 Playing through a long night and early into this morning, John Juanda took down a strong final table and won the main event of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. Russian Stanislav Alekhin finished second after he and Juanda battled for over seven hours and 241 hands heads up. John Juanda was down to a final river card on hand #399 but he caught a miracle straight to stay alive.
This WSOPE final table took 484 hands (a WSOP record for most hands at a final table) and 22 hours (including dinner and other scheduled and unscheduled breaks) finishing after 10 AM local time in London.
Fellow Russian Ivan Demidov finished in third place, Demidov is one of the "November Nine" who will be playing for the WSOP main event championship next month.
Here is how the final nine finished:
1 £ 868,800 John Juanda
2 £ 533,950 Stanislav Alekhin
3 £ 334,850 Ivan Demidov
4 £ 271,500 Bengt Sonnert
5 £ 217,200 Daniel Negreanu
6 £ 171,950 Scott Fischman
7 £ 135,750 Robin Keston
8 £ 108,600 Toni Hiltunen
9 £ 81,450 Chris Elliott
 They are down to 24 players in the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe. Still a fair number of big names in the hunt with John Juanda leading the field into Day Four. They will play down from 24 to 9 tomorrow.
Here are the survivors:
Juanda, John - Las Vegas 657,500
Negreanu, Daniel - Las Vegas 653,000
Smith, Justin - Kissimmee, FL 624,500
Rouas, Phillippe - San Francisco, CA 573,000
Lodden, Johnny - Orpezano Italy 478,000
Townsend, Brian - Santa Barbara, CA 424,500
Sonnert, Ben - Linkoping Sweden 346,500
Hiltunen, Toni - Lahti Finland 321,500
Kongsgaard, Soren - Aarhus Denmark 316,500
Demidov, Ivan - Moscow Russia 316,000
Bloch, Andy - Las Vegas 301,000
Fischman, Scott - Las Vegas 298,000
Bergius, Perttu - Espoo Finland 261,000
Judah, Mel - London 254,000
Shakerchi, Talal - London 225,000
Alekhin, Stanislav - Moscow Russia 215,000
Neff, Peter - Los Angeles 213,500
Adams, Brandon - Miami, FL 212,000
Elliott, Christopher - Alloa UK 181,500
Matusow, Mike - Las Vegas 147,500
Seidel, Eric - Las Vegas 85,000
Torsvik, Kim-Andre - Bergen Norway 78,500
Keston, Robin - London 74,000
West, Tim - Los Altos, CA 63,500
 Another packed final table goes off today in Event #28 $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/ rebuys. Johnny Chan is after bracelet number eleven and Phil Hellmuth, though short-stacked is in the hunt for number twelve. Add to that mix John Juanda, David Benyamine at another final table, Kirill Gerasimov, some kid named Daniel Negreanu, Phil Galfond enters as chipleader and local professional Brian Rast in second. This will be another of those special final tables.
Here is the line-up as they get ready to go at it later this afternoon.
[We are updating as players are eliminated, summary below]
2 AM: Phil Galfond's sixth WSOP cash is his biggest so far (by about $800,000), as is Adam Hourani's second WSOP cash (about $450K larger). Over 100 hands heads up were needed to settle the bracelet matter between these two well known internet players.
Phil Galfond (Madison, Wisconsin) -- 1st place
Adam Hourani (East Lansing, Michigan) -- 2nd place
David Benyamine (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 3rd place
Johnny Chan (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 4th place
Kirill Gerasimov (Moscow, Russia) -- 5th place
John Juanda (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 6th place
Daniel Negreanu (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 7th place
Phil Hellmuth (Palo Alto, California) -- 8th place
Brian Rast (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 9th place
David Benyamine 3rd place. David played his Aces strong but ran into a set of Queens.
Johnny Chan 4th place and the bid for an 11th bracelet is over.
Kirill Gerasimov 5th place.
John Juanda 6th place, Daniel Negreanu 7th place, Phil Hellmuth 8th place Late in level three, three superstars were sent to the rail.
Brian Rast 9th place It took nearly two full levels and lots of chips moving around the table before we lost our first player. Brian Rast, local professional known to many internet players as tsarast, got it in ahead but was run down on the river by the current chipleader: Johnny Chan.
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