The final nine have reached the final table at the 2009 WSOP main event and televised coverage begins this tuesday! Go Phil! Phil Ivey is one of my favorite poker players and he is in the final this year competing against the best of the 2009 wsop poker tournament crowd. The November nine WSOP finalists prepare for the ultimate poker showdown, the remaining players are Phil Ivey, age 33 from Las Vegas with $9,765,000, Darvin Moon, 45 from Oakland, MD with $58,930,000, Eric Buchman 29 from Hewlett, NY with $34,800,000 (A local player for me, good luck!) Steven Begleiter 47 from Chappaqua, NY with $29,885,000, Jeff Shulman 34 from Las Vegas with $19,580,00, Joseph Cada 21 from Shelby Township, MI with $13,215,000, Kevin Schafel 51 from Coral Springs, FL with $12,390,000, Antoine Saout 25 from St. Martin with $9,500,000, and James Akenhead 26 from London, England with $6,800,000 in tournament chips.
These are the finl nine players out of 6,494 tournament participants who will take their seats at the final table of the 2009 WSOP main event poker tournament. The winner will receive over $8.5 million when they claim the world champion distiction. The 2009 main event final table play begins November 7th and the winner will be announced on November 9th. The 2009 main event takes pace at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas.
With four players coming from Full Tilt Poker, this is a banner year for the online poker room. Full Tilt poker is running special freeroll poker tournaments hat allow the winner to share the prize with Phil Ivey if he wins the 2009 wsop main event.
Play for the chance to win a seat in a special nine-player Sit & Go, where prize money equal to 5% of Phil Ivey’s Main Event winnings is up for grabs. | |  |
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| | Win a seat in an exclusive Freeroll to play for the share of a $50,000 prize pool. In addition to first-place prize money, the winner will be awarded prize money equal to 1% of Phil Ivey’s Main Event winnings. | |  |
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| | We’re giving away over $150K in cash drawings. Players can win one of more than 600 cash prizes awarded each day from October 8th through November 5th. |
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Full Tilt Poker for more details and learn how you can qualify to play for a piece of Phil Ivey's winnings at this year's 2009 wsop main event poker tournament.
