2010 November Niners
The identity of this year's November Niners is known since this July and you might read about them a lot as poker press was buzzing about them in July, but if you are still not familiar with the players, here are some interesting facts, courtesy of WSOP.com:
Jason Senti
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $17,987
- Before becoming a professional poker player Jason was an Electrical/Software engineer.
- He is in a rock band called "Suburban Hero".
- He is married
Joseph (Sanghyon) Cheong
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $51,954
- He has a B.S. in Psychology and a Joint B.A. degree in Math and Economics from UCSD.
- He won a WSOP Circuit event at Harrahs Rincon.
- He moved to the U.S. when he was 6 years old.
John Dolan
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $108,673
- He is a professional poker player.
- Learned how to play poker with friends
- His poker ambition is to win enough money that he only has to play when he wants to.
Jonathan Duhamel
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $43,000
- Went to college to pursue a finance career before starting his life as a professional poker player
- Learned how to play poker with friends
- Enjoys playing hockey
- Bought-in to the 2010 Main Event
Michael (The Grinder) Mizrachi
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $2,594,585
- Just started playing tournaments in 2004
- Has a fraternal twin, Eric
- Won the 2010 WSOP $50,000 buy-in Players Championship
- Nickname "The Grinder"
- Started playing poker at the age of 13
- Michael Mizrachi was 2006 Cardplayer of the Year. He holds 18 titles, including 2 World Poker Tour titles and has won $7.2 million in his career to date.
Matthew Jarvis
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $4,270
- He learned to play poker with his friends and by reading various books.
- He is a Post-Secondary Business student.
John Racener
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $762,846
- His favorite poker player is the Grinder and his favorite poker game is HORSE.
- His poker ambition is to win the Main Event so that he is financially set.
- He has a great supporting background with his mom, dad, sister, and friends.
- Immediately successful upon turning 21 in live tournaments.
- Self taught player
- On his 21st birthday he got 3rd in his 1st live event in Atlantic City.
- He has over $1.5 million in live tournament winnings.
- Nicknames: Jmoney, Spikey.
Filippo Candio
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $3,460
- Filippo has a passion for business and has launched his own line of poker-themed clothing.
- He is in 1st place in the Top 30 of money list in Italy.
Soi (Soi (Cuong)) Nguyen
- Total WSOP & Circuit Earnings: $0
- The 2010 Main Event is Cuong's 4th time playing a live tournament.
- He learned to play poker with friends.
- Currently works in the medical supply business.
- Favorite poker player is Phil Ivey.
The prizes for the 9 places at the final table are the following:
1st place – $8,944,138
2nd place – $5,545,855
3rd place – $4,129,979
4th place – $3,092,497
5th place – $2,442,960
6th place – $1,772,939
7th place – $1,356,708
8th place – $1,045,738
9th place – $811,823
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