It’s the final table of the Battle of Malta Main Event Autumn Edition and after 5,790 eliminations, just nine players remain. It’s November and there are nine of them left, it would be rude not call them the November Nine. The WSOP abandoned the concept that created the original November Nine name, which was to delay its final for several months. But there is no truth in the rumour that the Battle of Malta is going to play down to eight today and then ask everyone to come back next year for an April Eight. November Nine it is.

Seat 1: Alexandru Farcasanu, Romania, 25,250,000

Seat 2: Pasquale Gregorio, Italy, 13,800,000

Seat 3:Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greece, 20,200,000

Seat 4: Cosme Gomez Martinez, Spain, 9,550,000

Seat 5: Alessandro Siena, Italy, 18,400,000

Seat 6: Davide Iannacou, Italy, 10,075,000

Seat 7: Shervin Ghassemlou, England, 32,150,000

Seat 8: Vasileios Zisis, Greece, 65,3000,000

Seat 9: Ivaylo Eftimov, Bulgaria, 13,650,000