The 2009 November 9 thread

[NYRambler]

I voted Buchman. At least if he wins I'll be proud of New York's Main event champion (lol_varkonyi)

[True North]

If they keep doing Life of Ivey through the summer and fall, traffic on PokerRoad's going to be beyond Joe Sebok's wildest dreams.

[SeraphimVulture]

Very true about pokerroad. They currently have the closest anyone can come to an inside scoop on what Ivey is thinking/doing, which seems to be what the whole poker world is wondering every 5 seconds. If they don't find some way to seriously bank on this in the next few months then it will be a gigantic fail on their part.

[airdraw]

Originally Posted by babytimebomb

Anybody can win this, that is why they call it gambling. It sounds like they should just award Ivey the braclet and let everyone else play for second place. Ivey was predicted to dominate the last day of tournment with 26 mostly inexpierenced players left, why did he end the day with less chips then he started with??

He did say that he never flopped a hand the entire day. It also didn't help that he went 0/3 in allins, which didn't leave him many chips to work with.

[axlo]

anyone knows how much ivey won from the side action for making into the Nov9....i am sure is not a small amount.....

[AntonHeat]

I want Ivey to win as much as anyone else , but I have a feeling he is going to get lucksacked by moon say AK vs QQ allin pre or something Moon has alot of chips to work with.

[rbracco]

in before "xxx MIRRION DOLLARS!"

// and BIRRION too

[whodatninja]

i'm sure this has been asked already so i aporogize, but has there been any calculation as to how long Moon can sleep in at the final table before it gets to HU, or does he HAVE to show up in order to stay alive (based on the length of the levels, the sizes of the blinds and antes, etc)?

[Kevmath]

Originally Posted by Damontis

I haven't seen any other posts about this and was just wondering. I know Ivey bought himself in and Shulman probably did as well. How about the other 7?

Moon won his seat in a satellite at the Wheeling Island greyhound track. Saout won his seat on Everest, and will share $1,000,000 with the ~50 players who won a ME seat on the site by making the final table.

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Atropa Komarovii

Ivey can pay people to get every hand that these 8 schmucks have played as well as watching video of them playing live to get reads.

Even by by Ivey NVG fanboy standards, calling the other eight players at the table schmucks is just ridiculus. For one thing, Jeff Shulman final tabled the ME previously.

[diddyeinstein]

Originally Posted by Frankie6636

How much people have you guys heard of before(obv besides Ivey) I knew Shulman a little, and new Akenhead from that tourney last year wheer he came in 2nd with his AKvs104 PRE Allin.

I read a book about Bear Stearn's last week so I was familiar with who Steven Begleiter was in a business sense. Was to surprised to see it was the same guy in the Final 27 (and subsequently the November 9).

[Bulletproof Monk]

Originally Posted by True North

I knew I remembered Schaffel's name from somewhere...he went deep in the 2004 main event. He busted to Harry Demetriou with 88 < QQ, it was on the Day 4(?) coverage.

EDIT: Here it is, hand starts about a minute in:

http://www.pokertube.com/Movies.aspx...%20main&list=9

he seems like a great genuine guy in this clip, and in this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toaiEmCtfbA

[Bulletproof Monk]

chances of cada switching sponsors before the ft?

at least i know who to root against now

[putdaWHUMPonum]

Originally Posted by Nichlemn

The November Nine is kind of annoying considering that while it'll get more attention for Ivey, it presumably reduces his chances of winning given that others stand to gain from coaching.

yeah coaching seemed to work so well for Dennis phillips last year

[VectorWega]

LMAO @ Moon receiving 10x as many votes as Begleiter. Several of these players have deep stacks, Moon doesn't have an insurmountable chip lead, and he's a frickin logger.

How ya gonna feel when Begleiter doubles through Moon? If you think Moon is just gonna coast, then you need substance abuse counseling.