After 12 days of high pressure poker, by the 15th of July those 6844 had whittled down to just 9, who have now become known as the November Nine, the nine poker players left to vy for the title of WSOP Champion at the WSOP Final Table.

This year a total of 6,844 players made their way to the Amazon Room at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in pursuit of the championship and the $9 million first place prize and for the first time the Final Table has been delayed to allow live broadcast of the WSOP Main Event Final Table.

Each of the November Nine players who made it to the WSOP Main Event Final Table have received ninth place prize money on July 15th, when the final table was determined and each of those players with an all expense paid trip for two for their return to Las Vegas in November to play the final portion of the tournament.

On November 9th, 2008, the following those nine players will return with 21 minutes and 50 seconds left in level 33 and the Ultimate winner taking home over $9.1 Million.

Final Table Payouts

• 1st $9,119,517
• 2nd $5,790,024
• 3rd $4,503,352
• 4th $3,763,515
• 5th $3,088,012
• 6th $2,412,510
• 7th $1,769,174
• 8th $1,286,672
• 9th $900,670

Unfortunately, this year there’ll be no famous calls of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie”; but the November Nine are a diverse group of players that include no fewer than four countries including a Russian, a Dane, two Canadians and five Americans. There’s also a chess player, a salesmen, a college student as well the usual collection of professional poker players.

Salesman, Dennis Phillips who will carry the chip lead for 117 days until they resume play. Phillips, who plays tournaments at his local casino 3-4 nights per week, ended the last night of play with 26,295,000 which is good enough to put him 1,895,000 ahead of Russia’s, Ivan Demidov who finished with 24,400,000. Here are the official chip counts and seating assignments for the 2008 November Nine :

WSOP Final Table Chip Counts & Seating Assignment

• Seat 1: Dennis Phillips - 26,295,000
• Seat 2: Craig Marquis - 10,210,000
• Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,000
• Seat 4: Scott Montgomery - 19,690,000
• Seat 5: Darus Suharto - 12,520,000
• Seat 6: David ‘Chino’ Rheem - 10,230,000
• Seat 7: Ivan Demidov - 24,400,000
• Seat 8: Kelly Kim - 2,620,000
• Seat 9: Peter Eastgate - 18,375,000

When the WSOP Final Table resumes the blinds will be at 150,000 / 300,000 with a 40,000 ante and given the siz eof the chip stacks with even the shortest at around 30 big blinds, there’ll be planty of chance for every player to make their mark.

At Oz Poker, we’ll be profiling each player and listing their successes in the run up to November Nine and Sportsbet are offering a market on the final table with Dennis Phillips and Ivan Demidov equal favourites at $5.00 and Kelly Kim the longest runner at $26.00.

Sportsbet offer all our readers a free $50 WSOP bet, so there’s really no excuse not to ante up on your favourite player and have an interest as we wait for the November Nine show.

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Manny Rodriguez ended up heads up with Paul Taylor, who had already made the final table of Event #3, The Terminator for a 4th place finish; but Rodriguez was victorious when his 8♦6♠ held of Taylor’s J♠5♣ on a 6♦J♥5♥6♣7♥ board.

Rodriguez picked up over $65,000 for the win.

Vic Champs ‘08 - Event #5 - $550 No Limit Holdem

• 1st $65,575 Manny Rodrigues Melbourne Australia
• 2nd $44,225 Paul Taylor Melbourne Australia
• 3rd $30,500 Colin Peckover Sunshine Coast Australia
• 4th $24,400 Garth Kay Melbourne Australia
• 5th $19,825 David Lovell Sydney Australia
• 6th $15,250 Marlon Goonawardana Melbourne Australia
• 7th $12,200 Bao-Tu Hoang Melbourne Australia
• 8th $9,150 Ismail Ismail Sydney Australia
• 9th $6,100 Scott Peel Melbourne Australia

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The 121 starters swelled the total prize pool to an astounding $71,300 with an extraordinary 471 rebuys.

Donjerkovic had previously run well at the 2006 Vic Poketr Champs cashing in Event #2, the $550 NL Holdem evenmt for $1,430 and 20th place; and in Event #5 $230 Limit Omaha HiLo for 5th place and$1,512.

