Poker Players Hold On

November 9, 2008

With only nine players left at the end of one of the biggest poker games in each of their histories, each player needs to focus on doing well come Sunday night. That is when the poker game resumes at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Dennis Phillips was one of those poker players, and he said that he felt that he was doing well. He wishes that they hadn’t had the break as he felt like he was really getting somewhere with the game. He says that he felt he had them “sized up” and that he was afraid he would have to start over now.

Down from 6,844 poker players, there are only nine left. The poker playing has been going on for 117 days at this point, so each of the players had earned a break, they just didn’t all want it. Phillips says that the players may have changed their strategies, etc. when they come back, which means going back to square one.

These men have had more than three months to think about their poker game and what they might want to change in it – especially with their stake in $32.6 million to be split among them. They all got $900,670 on July 15th for being the final nine.

In the final nine there are two Canadians who are very excited to be here and working on their share of the millions that are coming. One of them is an accountant, and the other is a professional poker player. If one of them wins, they would become the first Canadian to win the World Series of Poker – no pressure there!