Ivan the Potentially Incredible
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Fischman is referring to the incredible feat that Demidov is two eliminations away from achieving: Being the first player ever to reach the final table of both the WSOP Main Event and the WSOP-E Main Event. What's more, he'd also become the first and only person ever to reach both final tables in the same year!
Think of the odds. Demidov plowed through a field of 6,844 players in this summer's Main Event and is second in chips heading into November's final table. In Europe, while the field here isn't nearly as big (362), it turned out to be a conglomeration of the world's finest poker players and getting through a field like the one we saw here this week is certainly no easy task.
Demidov currently has about 765,000 in chips which puts him just above average and slightly better than middle-of-the-pack status on our leaderboard. He's got several fans in attendance here today, many hoping that they get to witness a bit of poker history unfold in front of their eyes. As members of the poker media, we try to avoid cheering a particular player on, although in this case, it's difficult not to root for the guy, as it could take 100 years for something like this to happen again.