Event 4 $240 NL Holdem with Rebuys

• 1st $20,000 Anthony Donjerkovic Melbourne Australia
• 2nd $13,333 Hui Mai Melbourne Australia
• 3rd $9,483 Jonathon Karamalakis Adelaide Australia
• 4th $7,166 Con Cotsomitis Melbourne Australia
• 5th $5,633 Jimmy Siu Melbourne Australia
• 6th $4,706 Andrew Demetriou Melbourne Australia
• 7th $3,920 Roy Vandersluis Sydney Australia
• 8th $3,137 Graeme Putt Melbourne Australia
• 9th $2,353 Kevin Khouiss Sydney Australia
• 10th $1,569 David Lim Melbourne Australia

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Real Name :
Age :
Location : Australia
Lifetime Tournament Winnings : $260,710

Screen Names

PokerStars : Harlindo
Full Tilt Poker : Harlindo

Recent Successes

• Full Tilt Poker FTOPS IX Event No. 10 NLH 1st $259,440.00

Favorite Hold’em Hole Cards :
Favourite Tournaments :
Favourite Cash Games :
Favorite Poker Sites : Full Tilt Poker , PokerStars
Biggest Win Online : Full Tilt Poker FTOPS IX Event #10 NLH 1st $259,440.00
Favorite Online Players :

“Harlindo” in just one tournament has positioned themselves as one of Australia’s most successsful online MTT poker players with their huge $259,440 collect for winning the FTOPS IX $300 buy-in NL Holdem event and beating out of 4,980 others. The win noteworthy as the online identity “Harlindo” has only ever played in 35 tournaments in total on PokerStars and Full Tilt; and only ever cashed once prior for a $270 collect in $26 buy-in NL Holden tournament of only 45 players.

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The tournament which saw 4,985 entrants ant up the $322 buy-in, is one of the biggest on the FTOPS schedule and saw some of online poker ’s best and brightest in the starting line up.

Notable online MTT specialists, Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier and Steve “MrSmokey1” Billirakis each cashed in the top 60, and new Full Tilt pro Josh Arieh nearly went the distance with a 25th-place finish.

In the end though, Harlindo bested James “P0KERPR0” Campbell, also known online as “jcamby33″; heads up to win his first FTOPS title and, more importantly, take home over a quarter of a million dollars.

The win is all the more notable as the online identity “Harlindo” has only ever played in 35 tournaments in total on PokerStars and Full Tilt; and only ever cashed once prior for a $270 collect in $26 buy-in NL Holden tournament of only 45 players.

The chip counts looked like this as the final table began:

• Seat 1: P0KERPR0 (1,795,000)
• Seat 2: paigowpro (3,204,604)
• Seat 3: SKILLAN (1,559,227)
• Seat 4: Tazmaniapwnsyou (1,055,340)
• Seat 5: Mr Mack Bust (911,319)
• Seat 6: Harlindo (2,707,655)
• Seat 7: Kasy1 (587,860)
• Seat 8: IwanaClay (1,814,826)
• Seat 9: doubledave22 (1,319,169)

“Harlindo” got involved early in a big pot when they raised form the button with A♣K♦ and “IwanaClay” reraised all-in to 728,497. “Harlindo” insta-called and “IwanaClay” showed a dominated A♥Q♦.

The flop favoured “Harlindo”, coming 8♥6♦K♣. A Q♥ on the turn gave “Iwanaclay” a few outs, but the 4♣ brick on the river sent “Iwanaclay” to the rail and nicely increased “Harlindo”’s stack.

“POKERPRO” carved his way through remainder of the field, claiming all bar one scalp on the way to heads up play, and when heads-up play began “P0KERPR0″ had nearly 66% of the chips thanks to his elimination of five of the previous seven players.

“Harlindo” wasn’t fazed though and found himself with a 4-3 chip lead before the final hand of the night which came down like this:

“Harlindo” called from the small blind and “P0KERPR0″ raised to 480,000. “Harlindo” came back over the top with an all-in raise and “P0KERPR0″ called off the rest of his 5.7 million.

“Harlindo” showed A♦K♣ and “POKERPRO” tabled Q♦T♦.

The flop came 9♣2♣5♦, followed by 3♦, and a 4♥ river.

Big slick was good enough for Harlindo to win the final hand of the night and capture the FTOPS title and the $259,440 first place prize money.

