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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #8 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Rebuy

June 5, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,000
Prize Pool	$2,658,000
Entries	844 + 1814 rebuys
Report Available

Michael Chu

Place	Name	Prize
1	Michael Chu (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$585,774
2	Tommy Vu (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$364,761
3	Barry Cales	$235,575
4	Dolph Arnold (Houston, TX, USA)	$157,050
5	Shane Schleger (Brooklyn, CA, USA)	$111,455
6	Maciek Gracz (Raleigh, NC, USA)	$84,858
7	Amir Vahedi (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$63,327
8	Robert Aron (Boca Raton, CA, USA)	$46,862
9	Jan Christoph Von Halle AKA "50outs" (Hamburg, Germany)	$34,196
10	Todd Witteles AKA "Dan Druff" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$23,811
11	Marcello Del Grosso (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$23,811
12	Jason Strasser (New York, NY, USA)	$23,811
13	Arnold Spee (Agoura Hills, CA, USA)	$21,278
14	Michael Binger (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$21,278
15	Kurt Paseka (Bayside, NY, USA)	$21,278
16	Josh VanDuyn (San Diego, CA, USA)	$18,745
17	Sorel Mizzi (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$18,745
18	Mark Newhouse (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)	$18,745
19	Gioi Luong (Westminster, CA, USA)	$16,212
20	Vinnie Vinh (Houston, TX, USA)	$16,212
21	Minh Lee (Valencia, CA, USA)	$16,212
22	Ken Weiner (Wellington, FL, USA)	$16,212
23	Kevin Peterson AKA "Bleu" (Plano, TX, USA)	$16,212
24	Gavin Griffin (Fullerton, CA, USA)	$16,212
25	Glyn Banks AKA "Rachet" (Smithville, TN, USA)	$16,212
26	Paul Deng (Portland, OR, USA)	$16,212
27	Dario Mivieri	$16,212
28	Thandat Tran (El Monte, CA, USA)	$13,932
29	Marc Naalden (Antwerp, Belgium)	$13,932
30	Steven Paul Ambrose (Kingston, ON, Canada)	$13,932
31	Kristy Gazes (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$13,932
32	Roger Teska (NewCastle, IN, USA)	$13,932
33	Bryan Berc (White Bear lake, MN, USA)	$13,932
34	Joe Simmons (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$13,932
35	Young Ju (South Korea)	$13,932
36	Bonnie Shaner (Lynchburg, VA, USA)	$13,932
37	Brett Jungblut AKA "Gank" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$11,905
38	Eric Haber AKA "sheets" (Muttontown, NY, USA)	$11,905
39	Antonio Esfandiari AKA "The Magician" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,905
40	Cesar Aburto (Atascadero, CA, USA)	$11,905
41	Jeff Shulman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,905
42	Alex Melnikow (Syracuse, NY, USA)	$11,905
43	Matt Sterling AKA "Indiana" (Brownstown, IN, USA)	$11,905
44	Michael Melkersen (New Market, VA, USA)	$11,905
45	Steve Billirakis (Genoa, IL, USA)	$11,905
46	Mark Herm (Royersford, PA, USA)	$10,132
47	Rocco Lazazzaro (Port Jefferson, NY, USA)	$10,132
48	Maxwell Greenwood (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$10,132
49	William Rhoton (Briggsdale, CO, USA)	$10,132
50	Tim West (Los Altos, CA, USA)	$10,132
51	Jayde Tran (Arcadia, CA, USA)	$10,132
52	Jordan Siegal (Henderson, NV, USA)	$10,132
53	Tracey Miller (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,132
54	Charles Pacheco (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$10,132
55	Unknown	$8,232
56	Shannon Shorr (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,232
57	Kester Solomon (Western Australia, Australia)	$8,232
58	Douglas Harrah	$8,232
59	Dwayne Weum	$8,232
60	Rick Salomon (Hollywood, CA, USA)	$8,232
61	Eugene Todd (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$8,232
62	Alex Prendes (Miami, FL, USA)	$8,232
63	Kyle Bowker (Walton, NY, USA)	$8,232
64	Alex Balandin (New York City, NY, USA)	$6,839
65	Michael Watson (St. Johns, NL, Canada)	$6,839
66	Jon Ferraro (USA)	$6,839
67	Joshua Lee (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$6,839
68	David Stroj (Chula Vista, CA, USA)	$6,839
69	Michael Martin AKA "Martine23" (Washington Crossing, PA, USA)	$6,839
70	John Pazur	$6,839
71	Kenneth Sienkiewicz	$6,839
72	Jerrod Ankenman (Avon, CT, USA)	$6,839
73	Vasile Buboi (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$5,826
74	Jason Suh AKA "TheShagMan21" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$5,826
75	Khaled Lahnam	$5,826
76	Phil Galfond (Gaithersburg, MD, USA)	$5,826
77	Rodney Corr (Bay St. Louis, MS, USA)	$5,826
78	Don Holland (St. Augustine, FL, USA)	$5,826
79	Jon Eaton AKA "sketchy1" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,826
80	Terry Lankford	$5,826
81	Dan Alspach AKA "Dan A" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,826

