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WSOP Main Event 2008

The nine players making it to the November final table are:-
Dennis Phillips  26,295,000   chips
Ivan Demidov  24,400,000  chips
Scott Montgomery  19,690,000   chips
Peter Eastgate   18,375,000   chips
Ylon Schwartz  12,525,000    chips
Darus Suharto  12,520,000  chips
David ‘Chino’ Rheem  10,230,000  chips
Craig Marquis  10,210,000  chips
Kelly Kim   2,620,000  chips

These nine players have been dubbed “The November Nine”

Other tops finishes:
10 $ 591,869 Dean Hamrick  
11 $ 591,869 Joe Bishop  
12 $ 591,869 Chris Klodnicki  
13 $ 463,201 Nicholas Sliwinski  
14 $ 463,201 Gert Andersen  
15 $ 463,201 Owen ‘ocrowe’ Crowe 
16 $ 334,534 Anthony Scherer  
17 $ 334,534 Tiffany Michelle  
18 $ 334,534 Jason Riesenberg  
19 $ 257,334 Albert Kim  
20 $ 257,334 Brandon Cantu  
21 $ 257,334 Paul Snead  
22 $ 257,334 Judet Toni Cristian  
23 $ 257,334 Tim Loecke 
24 $ 257,334 Aaron Gordon  
25 $ 257,334 Niklas Flisberg  
26 $ 257,334 Phi Nguyen  
27 $ 257,334 Michael Carroll
28 $ 193,000 Nikolay Losev
29 $ 193,000 Cristian Dragomir
30 $ 193,000 Mike Matusow
31 $ 193,000 Garrett Beckman
32 $ 193,000 Clint Schaefer
33 $ 193,000 Jamal Kunbuz
34 $ 193,000 Greg Byard
35 $ 193,000 Andrew Brokos
36 $ 193,000 Peter Neff
37 $ 154,400 Andrew Rosskamm
38 $ 154,400 Felix Osterland
39 $ 154,400 Craig Stein
40 $ 154,400 Mauro Lupo
41 $ 154,400 Kido Pham
42 $ 154,400 Jonathan Plens
43 $ 154,400 Jason Glass
44 $ 154,400 Chris Crilly
45 $ 154,400 Phil Hellmuth

WSOP Event 53 - $1500 Limit Holdem Shootout - 823 entrants
1 $ 278,180 Matt Graham  
2 $ 173,564 Jean-Robert Bellande  
3 $ 107,845 Joe De Niro  
4 $ 69,088 Brandon Wong  
5 $ 33,701 Danny Wong  
6 $ 20,221 Spencer Lawrence  
7 $ 13,480 John Kranyak  
8 $ 10,335 Andrew Prock  
9 $ 7,526 Michael Kachan  
10 $ 5,055 Duane Graff  
11 $ 5,055 Mikael Norinder  
12 $ 5,055 Stefan Rapp  
13 $ 5,055 Eric Rivkin  
14 $ 5,055 Steve Kim  
15 $ 5,055 Lorenz Guarin  
16 $ 5,055 Jelger Wiegersma  
17 $ 5,055 Jonathan Tamayo  
18 $ 5,055 Hansu Chu

Event 52 - $1500 NLHE - 2693 entrants

1 $ 625,443 David Daneshgar  
2 $ 385,974 Scott Sitron  
3 $ 275,695 Dan Heimiller  
4 $ 231,584 Farzad Rouhani  
5 $ 189,311 Corwin Cole  
6 $ 148,875 Matt Matros  
7 $ 112,116 Andrey Zaichenko  
8 $ 84,546 Jeff Courtney  
9 $ 57,712 Voitto Rintala  
10 $ 36,391 Gary Biggar  
11 $ 36,391 Todd Hanks  
12 $ 36,391 Brock Mishler  
13 $ 29,039 Joachim Berg-Jensen  
14 $ 29,039 Elliot Smith  
15 $ 29,039 Cody Slaubaugh  
16 $ 21,688 Lars Sundberg  
17 $ 21,688 Daniel Hughes  
18 $ 21,688 Eric Jolly

Phil Hellmuth got within sniffing distance of a 12th WSOP bracelet in the $1500 HORSE event, taking 3rd place behind James Schaaf and Tommy Hang

WSOP Event 51 - $1500 HORSE - 803 entrants
1 $ 256,412 James Schaaf  
2 $ 158,933 Tommy Hang  
3 $ 93,168 Phil Hellmuth  
4 $ 68,505 Esther Rossi  
5 $ 54,804 Jason Dollinger  
6 $ 42,966 Sam Silverman  
7 $ 32,992 Victor Ramdin
8 $ 27,511 Matt Grapenthien  
9 $ 22,031 Edward Brogdon  
10 $ 22,031 Lonnie Heimowitz  
11 $ 16,551 Steven Diano  
12 $ 16,551 Phillip Penn Sr.  
13 $ 11,070 Randy Holland  
14 $ 11,070 Arash Ghaneian  
15 $ 8,878 Keith Sexton 
16 $ 8,878 Art Young

The Mizrachi brothers are having a solid series, with Michael picking up 3rd and $330K in the PLO Championship Event

