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36th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #2 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 3, 2005 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$3,180,900
Entries	2305
Report Available

Allen Cunningham

Place	Name	Prize
1	Allen Cunningham (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$725,405
2	Scott Fischman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$352,125
3	Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (Hull, UK)	$232,205
4	Can Kim Hua AKA "CK" (Rosemead, CA, USA)	$200,395
5	Liz Lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$168,590
6	Charlie Huff (Geneva, OH, USA)	$136,780
7	An "The Boss" Tran (Westminster, CA, USA)	$104,970
8	Randy Edmonson (Columbus, MS, USA)	$73,160
9	Richard Boutwell (Duluth, GA, USA)	$54,075
10	Jeremy Flynn (Sinai Valley, CA, USA)	$34,990
11	Burt Boutin (Henderson, NV, USA)	$34,990
12	Travis Green (Irvine, CA, USA)	$34,990
13	Minh Ly (Temple City, CA, USA)	$28,630
14	Andrew Kelsall (Lutz, FL, USA)	$28,630
15	Lance Newton (Statesboro, GA, USA)	$28,630
16	Dan Schmiech (Houston, TX, USA)	$22,265
17	Keith Clarke (Carlsbad, CA, USA)	$22,265
18	Rob Amereno AKA "bobby bling" (Tucson, AZ, USA)	$22,265
19	Josiah Trager (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$15,905
20	Diego Cordovez (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$15,905
21	Eric Sarkissian (Tarzana, CA, USA)	$15,905
22	David Tran (El Monte, CA, USA)	$15,905
23	Charlie Dawson (Owensboro, KY, USA)	$15,905
24	Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$15,905
25	Pat Moore (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$15,905
26	Jeremy Brom AKA "J DOGG" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$15,905
27	Kerry Small (Ventnor, NJ, USA)	$15,905
28	Alex Armany (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$11,135
29	Daniel Monroe AKA "Rainman" (Dublin, OH, USA)	$11,135
30	Rory Monahan (Murphysboro, IL, USA)	$11,135
31	Jason Steinhorn AKA "The Stare" (Cupertino, CA, USA)	$11,135
32	Kenny Robbins (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,135
33	David Freed (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,135
34	Kevin Keller (San Diego, CA, USA)	$11,135
35	Darren Woolard (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,135
36	Joe Pelton (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$11,135
37	Tom Lee (Seattle, WA, USA)	$9,225
38	James Plateroi (Westlake Village, CA, USA)	$9,225
39	John Evans (Olathe, KS, USA)	$9,225
40	Chris Russo (Hermosa Beach)	$9,225
41	Matthew Fletcher (London, UK)	$9,225
42	David Ho (Sugar Land, TX, USA)	$9,225
43	Joseph Goldstein	$9,225
44	Mike Matusow AKA "The Mouth" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,225
45	Rami Owera (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)	$9,225
46	Thomas Fougeron AKA "Fougan" (Le Portel, France)	$7,475
47	Arnie Toler (Gilbert, WV, USA)	$7,475
48	Terry Weimer (Fort Wayne, IN, USA)	$7,475
49	Jay Smith (Castaic, CA, USA)	$7,475
50	Shrini Kelkar (Kirkland, WA, USA)	$7,475
51	Aaron Donovan (Oak Park, CA, USA)	$7,475
52	Joshua Olson (Coon Rapids, MN, USA)	$7,475
53	Mark "The Shark" Seif (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,475
54	Steve Shkolnik (Woodland Hills, CA, USA)	$7,475
55	Michael Byers (Benton, KY, USA)	$6,360
56	Cyndy Violette AKA "sweetest" (Atlantic City, NJ, USA)	$6,360
57	Kevin Zyblock (winnipeg, MB, Canada)	$6,360
58	Daniel Benjamin (Durham, NC, USA)	$6,360
59	Marc Lome (St. Louis Park, MN, USA)	$6,360
60	Loi Phan (Seattle, WA, USA)	$6,360
61	Sam Von Duhn (Chicago, IL, USA)	$6,360
62	Jim Bechtel (Gilbert, AZ, USA)	$6,360
63	Tom Savitsky (Randolph, NJ, USA)	$6,360
64	Melvin Swancy (Lake Ellsinore, CA, USA)	$5,565
65	Ky Vu (Westminster, CA, USA)	$5,565
66	David Tuchman AKA "Friar Tuck" (Burbank, CA, USA)	$5,565
67	Ronnie Yambra AKA "yammy" (Houston, TX, USA)	$5,565
68	Jeff Rine (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,565
69	Gavin Writer (Castle Rock, CO, USA)	$5,565
70	Allie Prescott (Memphis, TN, USA)	$5,565
71	Andrew Reanrungroch (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,565
