Final Table Make-up
Teenagers, 40somethings, Nevadans, Old Folks, and Women fail to make the cut
Some of us may have gotten a bit sloppy with the development of the final table yesterday — look, I was going on about 5 hours of sleep over the previous three days, and was so hopped up on caffeine and energy drinks that my urethra had constricted to near the size of a coffee stir. Peeing wasn’t painful, but it did take some extra time … and you readers were already in bed on that final day of 2008 WSOP Summer Camp, and I may have been in a rush to the Hooker Bar farewell when deducing that almost all the final tableists were in their 20s and from California, so … not making excuses, just sayin’ … the process of gathering news on the fly can be a bit messy sometimes.
So here is a more accurate recount of who’s really left in the 2008 WSOP main event:
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2008Â WSOP Main Event Final Table: | |||||
Player Name | Chip Count | Age | City | State/Country | Seat# |
Dennis Phillips | 26,295,000 | 53 | St. Louis | Missouri | TBA |
Ivan Demidov | 24,400,000 | 27 | Moscow | Russia | TBA |
Scott Montgomery | 19,690,000 | 26 | Perth | Canada | TBA |
Peter Eastgate | 18,375,000 | 22 | Odense | Denmark | TBA |
Ylon Schwartz | 12,525,000 | 38 | Brooklyn | New York | TBA |
Darus Suharto | 12,520,000 | 39 | Toronto | Canada | TBA |
David ‘Chino’ Rheem | 10,230,000 | 28 | Los Angeles | California | TBA |
Craig Marquis | 10,210,000 | 23 | Arlington | Texas | TBA |
Kelly Kim | 2,620,000 | 31 | Whittier | California | TBA |
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Interestingly enough, Pokerati readers picked a “middle aged white American male” as most likely to win the main event (we discounted a last-minute surge of Jerry Yang votes after he had been eliminated) — and yet 40somethings were completely shut out of the November Nine. (Ask Tom, Pokerati’s resident 40something, I tell him all the time: it’s a lot easier to win when you make the final table.) New era, it seems.
Aaron A says:
July 16th, 2008 at 6:36am
Boy am I pumped up about Craig Marquis. Just the fact that he’s from Arlington gets me excited. You guys are going to bug him for interviews this fall, right??
DanM says:
July 21st, 2008 at 12:11am
point of order: at age 53, Dennis Phillips would indeed count as a “middle aged white American male.”