Dennis Phillips has played his way into the “November Nine” WSOP main event final table. He not only made it to the final table, but he has the chip lead going into the final, which will start on November 9. He currently has the best odds to win the tournament at 3:1, and has the chip lead with a stack of 26,295,000. But his lead is less than two million chips.

He hails from Cottage Hills IL, and is relatively new to the live tournament scene. Before this year’s WSOP he only had two cashes, both at the 2007 Grand Casino Tunica Poker Tournament - WSOP Circuit Event, where he finished 7th and 9th in two different no-limit hold’em events. The two events combined only paid him a little over $4500, peanuts compared to what he’ll walk away with when he either gets knocked out, or wins it all, this coming November.