So its Friday night, and tomorrow you’ve got a bunch of friends coming over for a World Series of Poker November Nine Final Table Party.  There will be drinking, poker and all sorts of wagering as you keep up with poker’s most prestigious final table, through online updates, live streaming coverage, and a slew of new PokerRoad Radio shows. 

It should all make for a great time, but there’s one small problem, you’re woefully ill prepared.  Damn it, you never did get around to watching the rest of those DVRed 2010 WSOP episodes did you, and now you don’t know your Cheongs from Cuongs, your Dolans from Duhamels, and are there really 3 Johns, a Joseph and a Jason?  How the hell are you suppose to keep it all straight, and still sound like the poker expert all your friends think you are?

Well no worries brother, we’ve got you covered, with a quick crib sheet on Saturday’s Main Event final table, sure to make almost anyone sound like some sort of expert.


What You Need To Know About The Final Nine:

Name:  Jonathan Duhamel
Stack Size:  65,975,000
Current Betfair odds: 3.6/1
Hometown:  Boucherville, Quebec
Age:  23 (youngest)
Live Tournament Winnings:  A little over $100,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  No cash post 2010 WSOP

Name:  John Dolan
Stack Size:  46,250,000
Current Betfair odds:  4.3/1
Hometown:  Bonita Springs, Florida
Age:  24
Live Tournament Winnings:  Around $75,000
Most Recent Notable Cash: 10/22/10, 2nd place, 2010 Foxwoods World Poker Finals $1,375 buy-in, $45,000

Name:  Joseph Cheong
Stack Size:  23,525,000
Current Betfair odds:  7.4/1
Hometown:  La Mirada, California
Age:  24
Live Tournament Winnings:  Around $472,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  10/13/10, 1st place, Bellagio Festa al Lago $5,000 buy-in, $142,635

Name:  John Racener
Stack Size:  19,050,000
Current Betfair odds:  8/1
Hometown:  Port Richey, Florida
Age:  24
Live Tournament Winnings:  About $1,264,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  9/18/10, 5th place, WSOP Europe £5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, $60,915

Name:  Matthew Jarvis
Stack Size:  16,700,000
Current Betfair odds:  11.5/1
Hometown:  Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Age:  26
Live Tournament Winnings:  Nearly $220,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  10/9/10, 1st place, Bellagio Festa al Lago $1,000 buy-in, $71,895

Name:  Filippo Candio
Stack Size:  16,400,000
Current Betfair odds:  12/1
Hometown:  Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Age:  26
Live Tournament Winnings:  Over $250,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  10/21/10, 3rd place, Caesars Palace Classic $230 buy-in, $4,726

Name: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi
Stack Size:  14,450,000
Current Betfair odds:  8.6/1
Hometown:  Miami, Florida
Age:  29
Live Tournament Winnings:  Over $8.8 million (a first or second this week would make him the winningest live tournament player of all time)
Most Recent Notable Cash:  No cash post 2010 WSOP

Name:  Cuong “Soi” Nguyen 
Stack Size:  9,650,000
Current Betfair odds:  21/1
Hometown:  Santa Ana, California
Age:  37 (oldest)
Live Tournament Winnings:  $13,480 (only amateur player in the event)
Most Recent Notable Cash:  8/25/10, 34th place, WPT Legends of Poker $5,000 buy-in, $11,500

Name:  Jason Senti
Stack Size:  7,625,000
Current Betfair odds:  21/1
Hometown:  St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Age:  26
Live Tournament Winnings:  About $18,000
Most Recent Notable Cash:  No cash post 2010 WSOP


Event Details:

The 2010 WSOP Main Event final table, with the last 9 players of a starting 7,319, will begin Saturday, November 6th, at noon Vegas Time.  The Main Event, paused in July during Level 36, will continue with 50,000 antes, and blinds at 250,000/500,000, for roughly another hour and 15 minutes.

The last nine will play down to the final two, and then will pause again till Monday the 8th, at 8 p.m., when those two will compete for poker’s ultimate bracelet and top prize worth $8,944,138


Ways To Enjoy It:

In Vegas:  Watch live at the Penn & Teller theater.  Seating is free and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

On TV:  The rushed final table episodes- with hole cam coverage and analysis- will air on ESPN, Tuesday, November 9th, at 10 p.m. ET.

Online:  ESPN 3 will be streaming the final table starting at 3:30 p.m. ET.  Online updates and chip counts will also be available from PokerNews.com, on Twitter- if following @WSOP, @ESPN_Poker, etc.- and at all the other usual poker news outlets.

Here on PokerRoad:  Along with news recaps, following tweets from PokerRoad Pros live in Vegas, and sweating it with friends in our Live Tournaments forum, there will also be special PokerRoad Radio episodes starting today (10/5), and running all the way to Tuesday.  Best to keep PokerRoad in an open window on your computer all weekend, just to be safe.