Last year at the November Nine, several hundred of Dennis Phillips' closest friends showed up to support him, dressed in identical white-button down shirts and red St. Louis Cardinals' caps. Those soldiers in the Dennis Phillips Army were present again at various points during the Main Event. Six of them are on the rail today.
Joe Sebok, who is playing on the same table as Phillips today, is the CEO of PokerRoad, the poker media site that during the 2009 WSOP brought us the "PokerRoad Nation". Four members of the PokerRoad Nation are keeping an eye on Sebok today.