WSOP Main Event Finds November Nine

When the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event began, it brought in a total of 6,683 players for the $10K buy-in No Limit Hold’em World Championship tournament. The resulting prize pool was $62,820,200, out of which the top 693 players were paid.

The positive turnout made it the fifth largest Main Event in the 45-year history of the tournament.

In the end, only nine players would make the final table. Deemed the November Nine, they would take a break of several months and return to Las Vegas in November to play out the tournament. The delay allows the television broadcasts of the Main Event on ESPN to catch viewers up with the action, and the final table can then be played semi-live on TV, very close to real-time action.

Late into the night of July 14, the November Nine was set, and these were the players at the table:

1. Jorryt van Hoof (Netherlands) 38,375,000

2. Felix Stephensen (Norway) 32,775,000

3. Mark Newhouse (USA) 26,000,000

4. Andoni Larrabe (Spain) 22,550,000

5. Dan Sindelar (USA) 21,200,000

6. William Pappaconstantinou (USA) 17,500,000

7. William Tonking (USA) 15,050,000

8. Martin Jacobson (Sweden) 14,900,000

9. Bruno Politano (Brazil) 12,125,000

The payouts are currently set as follows:

1^st place: $10 million

2^nd place: $5,145,968

3^rd place: $3,806,402

4^th place: $2,848,833

5^th place: $2,143,174

6^th place: $1,622,080

7^th place: $1,235,862

8^th place: $947,077

9^th place: $730,725

Every player is guaranteed at least ninth place money, which was paid to each of them as they left the Rio on July 15. And when they return, there will be a little additional money added to the payouts, as the collective remaining prize pool is being invested in order to accrue some interest in the months leading up to the final table.