After seven long days of poker played out over a week-and-a-half, the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event has at last reached its November Nine. The Netherlands’ Jorryt van Hoof will have the chip lead when play resumes this fall as only the second Dutchman ever to make a WSOP Main Event final table, while Mark Newhouse became the first player in a decade to return to the final table a second straight year.
Unlike in 2013 when Newhouse entered the final table short on chips, this year he’ll be in third position behind van Hoof and Felix Stephensen of Norway. Joining those three will be the Spaniard Andoni Larrabe, Sweden’s Martin Jacobson, three Americans — Dan Sindelar, William Pappaconstantinou, and William Tonking — and the first Brazilian ever to make a WSOP final table, Bruno Politano.
Here’s how the chips fell by the end of play last night:
Position Player Country Chips
1 Jorryt van Hoof Netherlands 38,375,000
2 Felix Stephensen Norway 32,775,000
3 Mark Newhouse USA 26,000,000
4 Andoni Larrabe Spain 22,550,000
5 Dan Sindelar USA 21,200,000
6 William Pappaconstantinou USA 17,500,000
7 William Tonking USA 15,050,000
8 Martin Jacobson Sweden 14,900,000
9 Bruno Politano Brazil 12,125,000
It has been a long haul getting to this highly-anticipated moment. The World Series of Poker Main Event began on July 5, and after 10 days of poker action at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the final table of nine players has finally been reached.
These final nine players have bagged up their chips for the last time this summer and will all collect the minimum ninth-place money of $730,725. They will return to the big stage in November to compete for the top prize of $10 million, the gleaming WSOP bracelet, and the unmatched prestige of becoming only the 45th person in poker history to claim the title of WSOP Champion.
The last of the Canadians were eliminated before the final day — Day 7 — even began. The final player to represent our country was Chanracy Khun who was eliminated on Day 6. One Canadian lasted a little longer on the same day, but Dong Guo is a dual citizen and was representing China instead of his part-time home of our nation.
The headline for the November Nine has to be that Mark Newhouse has made the lineup for the second year in a row. The last player to do this was Dan Harrington in 2003 and 2004 when the fields were considerably smaller (839 and 2,576, respectively). It has been a decade since Harrington’s achievement, and the WSOP Main Event is attracting well over 6,000 players these days. Newhouse’s back-to-back final table achievement is nothing short of astounding.
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