Poker Tournament Results

36th Annual World Series of Poker

Place	Name	Prize
1	Andre Boyer (Acton Vale, QC, Canada)	$682,810
2	Matthew Glantz (Lafayette Hill, PA, USA)	$364,620
3	Jerry W Young (Henderson, NV, USA)	$223,010
4	Dennis Perry AKA "Ironman" (Williamstown, KY, USA)	$195,130
5	Mike Carroll (Ranche Santa Fe, CA, USA)	$167,255
6	Robert Betts (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$139,380
7	Ken Blanton (Caddo Mills, TX, USA)	$111,505
8	Morten Jensen AKA "LINEKER" (Aarhus, Denmark)	$83,630
9	John Duthie (London, UK)	$55,750
10	Bernd Rygol AKA "Grandmaster B." (Munich, Germany)	$30,665
11	Kia Mohajeri (Coco Beach, FL, USA)	$30,665
12	Cher Vang (Anchorage, AK, USA)	$30,665
13	Steve Zolotow (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$25,090
14	Mohammad Hamid AKA "Chicago Mo" (Chicargo, IL, USA)	$25,090
15	Anders Henriksson (Stockholm, Sweden)	$25,090
16	Stan Jablonski (Fort Mohave, AZ, USA)	$19,515
17	Greg Amoils (Scotland, UK)	$19,515
18	Jon Turner AKA "Pearljammer" (Henderson, NV, USA)	$19,515
19	Uskov Aleksander (Moscow, Russia)	$13,940
20	Benjamin Murray (New York, NY, USA)	$13,940
21	Steve Jacobs (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$13,940
22	Berry Johnston (Bethany, OK, USA)	$13,940
23	Eugene Todd (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$13,940
24	Frank Caldwell AKA "Dee" (Lexington, KY, USA)	$13,940
25	Jeff Pursell (Lindenhurst, IL, USA)	$13,940
26	Adam Naglich (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$13,940
27	Denis Kharotonov (Moscow, Russia)	$13,940
28	Glenn Latona (Egg Harbor City, NJ, USA)	$9,755
29	Lasse Ubostad (Oslo, Norway)	$9,755
30	Mike Laing (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,755
31	Roland Israelashvili (Forest Hill, NY, USA)	$9,755
32	Bari Sklar (Northridge, CA, USA)	$9,755
33	Duane Tomko AKA "Dewey" (Winter Haven, FL, USA)	$9,755
34	James Jarman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,755
35	John Richarde (Charlotte, NC, USA)	$9,755
36	Richard Freire AKA "Knucklehead" (Miami, FL, USA)	$9,755
37	Richard Ashby (Watford, UK)	$8,085
38	Mark Edwards (Kentfield, CA, USA)	$8,085
39	Steve Wong AKA "S 18" (Hoofddorp, Netherlands)	$8,085
40	Guillermo Gonzales (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,085
41	Keith Love (Denver, CO, USA)	$8,085
42	Jon Backman (Skelltown, Sweden)	$8,085
43	Bradley King (Burlingame, CA, USA)	$8,085
44	Alfons Jaggi (Switzerland)	$8,085
45	Jan Stein (Berkeley, CA, USA)	$8,085
46	William Baxter (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,550
47	Jeppe Mikkelsen (Aarhus, Denmark)	$6,550
48	Gerson Mosbacher AKA "moses" (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$6,550
49	Vadim Trincher (New York, NY, USA)	$6,550
50	Rene Angelil (Henderson, NV, USA)	$6,550
51	Gregory Wynn (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$6,550
52	Joseph Sanders AKA "Toe" (Orem, UT, USA)	$6,550
53	Christopher Kealy (Gig Harbor, WA, USA)	$6,550
54	Rex Ziller (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,550
55	John Tinnelly (Eastchest, NY, USA)	$5,575
56	Gilles Haddad (Paris, France)	$5,575
57	RW Hertel (Ventura, CA, USA)	$5,575
58	Alexander Cooper (Bergen, Norway)	$5,575
59	Darrell Dicken AKA "Gigabet" (Waterloo, IA, USA)	$5,575
60	Jon Hoellein (Westlake, OH, USA)	$5,575
61	Brett Tannenbaum (Delray Beach, FL, USA)	$5,575
62	Richard Sharpe (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,575
63	Denis Hale (Mystic, CT, USA)	$5,575
64	David J Lloyd (South East, UK)	$4,880
65	Christopher Ritter (Chicago, IL, USA)	$4,880
66	Gioi Luong (Westminster, CA, USA)	$4,880
67	Arturo Morales (Costa Rica)	$4,880
68	Mark Compton (Longview, TX, USA)	$4,880
