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.