The moment nine players have been waiting nearly four months finally arrives Sunday afternoon as the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event final table gets underway shortly after 12:00pm PT (3:00pm ET).

The final table broadcast will resume Sunday, Nov. 6 at 3:30pm ET on ESPN2 and WATCHESPN. Lon McEachern and David Tuchman will lead the coverage with Olivier Busquet, Phil Hellmuth and others expected to provide commentary. Kara Scott serves as the sideline reporter/bustout interviewer. Coverage will be on a 15-minute delay with hole cards revealed after the hand is played out.

ESPN.com has provided a breakdown of each of the November Nine here.

Other ESPN alternatives for international viewers include ESPN2 Australia and ESPN2 Caribbean. If you're outside the US, there should also be a stream available at http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/.

PokerNews will provide hand-for-hand updates on their live reporting page.


If you're planning to attend live, the line for General Admission seating at the Penn and Teller Theatre starts at 9:00am. At 10:30am, Friends and Family seating begins, those individuals need to be seated by 11:15 or their tickets will be made available for the General Admission audience when their seating becomes available at 11:30am.

Here's how the final table will be seated when play begins with 34:57 in level 36 (blinds of 250,000/500,000 with an ante of 50,000).

Seat 1: Matt Gianetti - 24,750,000
Seat 2: Badih Bou-Nahra - 19,700,00
Seat 3: Eoghan O'Dea - 33,925,000
Seat 4: Phil Collins - 23,875,000
Seat 5: Anton Makiievskyi - 13,825,000
Seat 6: Sam Holden - 12,375,000
Seat 7: Pius Heinz - 16,425,000
Seat 8: Ben Lamb - 20,875,000
Seat 9: Martin Staszko - 40,175,000

After a ~10 minute break at the end of the level, here's the next group of blind levels. Each level lasts two hours, with 15-minute breaks at the end of each level:

Level 37: 300,000/600,000/75,000
Level 38: 400,000/800,000/100,000
Level 39: 500,000/1,000,000/100,000

The dinner break will take place at 6:45pm and last 90 minutes.

Play resumes ~8:15 completing level 39.

Level 40: 600,000/1,200,000/200,000
Level 41: 800,000/1,600,000/200,000
Level 42: 1,000,000/2,000,000/300,000

Play will conclude when three players remain.


Tuesday November 8:

The line for General Admission seating will start at 3:00pm PT. The Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson will take place at 4:15pm PT on the Penn & Teller Theatre stage. Friends and Family seating begins at 5:00pm PT and must be seated by 5:30pm PT, when General Admission seating begins. The final three players will resume at 5:49pm PT playing down to a winner.

Coverage begins on ESPN at 6:00pm PT (9:00pm ET) with Lon McEachern, Norman Chad and Antonio Esfandiari providing commentary with Kara Scott reprising her role on Sunday. WATCHESPN and similar outlets that aired Sunday coverage should also cover Tuesday's action.


Payouts

Each of the nine players at the WSOP ME final table received $782,115 with the remaining $21,230,330 entered into a Fidelity money market account. An additional $9,858 in interest was generated and is reflected in the payouts below:

1st: $8,715,638
2nd: $5,433,086
3rd: $4,021,138
4th: $3,012,700
5th: $2,269,599
6th: $1,720,831
7th: $1,314,097
8th: $1,010,015

The ninth place finisher does not receive additional money.


Sponsorships

Some of the players at the November Nine final table have been able to obtain patch deals. Here's the updated list of players who will wear logos:

Martin Staszko - None
Eoghan O'Dea - Paddy Power Poker
Matt Giannetti - Enerjel
Phil Collins - Bellagio
Ben Lamb - Aria/Poker Tracker
Badih Bou-Nahra - None
Pius Heinz - PokerStars
Anton Makiievskyi - 888 Poker
Sam Holden - 888 Poker

Betting:

Besides placing bets in select Nevada sportsbooks, here are some of the sites you can place a bet online:

Blue Square

Bodog

MatchBook

Paddy Power

Pinnacle

First. Are Pokernews updates live or also 15 minutes delayed?

Anton at 9/1 is worth a bet.

Assume the PokerNews updates would not be delayed.

Martin Staszko - None

what a villian

Gianetti sponsored by a non-poker related company, not seen that before.

The WSOP is going to let Heinz wear a Stars patch?

Hope i'll be able to watch it from France
Used to watch WSOP live coverages without cards but just random display with stack sizes and actions of each player

25k Ante in first level, not 50k with blinds 500k?

Kev, thanks for the recap, should be fun

HERE WE GO
also: go o'dea, go heinz, go lamb!

live

Good point it looks like the ante goes from 25k to 75k the next level?

Ante is 50k according to structure sheet and everything else.

My mistake, ante will be 50k when play resumes.

Guess we'll find that answer out together.

Cmon Odea!!!!

+∞

Introducing your 2011 world champion... Matt Giannetti.

ANYONE but this guy.

Heinz will be sporting a red ketchup bottle patch.

Well he busted Hilton Laborda so he's a hero in my book.

I got Collins, Lamb, and O'Dea as my picks to win this, but I don't really mind anyone else winning this, should be a good final table to watch.

I have a question that if someone could help me out with it would be great.

On Monday night, ESPN2 is airing the WSOP from 8:30 - 11:00. Is this going to be a condensed rebroadcast of the highlight hands from the previous day/night's 9-down-to-3 all day coverage? I'm not sure if I'll be able to tune into the live coverage Sunday, and I would like to know whether I had this option to catch up with on Monday night. If someone could clarify this it would help, thanks a lot.

Last year people spoiled the coverage in the official "no spoil" thread. Can we perma ban people that do it this year? (or at least give MAJOR infraction points or something...I watched/posted for hours only to have it spoiled...only other alternative is to just stay off 2+2 and watch myself, not nearly as fun though)

Thanks for this Kevmath, can't wait to watch the FT tomorrow !