2008 World Series of Poker Main Event

The Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker was the main event of the 39th staging of the Poker World Championship in Las Vegas .

Time schedule

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

The main event of the World Series of Poker began on 3 July and was on July 14, after reaching the final table, interrupted.

In April 2008, Harrah's Entertainment , the organizer, announced that for the first time in the almost forty-year history of the event, the final table would be postponed to a later date, November 9th. Thus, one hopes to increase the attractiveness of the tournament for the media, customers and fans. The last two remaining players competed on November 10, 2008 to take the crown of World Champion . The following evening, the final table was broadcast on ESPN .

As in the previous year, the first game day was divided into four starting days with the official names 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d. A maximum of 3000 players were allowed on each starting day. After the start days there was a day off before day 2a began, on which the remaining players from days 1a and 1b started. On day 2b, the rest of days 1c and 1d played on. Only on day three were all the remaining players in the main event in the tournament room at the same time.

The entire tournament was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . The total of 6,844 participants had to pay a buy-in of US $ 10,000 each, and there were 666 paid places for them. Best woman was Tiffany Michelle , who finished 17th for more than $ 330,000.

German-speaking participants

Markus Golser (477.- $ 27,020)

The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
038		Felix Osterland	154,400
093		Markus Feurle	051,466
152		Patrick Zamarian	041,816
262		Andreas Martens	035,383
363		Marc Tschirch	028,950
407		Michael Schnabel
477		Markus Golser	027,020
499		Christophe Gross	025,090
565		Michael Grabmugg	023,160
585		Jan Heitmann
642		Claudio Rinaldi	021,230
644		Walter Bizzarro
661		Lorenz Roder

Performing past winners

Surname	Winner …	retired on day ...	placement	Prize money (in $ )
Doyle Brunson	1976 , 1977	1d
Bobby Baldwin	1978	1a
Tom McEvoy	1983	1b
Berry Johnston	1986	1a
Johnny Chan	1987 , 1988	4th	329	032,166
Phil Hellmuth	1989	6th	45.	154,400
Brad Daugherty	1991	2 B
Jim Bechtel	1993	1c
Dan Harrington	1995	1a
Huck Seed	1996	1c
Scotty Nguyen	1998	2a
Noel Furlong	1999	1d
Chris Ferguson	2000	1d
Carlos Mortensen	2001	2 B
Robert Varkonyi	2002	2a
Chris Moneymaker	2003	3
Greg Raymer	2004	1b
Joe Hachem	2005	2 B
Jamie Gold	2006	1b
Jerry Yang	2007	2 B

Final table

occupation

The November Nine

Seat	Surname	crisps	position
1	Dennis Phillips	26,295,000	1
2	Craiq Marquis	10,210,000	8th
3	Ylon Schwartz	12,525,000	5
4th	Scott Montgomery	19,690,000	3
5	Darus Suharto	12,520,000	6th
6th	David Rheem	10,230,000	7th
7th	Ivan Demidov	24,400,000	2
8th	Kelly Kim	02,620,000	9
9	Peter Eastgate	18,375,000	4th

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  Ivan Demidov

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  Peter Eastgate

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  Kelly Kim

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  Craiq Marquis

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  Scott Montgomery

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  Dennis Phillips

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  David Rheem

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  Ylon Schwartz

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  Darus Suharto

Results and prize money

Peter Eastgate after his victory

The final table started on November 9th, 2008. In the final hand, Eastgate won with A ♦ 5 ♠ against Demidow with 4 ♥ 2 ♥ .

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
1		Peter Eastgate	9,152,416
2		Ivan Demidov	5,809,595
3		Dennis Phillips	4,517,773
4th		Ylon Schwartz	3,794,974
5		Scott Montgomery	3,096,768
6th		Darus Suharto	2,418,562
7th		David Rheem	1,772,650
8th		Kelly Kim	1,288,217
9		Craig Marquis	0.900,670

Web links

• Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2008 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database
• 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event on the World Series of Poker website