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PartyPoker Million V

No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

March 17, 2006 at 12:00 PM
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Buy-In	$10,000 + $200
Prize Pool	$5,280,000
Entries	523
Report Available

Mike Schneider

Place	Name	Prize
1	Mike Schneider (Eagan, MN, USA)	$1,000,000
2	Kenna James AKA "Cowboy" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$700,000
3	Scott Buller (Lincoln, NE, USA)	$500,000
4	Andrew Chitiea (Centennial, CO, USA)	$300,000
5	Richard Joel (Conyers, GA, USA)	$225,000
6	Devon Miller (USA)	$175,000
7	Jinda Pan (USA)	$150,000
8	Joseph Dimartino (Ansonia, CT, USA)	$125,000
9	Annand "Victor" Ramdin (Bronx, NY, USA)	$100,000
10	Michael Silverman (USA)	$75,000
11	David Kalish (Chicago, IL, USA)	$50,000
12	Thomas Koral (Skokie, IL, USA)	$38,600
13	Nema Sayadian (USA)	$28,500
14	Adam Clayman (USA)	$28,500
15	Henrik Witt (Bornholm, Denmark)	$28,500
16	Jason Bouchard (Canada)	$28,500
17	Michael Berman (Seattle, WA, USA)	$28,500
18	Marco Sousa (USA)	$28,500
19	Tom Honda (Pasadena, CA, USA)	$25,000
20	George Westphal (Bismark, ND, USA)	$25,000
21	Loren Stout (Dayville, OR, USA)	$25,000
22	Mezguii Michael (France)	$25,000
23	Peter Campo (Waterford, CT, USA)	$25,000
24	John Doulamis (USA)	$25,000
25	Ralph Rudd (Downey, CA, USA)	$25,000
26	David Baker AKA "DB" (Katy, TX, USA)	$25,000
27	David Ghiz (Canada)	$25,000
28	Mike Husa (Sacramento, CA, USA)	$22,000
29	Kevin Ho (Gainsville, FL, USA)	$22,000
30	Gregory Byard (USA)	$22,000
31	Thomas Nyman (Clifton, NJ, USA)	$22,000
32	Mark Simon (Fargo, ND, USA)	$22,000
33	Michael Carson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$22,000
34	Michael Brooks (Ellsworth, KS, USA)	$22,000
35	Kenneth Winter (USA)	$22,000
36	Tony Albright (Belle Fourche, SD, USA)	$22,000
37	Sammy Paddy (USA)	$19,000
38	Saro Getzoyan (Lexington, MA, USA)	$19,000
39	Brad Cox (USA)	$19,000
40	Tony Rivera (St Louis, MO, USA)	$19,000
41	David Cowling (Canada)	$19,000
42	Derek Kromm (USA)	$19,000
43	Richard Predham AKA "Pred" (St.John's, NL, Canada)	$19,000
44	David Eller (Port Orange, FL, USA)	$19,000
45	Avi Levy (Coral Springs, FL, USA)	$19,000
46	Chris Hinchcliffe AKA "Hinch" (Olympia, WA, USA)	$19,000
47	Steve Lustig AKA "Shooter" (San Jose, CA, USA)	$19,000
48	Russell Salzer AKA "The Muscle" (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$19,000
49	Igal Augarten (Australia)	$19,000
50	An-Nan Chen (USA)	$19,000
51	Robert Laplante (USA)	$19,000
52	Dan Alspach AKA "Dan A" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$19,000
53	Gavin Smith (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$19,000
54	Gloria Fontana AKA "PrincessGlo" (Glendale, CA, USA)	$19,000
55	Russell Green (Syossett, NY, USA)	$19,000
56	Bernard Tung (Canada)	$19,000
57	Clay Manley (Tampa, FL, USA)	$19,000
58	Kris Judkins (USA)	$19,000
59	John Valet (Conyers, GA, USA)	$19,000
60	Brett Richey (Boston, MA, USA)	$19,000
61	Karsten Honnefeller (Germany)	$19,000
62	Will Thysell (Eugene, OR, USA)	$19,000
63	Bill Kalocsai (Canada)	$19,000
64	Renauld Desferet (France)	$16,000
65	Michael White (Prairie Village, KS, USA)	$16,000
66	Neil Plotkin (USA)	$16,000
67	Samuel Marsh (USA)	$16,000
68	Todd Taylor (Henderson, NV, USA)	$16,000
69	Charles Swan (Oakland, CA, USA)	$16,000
70	Johan Naslund (Sweden)	$16,000
71	Carmen Menechella (Niagara Falls, ON, Canada)	$16,000
72	Robert Goldfarb (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$16,000
73	Curt Sutherland (USA)	$16,000
74	Henric Strath (Sweden)	$16,000
75	Randall McCowan (USA)	$16,000
76	Donald Poage (USA)	$16,000
77	Scott Numoto (Campbell, CA, USA)	$16,000
78	Steve Stolzmann (Sheboygan, WI, USA)	$16,000
79	Stewart Kaplan (USA)	$16,000
80	Richard Chase (Malibu, CA, USA)	$16,000
81	Greg Alston (Miami Beach, FL, USA)	$16,000
82	James Altounian (USA)	$16,000
83	Mike Vanier (Lincoln, NE, USA)	$16,000
84	Alan Shulman (Jackson, GA, USA)	$16,000
85	Ben Hanana (France)	$16,000
86	Ian Prevost (USA)	$16,000
87	Chor Hung Tong (China)	$16,000
88	BJ Harrington (Kansas, OK, USA)	$16,000
89	Fredric Weiss AKA "AllPokerPlay" (Windsor, ON, Canada)	$16,000
90	Jason Ring (USA)	$16,000
91	Kenneth Rychtarik (USA)	$16,000
92	David Warga (Tempe, AZ, USA)	$16,000
93	David Crouse (Huber Heights, OH, USA)	$16,000
94	Tom West (Los Gatos, CA, USA)	$16,000
95	Yakov Hirsch (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$16,000
96	Jonathan Little AKA "FieryJustice" (Pensacola, FL, USA)	$16,000
97	Thomas Kristensen (Denmark)	$16,000
98	Nam Huynh (Beaumont, TX, USA)	$16,000
99	Francois Vigeant (Canada)	$16,000

