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World Series of Poker final table preview: Part 3

From left: Scott Montgomery, Ivan Demidov and Dennis Phillips have the top three chip stacks heading into the final table.

It’s time for the final installment of my World Series of Poker final table preview. Again, the champion will be crowned sometime Tuesday, with the top prize being more than $9 million.

Scott Montgomery — 19,690,000 in chips
It doesn’t appear than anyone is having more fun than Montgomery, who describes his poker style as “psychotic aggression.” I’m not sure if he’s the next Gus Hansen, but he’s probably the biggest wild card at the table.

• Pokerlistings.com: Montgomery “planned on winning from day one.”

• Pokerpages.com: Three WSOP cashes and a fifth-place WPT finish in 2008


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World Series of Poker final table preview: Part 2

From left: Darus Suharto, Ylon Schwartz and Peter Eastgate will begin the WSOP main event final table with plenty of chips.

Let’s continue the three-part series I started Monday to preview the World Series of Poker final table, which begins Sunday and will end sometime early Tuesday.

Darus Suharto — 12,520,000 in chips
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: an accountant at a WSOP final table who qualified for the main event through PokerStars. It was back in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker kicked off the poker boom, and now Suharto is looking to turn his $80 investment into more than $9 million.

• Pokernews.com: Suharto hadn’t heard of Moneymaker

• Casinocitytimes.com: Suharto says he’s still a “donkey”

• Pokerpages.com: Suharto cashed in the 2006 main event, too


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World Series of Poker final table preview: Part 1

by Josh Slagter | The Grand Rapids Press

From left: Kelly Kim, Craig Marquis and David “Chino” Rheem are three of the nine players in contention for the World Series of Poker’s top prize.

Back in July, I said it was going to take me all 117 days of the final table delay to figure out who the “November Nine” really was, other than the remaining players in the World Series of Poker’s main event.

That’s still a work in progress.

But, the final table is almost here. It begins Sunday, with the champion being crowned sometime early next Tuesday and ESPN capping off its coverage that night.

Much has been written about all nine remaining competitors in the past three-plus months, so I thought I’d offer a quick recap of some of what’s out there.

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Full Tilt Online Poker Series Contest is Underway – PocketFives.com

Full Tilt Online Poker Series Contest is Underway
PocketFives.com – 6 hours ago
By Dan The Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicks off today, with players from around the world ready to flock to the popular online poker site for the ninth
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Ben Grundy Up A Cool $2m This Year! PokerNews.com
FTOPS IX: $15 Million Guaranteed PocketFives.com
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The Race Trophy is entering the home straight

After the stop in the United Kingdom on July the 26th, the Poker Race Trophy continues on full throttle to Germany and then Italy for the last two semi-finals. The climax of this, the most adrenalin-fuelled event of the year, will be the 6-seated 500K final in Vienna this November. All semi-finals – as well as the final – are televised on EuroSport and will give you the chance to become a poker star.

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