<img src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Raidern/news/saout.jpg" align="right" style="margin:5px; border:1px solid black;">We are back with another share of our preview to the World Series Of Poker main event. The player of the day is Antoine Saout, the one with the second-to-last stack among the "November Nine". Saout is 25 years old and was born in Morlaix, France. He is currently living in Saint Martin des Champs. Antoine started playing poker only one and half year ago. He got interested in the game after seeing his sister playing poker on the internet. His early poker days were pretty much like most of ours, but, as we can see, his rise to the top of the game was meteoric. In a very short period of time he got good results in multi-table tournaments at Everest Poker under the alias tonio292.
There are not many records of Saout's live tournament results. According to some of these records, his first live cash happepend at the Spanish Poker Tour in the end of 2008. This year was the first in which Saout played the WSOP. His first cash in the world series happened right in the main event, and what a cash! Saout has also achieved an outstanding accomplishment this year. Together with James Akenhead, he joined Ivan Demidov as the only people to have reached the final table of the main events of both WSOP and WSOPE in the same year. This feat is so absurd that only a year ago people were asking themselves if Demidov's deed would ever be matched. Antoine Saout ended up finishing the European event in 7th place, pocketing a whooping $180,382.
A curious thing about Saout is that he played some hero role for a group of 51 players of Everest poker. It all started when, prior to the WSOP, Everest Poker announced they would match the WSOP Main event winnings of all their qualified players, up to $1,000,000, and evenly share the money with them. As we all know, Saout's payout is now beyond that mark, which means Everest fulfilled their promise and shared the $1 million with all their 51 qualified players. Each of the lucky ones received $19,607.
Saout will seat between Joe Cada and Jeff Shulman at the main event final table. He holds a stack of 9,500,00 chips, which will equal 35 big blinds by the time the cards get shuffled up and dealt. According to some interviews, Saout is counting on his experience in sit-n-go tournaments to make the best possible use of these blinds.
These are the seatings as they will be when they start in November 7th: Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 58,930,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead - 6,800,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 9,765,000
Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000
Seat 5: Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000
Seat 6: Eric Buchman - 34,800,000
Seat 7: Joe Cada - 13,215,000
Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 9,500,000
Seat 9: Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000 |
Sweden. Oct 18 2009 23:36. Posts 4472