72	Emad Alabsi AKA "The Beast" (Wickliffe, OH, USA)	$5,565
73	Jeff Calkins (New York, NY, USA)	$4,770
74	Marcello De Grosso (USA)	$4,770
75	Vincent Devita (Bayville, NJ, USA)	$4,770
76	Jim Lester (Cincinnati, OH, USA)	$4,770
77	Boris Shats (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,770
78	Charles Ruggerloi (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,770
79	Mark Scott (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,770
80	Brandon Wong (Fresno, CA, USA)	$4,770
81	Kenneth Taylor AKA "The Shark" (Pasadena, CA, USA)	$4,770
82	Saso Perduloski (USA)	$3,975
83	Carlton Jerome (USA)	$3,975
84	David Levi (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,975
85	Jason Rich (Carmel, IN, USA)	$3,975
86	Gregory P. "Fossilman" Raymer (Stonington, CT, USA)	$3,975
87	Jeff Gibralter (Rockwall, TX, USA)	$3,975
88	Daniel Vogel (USA)	$3,975
89	Gregg Smallowitz (USA)	$3,975
90	Mark Chapic (Newbury, OH, USA)	$3,975
91	Mark Kozin (USA)	$3,500
92	Eric Taylor (San Marcos, TX, USA)	$3,500
93	James Pursifull (USA)	$3,500
94	Jeremy Stein (USA)	$3,500
95	Steve Kim (Milpitas, CA, USA)	$3,500
96	Cecilia Reyes AKA "Ceci" (Madrid, Spain)	$3,500
97	Kevin Bott (Brexburg, ID, USA)	$3,500
98	Unknown	$3,500
99	Roberto Gordon (USA)	$3,500
100	Ralph Schwartz (USA)	$3,500
101	Ken Goldstein (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,180
102	Ben Davenport (USA)	$3,180
103	Benjamin Foster (San Jose, CA, USA)	$3,180
104	Zackary Han (USA)	$3,180
105	Danny Smith AKA "cpfactor" (Folsom, CA, USA)	$3,180
106	Paul Westley (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)	$3,180
107	Steven Greenberg (San Diego, CA, USA)	$3,180
108	David Daneshgar (Westlake Village, CA, USA)	$3,180
109	Timothy Miles AKA "timkrank" (Bethlehem, PA, USA)	$3,180
110	Christopher Sapirman (USA)	$3,180
111	Nicholas Lanzi (Raleigh, NC, USA)	$2,865
112	Michael Ortiz (Austin, TX, USA)	$2,865
113	Chad Logsdon AKA "Turtle" (Littleton, CO, USA)	$2,865
114	V Senthil Kumar (San Jose, CA, USA)	$2,865
115	John Moonves (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,865
116	Jan Hoitman (USA)	$2,865
117	Brian Hebest (USA)	$2,865
118	Robert Blechman AKA "Rabbit" (Culver City, CA, USA)	$2,865
119	Brad Anderson (Missoula, MT, USA)	$2,865
120	Fred Wolf (Chatsworth, CA, USA)	$2,865
121	Jonathan Shelton (Kingsport, IN, USA)	$2,865
122	Keith Love (Denver, CO, USA)	$2,865
123	Amos Sharpe (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,865
124	Glyn Banks AKA "Rachet" (Smithville, TN, USA)	$2,865
125	Michael Waterstradt (USA)	$2,865
126	Amos Sharpe (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,865
127	Kevin Tucci (USA)	$2,865
128	Gary Walters (USA)	$2,865
129	Evelyn Ng AKA "Evybabee, Evy" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,865
130	Keith Rittenhouse (Ostrander, OH, USA)	$2,865
131	Susan Austin (USA)	$2,865
132	Gary Ringhofer (USA)	$2,865
133	Richard Sharpe (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,865
134	Adolfo Crespo (Davis, CA, USA)	$2,865
135	Jeff Stoff (Encinitas, CA, USA)	$2,865
136	Russell Krueger (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$2,865
137	Anthony Licastro (Long Valley, NJ, USA)	$2,865
138	John Huist (USA)	$2,865
139	Casey Bogus (USA)	$2,865
140	Ken Goldin AKA "isuck123" (Voorhees, NJ, USA)	$2,865
141	Jordan Davenport (USA)	$2,545
142	Mark Ristine (Oroville, CA, USA)	$2,545
143	Donald Sjulstad (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$2,545
144	Gennady Leviten (USA)	$2,545
145	David Peat (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,545
146	Jim Pechac (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$2,545
147	Benjamin Owens (USA)	$2,545
148	Thomas Dull (USA)	$2,545
149	George Bronstein (Tampa, FL, USA)	$2,545
150	Avi Mukherjee (San Jose, CA, USA)	$2,545
151	Greg Lasica (USA)	$2,545
152	Kevin Fox (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$2,545
153	Michael Stapleton (USA)	$2,545
154	Victor Amereno (Stamford, CT, USA)	$2,545
155	Brian J Lesser (Weston, MA, USA)	$2,545
156	Unknown	$2,545
157	Dumitru Gazetovici (Romania)	$2,545
158	Angel Juarez (Santa Ana, CA, USA)	$2,545
159	Emad Rayvan (USA)	$2,545
160	Unknown	$2,545
161	Johan Storakers (Stockholm, Sweden)	$2,545