WSOP Event 50 - $10,000 PLO - 381 entrants
1 $ 859,549 Marty Smyth  
2 $ 528,256 Peter Jetten  
3 $ 331,279 Michael Mizrachi  
4 $ 268,605  Billy Argyros
5 $ 214,884 Richard Harroch  
6 $ 170,116 Kido Pham  
7 $ 134,302 Tom Hanlon  
8 $ 107,442 Brandon Moran  
9 $ 80,581 Greg Hurst  
10 $ 53,721 David Benefield  
11 $ 53,721 Shawn Buchanan  
12 $ 53,721 Josh Arieh  
13 $ 44,767 Jimmy Tran  
14 $ 44,767 Julian Powell
15 $ 44,767 Kenneth Matsson  
16 $ 35,814 Guillaume Patry  
17 $ 35,814 Eddy Scharf  
18 $ 35,814 Rino Mathis

JC Tran won his much anticipated first WSOP bracelet in this event, outlasting a huge field of 2718 players

WSOP Event 49 - $1500 NLHE

1 $ 631,170 JC Tran  
2 $ 389,557 Rasmus Nielsen  
3 $ 278,255 John Conroy  
4 $ 233,734 Peter Nguyen  
5 $ 191,068 Joe Pelton  
6 $ 150,257 Chad Siu  
7 $ 113,157 Jesper Hoog  
8 $ 85,331 Robert Kalb  
9 $ 58,248 Christoph Kohnen  
10 $ 36,729 Anderson Silva  
11 $ 36,729 Kevin Nathan  
12 $ 36,729 Jason Moungey  
13 $ 29,309 Brett Switzer  
14 $ 29,309 Parviz Razavian  
15 $ 29,309 Steve Pierce  
16 $ 29,309 Paul Kim  
17 $ 21,889 Karen Manfrede  
18 $ 21,889 Dominik Degott

Successful online tournament player CrazyMarco picked up a near half million score in this one, with an excellent 2nd place against the experienced Alexandre Gomes

WSOP Event 48 - $2000 NL Holdem - 2317 entrants
1 $ 770,540 Alexandre Gomes  
2 $ 491,273 Marco Johnson  
3 $ 326,812 Ryan D’Angelo  
4 $ 274,101 Robert Brewer  
5 $ 223,497 Alan Cutler  
6 $ 177,111 Kirill Gerasimov  
7 $ 134,942 Sverre Sundbo  
8 $ 103,315 Gabe Costner  
9 $ 71,687 Dan Rome  
10 $ 46,386 Sergey Rybachenko  
11 $ 46,386 Eddie Kinzler  
12 $ 46,386 Arne Mews  
13 $ 35,843 Eric Crain  
14 $ 35,843 Kenneth Shelton  
15 $ 35,843 Denys Drobyna  
16 $ 25,301 Dan Martin  
17 $ 25,301 Darren Nelson  
18 $ 25,301 Sunny Chattha

A very nice field of 544 entrants turned out for the 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo event.  David Sklansky had a final table finish, with an eight place.

WSOP Event 47 - $1500 7-card stud hi/lo - 544 entrants
1 $ 183,368 Ryan Hughes  
2 $ 113,240 Ron Long  
3 $ 68,686 Thomas Hunt  
4 $ 50,122 Alessio Isaia  
5 $ 39,355 Jonas Klausen  
6 $ 30,444 Tim D’Alessandro  
7 $ 23,019 Joshua Feldman  
8 $ 19,306 David Sklansky  
9 $ 15,593 James Richburg  
10 $ 15,593 Margaret Macre  
11 $ 11,880 Daniel Nicewander  
12 $ 11,880 David Brooker  
13 $ 8,168 Mike Hefer  
14 $ 8,168 Hoang Ta  
15 $ 6,237 Mickey Seagle  
16 $ 6,237 Vince Burgio  
17 $ 4,752 Men Nguyen  
18 $ 4,752 Larry Kozlove

 Davidi Kitai  went close to a second bracelet in this one, but in the end Joe Commisso triumphed for one of the biggest financial scores of the whole series, taking down a whopping $911,855

WSOP Event 46 - $5000 NLHE Six-handed - 805 entrants
1 $ 911,855 Joe Commisso  
2 $ 570,551 Richard Lyndaker  
3 $ 368,891 Edward Ochana  
4 $ 245,927 Sam Trickett  
5 $ 174,041 Tom Lutz  
6 $ 120,693 Davidi Kitai  
7 $ 82,858 Will Failla  
8 $ 82,858 Jimmy Wong  
9 $ 63,941 Steve Ware  
10 $ 63,941 Bryan Pope  
11 $ 45,023 Alex Jacob  
12 $ 45,023 Leo Kam  
13 $ 31,781 Jesper Petersen  
14 $ 31,781 Jason Gray  
15 $ 31,781 Paul Foltyn  
16 $ 31,781 Bertrand Grospellier 
17 $ 31,781 Martin Wiklund  
18 $ 31,781 JJ Liu

Scotty Nguyen beat a very impressive field of big name pros to win the prestigious $50K HORSE event

WSOP Event 45 - $50K HORSE - 148 entrants
1 $ 1,989,120 Scotty Nguyen  
2 $ 1,243,200 Michael DeMichele  
3 $ 781,440 Erick Lindgren 
4 $ 568,320 Matt Glantz  
5 $ 444,000 Lyle Berman  
6 $ 355,200 Barry Greenstein 
7 $ 284,160 Huck Seed 
8 $ 230,880 Patrick Bueno  
9 $ 177,600 Ralph Perry  
10 $ 177,600 Raymond Davis  
11 $ 159,840 David Bach  
12 $ 159,840 Phil Ivey 
13 $ 142,080 Daniel Negreanu
14 $ 142,080 Joseph Michael  
15 $ 124,320 Andy Bloch 
16 $ 124,320 Doyle Brunson