Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

JC Tran leads a stacked November Nine

The final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event has just formed after Carlos Mortensen bubbles in 10th place.

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Events: 62/62
Participants:
79,471
Prize pool:
$197,041,468

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Meet the November Nine

Several big names fell on the penultimate day of the Main Event before the break, including last year's October Niner Steven Gee, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, PokerStrategy.com coach Sergio 'geniodelletartarughe' Castelluccio and former Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen was the bubble boy.

That still leaves us with one of the most stacked Main Event final tables since the November Nine concept was introduced. 2nd in chips Amir Lehavot is a WSOP bracelet winner, Mark Newhouse is a WPT champion and short stack David Benefield is a very high profile cash game player.

But all eyes will be on JC Tran who has two WSOP bracelets, one WPT title and over $8 million in winnings. He is the chip leader going into the final nine and also likely the favourite to win regardless of the chip stacks.

Everyone remaining is guaranteed at least $733,224, but when they return in November all eyes will be on the title and first prize of $8,359,531.

WSOP 2013 Event #62: $10,000 WSOP Main Event

November Nine 

Place Name Chips
1st https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_us.jpg JC Tran 38,000,000
2nd https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_il.jpg Amir Lehavot 29,700,000
3rd Marc McLaughlin 26,125,000
4th https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_us.jpg Jay Farber 25,975,000
5th https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_us.jpg Ryan Riess 25,875,000
6th https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_fr.jpg Sylvain Loosli 19,600,000
7th Michiel Brummelhuis 11,275,000
8th https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_us.jpg Mark Newhouse 7,350,000
9th https://www.pokerstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/cdn-origin/2013/07/16/flag_us.jpg David Benefield 6,375,000

Players: 9 (6,352) | Prize Pool: $59,708,800

   Average Chips: 21,173,295 | Blinds: 200,000/400,000/50,000   

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The November Nine

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.