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Written by Mathias | Monday, July 25th, 2011
In seat number nine is the chip leader, Martin Staszko with 40.175 million in chips. He is from Trinec, Czech Republic, and may have an advantage being in last position with the biggest chip stack to start the final table off when play resumes on November 5th. Staszko is 35 years old and is categorized as a professional poker player. He is one of the only two players at the final table who is older than 26 years old.
Second stacked is Eoghan O’Dea from Dublin, Ireland with 33.925 million chips. He is 26-year-old poker pro who has cashed at the WSOP four times already, five counting the Main Event. His father is Donnacha O’Dea, a 1998 bracelet winner. Eoghan managed to maintain his second-place chip hold since the beginning of Day 8. He will sit down in seat three when play continues.
Third stacked is Matt Giannetti from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has 24.75 million chips and is in seat one. He too is 26 years old and is a professional poker player. He did attend the University of Texas before going pro. He’s managed to bring his chip stack up substantially after being short stacked for most of Day 8 by surviving multiple all-in bets.
Phil Collins (not the singer), also a poker pro from Las Vegas and also 26 years old, is not far behind Giannetti with 23.875 million in chips. He attended the University of South Carolina before going pro where he met his wife Katie, who he married last year. Up until Black Friday, he was an avid online player. He’s been able to stay on top throughout much of the Main Event. Collins is in seat number four.
Ben Lamb trails near behind Collins with the fifth largest chip stack. He reigns from Tulsa, Oklahoma and will enter the final table in seat eight with 20.875 million chips. Lamb has been a tear this year, leading in the WSOP Player of the Year race for 2011 and winning a gold bracelet already this year. He also enjoyed a second-place finish, and eighth-place, and a 12-place finish in addition to his Main Event finish. He is favored to take the championship bracelet.
In seat two, Badih Bou-Nahra from Belize City, Belize will enter the WSOP Main Event final table with 19.7 million in chips. He is the only other player besides chip leader Staszko who is older than 26. Bou-Nahra is 49 years old and is a businessman by trade and was born in Lebanon, though he calls Belize home.
Seventh stacked is Pius Heinz from cologne, Germany with 16.425 million in chips. He sits in seat seven and is a 22-year-old student/poker player. This is his first WSOP, and he’s come a long way, finishing seventh in an earlier $1,500 NLH event this year. He is the first German poker player to ever make the final table of the Main Event.
Anton Makiievskyi drops in with the eighth largest chip stack in seat five with 13.825 million in chips. He is from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine and is a 21-year-old aspiring poker professional. Four Ukrainians have scored a bracelet already at this year’s WSOP, so he’s hoping to be the first Ukrainian to win a Main Event. He’s the first to ever make it to the final table.
And short stacked is 22-year-old Sam Holden from the UK with 12.375 million in chips and will sit in seat six when play resumes. While both him and Makiievskyi are low stacked, they both have the advantage of making it through several rounds of blinds before the find themselves in too much danger.
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