FTOPS IX Event #10 $300 NL Holdem Results :

• 1. Harlindo (Australia) — $259,440
• 2. James “P0KERPR0” Campbell — $157,500
• 3. doubledave22 — $102,000
• 4. SKILLAN — $79,500
• 5. Mr Mack Bust — $60,000
• 6. paigowpro — $45,000
• 7. Tazmaniapwnsyou — $34,500
• 8. IwanaClay — $26,250
• 9. Kasy1 — $19,500

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Real Name : Daniel Kochan
Age :
Location : Sydney, Australia
Lifetime Tournament Winnings : $436,797

Screen Names

PokerStars : puntnko
Full Tilt Poker : Kochan
Party Poker : Kochan
Bodog : puntnko
Ultimate Bet : Koey
Absolute Poker : koandpunt
Titan Poker : Koey
Chan Poker : muntnko

Recent Successes

• PokerStars Sunday Million NLH 2nd $134,247.00
• PokerStars $109 NL Hold’em NLH 6th $4,973.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 18th $1,201.00
• PokerStars Sunday Second Chance NLH 17th $1,253.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 2nd $42,171.00
• PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand NLH 18th $1,021.00
• Full Tilt Poker $100,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) NLHR 1st $32,154.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 10th $1,454.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 14th $1,965.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 12th $2,447.00
• Full Tilt Poker FTOPS VII Event No. 9 NLH 2nd $176,719.00
• PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys NLHR 1st $29,865.00
• PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand NLH 6th $5,179.00
• PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand NLH 18th $1,019.00
• PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand NLH 15th $1,128.61

Favorite Hold’em Hole Cards : K♥Q♥
Favourite Tournaments : NL/PL HE MTTs, $100 and over
Favourite Cash Games : NL/PL HE, $1/$2 to $2/$4
Favorite Poker Sites : AbsolutePoker , Bodog , FullTiltPoker , PartyPoker , PokerStars , UltimateBet
Biggest Win Online : Full Tilt Poker FTOPS VII Event No. 9 NLH 2nd $176,719.00
Favorite Online Players : tykro, pokerguru999, radicalguy, volcheko, teamTCpoker

Daniel Kochan is one of Australia’s top online tournament players, with a 2nd place finish in the FTOPS Event #9 for over $176,000 and now his 2nd in the PokerStars Sunday Millions for $151,283.95. He also has victories in the Full Tilt $100k Guaranteed and the PokerStars $25k Guaranteed for another $46k combined.

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The newly revamped Sunday Millions generated a massive field and shattered the $1.5 Million guarantee. This week 8,236 players built a prize pool of $1,647,200.00, with the top 1260 players taking home a piece of the pie.

After nine hours of play, the final nine competitors gathered ‘round the final table, all vying for the title and the $199,475.92 first prize with Australian online poker player “puntnko” sitting 4th with chips.

“puntko” knocked the first player off the final table when the short-stacked lissem, who had played the waiting game by sitting back and posting and folding while awaiting a premium hand; finally looked down at A♥K♠. After a preflop raise from “puntnko”, “lissem” called all-in to find a classic race waiting A♥K♠ v. Q♠Q♥. This time, the coin landed tails for lissem as the board ran out 4♦8♠4♥7♠2♣, pushing the pot to “puntnko”.

“puntko” avoided any bnig pots until, after a preflop raise from “puntnko” and a call by “ohhaaahhh”, the flop came down 9♦8♠K♠. “Ohhaaahhh” moved all in with K♥J♣ for top pair, only to find himself drawing thin against “puntnko”’s K♣Q♣. The 2♠ on the turn helped neither player, and “ohhaaahhh” was left looking for only a Jack on the river. The 7♦ was no help and then there were only 3 left.

“ziggy47″ showed the A♣A♦ against “j.thaddeus”’s 9♥9♠ and they held up send the game to heads-up. The chip stacks were pretty close when heads-up play commenced, with “ziggy47″ holding a slight edge over “puntnko”.

• ziggy47 – 43,409,883
• puntnko – 38,950,117

With blinds at 400,000/800,000 with an ante of 80,000, the two remaining players agreed to a chip count chop that was almost exactly even. Ziggy47 locked up $152,438 to puntnko’s $151,283, with $30,000 left for the winner. With a deal in place, the remaining competitors squared off for the title and the $30,000 left in the middle.

