The No-Limit Hold’em World Championship Main Event is about ready to crank it up a gear. Recall that the buy-in for the event is some $10,000. The number of entries so far was sitting at over 7,000 – pretty substantial, even for WSOP standards. From Day Eight there were some 27 players starting and there are only 9 players remaining. With a total prize pool of almost $70 million, it’s going to get hot indeed. The number of places already paid is 747 and the first place prize is a whopping $9 million. Those are the quick stats – impressive to say the least.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
I can barely contain my excitement as the WSOP goes all-out to provide viewers with the most riveting entertainment in television history. The 2010 Main Event is down to just 9 players. That’s right – the righteous 9. And for each one of these candidates there’s a guaranteed $811,823 to be made. These guys ground their way into the money and they’ve earned their place among the poker stars.
The 9 players and their seating assignments are as follows:
Jason Sentl in Seat 1
Joseph Cheong in Seat 2
John Dolan in Seat 3
Jonathon Duhamel in Seat 4
Michael Mizrachi in Seat 5
Matthew Generic Cialis Jarvis in Seat 6
John Racener in Seat 7
Filippo Candio in Seat 8
Cuong Nguyen in Seat 9
What sort of prize money can these players expect?
Don’t lose any sleep thinking that anyone other than the winner won’t collect – because they all do – substantially. This is what the payout schedule for the 2010 WSOP is looking like:
1st place wins $8,944,138
2nd place wins $5,545,855
3rd place wins $4,129,979
4th place wins $3,092,497
5th place wins $2,442,960
6th place wins $1,772,939
7th place wins $1,356,708
8th place wins $1,045,738
9th place wins $811,823