69	Julian Gardner (Manchester, UK)	$4,880
70	Pierre Nasr (Vancouver, BC Canada)	$4,880
71	Daniel Kerber (Westninister, CO, USA)	$4,880
72	Liz Lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,880
73	Jamie Pickering (Queensland, Australia)	$4,180
74	Fredrick Brown AKA "Fast Freddie" (Howell, MI, USA)	$4,180
75	Hilbert Shirey AKA "HILLSTREET" (Winter Haven, FL, USA)	$4,180
76	Juan Vazquez AKA "Johnny Boy" (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$4,180
77	Marvin Duarte (South, FL, USA)	$4,180
78	Ralph Levine (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,180
79	Greg Mueller AKA "FBT" (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$4,180
80	Tracy Scala (Del Ray Beach, FL, USA)	$4,180
81	Scott Epstein (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,180
82	Ed Giron (Jacksonville, CA, USA)	$3,485
83	Michael Alexander (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)	$3,485
84	Brendan Taylor (Henderson, NV, USA)	$3,485
85	Robert Roter (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA)	$3,485
86	Alan Brodsky (Rochester, NY, USA)	$3,485
87	Mehdi Vatan (Orange, CA, USA)	$3,485
88	Martin Johnson (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$3,485
89	Michael Johnson (Sandy, UT, USA)	$3,485
90	Nathan Ross (Wayne, PA, USA)	$3,485
91	Chris Henderson (Agoura Hills, CA, USA)	$3,065
92	Craig Natte (Hudsonville, MI, USA)	$3,065
93	Robert Rodriguez (Firestone, CA, USA)	$3,065
94	Salim Batshon (Foster City, CA, USA)	$3,065
95	Isabelle Mercier AKA "No Mercy" (Victoriaville, QC, Canada)	$3,065
96	Barry Woods AKA "BDub1" (West Hills, CA, USA)	$3,065
97	David Ho (Sugar Land, TX, USA)	$3,065
98	Michael Jackness (Sterling, VA, USA)	$3,065
99	Mario Escobosa (Montrose, CA, USA)	$3,065
100	Louis Asmo (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,065

Tournament Report

Finalement Champion! (Finally, a Champion!): After many tries, Quebec native Andre Boyer wins first WSOP gold bracelet and $682,810<7h3> Andre Boyer is someone you want to cheer for. In addition to being a nice guy, he has his priorities straight. Boyer has been playing in the World Series of Poker for ten years. He's made several final table appearances, yet had never won poker's most coveted prize - a gold bracelet. Cheered on by his wife Odette Tremblay, Boyer overcame an overwhelming chip disadvantage and earned a well-deserved victory in the $3,000 buy-in No'Limit Hold'em championship. "My wife loves poker even more than I do," Boyer said afterward. "It was really wonderful to have her here with me tonight. I think it is important that two people who are together share something like this that is really special." Boyer's special moment came in an event that attracted a whopping 1,010 entries. After two days of play, the final table was set as follows: The Final Table: SEAT 1: John Duthie 186,000 SEAT 2: Ken Blanton 347,000 SEAT 3: Michael Carroll 421,000 SEAT 4: Dennis Perry 289,000 SEAT 5: Matt Glantz 660,000 SEAT 6: Robert Betts 315,000 SEAT 7: Andre Boyer 323,000 SEAT 8: Jerry Young 264,000 SEAT 9: Morten Jensen 257,000 Players were eliminated in the following order: 9th - The first player to exit was John Duthie, the TV Director for the European Poker Tour (EPT). Duthie also won the Poker Million (which actually paid $1.5 million). Duthie had a short and disappointing stay at the final table. Ninth place paid $55,750. 8th - Morten Jensen was the shortest stack and moved his last 55,000 into the pot with A'6. Jerry Young had A-Q and called. The flop brought an ace, but Young had the higher kicker. Jensen, a casino dealer from Denmark, earned $83,630 for 8th place. 