162	James Bakunowicz (USA)	$2,545
163	Seth Angel (USA)	$2,545
164	Thomas Rawling (USA)	$2,545
165	Tom Slater AKA "Small Blind" (Danville, CA, USA)	$2,545
166	Jesse Daniel (Oxnard, CA, USA)	$2,545
167	Gary Yates (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,545
168	Michael Rosario (USA)	$2,545
169	Larry Etherington (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$2,545
170	Thomas Christensen (USA)	$2,545
171	Amaniattie Mahabir (USA)	$2,225
172	Brian Schwartz (USA)	$2,225
173	Matthew Glantz (Lafayette Hill, PA, USA)	$2,225
174	Marco Traniello (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
175	Adam Green (Washington, DC, USA)	$2,225
176	Robert Landaver (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
177	Unknown	$2,225
178	Canio Sabia (Rome, NY, USA)	$2,225
179	John Morris (USA)	$2,225
180	Jeff Shulman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
181	Allen Hausman (USA)	$2,225
182	George Nichols (USA)	$2,225
183	Blake Toungate (Austin, TX, USA)	$2,225
184	Bob Buyce (Portage, MI, USA)	$2,225
185	Chris McCormack (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
186	Seth Lindsley (USA)	$2,225
187	David Anderson (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,225
188	Terry Fleischer (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
189	Denny Crum (USA)	$2,225
190	Jerry Bernetzke (USA)	$2,225
191	Walter Joslin AKA "Ken" (Gainesville, GA, USA)	$2,225
192	Olivia Mandell (NV, USA)	$2,225
193	Ann Escobedo (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,225
194	Bart Rothwell (San Diego, CA, USA)	$2,225
195	Eric Mizrachi AKA "Poker Sniper" (Sunny Isles Beach, FL, Nevada, USA)	$2,225
196	Brian Owens (Lexington, KY, USA)	$2,225
197	Ruben White (USA)	$2,225
198	Robert Sanders (Broken Arrow, OK, USA)	$2,225
199	Russell Laverdiere (USA)	$2,225
200	Marco Palacios (Irving, TX, USA)	$2,225

Tournament Report

A Very Good Time to be a Poker Player
Allen Cunningham wins WSOP gold bracelet number four - captures $725,405 in record-setting event
Poker entered a new age on June 5, 2005 when 2,305 players jammed into the Rio Pavilion to enter the first open event of this year"s World Series of Poker. The number of entries amounted to the second largest field in the 36-year history of the WSOP. Only last year"s world poker championship, with 2,576 entries, attracted more players. The total prize pool amounted to a whopping $3,180,900. To give this number some perspective, this was more money than was awarded in the main event of the 1998 world championship. Indeed, it"s a very good time to be a poker player.
The tournament attracted so many entries that the Rio (Harrah"s) and ESPN jointly decided that it would become a three-day event. All events with entries numbering 1,500 or more will now be three day events, as well as all televised events.
Considering the humongous fields and so many new poker faces, it was a surprise to see several familiar names at the final table. Four of the finalists were former gold bracelet winners - Allen Cunningham (with 3 wins), Scott Fischman (with 2 wins), and David "Devilfish" Ulliott as well as An "the Boss" Tran (with one win each). In fact, Scott Fischman arrived as the defending champion in this event.
Based on the starting chip counts, it looked like the final table might end with a Cunningham-Fischman showdown - which is exactly what happened. The final nine players assembled in front of a standing room only crowd and ESPN television cameras with the following chip counts:
THE FINAL TABLE:
SEAT 1: Heath Boutwell 204,000 in chips
SEAT 2: Scott Fischman 707,000 in chips
SEAT 3: David "Devilfish" Ulliott 270,000 in chips
SEAT 4: Allen Cunningham 728,000 in chips
SEAT 5: Charlie Huff 500,000 in chips
SEAT 6: Randy Edmonson 89,000 in chips
SEAT 7: Can Kim Hua 440,000 in chips
SEAT 8: Liz Lieu 177,000 in chips
SEAT 9: An "the Boss" Tran 337,000 in chips
Players were eliminated as follows:
9th Place - A few minutes into play, Richard "Heath" Boutwell was dealt A-Q and went up against pocket jacks. Bouotwell failed to hit his overcards and the computer programmer from Atlanta, GA was disconnected from the final table. He collected $54,075.
