Moon Makes Final WSOP Table with Hefty Lead
Written by RogerCP | Sunday, July 19th, 2009
It will be an interesting WSOP final table that meets up in November this year. The best nine players in the most impressive poker tournament in the world finally made it to the end of the competition after days and nights of non stop poker action and the final table will be played out in the fall.
The top nine are made up of a medley of poker players from all walks of life. Phil Ivey is one of the superstars of the poker world, a man who lives, walks and breaths poker and who has made Las Vegas his home so that he can be close to the action.
On the flip side, you have Darvin Moon, a beefy red-head who chops trees in the deep woods of West Maryland for a living. “I’ll go back to work in the woods, and when it’s time to come out, I’ll come out here,” said the 45 year old Moon.
While Moon is one of those bright stars who have flown in from nowhere to make the final table, he shouldn’t count on beginner’s luck to get him through the last hurdle of the competition in November. Ivey has won almost every tournament in existence EXCEPT the World Series of Poker Main Event and he is dead set on winning the bracelet this time around.
Yet Moon has certainly dazzled everyone with his incredible talent for the game, despite the fact that he started playing poker only three years ago with friends. Moon believes that the cards he was dealt right through the competition gave him the upper hand and led him to his hefty chip count of 58.93 million – 24 million more than his nearest competitor.
“My cards ran like that the whole tournament. I didn’t hardly have to play poker. I mean, I didn’t have to gamble at all,” said Moon. “I never had my chip stack all in at any time the whole tournament. It’s great to have cards that run like that for eight days.”
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