The online gambling world has been looking forward to the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) almost 4 months.  The WSOP organizers specially included three month break to spark interest in the tournament and the final event.  And now Dennis Phillips has over $9 million waiting for being wagered against 8 other gamblers to win the 2008 title of World Series of Poker Champion.  Phillips is 53 years old from St. Louis, he who played for seven days of No-Limit Texas HoldEm in July before the playing was completed.

The play resumed on 9 November, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Phillips and his opponents were different when they sat down at the final table to play.  All of them have a wager in the $32.6 million; each has already paid $900,670 for 9th place finish on 15 July.

Besides Phillips there were Canadian Scott Montgomery, a well-known poker pro, and Darus Suharto.  If one of them could win, he might have been the first Canadian to win the main WSOP event.  Tuan Lam who was second in the 2007 main WSOP event, Ylon Schwartz, Kelly Kim, Peter Eastgate, David ‘Chino’ Rheem, and Ivan Demidov, a 27 year old semi-pro from Russia, according to chip count he is in second place behind Phillips.

All of the nine players that won a seat at the final table generated additional earnings from the game, interviews and endorsements, which were viewed on ESPN. As a rule, ESPN holds the final table in November.  The final table wrapped up yesterday with Demidov and Eastgate competing for the first place. Eastgat won $9.15 million first place pot and winner’s bracelet.

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