Event 44 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-27-2008 12:43 UTC-8

Final Table Bios: Seat 2: Max Greenwood (728,000)

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Max Greenwood is with us today from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a 23-year-old college student playing in his third WSOP. In his first year he failed to cash, but he racked up three in-the-money finishes last year and has already cashed in one event this year. Max says if he wins today, he plans on buying himself a nice house.

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06-27-2008 12:38 UTC-8

Final Table Bios: Seat 1: Scott Freeman (675,000)

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Scott Freeman is a 22-year-old player from Los Angeles, California. Scott has over $430,000 in career earnings, but this is his first WSOP final table. Freeman's previous best finish was a 19th-place cash in last year's Main Event. Today he hopes to capture his first gold bracelet.

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06-27-2008 04:52 UTC-8

Final-Table Seat Assignments Set

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Maryland's Jesse Chinni takes the chip lead to the final table

2pm PDT is the kickoff time for the finale in Event 44, $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys. A late surge in Thursday's session by Jesse Chinni has carried him to a dominant lead entering the finale, where he'll have over a 2:1 margin over second-place Rene Mouritsen.

The complete seat assignments, hometowns and chip counts for the finalists:

Seat 1: Scott Freeman (Los Angeles, California) -- 675,000
Seat 2: Max Greenwood (Toronto, Canada) -- 728,000
Seat 3: Curtis Kohlberg (Weston, Massachusetts) -- 209,000
Seat 4: Rene Mouritsen (Aarhus, Denmark) -- 1,007,000
Seat 5: Alex Bolotin (Brooklyn, New York) -- 308,000
Seat 6: Albert Iversen (Aarhus, Denmark) -- 921,000
Seat 7: Aliaksandr Dzianisau (Vitebsk, Belarus) -- 186,000
Seat 8: Phung Ngo (Commerce , Michigan) -- 556,000
Seat 9: Jesse Chinni (Ellicott City, MD) -- 2,160,000

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