Jarvis Representing 2010 November Nine
Not one but two 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event November Niners were among the final 20 players who returned to today's Day 3. Champion Jonathan Duhamel was our most recent elimination, ousted in 15th place. That left fellow Canadian Matt Jarvis to represent last year's ME final table.
Jarvis earned a cool $1,045,743 for his eighth-place finish in the ME -- his first and so far only cash at the World Series of Poker in Vegas. He did pick up another small cash at the WSOPE last fall, finishing 40th in the ￡1,000 NLHE event.
With Jarvis' cash here, that means that among the 2010 November Niners only Jason Senti and Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi -- nearly last year's WSOP POY -- have failed to cash thus far at this year's Series.
John Dolan and now Duhamel have cashed twice. Joseph Cheong, Filippo Candio, and Soi Nguyen each have one cash. And last year's runner-up John Racener has three cashes this summer, including the biggest by far among the ME final tablists for his third-place finish in Event No. 33, the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship for which he earned $171,122. We'll see how far Jarvis can go in this one, and whether or not his cash here might surpass Racener's score.