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A Second Look at the 2013 WSOP November Nine – Part 6
Posted by: Jo Martin - Thu, 2013-07-25 04:04
Having already covered the players sitting in seats #1 and #2 at the 2013 November Nine, it is now time to take a look at the occupant of seat #3, Mark Newhouse. Newhouse is 28-years-old and he is by no means a newcomer to the green felt. He has definitely earned his presence in the final stage of the biggest live poker event of the year, not just through the 7 days of tough poker leading up to the final table, but also through the almost 10 years he has spent as a grinder. Since 2006, the LA resident has played in each and every
WSOP Main Event, but he only managed to finish in the money once: in 2011, he finished 182nd, picking up a $47.1k reward for his efforts. He cashed in other WSOP events though, picking up 152.7k for the 6 money finishes he managed to log. What this means is that even if he becomes the first victim of the final table come November, he will blow all his previous WSOP earnings clean out of the water.
His relative lack of
WSOP success does not make a proper description of his poker career though. In 2006, he won the WPT’s Borgata Poker Open, taking home the $1.52 million top prize. He has since confessed however to having squandered most of that money, mostly on business mistakes, from which he said he had learned plenty though. This Main Event run is definitely his second chance – at least in a financial respect.
He will be starting the November Nine showdown with 7.35 million chips, which makes him the second shortest stack and which is guaranteed to place him under a great deal of pressure when the action kicks off.
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