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A Second Look at the 2013 WSOP November Nine – Part 3
Posted by: Randy Williams - Thu, 2013-07-18 02:58
While most of the November Niners finished Day 7 of the
2013 WSOP Main Event with relatively deep stacks, David Benefield was one of the players who barely snuck in on a short-stack. Indeed, Benefield had started Day 7 as the short-stack and somehow he managed to navigate the action successfully, despite the fact that he never really had any serious firepower to count on. He was the second shortest stack heading into the final 10 and he was basically waiting for Mark Newhouse to get his 3 million chips into the middle and to hit the rail. In order to sneak into the November Nine, he played a really tight game, but when Mark managed to double up, it became obvious he would have to open up. He was looking for the right starting hand to commit when Carlos Mortensen busted on the bubble, ushering everyone else in. Still, with just 6.37 million chips to his name, Benefield will probably find himself under a lot of pressure at the start of the November Nine hostilities.
As far as how he’s going to prepare for November, Benefield said he was thinking about taking yet another semester off from his studies.
Unlike Benefield, Israel’s Amir Lehavot won’t have any short-stack worries come November. He finished Day 7 of the tournament with 29.7 million chips, second only to JC Tran, the chip leader. Lehavot said he played well through the final day focusing only on his opponents and on what he could accomplish with the chips at his disposal rather than worrying about how far he could go. As far as his November Nine preparations were concerned, he said he would definitely do something, but he didn’t seem eager at all to share what those preparations would consist of.
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