The Final table started yesterday and is still playing. Darvin Moon is leading at this time. Phil Ivey was eliminated in 7th place and Jeff Shulman in 5th, so no major pros are left playing.
5th $ 1,953,452 Jeff Shulman
6th $ 1,587,160 Steven Begleiter
7th $ 1,404,014 Phil Ivey
8th $ 1,300,231 Kevin Schaffel
9th $ 1,263,602 James Akenhead
Still left are Darvin Moon , Antoine Saout, Joseph cada and Eric Buchman. Moon is leading and Buchman in the short stack
At the Rio. Eric Buchman was just eliminated in 4th place. They have been playing since yesterday AM It is about 5AM in Vegas. I would think they would take a break, but I can't find it in the schedule. Buchman got 2.5 million.
He is a regular guy from oakland Maryland. His short bio is interesting
The professional logger from rural Maryland is the anti-hero at this year's Main Event. Darvin Moon sounds like the name of a protagonist from a James Ellroy novel. The Luddite Logger did not have a cell phone before the Main Event began and shrugged off a hefty paycheck to shill for the online poker sites while he sat underneath the bright lights of the TV tale. Moon even declined an offer to become a Doyle's Room player for the November Nine which included coaching tips from Doyle Brunson himself.
Yep, Moon turned the legendary Brunson down. Instead, Moon will wear a New Orleans Saints hat. The Saints are his favorite football team because they were always the big underdog for decades of futility -- with the exception of this year's 7-0 start. Heck, maybe the Saints look unbeatable not because of Drew Brees but because of the run good powers of Darvin Moon's Saints hat.
Since the July, Moon did not exactly fall off the face of the Earth as many insiders had predicted. Moon mostly ignored the shill sites but gave a sprinkle of interviews to leading news organizations including one to the Washington Post and he even made a trip to ESPN HQs in Connecticut.
Moon was absent from the tournament circuit since he became a November Niner, which puts him at a disadvantage. He claims that he doesn't playing online poker, so we have to assume he was honing his skills and preparing for the November Nine with his buddies in a local home game. Moon went on a hunting trip before the final table so perhaps deer stalking and sipping the warm blood of a fresh kill might have cleared his head before cards go in the air.
Moon is living personification that anyone can make a run at the Main Event Championship. He's entering the final table with 30% of the chips in play and his stack will be under major assault from his opponents. Will he sit back and fold to third place? Or will he try to pick off players trying to bullying him around? We'll soon find out.
Antoine Saout eliminated in 3rd place . gets 3.4million.
Play will resume Monday. Joe cada eliminated Saout. He is in 1st place with 136 million chips and moon is in second with 58 Million.
Cada is from Michigan and Moon is from Maryland. Saout was the last foreign player. He was from France.
1st place will be 8.5million- 2nd will be more than 5 million.
Went by the Rio yesterday you couldn't move it was so packed! Its nice to see them in person but I rather see them play on TV so you can see the cards.
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