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37th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #6 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

July 1, 2006 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$2,000
Prize Pool	$3,492,580
Entries	1919
Report Available

Mark Vos

Place	Name	Prize
1	Mark Vos AKA "pokerbok" (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)	$803,274
2	Nam Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$401,647
3	John Reiss (Omaha, NE, USA)	$209,555
4	Thomas Hunt III (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$160,659
5	Willard Chang (Hawaii, HI, USA)	$136,211
6	Kevin Peterson AKA "Bleu" (Plano, TX, USA)	$115,255
7	Vanessa Selbst (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$101,285
8	David Wells (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$87,315
9	Juan Carlos Mortensen AKA "El Matador" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$73,344
10	Toto Leonidas (Glendale, CA, USA)	$59,374
11	Steve Conigliaro (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$55,881
12	Raymond Millard (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)	$52,389
13	Jack Ward (Gulfport, MS, USA)	$48,896
14	Chuck Thompson (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)	$45,404
15	Ray Foley (Detroit, MI, USA)	$41,911
16	Yarom Limor AKA "braveyoyo" (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$38,418
17	Ryan Krall	$34,926
18	Jim Stoisades (Novi, MI, USA)	$31,433
19	Garrett Allen AKA "got an arm" (Gilbert, AZ, USA)	$27,941
20	Billy Baxter (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$27,941
21	Max "Italian Pirate" Pescatori (Milan, Italy)	$27,941
22	Diego Garcia (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$24,448
23	Carlos Zambrano (Copiague, NY, USA)	$24,448
24	Randall Swope (Zanesville, OH, USA)	$24,448
25	Jeff Ashton	$20,955
26	Eng Tay (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$20,955
27	Randy Lowery (Macon, GA, USA)	$20,955
28	Herbert Cheng AKA "The Slasher" (Little Neck, NY, USA)	$17,463
29	Keith Wintermans (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$17,463
30	Roy Thung (White Plains, NY, USA)	$17,463
31	Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$13,970
32	Noah Nodine (Norman, OK, USA)	$13,970
33	Tom Kierstead (Bainbridge Island, WA, USA)	$13,970
34	Peirce Shaad (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$12,224
35	Hieu "Tony" Ma (S El Monte, CA, USA)	$12,224
36	David Gregory (Southlake, TX, USA)	$12,224
37	Bertrand Grospellier AKA "ElkY" (Melun, France)	$10,478
38	Matt Lefkowitz (Carmel Valley, CA, USA)	$10,478
39	Thomas Antonucci AKA "I coal" (Germantown, MD, USA)	$10,478
40	James Gaulen	$10,478
41	Dwayne Boring (Lake Forest, CA, USA)	$10,478
42	Luis Gonzalez (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,478
43	Drew Porter	$10,478
44	Peter Dalhuijsen (Utrecht, Netherlands)	$10,478
45	Norman Lapin (Tarzana, CA, USA)	$10,478
46	Brian Lindsay	$8,731
47	Jennifer Harman Traniello (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,731
48	Douglas White	$8,731
49	Josh VanDuyn (San Diego, CA, USA)	$8,731
50	Takatoshi Vei	$8,731
51	Alon Guttman	$8,731
52	Sam Kim	$8,731
53	Jose Rosenkrantz (Miami, FL, USA)	$8,731
54	Mo Solara	$8,731
55	Francois Safieddine (Denver, CO, USA)	$6,985
56	Michael Abdoulah	$6,985
57	Evan Brown (New York, NY, USA)	$6,985
58	Cyndy Violette AKA "sweetest" (Atlantic City, NJ, USA)	$6,985
59	Mike Addy (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$6,985
60	Josh Sysak	$6,985
61	Steve Cowley (Richmond, VA, USA)	$6,985
62	Moshe Elezar	$6,985
63	Lonnie Heimowitz (Monticello, NY, USA)	$6,985
64	Benjamin Lin (The Dalles, OR, USA)	$6,985
65	Jason Stern (San Jose, CA, USA)	$6,985
66	Hung Doan (Kansas City, MO, USA)	$6,985
67	Eric Vogelstein (Austin, TX, USA)	$6,985
68	Michael Simpson AKA "Bart" (Middle Village, NY, USA)	$6,985
69	Ray Blodgett (Riverside, CA, USA)	$6,985
70	John Taylor AKA "Jet" (Satellite Beach, FL, USA)	$6,985
71	Chris Roth	$6,985
72	Steve Happas AKA "Dakota" (Braintree, MA, USA)	$6,985
73	Andrew Ball (San Diego, MN, USA)	$5,239
74	Joe Nekrasz (Sammamish, WA, USA)	$5,239
75	Eriberto Soto (Mesa, AZ, USA)	$5,239
76	Jonas Johansson (Linkoping, Sweden)	$5,239
77	Jean-Robert Bellande (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$5,239
78	Chris Reslock (Atlantic City, NJ, USA)	$5,239
79	Marc Durand (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,239
80	Humberto Brenes (San Jose, CA, USA)	$5,239
81	Steve Fox (Youngstown, FL, USA)	$5,239
82	Darryl Hoey	$5,239
83	Walter Tipton	$5,239
84	Johnny Chan (Cerritos, CA, USA)	$5,239
85	Diana Eiges (Norco, CA, USA)	$5,239
86	Greg Violette (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,239
88	Jared Woodin (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,239
89	Scott Fischman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,239
90	Parimal Parmar AKA "Primo" (Lomita, CA, USA)	$5,239
91	Tim Davis	$5,239
92	Mike Kachan AKA "The Battler" (Edina, MN, USA)	$5,239
93	Cesidio Ricci (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$5,239
94	Kenneth Justin (Cambridge, MA, USA)	$5,239
95	Al Horwitz	$5,239
96	Brett Kell (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$5,239
97	Trent Schuler (Springfield, OH, USA)	$5,239
98	Mike Raimon (Brandeton, FL, USA)	$5,239
99	John Esposito (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,239
100	Richard Sharpe (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,239
101	Steve Kassi	$5,239
102	James Kichburg	$5,239
103	Thomas Sanduski (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,239
104	Delainey Blakeney (Brandon, MS, USA)	$5,239
105	Alvin Shaham	$5,239
106	Adam Nilsson (Sweden)	$5,239
107	Chad Bradbury (Wichita, KS, USA)	$5,239
108	Lucio Procopio (Liverpool, NY, USA)	$5,239
109	Joshua McDroom	$3,493
110	Paul Noldes	$3,493
111	Charly Culp	$3,493
112	Dave Morrison	$3,493
113	Alon Doitch (Northridge, CA, USA)	$3,493
114	Dana Diephouse (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)	$3,493
115	Todd Colpatrick	$3,493
116	Kent Washington (Oakland, CA, USA)	$3,493
117	Marcello Cabrera (Visalia, CA, USA)	$3,493
118	Darrius Zolnor (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,493
119	John Turley (Columbus, OH, USA)	$3,493
120	Joanne "JJ" Liu (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,493
121	Avi Freedman (Elkins Park, PA, USA)	$3,493
122	Mahmond Mostafa (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,493
123	John Tsai	$3,943
124	Mark Stinson	$3,943
125	Gary Lent (Riverside, CA, USA)	$3,493
126	Assani Fisher AKA "Icy Pots" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,493
127	Jonathan Hart (New York, NY, USA)	$3,493
128	Kendall Copp (Ponder, Tx)	$3,493
129	Jerry Dixon (Guymon, OK, USA)	$3,493
130	Gary Benson (Sydney, Australia)	$3,493
131	Barry Werthmann (Beverly Hills, MI, USA)	$3,493
132	Justin Marchand (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,493
133	Bruno Fiorenza AKA "Da Butcher" (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$3,493
134	Kenneth Fitzgerald (Roseville, CA, USA)	$3,493
135	Michael Bittan (Englewood, NJ, USA)	$3,493
136	Jerri Thomas (Hamilton, OH, USA)	$3,493
137	Alvin Zeidenfeld AKA "Al_Smooth" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,493
138	John Minor (Indianapolis, IN, USA)	$3,493
139	Gregg Turk (Sterling, VA, USA)	$3,493
140	Michele Zimbric AKA "Shelly" (Madison, WI, WI, USA)	$3,493
141	Kent Lindblom (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,493
142	Samuel Eden (Austin, TX, USA)	$3,493
143	Willie Tann (Bovingdon, UK)	$3,493
144	William Meenhofen (FL, USA)	$3,493
145	Blair Rodman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,493
146	Ville Wahlbeck (Helsinki, Finland)	$2,794
147	Dave Colclough (Birmingham, UK)	$2,794
148	Napoleon Ta (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$2,794
149	Jon Lactaoen (Honolulu, HI, USA)	$2,794
150	John D'Agostino AKA "Jdags" (Egg Harbor Township, NJ, USA)	$2,794
151	Todd Krauss (Tarzana, CA, USA)	$2,794
152	Padraig Parkinson (Dublin, Ireland)	$2,794
153	Sirous Baghchehsaraie (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$2,794
154	Fahrhad Kohani (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,794
155	Lee Kimmel (Upland, CA, USA)	$2,794

