Darvin Moon Dominated Last Week's WSOP Event | IXGAMES
The main World Series of Poker event is in full swing, and players from around the world have been tuning into ESPN to catch all of the action. Over the past week the pool of players was reduced from 7 tables to a mere 3 with a few key players taking center stage, including November Nine chip leader Darvin Moon. Following closely behind Moon were Phil Ivey with a chip count of over 10 million.
Darvin Moon has a more minimal Poker background, with a career trade as a logger and, unlike most of his competition, has never actually played Poker online, and wouldn’t have had any way to do so since he doesn’t even own a credit card. Despite Moon’s old-fashioned approach to Poker, he had some memorable players during the game, including a flopped Broadway Straight against Francois Balmigere and a set of 10’s. After Moon made a 2,000,000 bet adding to the 6.47 million total pot, Balmigere folded and Moon laid down his impressive hand.
Remaining in the competition at the beginning of the week for the World Series of Poker 2009 title were Tom Schneider, Antonio Esfandiari, Dennis Phillips, Prahlad Friedman, Leo Margets, Phil Ivey, Joe Sebok, Jeff Shulman, and Eugene Katchalov. Esfandiari, James Akenhead, Ryan Fair, Shulman, Margets, Eric Buchman and of course Darvin Moon. But, naturally, not all of them made it through to the next round with some big eliminations going to Poker players Prahlad Friedman ranked 64th, Joe Sebok ranked 56th, Tom Schneider ranked 52nd, Bradley Craig ranked 50th, Adam Bilzerian ranked 47th, Dennis Phillips ranked 45th, Eugene Katchalov ranked 39t), and Ryan Fair ranked 31st following the eliminations from the WSOP main event.
For those who want to catch the main WSOP event on TV to get a glimpse of the entire action taking place, it airs on ESPN every Tuesday night at 9pm. With all of the excitement of last week behind us, we Poker fans will have to wait and see what’s in store for Darvin Moon and the other professionals and amateurs competing in one of Poker’s more prestigious events!