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It took 12 sessions over 13 days, and more than 18 hours on the last of them, but we have our Final Table for the Main Event, and Shauna and I can finally go home. And yes, at least one familiar face made this elite group culled from 7,319 starters: Michael “Grinder” Mizrachi held on, fighting from a short stack the entire night, sitting Ivey-like in seventh place coming into the final table. Seven of the final nine were wearing the Full Tilt colors on Saturday.

This is the lineup when they reconvene November 6 & 8, with the world to watch on ESPN November 9th:

Jonathon Duhamel 69.975 million

John Dolan 46.25 million

Joseph Cheong 23.525 million

John Racener 19.05 million

Matthew Jarvis 16.7 million

Filippo Candio 16.4 million

Michael Mizrachi 14.45 million

Soi Nguyen 9.65 million

Jason Senti 7.625 million

When the action restarts, they’ll be playing 250k-500k. That puts Jason and Soi at fewer than 20 BB, Grinder, Candio, and Jarvis at about 30 BB, Racener at 40,  Cheong at nearly 50, Dolan at close to 100, and chip leader Duhamel at 140. 

Seven of the nine players were wearing Full Tilt’s colors yesterday. We’ll see how that shakes out for November, but I’ll be giving you a full run-down of Full Tilt’s representatives.

Here’s what’s in store for the Blog, if I have any say over things:

* I’m going to take a few days off.

* I’m going to keep answering your questions, posed in the Summary of the Forrest-Matusow weight-loss prop bet post.

* I’m writing and will post a series of “flashbacks,” encompassing my five years of friendship with Mike Matusow and Ted Forrest: jail, final tables, high-speed drives, the Grand Canyon, marathon poker sessions, prop bets, bracelets, power walks, weight loss, girlfriends, poker cronies, and every other place Ted and Mike have taken me in poker and life. As it turns out, as unusual as their $2 million prop bet was, much of it covered familiar territory. Through my work on this blog, my prior blog, a pair of poker magazines, and two books, I have accumulated a mountain of material on Forrest and Matusow, and I’ll share it all.

* More from the World Series of Poker: despite over 100 posts over the past 7 1/2 weeks, I still have plenty more to share about the WSOP, as well as some overall perspective on the state of poker based on what I saw at the Series.

* FTOPS XVII, other upcoming Full Tilt events and promotions, blog contests, and big events in the near future, like  Full Tilt’s Cyprus event and WSOP-Europe.

*And whatever else strikes your/my fancy.

Thanks for reading, commenting, playing, participating. Stay tuned.

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9 Responses to “See You on November 9, November Nine – #1121 – 2010 WSOP #102”

1. Robert Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 8:01 am

   Excellent! Can’t wait for November 9 for the WSOP main event. Oh that long awful wait. Why does it have to take so long? =D

2. FLOP2ME Says:
   July 20th, 2010 at 12:01 am

   Michael again thanks for your blogs, good for you, take sometime off. Take as much as you need. LOL Looking foward to your upcoming posts, am sure it will be good stuff. Michael don’t get me wrong here but you keep mentioning “Shauna”. Who is this? In your “about Michael Craig” here your wife is metioned as Joanne. Do we need to update your “about” section. Ok see you here, from the rail or at the tables.
   FLOP2ME

   I thought I had written a response to this a couple of days ago. Sorry for the delay – or for duplicate responses if anyone appeared someplace I can’t find. Shauna is my assistant. Jo Anne is my wife.

   MC

3. Poker Says:
   July 20th, 2010 at 12:13 am

   It would be good if online poker in general did something about the patches and the way they present themselves in relation to signage on players bodies. Some of these guys look like total idiots and by default so do the online rooms.

   A couple of non poker playing friends asked me the other day why the players had paper pined to their hats and shirts. I said they were sponsor logos and they asked what I have been thinking for years. “Why would they (poker rooms) want to present themselves that way? They look so tacky!” Which was followed by a bunch of laughter.

   All I could do was agree and say even though companies like Full Tilt make so much money they don’t know what to do with it all they don’t have the brains to figure out that when they present themselves that way they look cheap and really sort of ridiculous.

4. FLOP2ME Says:
   July 20th, 2010 at 2:53 am

   Hello again Michael, Just got done reading some of your old posts. And I found out who “Shauna” is LOL. I should have figured that out myself. Of course with all that you cover and play you need an assistant. Good looking woman by the, love the story of her first Touney. She did good and looks like she had fun, which is what its all about. I’m going thru all the archives of yours, and enjoying them all. Again thanks for your insites and posts.
   FLOP2ME

5. Meatchopper Says:
   July 24th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

   Just checking out yor blogs gota kep going back I love new info.Thx

6. Scott Says:
   July 25th, 2010 at 1:53 pm

   #2 I agree with you it looks so dumb. They should just make official shirts and hats. Would look so much better.

7. kelly higgins Says:
   July 31st, 2010 at 2:30 am

   Watching poker on TV. 7 31 2010 couldn’t find blog page but laax is a prick how ya gonna disrespect Hensen for being a country boy! He’s a pussy the way he tried to treat the old man! Pull you cap off playa ! I’m pissed in Kansas!!!! Punk

8. Anonymous Says:
   November 10th, 2010 at 8:51 am

   They have to do the final table live; the winner was all over the news before the final table was televised. Not sure I will bother watching next year.

9. RondaBLEVINS29 Says:
   February 4th, 2011 at 5:30 pm

   Buildings are quite expensive and not every person can buy it. But, mortgage loans was created to aid different people in such kind of cases.

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