The rich look to get richer.

Here we go. Someone’s winning $8 million and someone’s … settling for $1.2 million. We suppose that’s not a bad way to take a little of the pressure off. We’re not sure what’s more interesting, that the World Series of Poker’s November Nine have already collected $1.26 million at the end of the Main Event break, or that of the remaining $15.84 million, it’s only made $1,321 in interest since July 16.

This totally crushes our fantasies of scoring millions in a jewel heist and living off the interest from our Cayman Islands bank account.

Anyway, Darvin Moon, James Akenhead, Phil Ivey, Kevin Schaffel, Steven Begleiter, Eric Buchman, Joseph Cada, Antoine Saout, and Jeff Shulman get back to the felt tomorrow at noon at the Rio for the final table of the World Series of Poker. Ivey, the pro everyone expects to do some damage, starts the day with the third-shortest chip stack at 9.7 million, while leader leader Moon is at 58.9 million.

Seeing as how ninth-place money has already been paid to everyone, whoever busts out first walks out without any additional cash, which would be eminently aggravating after a 115-day layoff. First place is good for $8.5 million, on down to $1.3 mil for eighth.

Moon, who controls 30 percent of the chips in play, is a self-employed logger who doesn’t own a computer. How do you even get to be a self-employed logger? The last time we heard of a professional woodsman, he was cutting up the wolf who ate Little Red Riding Hood.

By Jason Scavone

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