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2014 WSOP – November Nine Set
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2014-07-25 05:15
The Final stage of the
2014 WSOP Main Event, its 9-handed final table, known as the November Nine, has been set, and there are some familiar faces among the finalists. One of these familiar faces is that of Mark Newhouse, the player who managed to pull off a rather unlikely feat: having made the final table of last year’s Big Dance, he returned to the top of the pops of the
biggest poker tournament of the year yet again. Just how unlikely was his accomplishment? Before the tournament, his odds were at 524,558 to 1.
Last year, he was the first one of the final tablists to bite the dust, finishing in 9th place. This year, he will obviously be hoping to top that performance. Interestingly enough, despite the incredible nature of his accomplishment, Newhouse is not the first player to make back-to-back WSOP Main Event final tables. Dan Harrington accomplished the same feat back in 2003 and 2004, but back then, it was indeed much easier, or at least statistically much more likely to do it. Other players who made back-to-back final tables were Stu Ungar, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, however, they all did it before poker’s popularity-explosion, so odds-wise, Newhouse’s move simply does not compare.
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Whether or not Newhouse manages to improve on his 2013, 9th place finish remains to be seen, what is certain though is the fact that he is indeed in a statistically favorable position to do just that: he is currently 3rd in chips, which means that he has enough fire-power to possibly go all the way.
Newhouse said he had made many poor decisions in the last few years and that he was in rebuild-mode during the 2014 WSOP.
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