Your Guide to the 2016 November Nine

The 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table was set back in July, but the final nine players will now resume play to battle it out for $8,000,000 and the most coveted title in all of poker. Looking back, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy finished with the chip lead after bagging up 74.6 million in chips.

Here’s the schedule: Here is the final table:

We provided profiles on each of the players moving into the November Nine. Here’s the highlight reel for each player.

Griffin Benger

The Counter-Strike champion reflects on how he burned out early in his poker career, his time in the Global Poker League as a commentator and calling himself ‘predominantly lazy.’

“To be forced to watch and pay attention to the best poker players in the world 18 hours a week for eight weeks, it was the ultimate crash course training to play like one of the best in the world,” Benger said to Herring. “I feel incredibly grateful and lucky to have stumbled into such an opportunity because it’s the best learning tool. It was a beautiful experience.”

Read his profile here.

Vojtech Ruzicka

Ruzicka was having a bad summer, but his luck turned around when he became $1 million richer. His poker career began eight years ago when he was studying math in college and began grinding online. He’s probably the least experienced player at the table but he’s sure of one thing.

“I think I’ll have a big rail,” he said. “[The Czech] community is pretty tight, everybody was really supportive. A lot of players have pieces of me. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime shot.”

Read his profile here.

Fernando Pons

Pons is a 37-year-old manager in a retail corporation about whom little is known about. He qualified for the Main Event in a €30 satellite online at 888poker and locked up a six-figure sum.

“The first thing I did was call my wife,” said Pons, who could be seen in an emotional conversation on the phone after most of the chaos had cleared around the main stage in the aftermath of the final elimination of the summer. “This changed my life. I never imagined it, it’s a dream.”

Things are still looking up for the amateur who has already won.

Read his profile here.

Qui Nguyen

Qui Nguyen is a throwback. While the young, whip-smart, math-savvy kid with expertise in shove charts and game theory might be the modern poker prototype, Nguyen gambles a lot.

The Vietnamese import who now resides in Las Vegas – the only local to make the final table …

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