The remaining participants are putting their chips into safekeeping for 117 days, banking their cheques for the USD 900,670 9th place prize money they are all guaranteed and going off in search of coaching, publicity, endorsement deals and appearances on the Letterman show. When Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, first announced the plans to delay the play of the final table of the Main Event, reaction in the poker world ran the gamut.