Jason Senti was one of the chip leaders when play ended on Day 7 with only 27 players remaining. His chip stack for the better part of Day 8 remained in the 13-15 million neighborhood until play was down to just 10 players. Things weren’t going so well for Senti but he was able to use a proper shortstack strategy to finally make it into poker’s elite.
When play resumes at the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event in November, Senti will hold the smallest stack at 7.63 million. Success, however, is nothing new for Senti as he’s already been making a good living playing online poker for the last few years. Normally a Heads-Up specialist for both No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, he’s one of the lead instructors over at Blue Fire Poker. You might remember that poker training site as the one that issued President Barack Obama a Heads Up challenge.
In this interview shortly after making the November Nine, Senti talks about what it means to make it this far in the world’s biggest poker tournament. He also discusses what it meant to do it in front of his wife and family who were here to cheer him on for most of the way. In addition, he talks about life as the shortstack when play was down to 10 and just how he managed to survive this long and make it into the 2010 WSOP November Nine.
Senti is originally from Grand Forks, North Dakota but now lives in the state of Minnesota. His online name is “PBJaxx” and has played stakes online between $5-$10 and $50-$100. He has guaranteed himself at least a $811,000 payday for making it this far, not to mention what promises to be a good amount of endorsement and sponsorship money that goes with it.
