WSOP Main Event Down to Final Two

It has been a hard fought battle but after the final nine took several months off before sitting down in Vegas to determine a champion, the field has been thinned out to the last two.

The stage has been set now for Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate who will go heads up to determine this year's champion and walk home with a $9.15 dollar first prize. They may walk home. I'm not sure if either of them live in Vegas. There is a chance that the winner will have to catch a flight.

Regardless of how the new champion decides to head back to wherever they are from, they will be considerably wealthier than they were when they started this journey back in July.

This writer is the first to say I am a little disgruntled with the results. I was anticipating a Canadian champion and the dark horse favorite to accomplish this feat, Scott Montgomery, busted out in fifth place.

Montgomery was playing his aggressive style of Poker, stealing blinds and making moves to achieve a stronger chip count and move into the lead. However, a couple of times he ended up running into powerful opposition that he couldn't overcome.

When Montgomery looked down and found A,8 suited he decided to push all in and was called by larger stack in Peter Eastgate who had pocket sixes. Montgomery was actually leading going to the river having spiked two aces but Montgomery hit his two outer on the river giving him sixes full to take the Canadian out.

All is not lost for the Mathematics major. His fifth place finish assured him of $3.1 million and I'm confident that is his best payday to date. Pretty sure after he cashes that check the smile will return along with plans to conquer the Main Event once again next year. Good job Scott.