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Here's some information, including chip counts and a quick resume on all nine players heading into the 2010 Main Event final table:
SEAT 1: Jason Sentl
Hometown: St. Louis Park, MN (USA)
Chip Count: 7,625,000
Age: 25
Profession: Poker Pro
Former electrical engineer turned poker pro and instructor at the poker training site BlueFire Poker Jason Sentl, will enter the Final Table as the short stack of the group with 7.63 million. This is Sentl's first WSOP cash in . Besides the 2010 Main Event, Senti finished 21st in the 2009 World Championship of Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em, cashing $18,000.
SEAT 2: Joseph Cheong
Hometown: La Mirada, CA (USA)
Chip Count: 23,525,000
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
24 year-old Californian poker pro Joseph Cheong, won his first live poker tournament victory nearly three months ago, and promised himself he would play in the Main Event. Cheong most important victory to date happened in a No Limit Hold’em tournament at Harrah’s Rincon for $17,000 in March 2010, where he defeated PokerStars pro and WSOP bracelet winner David Williams in the final heads-up. Cheon has also three year of experience playing online, where he has amassed almost $300.000 in tournament winnings.
Prior to his Main Event run, Cheong scored two in the money finishes in the 2010 WSOP, including a 29th place in a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event for $17,000
SEAT 3: John Dolan
Hometown: Bonita Springs, FL (USA)
Chip Count: 46,250,000
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
24 year-old poker pro from Florida John Dolan is a prolific online player with over $1 million in online tournament winnings. Dolan also counts with $216,556 in live tournament winnings. He has six WSOP cashes, including three at this year's series. His biggest live score to date came at this year’s $1,000 WSOP No Limit Hold’em Event, where he banked $82,804 after finishing in 6th place. Dolan will enter the 2010 WSOP November Nine with the second largest chip stack at 46.25 million.
SEAT 4: Jonathan Duhamel
Chip Count: 65,975,000
Hometown: Boucherville, Quebec (Canada)
Age: 22
Profession: Poker Pro
This is Duhamel's third into the money finish at the 2010 WSOP following a 50th place in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event, and 15th place in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Duhamel is also remembered for knocking out of Matt “mcmatto” Affleck on Day 8. Duhamel called Affleck’s all-in with pocket jacks and 10-9-7-Q on board . Affleck flipped A-A for a higher pair, however, an eight hit the board, giving Duhamel a straight and sending Affleck home in 15th place.
Duhamel has also played several events outside the U.S, including the the European Poker Tour (EPT), entering the final table of a €5,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament in Prague and the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, where he cashed for $17,000 after exiting in 151st place.
SEAT 5: Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
Hometown: Miami, FL (USA)
Chip Count: 14,450,000
Age: 29
Profession: Poker Pro
Former World Poker Tour champion and WSOP bracelet winner, Michael The Grinder" Mizrachi is probably the biggest name at this year's November Nine final table. Born in Miami, Florida, Mizrachi is also the most accomplished player at this year's final table with close to $9,000,000 in career tournament earnings. His professional poker resume includes several World Poker Tour cashes and two WPT titles, as well as $2,146,322 in WSOP winnings. More recently, he won his first WSOP gold bracelet and $1,559,046 in this year's Poker Players Championship. Mizrachi will enter the November Nine holding the 7th place I n the chip count with 14,450,000 chips.
SEAT 6: Matthew Jarvis
Hometown: Surrey, BC (Canada)
Chip Count: 16,700,000
Age: 25
Profession: Poker Pro/Student
British Columbia native Matthew Jarvis is the second Canadian player at this year's Main Event Final Table. Primarily an online poker player, this marks his first time to cash in a WSOP tournament. Although his poker experience is mostly in the online poker tables, Jarvis also counts with several live tournament cashes, including several appearances at the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza tournament series. His largest live tournament score came in November 2009, when he played the final table of the British Columbia Poker Championship, earning just over $20,000.
SEAT 7: John Racener
Hometown: Port Richey, FL (USA)
Chip Count: 19,050,000
Age: 24
Profession: Poker Pro
Known as “$JMONEY$” in the online poker world, 24 year old player John Racener is one of the most experimented players in the November Nine
Racener has amassed over $1 million in online tournaments, and an equally impressive amount playing live events. In 2006, Racener finished third in the WSOP Circuit Championship up the coast in Atlantic City for $103,000, and reached the final table of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Winter Open for $166,000. One year later, Racener won the WSOP Circuit Championship in Atlantic City, cashing $379,000 for his victory.
SEAT 8: Filippo Candio
Hometown: Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy)
Chip Count: 16,400,000
Age: 26
Profession: Poker Pro
Candio is the first Italian player ever to make it to the World Series of Poker Main Event final table. He has a number of cashes at major tournaments held in Europe, including a victory in the Italian Pro Championship in San Remo for €140,000. Previous to his November Nine finish, his most impressive WSOP appearance took place in the 2010 World Series of Poker $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #11, finishing in 157th place and doubling his original investment.
SEAT 9: Cuong "Soi" Nguyen
Hometown: Santa Ana, CA (USA)
Chip Count: 9,650,000
Age: 37
Profession: Sales (******* Supplies)
37 year old Vietnam born Cuong Nguyen is the oldest player at this year's Final Table and the only amateur sitting among the November Nine. Nguyen took the overall chip lead on Day 7 after winning the largest pot of the tournament in an amazing hand vs. Theo Jorgensen. Now, Nguyen will enter his fourth live poker tournament and first ever World Series of Poker final table with the second shortest chip stack in the chip count with 9.65 million in chips.
