World Series of Poker Main Event final table: Introductions and odds
On Saturday 6 November, nine poker players will take their seats at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas; all nine will be vying for the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event
Championship.
At the end of play, one player will walk away with the coveted WSOP Championship bracelet and $8,944,310.
What follows is a brief summary of each player, their chip count going into play and the odds that bookmaker’s at Bodog have placed on them winning the tournament.
26-year-old James Senti from St. Louis Park, Minnesota enters the final table last in chips with 7,625,000. Senti, a professional poker player for three years, has one cash during his
WSOP career. He made it to the third round of this years $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up Championship, taking home $17,987 for his effort. The odds on Senti taking home the title are 16/1.
Cuong “Soi” Nguyen comes to the table with 9,650,000 chips, putting him at number eight. The 37-year-old Nguyen was born in Saigon, South Vietnam and currently resides in Santa Anna,
California. Nguyen is not a professional poker player, making his living as a manager for a manufacturing company. Nguyen said he does not play in tournaments often, “In the last three years, I maybe have played in three tournaments.” The bookmaker’s have
the odds on Nguyen at 18/1.
Michael Mizrachi, a well-known professional poker player has the seventh largest starting stack at the final table, 14,450,000 chips. With a victory at the final table, the 29-year-old
Mizrachi will also tie for the WSOP Player of the Year title. Playing out of Miami, Florida, Mizrachi has had a stellar 2010 WSOP, cashing four times prior to the Main Event for a total of close to $1.7 million. Mizrachi, despite his short stack, is the third
favourite to take home the title with odds of 6/1.
Filippo Candio is sixth in chips with 16,400,000. Candio, a 26-year-old poker pro, is the first Italian born player to ever make it to the WSOP Main Event Final table. Candio has one WSOP
cash in his poker career, finishing 157th in the 2010 $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event for a cash of $3,460. This is the first WSOP main event the young pro has competed in. Candio enters the final table with the odds against him at 11/1.
Matthew Jarvis, also 26, comes to the final table with 16,700,000 chips, good enough for the fifth largest stack. Jarvis, from Surrey, British Columbia is a full-time poker player. This
will be Jarvis’ first cash at the WSOP. Bodog has placed the odds on Jarvis at 10/1.
John Racener, a 24-year-old poker pro from Port Richey, Florida has never had a job other than playing poker. Racener’s stack of 19,050,000 chips is the fourth largest at the table. Racener
got his start playing online poker and hit the live poker circuit as soon as he turned 21. Racener has over $1 million in tournament cashes, including three at this year’s WSOP. Odds on Racener have been placed at 13/2.
Joseph Cheong, 24, was born in Seoul, South Korea, and currently lives in La Mirada, California, has the third largest chip stack at 23,525,000. Cheong won a WSOP Circuit gold ring at
the Harrah’s Rincon event this year and cashed twice in this year’s WSOP after entering nineteen events. Odds on Cheong taking home the gold bracelet are 13/2.
The second largest chip stack belongs to another 24 year old, John Dolan from Bonita Springs, Florida. Dolan will begin play with 46,250,000 chips. Dolan began as an online player before
graduating to the tournament circuit. Dolan had a rough stretch prior to this year’s WSOP, entering 20 tournaments with not one in-the-money finish. Over the course of his career, Dolan has earned over $200,000 in live poker tournament play. The Bodog odds
on Dolan are 15/4.
The chip leader (65,980,000) and odds on favourite to win the tournament at 5/2 is 23-year-old Jonathan Duhamel of Boucherville, Quebec. Duhamel is mostly an online professional and when
playing live prefers cash games to tournaments. Prior to making the final table at the Main Event, he cashed twice at this year’s WSOP for more than $42,000.
Final table play for the 2010 WSOP Main Event will commence at noon on 6 November and will end when only one player remains.
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