07.20
July 16th marked the 7th day of the World Series of Poker Main Event. 78 players started the day with the hopes of becoming the next world champion, but only 21 players survived to make it to Day 8.
There are still quite a few notable poker pros in the field, which could make for a very exciting final table. Some of the pros that remain, and are eagerly anticipating the chance of making the November Nine, include online poker sportsbook favorites, Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Adam Levy, David Baker, John Racener, Matt Affleck, William Thorson, and Jason Senti.
While all of these well known players still in the hunt for the bracelet, there were a few pros that were not as lucky to make it through day 7. These unfortunate players include Tony Dunst, Josh Brikis, David Benyamine, and Jacobo Fernandez.
July 17th saw the last 21 players in the 2010 WSOP Main Event play an astonishing 17 straight hours of poker in order to see who would be this year’s November Nine.
Jonathan Duhamel is the lucky entrant who holds the chip lead with 65.9 Million chips heading into the Main Event final table. Here is the list of the lucky nine players, including seat number and chip count, who will come back to Las Vegas in November to play for the first place prize of $8.9 Million.
Seat 1: Jason Senti — 7,625,000
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong — 23,525,000
Seat 3: John Dolan — 46,250,000
Seat 4: Jonathan Duhamel — 65,975,000
Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi — 14,450,000
Seat 6: Matthew Jarvis — 16,700,000
Seat 7: John Racener — 19,050,000
Seat 8: Filippo Candio — 16,400,000
Seat 9: Soi Nguyen — 9,650,000
Michael Mizrachi has a chance to cap off an amazing run at this year’s World Series of poker. “The Grinder” has already won the $50,000 buy-in Players Championship tournament back in June and has the chance to win two of the most prestigious titles from this year’s WSOP.
All of the remaining players are guaranteed an $811,000 payday, but I’m sure they would all like the first place prize of $8.9 Million much more. It will be interesting to learn the stories of each of these poker players over the next few months as the poker world eagerly awaits a new world champion.
