paddypower.com has launched an Outright Winner betting market for the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, as the field was reduced to the final nine players and in a break from tradition, play is suspended until the final table recommences on 9 November.

A total of 6,844 players took part in the $10,000 Main Event, and it took eleven days of play to reduce the huge field to just nine players.

All of the big-name professionals and pre-tournament favourites have been eliminated, and the final nine will face intense media scrutiny in the run-up to the concluding day of the world’s most important poker tournament.

Over $32m remains in the prizepool, with 9th place guaranteed more than $900k and the outright winner taking over $9.1m

Chip-leader Dennis Phillips from the USA is available at 4/1, while Irish Open 2007 9th place finisher Peter Eastgate of Denmark is available at 9/2.

WSOP $10,000 Main Event – Outright Winner
Dennis Phillips 4/1
Ivan Demidov 4/1
Scott Montgomery 9/2
Peter Eastgate 9/2
Ylon Schwartz 8/1
Darus Suharto 17/2
David Rheem 10/1
Craig Marquis 10/1
Kelly Kim 50/1