PokerNews WSOP 'November Nine' Focus: Dennis Phillips

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September 17, 2008
Shari Geller and Haley Hintze
As the oldest member of the celebrated "November Nine," the nine finalists in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event who will return this November to battle for the title, it's a bit surprising to learn that Dennis Phillips has only been playing poker for four years. Still, he'll be going into the final table of the biggest poker event of his life with the deepest chip stack at the table. Phillips will be starting with 26,295,000 chips, two million more than second-place Ivan Demidov and well above the table average of just over 15 million. Phillips came out of obscurity to the lead the November Nine, having won his seat to the big show in a $200 satellite at the St. Louis Harrah's in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. He has had two prior cashes in WSOP circuit events in 2007, finishing in seventh place in Event #14 and ninth place in Event #11 at Tunica, Mississippi for a total of $4,578, a fraction of the $900,700 he has already been guaranteed for his final-table appearance. But with the lead, Phillips has his eyes on the first-place prize money of over $9.1 million, the coveted gold bracelet and the placing of his name alongside some of the greatest players in poker history.

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