Sep
Nine Finalists Emerge for
the World Poker Series
Posted by PokerBarney on 12:00AM, 18th Sep 2008
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Nine Finalists Emerge for the World Poker Series
In Las Vegas the World Series of poker is down to the final nine and it will take another 117 days to find a winner. For those of you who don't know how far that is, the final will be in November.
It is going to be interesting because there are only a couple of well known names in the line up. One of those is Kelly Kim a professional poker player from Whittier California. Kim acknowledges the good fortune of making it into the final nine. "I get to play another day. Anything could happen. It's truly amazing," said an overjoyed Kim. The professional player managed to make it to the final nine holding 2.6 million chips, a whooping 23 million chips behind the leader. Incidentally 2.6 million only makes up 1.9 percent of the chips in play.
On Tuesday tournament officials
gave out $900,670 to each of the finalists. This would have been followed
up by an official meeting with the new finalists of no-lim... more.