Tournament Report

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! (Redux)

Australian poker pro Mark Vos wins $803,274

WSOP event attracts near record-field of nearly two-thousand players
Las Vegas, NV - Mark Vos has a plan. And, despite winning over three-quarters of a million dollars tonight, he's sticking to it. You see, Vos - at the tender age of 23 - made a personal decision that he will spend the next five years of his life'working' and the five years immediately after that'relaxing.' Vos' plan is to play poker (which he defines as'work') and then take the second-half of a decade off.
It's an unconventional career path to say the least. If'work' means coming to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, overwhelming a near-record field of 1,919 players, and earning $803,274 in just three days, then - then, there are certainly worse jobs. One has to ask,'Are there any job openings left? Where does one sign up?' Indeed, Vos won the $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em championship and earned his very first WSOP gold bracelet.
Vos, a college student-turned-poker player from Brisbane became only the third Australian national ever to win an event at the World Series of Poker. He joins former Aussie champs Gary Benson (1996 -- Seven-Card Stud) and Joe Hachem (2005 - championship event) in the trifecta of poker winners from down under.
After two long days of play, the final table on Day Three started with nine players, including 2001 world poker champion Carlos Mortensen. Vos arrived a distant second in the chip count to Kevin Peterson, a poker pro from the Dallas area:

