On the eighth day of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the November Nine were finally named and HollywoodPoker have now congratulated them for making the event one of the world’s largest poker championships.
The November Nine
The final hand was dealt at 2:10 am. Eoghan O’Dea beat John Hewitt with his KJ against the Costa Rican’s pocket 33. Once Hewitt had been eliminated, the November Nine was clear.
The November Nine who made it to the WSOP 2011 Main Event final table were:
- Martin Stasyko (Cyech Republic)
- Eoghan O’ Dea (Dublin, Ireland)
- Matt Giannetti (Las Vegas, NV)
- Phil Collins (Las Vegas, NV)
- Ben Lamb (Tulsa, OK)
- Badih Bou-Nahra (Beliye City, Beliye)
- Pius Heiny (Cologne, Germany)
- Anton Makiievskyi (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
- Samuel Holden (Sussex, UK).
The event
Before the Main Event final table the competition was fierce. The worldwide appeal is even evident within the final nine players. Altogether, 6,858 poker players entered the WSOP 2011 and a prize pool of $64.5 million has been collected for the tournament. Even though there were many negative thoughts surrounding “Black Friday,” WSOP 2011 has been heralded as the third largest event of its kind in history.
A large and varied number of poker players came to take part in the event, mainly due to the fame and fortune connected to the WSOP. Participants included online poker players, live poker professional, and celebrities including Nelly. A number of poker websites used satellites in order to allow players to take part in the WSOP 2011.
HollywoodPoker
HollywoodPoker got involved with a large number of poker tournament qualifiers in order to give their players a good chance of playing in the WSOP 2011. The event qualifiers took a number of different formats including Daily Qualifiers, which involved a small buy-in of only $2.20, and also $35 Sit N Go Qualifiers. The site also included free-roll tournaments connected to the WSOP 2011 online poker satellite. This gave players the chance to win WSOP Main Event packages without the need for spending money on a buy-in. In total, HollywoodPoker gave away nine WSOP 2011 Main Event packages, each worth $14,000, as well as 36 Side Event packages valued at $3,600 each.
“HollywoodPoker aimed to make the WSOP 2011 main events accessible to poker players, no matter the size of their bankroll. The same actually goes with other big live poker events such as the GSOP Live and World Poker Tour,” poker room manager at HollywoodPoker, Ronald M., explained. “We want online poker players to thrive in live poker tournaments as well.”
Remaining tournaments
All of the November Nine are guaranteed to walk away with a money prize of at least $782,115, meaning they will all be millionaires once the championship is over. But, the pressure is still on. The last of the WSOP 2011 poker tournaments will start on November the 5th, 2011 and the WSOP champion will be revealed on November the 7th, 2011.