Tournament Report

End of Day 1 Chip Counts

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First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat

Sorel Mizzi 240,000 60 2

Michael Binger 186,700 54 5

Amir Vahedi 183,100 55 8

Vinny Vinh 170,000 N/A N/A

Gavin Griffin 154,200 57 6

Alex Melnikow 151,300 56 2

Marc Waacden 136,400 58 1

Joe Simmons 133,000 60 7

Michael Gracz 130,100 58 2

Roger Teska 121,800 52 4

David Strot 110,300 60 5

Eric Haber 107,900 60 6

Matt Sterling 107,700 56 5

Michael Melkersen 106,400 53 4

Shane Schleger 101,800 52 9

Steve Billirakis 101,600 53 9

Jerrod Ankenman 95,000 59 1

Jon Ferraro 95,000 54 4

Kyle Barker 94,000 52 2

Todd Wittles 88,300 57 5

Tommy Vu 84,100 59 7

Michael Chu 83,700 56 6

Glyn Banks 82,300 55 6

Bryan Berc 81,100 57 7

Phil Galfond 80,000 55 1

Paul Deng 77,000 52 5

Robert Aroa 77,000 58 8

Mark Herm 74,500 53 3

Mark Newhouse 73,200 54 7

Dario Minieri 72,500 55 3

Hong Tran 72,200 52 7

Shannon Shorr 70,200 54 6

Antonio Esfandiari 69,000 52 1

Joshua Lee 63,800 56 1

Kevin Petersen 63,400 59 2

Thanh Tran 60,900 59 6

Eugene Todd 56,600 53 6

Jason Strasser 56,200 60 3

Barry Cales 56,000 58 3

Jon Eaton 52,700 54 3

Young Ju 47,700 56 7

Tim West 46,900 55 7

Steve Paul-Ambrose 46,600 57 2

Marcello Delbrosso 46,500 58 9

Choi Luong 45,300 53 1

Dolph Arnold 44,400 60 9

Jeff Shulman 44,200 58 5

Max Greenwood 42,100 58 7

Joshua VanDuyn 41,700 54 8

Kristy Gazes 41,200 55 4

Ken Weiner 39,700 59 9

Alex Prendes 39,700 55 9

Ken Sienkiewiz 39,100 54 9

Brandon Lee 35,600 54 1

Rick Salomon 35,000 59 3

Jan Von Halle 34,700 53 7

Michael Watson 34,400 59 4

Douglas Harrah 34,000 60 8

Brett Jungblut 32,800 58 4

Arnold Spee 31,900 57 1

Rocco Lazazzaro 30,600 57 9

William Rhoton 30,400 57 8

Gary Kainer 30,300 56 3

Kurt Paseka 29,400 55 2

Cesar Aburto 29,200 57 4

Alex Balandin 27,000 60 2

Kester Solomon 26,600 60 1

Dong Suh 26,600 56 8

Chuck Pacheco 25,000 56 4

Rodney Corr 24,100 60 4

Michael Martin 23,700 58 6

Jordan Siesel 19,300 53 2

Dan Alspach 18,400 52 3

Tracy Miller 18,300 53 5

Don Holland 17,500 52 10

Ronnie Shaner 16,900 53 8

John Pazar 16,000 57 3

Khaled Lahham 15,500 52 8

Vasile Buboi 14,300 59 8

Dewey Wecun 14,100 55 5

Terry Lankford 8,300 56 10