Having been teased for several months, the documentary following reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson(pictured) has been released. Entitled “10 For 10,” the documentary is a nice look back at the Swede’s run to poker’s World Championship, but a bit disappointing in that it is light on actual content.

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The roughly 25-minute long documentary can be found here. It picks up Jacobson’s preparations for the resumption of the November Nine final table 30 hours prior to the event. Jacobson, putting himself through a yoga session to clear the mind, provides a voiceover, briefly speaking about the action just before the November Nine was determined. Yoga and lifestyle choices, Jacobson believes, will allow him to prepare for the grueling session that he will undertake in just over a day.

The documentary goes on to show that Jacobson enlisted the assistance of two close friends, Canadian poker pros Mark AceSpadesRadoja (a two-time WSOP bracelet winner) and Sam Chartier (one of the top poker players in the world), to help with his mindset and preparation.

The documentary shows how the group would sit around a table discussing different scenarios and potential moves that other players might make, including amateur Billy Pappasand Brazil’s Bruno Politano.

The second part of the documentary concentrates on the run-up to the final three of the November Nine. There is some attention given to the fact that Jacobson was the short stack pretty early during final table play, but he was able to fall back on his physical and mental training to pull himself out of the proverbial basement. When Jacobson took down William Tonking (pictured) in fourth place, the second segment ends as Jacobson joins his mother, sister, and girlfriend in enjoying his achievement.

The third segment traces the run by Jacobson to the title after making the final three with Jorryt van Hoofand eventual runner-up Felix Stephensen. This segment also provided the most commentary from Jacobson than appeared at any point in the film. “I don’t think about the money that much,” Jacobson commented. “It’s more important to me to win the title.”

As Jacobson won the title, there’s a voiceover from ESPN commentator and poker pro Antonio Esfandiari saying, “In the mental game, Jacobson was the best. His overall approach was phenomenal; he didn’t make any mistakes. It was the best performance I’ve seen.”

The documentary ends with the celebration of Jacobson’s win with his friends and family. The last shot seen in the documentary isn’t that of Jacobson with the Swedish flag around him as he celebrates the victory, but of him with his cohorts playing craps at the Rio following the victory.

Overall, the documentary was disappointing, unfortunately. While I did like the fact that it was a quick half-hour look at how Jacobson achieved his goal of winning the Main Event, I would have liked to see more about Jacobson himself.

Other than noting in his first trip to the Main Event in 2008 that he was eliminated on the third hand of the day’s play, we aren’t told that Jacobson had since then become one of the best players on the European circuit and a fixture at European Poker Tour events. There could have been more about his climb to poker’s Mount Everest put into the documentary.

Secondly, anyone can go online and find how the “November Nine” final table played out, either in print or videos. It would have been good to get Jacobson’s thoughts, then and afterwards, about what was going through his mind at the time. The most important thing to learn from Jacobson would have probably been about how he resurrected himself from the bottom of the ladder to the ultimate victory, but little to no commentary is given about this situation.

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