the surviving few. All men, though, as the final female player was eliminated in 17th place.
Locally, our own former CL columnist (and current traitor) Jaden Hair got a little windfall from the WSOP. Her husband Scott (that's him looking stern in the pic) -- a good online poker player -- managed to ride a short stack into the money for a cool $27k, finishing 466th when his pocket aces got two-outed by pocket queens. Bad beat, Scott. And Jaden, out of respect for you, I refrained from making a joke about "riding the short stack".
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