Name Chip Count Seat # David Wells $275,000 1 J.R. Reiss $222,000 2 Willard Chang $214,000 3 Kevin Peterson $1,130,000 4 Nam Le $323,000 5 Vanessa Selbst $492,000 6 Mark Vos $528,000 7 Thomas Hunt III $468,000 8 Carlos Mortensen $215,000 9

Despite being short-stacked, the first player eliminated was something of a surprise. 'The Matador,' Carlos Mortensen didn't last long. Mortensen's pocket sevens turned out to be an unlucky number when he was all-in and ran into ace-nine. An ace flopped and Mortensen waved farewell. Ninth-place paid $73,344.
Next, David Wells (no relation to the major league baseball player) struck out when he took a tough beat - king-ten against his opponent's king-eight. An eight flopped and Wells was yanked from the game. The stock trader from Scottsdale, Arizona collected $87,315 for eighth place.
Vanessa Selbst was the second female player to make a final table appearance at this year's WSOP. She had enough chips to be a force early, but was caught bluffing at the worst possible time. Selbst tried to move Kevin Peterson off of his hand with an all-in pre-flop re-raise, but she might as well have been standing on the railroad tracks staring at a roaring freight train. Peterson called instantly and flipped over pocket aces.
He caught two more aces on the board to make four-of-a-kind, flattening Selbst's chances to become history's tenth female WSOP gold bracelet winner (in open events). Vanessa Selbst, a Yale University graduate last year, received $101,285.
The end-result for Kevin Peterson had to be disappointing. The chip-leader at the start, Peterson went through a very rocky two hours and failed to survive. He lost most of his chips holding pocket queens against Nam Le's ace-king. A king flopped. That was the first serious hatchet chop into Peterson's stack. Others would follow. The final blow was Peterson's all-in move with queen-ten suited, losing to J.R. Reiss' small pocket pair. Peterson picked up $115,255 in prize money.
A short time later, Willard Chang went out with a weaker hand that he would have liked under the circumstances. With blinds and antes escalating, Chang moved in hoping not to get called holding king-three, which was covered by Nam Le's king-queen. Both players flopped a king, but the queen -kicker played and Chang was eliminated. Willard Chang, am engineer from Hawaii, received $136,211. Thomas Hunt must have felt like a gang victim when he moved all-in with his few remaining chips in the small blind and was called down by all three opponents.
The players checked on each successive round, and when J.R. Reiss revealed an ace to go with an ace on board, everyone mucked their cards - including Hunt, who ended up as the fourth-place finisher. Thomas Hunt, a physician from Las Vegas, billed the prize pool for $160,659.
Down to just three players, J.R. Reiss moved all-in with top-pair, top kicker (ace jacks to the board's - 10-8-4-J-6) and was called quickly by Nam Le, holding nine-seven, good for a straight. Reiss, a professional gambler from Omaha, Nebraska added $209,555 to his bankroll. When heads-up play began, Nam Le enjoyed nearly a 3 to 1 chip advantage - 2,775,000 to Vos' 1,065,000.
But great poker players shine in moments of adversity. It took Vos 45-minutes to seize the chip lead, plus another hour to lock down the victory. After Vos made a flush and took the chip lead, Le made one last valiant stab at the top prize, temporarily regaining the chip lead for a short time. He could have broken Vos when he had his opponent all-in with queen-jack to Vos' pocket sevens. But Le failed to connect with a pair, and that would ultimately spell doom fro the aspiring champ.
Vos picked away chips from Le's stack and gradually built up a 2 to 1 chip lead. The final hand was somewhat unanticipated as Vos was dealt queen-ten suited against Le's pocket sixes. After catching a queen on the flop, Vos bet out and Le called. A blank fell on the turn, and Vos bet again. Le called. The river brought a queen, giving Vos trip-queens. Vos moved all-in and Le, suspecting a bluff, called. That was a mistake. The trip queens gave Vos the championship.
Nam Le, the second-place finisher, collected $401,647.
“I prefer to play poker online,' Vos said immediately following his victory. 'I still prefer cash games online, but there is nothing like the experience of playing in a live tournament and making it all the way to the final table. Cash games are my day job, but the tournaments are for excitement and fun.'
Vos said he plans to stick with his game plan. '(Winning) does not really change things,' he said. 'I mean, it helps. But I still plan to play poker…..then (in five years) I'll relax, settle down, and find a place to live and decide what I want to do with the rest of my life.'
by Nolan Dalla
Overall Tournament Statistics (through end of Event #6):
Total Entries to Date: 9,165
Total Prize Money Distributed: $ 12,256,090
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