Holding the shortest stack entering the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is Jason Senti. A popular instructor at Bluefire Poker, Senti has a stack of just 7.63 million, one-ninth of Jonathan Duhamel’s November Nine-leading 65.98 million.
Making the 2010 WSOP November Nine was anything but a cinch for Senti, however. With 78 players remaining, Senti sat on just the 69th largest stack and faced a long uphill climb throughout Day 7. He told Poker News Daily in a video interview shortly after the final 27 were determined, “I’m feeling great. I ran amazing today. Things couldn’t have gone better. I walked into today with 970,000 and had like 20 big blinds and somehow I walked out with 13.5 million. I ran great and everything is going my way right now.”
Senti can be found perusing the online poker felts under the name “PBJaxx.” He’s largely a Heads-Up and Short-Handed expert, meaning as the WSOP Main Event final table continues to be truncated, Senti will feel more in his element. He gave us the inside scoop on his expertise: “The stakes have varied a lot over the years. For the most part, the ranges have been between $5/$10 and $50/$100 PLO and No Limit Hold’em Six-Max and Heads-Up.”
Senti became involved in poker in a way unlike many other of today’s pros did. Rather than be turned onto the game through “Rounders,” the World Poker Tour, or Chris Moneymaker’s defeat of Sammy Farha seven years ago, Senti’s arrival came as a result of a move to Minnesota. Bored in the evenings and not knowing many people in his new hometown, Senti turned to online poker. What happened next? “I ran really hot in the beginning, like everybody who goes pro does, and went from there.”
Down the stretch, Senti gave Brandon Steven a much-needed double up to fuel his 10th place run. After Steven 3bet all-in with A-K of clubs, Senti reluctantly made the call and turned over K-10 offsuit. After the board ran out Q-5-8-A, Senti was rooting for a jack on the river to send Steven home and build his stack immensely. Instead of finding a hook, a six hit, doubling Steven to 5.64 million.
Interestingly, Senti delivered no knockout blows as the field dwindled from 27 players to nine, instead choosing to play mostly post-flop poker and use his short-handed and heads-up expertise to his advantage. However, on Day 7, Senti bumped Michael Skender in 31st place after coming out on the winning end of a race all-in pre-flop with a wired pair of nines. Skender held K-Q of diamonds and promptly flopped a lady to take a commanding lead in the hand. However, Senti hit lightning in a bottle on the river, when one of his two outs came through. Skender picked up $255,000.
We wouldn’t be surprised if Senti breaks out into song if he wins the 2010 WSOP Main Event, as he’s a singer for the band Minneapolis. He’ll need his tunes to survive the grueling 100-day break before the tournament resumes in November. On Twitter, “PBJaxx” detailed what his life had been like following his November Nine birth: “Just did like 20 interviews in 2 hours. I had no idea it was coming. All of it on 3 hours of sleep in the last 36 hours or so. This is crazy.” He then detailed that his sleeping woes were persisting, but he was leaving Las Vegas, for four months at least.
According to PokerTableRatings, Senti has been absent from the virtual felts since July 10th and could be seen in $3/$6 and $5/$10 Pot Limit Omaha Heads-Up and Six-Max games prior to that.
