WSOP Almost there…

The 2009 World Series of Poker is one day closer to determining the final nine players who will be back in November to play for the bracelet and more than $8.4 Million.

There were 64 players who started yesterday, Day 7. It only took about 15 minutes of play before the first casualty of the day occurred. Prahlad Friedman was eliminated early in the day and was the last player left who would earn less than $100K for his finish. The 63 players left would earn no less than $108K. Dennis Phillips, who was at the final table of the Main Event last year was eliminated in 45th place. Two big poker pros are left, Phil Ivey is 4th in the chip count and Antonio Esfandiari is 20th in chips. The remaining 27 players will come back today at noon to play down to the ‘November Nine’. Chip counts look like this:

Rank	First Name Last name	Chip Counts
1	Darvin Moon	20,160,000
2	Billy Kopp	15,970,000
3	Steven Begleiter	11,885,000
4	Phil Ivey	11,350,000
5	Kevin Schaffel	11,245,000
6	Antoine Saout	11,135,000
7	Jeff Schulman	10,170,000
8	Eric Buchman	10,005.000
9	Jamie Robbins	9,795,000
10	Ben Lamb	9,410,000
11	James Akenhead	8,615,000
12	Joseph Cada	6,565,000
13	James Calderaro	6,565,000
14	Andrew Lichtenberger	5,626,000
15	Ludovic Lacay	5,610,000
16	Warren Zackey	5,485,000
17	Marco Mattes	5,285,000
18	Tommy Vedes	5,070,000
19	Jordan Smith	4,510,000
20	Antonio Esfandiari	4,470,000
21	Ian Tavelli	4,385,000
22	Jonathan Tamayo	3,300,000
23	Jesse Haabak	3,300,000
24	Eugene Karchalov	2,750,000
25	George Caragiorgas	1,615,000
26	Leo Margets	1,530,000
27	Franciois Balmigere	1,440,000

News Added: 15 July, 2009

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