Betting Odds

Chipleader Dennis Phillips (26,295,000) is not the odds on favorite to win the WSOP Main Event, he is listed at 5/1 on PartyBets.

Ivan Demidov (24,400,000) with the second largest chipstack has been installed as the favourite to win the November World Series of Poker main event final table. Ivan currently is listed at 3.68/1.

Scott Montgomery (19,690,000) is offered at 6/1.

Peter Eastgate (13,750,000) is 7/1 to win at PartyBets, while David Rheem (10,230,000) is listed today at 9/1. Ylon Schwartz (15,525,000), Darus Suharto (15,2000,000)and Craig Marquis (10,210,000) are all 11/1.

And finally the chances of short stack Kelly Kim (2,620,000) taking down the $9 million prize are rated at 26/1.

Ivan Demidov 3.68*
Dennis Phillips 5.00*
Scott Montgomery 6.00
Peter Eastgate 7.00
David Rheem 9.00
Ylon Schwartz 11.00
Darus Suharto 11.00
Craig Marquis 11.00
Kelly Kim 26.00

*Demidov and Phillips opened as 4/1 co-favourites, apparently some early money came in on the Russian.

You know you can wager on anything and everything, anytime in many ways. Betus.com is taking action on players making the Final Table of the Main Event at this summer's World Series of Poker.

Like playing long shots with a big overlay? Notice that the worst of it is 100,000 to 1. Interesting odds with a field of between 4,000 and 9,000 players.

Let's take any single unknown player and estimate the field on the high side, let's say 8100 starters. Nine players make the final table, so 1 in every 900 players. Pick any non-name player and you can get odds of 100,000 to 1 on mathematical odds of 1 in 900. But then we all know poker is about more than math.

Here are the posted odds for some of the "name" players.

Phil Ivey +1400
Daniel Negreanu +1800
Phil Hellmuth +2500
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson +2500
Allen Cunningham +2500
Johnny Chan +3000
Gus Hansen +3000
Erik Seidel +4000
Scotty Nguyen +4000
Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi +4000
Dan Harrington +4000
Howard Lederer +4000
Antonio Esfandiari +4000
Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot +4000
John Juanda +4000
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