Hometown: Paris
Country of Origin: France 
Ten months. That’s how long Antoine Saout had played live poker before final tabling the 2009 WSOP main event.
The former engineering student from France won his main-event seat on the online poker site Everest Poker. He was one of a number of his countrymen to make a deep run in the 2009 main event, including the highly touted Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Ludovic Lacay.
