11pm - Martin Jacobson was the class of the November Nine, and for the first time in the last few years, the best player at the table walked away with the bracelet.
1045 pm - We just finished our interviews with winner Martin Jacobson and runner-ip Felix Stephensen, listen in now to HoldemRadio.com for an hours-worth of postgame interviews with each of the November Nine.
915pm - Our bustout interview with 3rd place finisher Jorryt van Hoof is airing now at HoldemRadio.com, van Hoof went downhill fast today, and when he moved all in with A5, Jacobson snap-called with only AT, showing not only how well Jacobson is going but how good his read was in that position.
730pm - Martin Jacobson was 80 million in chips behind Jorryt van Hoof last night, he is now 30 million in chips clear of van Hoof and new chipleader ... 'nuff said?
645pm - Jacobson is doing exactly as he did yesterday, he is outplaying his opponents
615pm - Watching this live is hard, as there is a TV Timeout every 4 or 5 hands at most.
6pm - ok, now maybe 40 percent of the seats are full, and the audience is getting loud when the ESPN crews tell them to yell. Van Hoof's crowd chants after most of his wins, while Jacobson and Stephensen's crowds applaud with his pot raked by their player.
530pm - Bruce Buffer is warming up his voice for player introductions, the house is about 20 percent full, as expected since the final three players are all from out of the US ... but we called Martin Jacobson back on Day 5 as the player to beat and we have not waivered from that thought since ... lets see how this turns out
430am - Wait a minute, we're 3-handed and we've been here for 23 days, can we go home? Nope, playing down to heads-up ... well, I posted this and 45 seconds later they stopped until 530pm ...
330am - Yes, I just typed 330 am ... my pick back on Day 5 to win this all, Martin Jacobsen, is a chip-threat for the first time at this final table since yesterday afternoon with his almost-KO of Billy Pappas.
215am - well, I don't think anyone was prepared for players to be at 500,0000/1 milly blinds tonight
130am - Fans are starting to cheer random comments now, just to keep themselves going. William Tonking,, meanwhile, is on a serious reverse-run, losing about 40 million in chips in the past few hours ....
1am - WooHoo, we hit 1am ... you get to see holecards at home, we get to see the audience turn punchdrunk, or in many cases, justdrunk.
1245am - we have surpassed the 8-hour mark, and we are seeing them play an average of just 20 hands per hour ... .....
1045 pm - Two bustout hands in 10 minutes. Bruno Foster says he was playing for a bracelet or nothing, it was not about the money but about friends and family here with him today.
9:45 pm - wow, we managed a whole 9 hands in 32 minutes with TV Timeouts .... one orbit of the board per 30 minutes .. tell me Doc Sands and Yevgeniy Timoshenko are NOT under disguise at this FT ...
830 pm - Mark Newhouse walked onto the stage tonight with a look of almost indifference about what was about to take place. After his bustout, he approached the media mics and talked with that same aire of indifference. He said making back-to-back final tables didn't mean much to him, that his finish didn't mean anything about him in the poker world, that basically tomorrow is another day and he'll be back to play again next year.
I was not impressed with him just sauntering out onto the stage, but he maintained that aire throughout the play and in the bustout interview, it is clearly how he approached today's play, that this tournament was just another day and his finish -- unless it was a win -- was just another day of poker
8pm - Just did our first bustout interview of the night, these are always so awkward, last place a player wants to be is in front of a bunch of microphones ... the hand will be on ESPN in about 19 minutes
745pm - The way the in-house cameras are set up in the Penn and Teller Theatre means we can only see the top across the back of Mark Newhouse's shirt, and we only see " Now Available," making him look as though he is a walking billboard
715 pm - And we have reached yet another TV Timeout ... I have to say that even if playing for $10 million I would find the contatant time-stoppages bothersome. The smart players are running to their rails on these short breaks trying to find out what some specific hands were, as ESPN shows hole cards on a 30-minute delay.
7pm - Players are being very patient, not just with their play but also with all of the TV Timeouts being taken. The first 28 hands took nearly 90 minutes to play out, with TV breaks.
6pm - We went down on the floor to get a feel for what it is like being in the criwd as play progresses, quiet during hands and LOUD afterwards. We grabbed some seats to right of Bruno Politano, and 3 rows back off the stage
455 pm - We interviewed Scott Mahin, 18th place finisher, in the hallway before cards went in the air. A genuinely nice man, it taking his $340k-plus payday and is going to play for a living in 2015.
445 pm - The crowds in the audience are LOUD as we get started, but now that a hand has played out, the crowd has become respectfully quiet while players make bets and decisions on each hand.
435 pm - Caught on the floor as players are being introduced, we are about 2 feet away as Billy Pappas, Mark Newhouse, Will Tonking, Martin Jacobsen, Bruno Politano and all are being escorted to their seats by Rio showgirls.
430 pm - We are up in the press box, WAAAAAY up away from the action, but great to be in the Penn and Teller Theatre as cards are almost in the air for the November Nine.
