The chips are counted, the interviews are done, and the photos are snapped. Now the nine players who make up the final table of the 2009 WSOP Main Event begin their four month “break” which will inevitably consist of a series of interviews, appearances, and, of course, some poker before they return on November [...]

It took just a matter of minutes to reach our November Nine after the final ten players merged into one table on the ESPN featured stage. Unfortunately it was Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith who fell just short of etching his name in history.
Smith began the unofficial final table with 15,430,000 chips but they were all sent [...]

A silence fell over the room as Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp played his final hand in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Kopp raised to 600K from under the gun and Darvin Moon called out of the small blind. Moon checked to Billy on the K92 flop and Billy fired out a 750K bet which [...]

It had been a grueling first three levels for Jamie “TheNew” Robbins. And on the last hand before dinner, things got even worse.
After losing a number of small pots today and watching his starting stack divide in half, Robbins finally got his money in great with a chance to eliminate a player and chip back [...]

The remaining 18 players are redrawing for new seats as the final two tables of the Main Event have been reached. Six players were eliminated since our last report, including P5er Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo.
Tamayo moved all in over the top of an Eric Buchman raise for 3.2 million with A-Q and Buchman made the call [...]