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Saout supported by France at WSOP

By Gary Wise
ESPN.com

Monday, November 2, 2009

You're allowed to hate Antoine Saout until you meet him. It's nothing personal, but in a gaming community full of lifers waiting for the one big score, this is a kid who started playing poker less than two years ago on a whim. Now, he's waiting along with the rest of the world to see whether he can emerge from the November Nine triumphant as the champion of the world. Hate is obviously too strong a word, but envy certainly fits. "I was in engineering school, but I stopped my school and took a ...

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