Event #2: $600 NLH MonsterStack churned up an impressive 1,038 entries (727 entrants and 311 rebuys), creating a $560,520 prize pool. 167 players will earn a chunk of that pool, with a min-cash worth $840.78. The winner of today's WSOP.com Online Bracelet Series event will earn a WSOP Gold Bracelet, along with a six-figure score of $104,312.77.
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"ib2nyce4u" raised to 4,000 from middle position and Shawn "Shades927" Strokes defended his big blind to see a flop appear.
Strokes check-called the 5,400 continuation bet from "ib2nyce4u" and the came on the turn. Strokes check-raised all in for 13,754 after "ib2nyce4u" fired out 10,800 and was called.
"ib2nyce4u":
Shawn "Shades927" Strokes:
Strokes needed to spike an ace on the river but the appeared and ended his tournament.
No stage in poker stood as a bigger goal for a tournament player than the final table of the WSOP Main Event. For years, that meant going to sleep knowing you had the chance of a lifetime, to go down in poker history in the next few days as the cameras captured your every bet, raise and fold.
All of that changed in 2008.
The year after Jerry Yang's Main Event victory was broadcast to all on ESPN's standard tape delay, organizers made a decision to try to increase the excitement and anticipation around the final table: after the final nine was reached, play would be paused. At that point, everyone left would go home with 9th-place money and the players would reconvene a few months later to play out the final table on a short tape delay.
That lasted until 2016, and this is the history of the November (and October) Nines.