The final hand came down like this :
“ziggy47″ raised from the button like on many hands before, and this time puntnko re-raised with A♦9♥. “ziggy47″ moved all in over the top, and “puntnko” called, only to watch “ziggy47″ table the dominant A♣J♠. Nothing unexpected happened, and like so many of the final table hands, a strong hand ran into a stronger one, and after the board ran out 8♣A♥2♦7♣5♥, the tournament was over and “ziggy47″ was the winner, pocketing a total of $182,438 for a long night’s work, with Aussie online MTT star, “puntnko” taking home 2nd and a nice $US151,283 collect

Sunday Millions Final Results

• 1. ziggy47 (Unted States) $182,438.77
• 2. puntnko (Australia) $151,283.95
• 3. j.thaddeus (Ireland) $91,419.60
• 4. ohhaaahhh (Unted States) $74,124.00
• 5. okidokiclub (Netherlands) $57,652.00
• 6. YrrsiNN (Switzerland) $41,180.00
• 7. Foggsy (Unted Kingdom) $28,826.00
• 8. WSODice (Unted States) $18,942.80
• 9. lissem (Norway) $11,530.40

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O’Brien was always handily placed at the final table, sitting 3rd with chips as play got under way; and prevailing for a $15,000 collect over Melbourne poker player, Michale Triandafillou.

The results were as follows :

Event 3 $340 NL Holdem Terminator

• 1st $15,222 Michael O’Brien Melbourne Australia
• 2nd $10,380 Paul Triandafillou Melbourne Australia
• 3rd $7,612 Marlon Goonawardena Melbourne Australia
• 4th $6,228 Paul Taylor Melbourne Australia
• 5th $4,844 Peter Aristidou Melbourne Australia
• 6th $3,979 Damien Elsing Melbourne Australia
• 7th $3,114 Simon Cleal Melbourne Australia
• 8th $2,422 Timothy Clarke Melbourne Australia
• 9th $1,557 Stiven Strmecki Melbourne Australia
• 10th $1,038 Paul Pedersen Melbourne Australia

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The Crown Poker regular has been uber-consistent at the regular Crown tourneys and is currenlty sitting 9th in the Crown Poker Player Of The Year standings, his best finish prior to yesterdays $8,465 payday had been a 5th place in Event 2 at the Joe Hachem Deepstack Series; the $240 NL Holdem event for a $5,200 collect.

The final results were as follows:

• 1st – Ken Eastwood $8,465
• 2nd – John Dalessandri $5,866
• 3rd – Joseph Cabret $4,380
• 4th – Con Tsapkounis $3,267
• 5th – Oliver Gill $2,367
• 6th – Sam Khouiss $1,782
• 7th – Tom Di Pasquale $1,485
• 8th – Rainer Quel $1,188
• 9th – John Homan $891

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Paul, who won the 2006 Aussie Millions $560 NL Holdem Event 1 for a $62,250 collect; used his experince to run roit over the other players at the “final table bubble” and picked up nice collects knocking out Peter Raditsas and Brian Hull for 11th and 12th place finishes respectively.

The Terminator tournament is unique in that each player will receives a “Terminator” button at the start of the tournament. Once a player is eliminated they pass their original terminator button to the player who eliminates them, keeping any that they have accumulated during the tournament.

The “Terminator” buttons are redeemed for $100 each from the prizepool at the completion of the tournament.

The player to watch at the final table will be Peter Aristidou who is a Melbourne local and Crown Poker regular. He is currently sitting second in the Crown Poker Player Of The Year Standings and his best finsih so far this year was taking down the Event 4 at the Joe Hachem Deepstack Series in the $500 HORSE tournament for a $10,650 prize.

The final table play gets under way at 4:00pm Thursday 7th August.

Event 3 $340 NL Holdem Terminator Final Table

• Seat 1: Stiven Strmecki 67,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 2: Peter Aristidou 124,000 (7 “Terminators”)
• Seat 3: Tim Clarke 36,000 (3 “Terminators”)
• Seat 4: Paul Triandafillou 156,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 5: Paul Pedersen 55,000 (3 “Terminators”)
• Seat 6: Marlon Goonawardana 77,500 (9 “Terminators”)
• Seat 7: Paul Taylor 286,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 8: Damien Elsing 242,000 (8 “Terminators”)
• Seat 9: Michael Obrien 160,500 (6 “Terminators”)
• Seat 10: Simon Cleal 180,000 (6 “Terminators”)

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