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The WSOP November Nine Final Table has finally been established. (Bodog Beat Image)

You wouldn't expect that winning $591,869 would be an agonizing experience but when it comes to poker that's exactly how it must have felt to Dean Hamrick when he busted out in 10th place in the WSOP. After play got down to 10 Hamrick pushed all-in preflop with and was called down by Craig Marquis with . The flop came giving Marquis the lead while teasing Hamrick with a straight draw. The on the turn and the on the river didn't help him though and he was eliminated while the WSOP November Nine was created.

The November Nine will return to Las Vegas for the WSOP final table which will be played out live on November 9th and 10th. Here they are, the November Nine, with their future seat numbers and chip counts:

Seat 1: Dennis Phillips with 26,295,000. Phillips is an amateur poker player who hails from Cottage Hills, IL and will be coming into the final table with the chip lead.

Seat 7: Ivan Demidov with 24,400,000. A fairly close second to Phillips this will be Demidov's second cash of the 2008 WSOP as he took 11th place in Event 44 NL Holdem with Rebuys for $39,854. Demidov hails from Moscow, Russia.

Seat 4: Scott Montgomery with 19,690,000. Montgomery has a good combination of chips and experience coming into the WSOP final table.  He has over $400,000 in live tournament winnings the most notable of which is from the 2008 LA Poker Classic where he finished fifth for $296,860. Montgomery is Canuck hailing from Perth, Ontario.

Seat 9: Peter Eastgate with 18,375,000. Eastgate has seen a bit of live tournament success with over $63,000 in winnings. He is the only European at the WSOP final table and is from Odense, Denmark.

Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz with 12,525,000.  Schwartz is a poker veteran from Brooklyn, NY, Schwartz and has over 300,000 in live tournament winnings.

Seat 5: Darus Suharto with 12,520,000.  Another Canadian, Suharto hails from Toronoto, Ontario and has had limited live tournament experience with one small WSOP cash from 2006.

Seat 6: David 'Chino' Rheem with 10,230,000. What Rheem lacks in chips he makes up for in experience with over $600,000 in live tournament winnings this resident of Los Angeles, CA already has nine final tables under his belt.

Seat 2: Craig Marquis with 10,210,000. Marquis took a bit of risk when he knocked out Hamrick with queens. This native of Arlington, TX has had a few small previous WSOP cashes.

Seat 8: Kelly Kim with 2,620,000. Even though Kim is limping into the final table severly short-stacked, he has cahsed in 30 tournaments in the last five years. Don't count Kim out yet.

And that's your 2008 WSOP Final Table. Now get ready to see them everywhere for the next four months.