Tournament Report

22-YEAR-OLD SOFT SPOKEN MINNESOTAN BECOMES YOUNGEST WINNER IN HISTORY OF PARTYPOKER.COM MILLION

Mike Schneider is Cheered on by 15 Companions from His Home State
Veteran Kenna James Takes Second and Scott Buller, First to Repeat at a PartyPoker.com Final Table, is Third
CARIBBEAN SEA (March 17, 2006)- Proving once again that the youth movement is on the march in poker, a quiet 22-year-old college student from Minneapolis became the youngest winner in the five-year history of the prestigious PartyPoker.com Million, claiming the $1 million first prize amidst his wildly cheering group of 15 supporters from his home state-all poker players themselves.
For a moment in the big amphitheatre aboard the ms. Westerdam, it seemed more like a frat party than a poker tournament, but that exuberant tone belied the intensity of the event which saw Schneider, in mirrored sunglasses and backward baseball cap, slowly wear down top pro Kenna James and the first player ever to make two PartyPoker.com Million final tables, Scott Buller. Buller has been on every PartyPoker.com Million cruise and placed in the money with 5th, 15th and 20th finishes before making this final table.
Buller, of Lincoln, Nebraska, mustered out third with a very nice $500,000 check as a consolation, bringing his total PartyPoker.com Million winnings to nearly $600,000. James, of Las Vegas, claimed the largest paycheck of his career with a second place $700,000. His biggest previous payday was $588,210 for a second place finish in last year's Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
Two PartyPoker.com online players Drew Chitiea, a corporate pilot and flight instructor from Centennial, CO, and Richard Joel, a retired businessman, from Atlanta, joined in the fun, happy to take home $300,000 and $225,000 respectively. The sixth competitor was Devon Miller, an up-and-coming 21-year-old pro from Los Angeles with a reputation for being a Limit Hold'em specialist. He was the first to exit and collected $175,000.
The world's largest Limit Hold'em tournament, the PartyPoker.com Million V, began last Monday with a field of 523 and a $5,230,000 prize pool. With Kenna James singing at the table, joking with the crowd and his fellow players and Schneider's loud posse, the event indeed was true to its reputation as the most fun event in high stakes poker. Schneider could only say that he was "shellshocked" at his victory, but he certainly didn't show his anxiety under the spotlight. Asked what he was thinking behind his stoic poker face, he admitted: "oh God, oh God, oh God!"
Currently at the University of Minnesota studying journalism, he is planning to graduate in fall 2006, and has paid for his education through his poker winnings. The native Minnesotan began playing in home games four years ago, and graduated to his hometown card room, Canterbury Park at 18, the legal age in Minnesota. In 2003, he began playing online with PartyPoker.com. The PartyPoker.com Million is only his second high stakes tournament. Wisely, he hopes to put some of his PartyPoker.com winnings into investments, after building up his bankroll a bit and tucking some away for day-to-day expenses.
Schneider wasn't sure he would make it past the first three hands on the second day of the tournament, when he ended day one with a small stack of 5,500 chips. "I had two dreams that night," he said, "one that I would bust out and the other one that I would build back up to 150,000 chips. That second dream was pretty close. But I sure didn't have a dream that foresaw a million dollars!"
Buller, who has been aboard all five PartyPoker.com Million cruises noted that the event has changed significantly since its inauguration. "The young players have changed the whole picture. My first year there were maybe 20 guys under 30. Now we have a boatload of them and at 49, I'm considered an old guy. But there is no doubt they deserve to be here. It's no accident that Michael Schneider is holding that $1 million check. He played tough and he deserved it."