7th - Ken Blanton showed how dangerous it is to slowplay pocket aces. He started with rockets and let Dennis Perry see a cheap flop. The board didn't look dangerous, J-8-4. Blanton raised ‘all in' after Perry bet out 30,000 - and Perry called instantly. Perry had 8-4, an ugly duckling of a hold'em hand that turned into a pretty swan. Fitting, Blanton works as an excavation contractor. 6th - Robert Betts took a horrible beat (and lost a chance to take a huge chip lead) when he re-rasied ‘all in' with Q-Q. Matt Glantz called a huge re-raise with K-Q and spiked a king on the river to take down the 900,000 pot. Betts was horrified and staggered away in 6th place. He received $139,380. 5th - Mike Carroll then took the worst of hold'em beats when he was dealt K-K. That's normally a good thing. But when your opponent is dealt A-A, the kings normally end up as a springboard to the rail. Jerry Young made it even more painful for Carroll when he flopped an ace. That essentially ripped the LA-based poker pro away in 5th place, good for $167,255. 4th - Dennis Perry has proven to be quite a talented poker player. He has made it to several final tables on the WSOP Circuit this year, including the main even at the Rio in February. The Kentucky-based retired ironworker looked as if he might challenge Matt Glantz for the chip lead, but he melted down during the final stages of the tournament. Perry tried to steal a pot at the wrong time. He bet at the pot, was raised, and was forced to call his last 100,000 in chips with two overcards. Unfortunately, Andre Boyer had flopped a set of 3s and Perry was drawing dead. Perry collected $195,130 in prize money. 3rd - When play became three-handed, Andre Boyer became very aggressive. He had been down by a 3 to 1 margin earlier and mastered the short-handed game. Boyer took the chip lead about an hour into the trio's bout, and then busted Jerry Young. Boyer crushed Young with A-Q versus K-Q. An ace on the river sealed Young's fate, a third place finish. Young, a Tiawan-born real estate investor who now lives in Diamond Bar, CA, received $223,010. 2nd Place - When heads-up play began, Andre Boyer had a slight chip lead over Matt Glantz. Over the next two hours, both players made their move and seized away a decisive chip advantage. Then, the cards would turn and the other player would draw back to even. It was a poker tug of war that went past midnight, then way past 1:00 am. Nearing 2;00 am, both players finally decided to take a gamble. Glantz made a pre-flop raise of 100,000 with 2-2. Boyer re'raised 500,000 more with 7-7. Glantz moved ‘all in' and Boyer called. The final board showed A-K-3-3-10. Boyer win with a lucky pair of sevens. Matt Glantz is a 33-year-old poker pro from Pennsylvania. He made it to final tables at the United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City, and has now cashed four times at this year's WSOP. Glantz, a.k.a. ‘the Fiddler' was paid to the tune of $364,620. 1st Place - Andre Boyer was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is 62 years old. Prior to playing poker most of the time, he owned a successful company which produced warehousing materials. After retiring, Boyer and his wife moved to Las Vegas. Boyer, who speaks French, is also the television voice for the ESPN equivalent in Canada (RDS), which shows WSOP broadcasts. Boyer's best finish at the WSOP had been 6th place in the main event in 1996. But this victory was much more fulfilling. Not only did Boyer win his first gold bracelet, he also earned one of the largest prize payouts at this year's tournament - $682,810. 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