World Series of Poker November Nine profile: Jason Senti

In this series I will take a look at the backgrounds and resumes’ of the nine poker players who managed to weave their way through, and outlast 7,310 opponents, and make it to the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.

The final table for the 2010 WSOP will reconvene on November 9th  where the remaining nine players will play down to just two, who will then return the following day, November 10th, to declare the 2010 WSOP Champion.

The nine remaining players are:

• Jonathan Duhamel - 65,975,000 chips
• John Dolan - 46,250,000 chips
• Joseph Cheong - 23,525,000 chips
• John Racener - 19,050,000 chips
• Matthew Jarvis - 16,700,000 chips
• Filippo Candio - 16,400,000 chips
• Mike Mizrachi - 14,450,000 chips
• Soi Nguyen - 9,650,000 chips
• Jason Senti - 7,625,000 chips

In the final installment of the November Nine profiles I’ll look at the career of the short-stack heading into November’s final table, Jason Senti. At first glance Senti appears to be an inexperienced amateur with very little chance of winning the Main Event considering his chip-count. But, serious followers of poker know that Senti is a top online poker player who specializes in cash-games, and should he double through could be the player to beat at the WSOP Final Table.

How strong a player is Jason Senti? Well, he’s an instructor at BlueFire Poker -perhaps the pickiest online poker training site when it comes to choosing coaches-and the owner of BlueFire, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, decided to back Senti in the WSOP Main Event; a very good decision on Phil’s part!

Senti is typically found at the $5/$10 - $25/$50 PLO and NLHE tables, and plays under the online screen-name of PBJaxx.  With only one live cash prior to Main Event, and a handful of online poker tournament cashes, Senti is really being overlooked by casual fans of poker.

Senti has been flying the PokerStars banner throughout the tournament and will likely be one of the sites three sponsored pros, along with chip-leader Jonathan Duhamel.

Senti is also giving a nice price from the online betting sites you can snatch him up on Betfair at 15-to-1 or at 20-to-1 at sportsbook.com. Amazingly, Senti is laying the best odds of any of the November Nine, even the man in 8^th place in chips Soi Nguyen who has almost zero poker experience!