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WSOP Main Event final table set. Dennis Phillips will start as chip leader in November
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-07-15 07:23
Day 7 of the WSOP Big Dance began at around 12:30 PM with the remaining 27 players bellying up to the tables for the final time this summer. At day’s end, there would only be 9 players left standing, the final table participants with whom we’ll meet again in November.
Dennis Phillips, by far the oldest of the 9 is the chip leader having built up a stack of 26,295,000 chips. He is followed by Ivan Demidov from Russia with 24,400,000, Scott Montgomery with 19,690,000, Peter Eastgate with 18,375,000, Ylon Schwartz with 12,525,000, Darus Suharto with 12,520,000, David Rheem with 10,230,000 and Craig Marquis with 10,210,000. The short-stack is Kelly Kim from Whittier, California, with 2,620,000 chips.
Onlookers didn’t have to wait long for the first elimination of the day. It came just 20 minutes into the action, when Michael Carroll ran an A,9 against Gert Andersen’s 4,4. The flop landed another 4 and Carroll failed to improve.
Phi Nguyen busted out 28th, when his A,10 couldn’t improve against Paul Snead’s J,J. The trickle of eliminations continued with Aaron Gordon, who ran into another pair of Jacks – from Darus Suharto’s pocket – on a Q,10.
Paul Sneed suffered a tourney-life threatening blow on a bad beat he had taken from Scott Montgomery. His J,7 caught top pair on the flop, and as the turn brought a blank, Montgomery was down to 2 outs. As luck would have it, an A landed on the river giving his A,4 the pot and thus sending Sneed to the brink of extinction. He busted out a few hands later.
Brandon Cantu was sent to the rail next, followed by Tiffany Michelle. The only woman who made it to Day 7 action failed to become the second ever lady to reach the Big Dance final table. She busted out 17th and took home a prize of more than $300,000.
Chris Klodnicki and Joe Bishop left too, as Dean Hamrick caught 10th thus becoming the bubble boy.
With that- as you probably know already – the Main Event will be put on hold for 117 days. Final table action will resume in November only. The good news is, until then we’ll probably get the chance to know those still in the books for the title better than any other WSOP final table in history.
