After three and a half months of break after the November Nine were found in Mid July, the 9 millionaires returned to the table to fight for the title, the bracelet and $8 million.
It was no big surprise that it was the Spanish short stack Fernando Pons to hit the rail first. He got his stack in as a slight favorite with his
Jerry Wong, the second initial short stack of the final table also didn’t manage to survive any longer when he ran with his
Next to go was Canadian pro and GPL commentator Griffin Benger who didn’t manage to get anything going his way and when he pushed his chips all in with
With the next bust out, day 1 of the final table would end and it was no other than the Belgian tournament director Kenny Hallaert who lost the biggest pot of the day. Kenny opened his
The next day players returned to play down to three players and it was surprisingly Vojtech Ruzicka who has been playing extremely well until this point. He first lost a big pot when he missed as the aggressor a big pot with the ace high flush draw to Josephy’s set of eights, just to run with
It would now take a while and play was rather passive but eventually it was Michael Ruane who tried to hang on as the short stack but then lost his remaining chips with
Play continued just for another 10 hands before they called it a night and the remaining three players bagged their chips.
Tonight players will return for the final showdown and we will find out who will be the newest world champion of poker. Big favorite is Qui Nguyen who has well over half the chips in play with 197,600,000, followed by Godon Vayo and his 89,000,000. Shortstack of the table is Cliff Josephy with 50 million in chips.
1 | $8,005,310 | ||
2 | $4,661,228 | ||
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4 | Michael Ruane | USA | $2,576,003 |
5 | Vojtech Ruzicka | Czech Republic | $1,935,288 |
6 | Kenny Hallaert | Belgium | $1,464,258 |
7 | Griffin Benger | Canada | $1,250,190 |
8 | Jerry Wong | USA | $1,100,076 |
9 | Fernando Pons | Spain | $1,000,000 |