2010 WSOP November Nine Set. Why is the Super Bowl of Poker paused for four months?

Posted by The Marksman at 9 August, at 09 : 23 AM Print

The November Nine have been determined in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. After eight grueling days of play spread out over two weeks, nine players are left standing in poker’s most prestigious tournament. Jonathan Duhamel leads the way entering the four-month break with a stack of 55,375,000.

If you don’t know what the November Nine is, let us explain.  Mostly everyone knows that the Poker boom started because Chris Moneymaker an accountant from Tennessee won $2.5 million dollars, by way of winning the World Series of Poker Main Event back in 2003.  It was televised on ESPN and because a normal person, with a normal 9 to 5 job won the biggest poker tournament in the world it set off a craze.

The game of Poker quickly became very popular in the United States and throughout the world, ESPN started to expand their coverage and other networks quickly created poker related programming.  Poker was at an all time high, online poker sites and poker rooms were filled to the brim with players wanting to be the next Chris Moneymaker.

ESPN coveted having the World Series of Poker, but they ran into a problem.  The coverage of the Main Event aired after the tournament was over.  As a result when the tournament was won, just about every media outlet in the world reported who the winner was.  So, what real reason was there for casual fans of Poker to watch ESPN’s coverage of the Main Event if everyone already knew who the winner was?

So ESPN invented the “November Nine” which basically means once the several thousand player field of the  main event is whittled down to nine players the tournament is paused.  The tournament is paused for several months from July to November, where the players all go  home and report back in November to finish playing the tournament.  ESPN gets to sell tickets to the event, televise it live, and be the first ones to report to the world who the winner is.

I have my reservations about the November Nine concept, and prefer not to wait several months to find out who the winner is.  It is like playing three quarters of the Super Bowl stopping the game, sending teams home, and coming back several months later to finish it.  I understand why they did it, and although the Poker boom has been declining a bit in recent years this is their way of generating buzz around it.

Here are the chip stacks of your 2010 November Nine:

1. Jonathan Duhamel – 65,975,000
2. John Dolan – 46,250,000
3. Joseph Cheong – 23,525,000
4. John Racener – 19,050,000
5. Matthew Jarvis – 16,700,000
6. Filippo Candio – 16,400,000
7. Michael Mizrachi – 14,450,000
8. Soi Nguyen – 9,650,000
9. Jason Senti – 7,625,000

Here are the payouts at stake for the members of the 2010 WSOP November Nine:

1st Place: $8,944,138
2nd Place: $5,545,855
3rd Place: $4,129,979
4th Place: $3,092,497
5th Place: $2,332,960
6th Place: $1,772,939
7th Place: $1,356,708
8th Place: $1,045,738
9th Place: $811,823

The Main Event will pick back up from November 6th to 9th at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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