8th Place - Randy Edmondson, who was making his third final table appearance at the WSOP (all in Omaha-related events) arrived as the shortest stack. He moved "all in" with 9-9 against Allen Cunningham"s A-10. An ace flopped and Edmonson was down to just two outs. He missed and ended up in 8th place. Edmonson, a high school football coach from Mississippi, was punted away with $73,160 in prize money.
7th Place - An "the Boss" Tran gets his brassy nickname because he likes to call everyone "boss." The Vietnamese-born poker pro, who won a gold bracelet in pot-limit Omaha in 1991, played his final hand and lost with pocket jacks to Cunningham"s set of eights. This was Tran"s 36th time to cash at the WSOP, and fifth final table appearance. He received $104,970.
6th Place - At this point, Cunningham was dominating play at the final table. He was better than 2 to 1 in chips over all opponents and from the looks on the faces of each player, no one was happy with the way things had gone during the initial hours. Things were about to get really bad for Charlie Huff. The construction tradesman from Ohio was dealt A-5 and found his hand dominated by Scott Fischman"s A-K. Neither player made a pair, which meant Fischman"s A-K played. Huff departed with $136,780.
5th Place - Liz Lieu was the first woman to make it to a final table at this year"s WSOP. Last year"s championship series produced three female gold bracelet winners (Liebert, Duke, and Violette). But Lieu"s bid to become this year"s first female winner was crushed when she was getting low on chips and went out with a marginal hand in 5th place. Lieu, who is originally from Vietnam and now plays high-limit hold"em (mostly $400-800 limit) in Los Angeles, earned $177,000 for 5th place.
4th Place - Can Kim Hua was one of three Vietnamese-born poker pros in the finale. He lasted the longest of the three, but finally went bust with K-J after the flop came Q-J-9. Allen Cunningham had Q-J, good for top two pair. Two blanks fell on turn and river and Can was eliminated. He received $200,395.
3rd Place - The remaining trio was an all-star lineup, as well as a clash of styles and personalities. Each was aggressive in his own right, at times. But Cunningham"s significant chip lead clearly gave him an extra arsenal of weapons. Chips counts stood at 1,900,000 for Cunningham; 845,000 for Devilfish; and 680,000 for Fischman. David "Devilfish" Ulliott, quite likely the most famous poker player in England and easily one of the game"s most charismatic personalities, found himself trapped between two very tough opponents.
He lost half of his chips to Fischman and then decided to gamble hoping to double up, and ended up walking to the rail. After falling into third place, Devilfish semi-bluffed his way to elimination. Holding the J-10 of hearts, Devilfish moved "all in" when the flop came 6-4-3 (with two hearts). Allen Cunningham called the bet with pocket 8s. The middle pair held up and Devilfish swam off the finale table as the 3rd-place finisher with $232,205.
Heads-up play began with Allen Cunningham holding the chip lead - approximately 2,200,000 to 1,600,000. It took only five minutes for Cunningham to destroy the defending champion"s aspirations of staging a comeback by repeating in this event and winning a third bracelet.
On the final hand of the tournament, Fischman got into a raising war with Cunningham on the turn, holding 5-4. The board showed 10-6-3-5. Fischman had a pair with an outside straight draw. Cunningham was delighted to call the "all in" raise holding 6-3, good for two pair. A harmless ace fell on the river, which locked up gold bracelet number four for Cunningham.
Scott Fischman was cheered on by a large and enthusiastic band of friends and family, but was disappointed with the outcome. However, $325,125 in prize money helped to ease the pain.
Meanwhile, Allen Cunningham acted as if he had just spent another long day at the office. He was visibly thrilled with the victory, but noted that in comparison to other WSOP victories, this was not as satisfying as his first title - which came back in 2000.
Most interesting is the current race for all-time gold bracelets which is now taking place between poker legends Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, and Johnny Chan (with nine WSOP wins each). There is another competition taking place, between a younger generation of players, including Layne Flack (5), Phil Ivey (4) and now Cunningham (4). One must wonder - twenty years from now, will this gold bracelet won by Cunningham add to his long legacy of victories? Cunningham enjoys the advantage of now being on a "World Series of Poker freeroll." He could play in every single event from now until the end, not cash once, and would still walk away with over a half-a-million in profits. But that"s not Cunningham"s goal.
He"s now shooting for Number Five.
Official Report by Nolan Dalla - World Series of Poker Media Director
World Series of Poker Circuit Director of Operations - Ken Lambert
World Series of Poker Tournament Director - John Grooms
Rio Poker Room Manager - Michael Matts
Rio Poker Tournament Director - Robert Daily