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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #12 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Short Handed

June 7, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$1,947,855
Entries	1427
Report Available

Jason Warner

Place	Name	Prize
1	Jason Warner (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$481,698
2	David Zeitlin (New York, NY, USA)	$269,778
3	Steve Olek (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)	$186,020
4	David Mitchell - Lolis (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$123,689
5	Matt Brady (Havertown, PA, USA)	$92,523
6	Brian Miller (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$61,357
7	William Vosti (Arroyo Grande, CA, USA)	$46,749
8	Joe Awada (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$46,749
9	Arturo Diaz (San Diego, CA, USA)	$31,166
10	Andrew Webking (Bellevue, WA, USA)	$31,166
11	Bruno Vick (Granville, OH, USA)	$19,089
12	Terry Eischens (Shakopee, MN, USA)	$19,089
13	Christoffer Stahle (Valloa, Sweden)	$14,804
14	Edward Shea (New Iberia, LA, CA, USA)	$14,804
15	J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA)	$14,804
16	Garrett Beckman (Lawrence, KS, USA)	$14,804
17	Farzad Fadai (Grande Hills, CA, USA)	$14,804
18	Alex Balandin (New York City, NY, USA)	$14,804
19	Jon Dull (Fresno, CA, USA)	$11,882
20	Harold Cohen (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$11,882
21	Stephen O'Dwyer AKA "MrTimCaum" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,882
22	Clinton Bushn (Austin, TX, USA)	$11,882
23	John Esposito (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,882
24	Gebrehiwet Goitom (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$11,882
25	Annette Nichols (Littleton, CO, USA)	$8,960
26	Justin Newton (Tuscon, AZ, USA)	$8,960
27	Fred Goldberg (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$8,960
28	Daniel Bokesch (Columbus, OH, USA)	$8,960
29	Debbie Burkhead (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,960
30	Travis Pearson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,960
31	Kevin Ross (Carnation, WA, USA)	$7,012
32	Carl Olson (Seattle, WA, USA)	$7,012
33	Joe McGowan (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,012
34	Matthew Ehrlich (Wellington, FL, USA)	$7,012
35	David Slan AKA "PianoMan" (Chesterfield, MO, USA)	$7,012
36	Mario Delis (Bakersfield, CA, USA)	$7,012
37	Eric Haber AKA "sheets" (Muttontown, NY, USA)	$5,844
38	John Seaton (Tempe, AZ, USA)	$5,844
39	Brian Bingham AKA "Lonestar" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$5,844
40	Erik Seidel (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,844
41	Robert Gentel (Costa Rica)	$5,844
42	Matthew Smith (Lithia, FL, USA)	$5,844
43	Rahul Maitra (Rochester, NY, USA)	$4,772
44	Miami John Cernuto (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,772
45	Matthew Tom (Issaquah, WA, USA)	$4,772
46	Reece Sathoff (Green Bay, WI, USA)	$4,772
47	Darren Jenne (Fort Myers, FL, USA)	$4,772
48	Michael Homony (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$4,772
49	Joshua Pollock (Silver Springs, MD, USA)	$4,188
50	Miguel Proulx (Québec, QC, Canada)	$4,188
51	Jeffrey Potts (Yorba Linda, CA, USA)	$4,188
52	Ralph E Porter AKA "Rep" (Woodinville, WA, USA)	$4,188
53	John Roveto AKA "Junior" (Duluth, GA, USA)	$4,188
54	James Delarosa (Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA)	$4,188
55	Peter Dalhuijsen (Utrecht, Netherlands)	$3,701
56	Jason Mann AKA "The Super Weez" (Hermitage, AR, USA)	$3,701
57	Reed Hensel (Lawrence, KS, USA)	$3,701
58	Douglas Carli AKA "Rico" (Alliance, OH, USA)	$3,701
59	Shawn Bussey (Hughson, CA, USA)	$3,701
60	David Brannan (Plymouth, UK)	$3,701
61	Sven Lucha (Altotting, Germany)	$3,214
62	Brad Simmons AKA "Alaska Brad" (Anchorage, AK, USA)	$3,214
63	Glen Gordon (Surrey, BC, Canada)	$3,214
64	Johannes Steindl (Austria)	$3,214
65	Jason Cain (Roseville, CA, USA)	$3,214
66	Jeremy Roenick (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$3,214
67	Robert Williamson III (Dallas, TX, USA)	$3,214
68	Kevin Rubitsky (Citrus Heights, CA, USA)	$3,214
69	Terence Owens AKA "childers" (Liverpool, UK)	$3,214
70	Motoyuki Mabuchi AKA "Moto" (Osaka, Japan)	$3,214
71	Sidharth Kakkar (Lawrenceville, NJ, USA)	$3,214
72	Jon Turner AKA "Pearljammer" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,214
73	Rafael Gonzalez (Modesto, CA, USA)	$2,824
74	Eric Thompkins AKA "E. Tizzle" (Sacramento, CA, USA)	$2,824
75	Andres Bello (Oxnard, CA, USA)	$2,824
76	David Benefield (Arlington, TX, USA)	$2,824
77	Robin Gainer (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$2,824
78	Tony Malleo (Canton, OH, USA)	$2,824
79	Mike Guadano (San Diego, CA, USA)	$2,824
80	David Botton (Miami, FL, USA)	$2,824
81	Thayer Rasmussen AKA "JINXY MONKEY" (Largo, FL, USA)	$2,824
82	Shawn Johnson (Ellis Grove, IL, USA)	$2,824
83	Johan Lendenius (Sweden)	$2,824
84	Steven Webb (Lynchburg, VA, USA)	$2,824
85	John McKinney (Fayetteville, NC, USA)	$2,824
86	Matthew Holtzclaw (Elk Grove, CA, USA)	$2,824
87	Andrew Wang (Gainsville, TX, USA)	$2,824
88	Tony Cousineau (Daytona Beach, FL, USA)	$2,824
89	Michael Draghi (Arlington, VA, USA)	$2,824
90	Edward Hearn (Epping, UK)	$2,824
91	Gordon Higgins (Newport News, VA, USA)	$2,435
92	Francis Cagney (Laguna Niguel, CA, USA)	$2,435
93	Alan Jaffray (Silver Springs, NV, USA)	$2,435
94	Michael Gibson (Alpharetta, GA, USA)	$2,435
95	Jerome Tastaviv	$2,435
96	Kenneth Smaron (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$2,435
97	Yarom Limor AKA "braveyoyo" (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$2,435
98	Steven Paul-Ambrose (Kingston, ON, Canada)	$2,435
99	Chris Bell (Raleigh, NC, USA)	$2,435
100	Christopher Lenahan (Portland, OR, USA)	$2,435
101	Drew Ritchie (Flint, MI, USA)	$2,435
102	Dale Cook (Broken Arrow, OK, USA)	$2,435
103	Dylan Simpson (San Jose, CA, USA)	$2,435
104	Michael Sun (Santa Maria, CA, USA)	$2,435
105	Freddie Jones (Sun City, AZ, USA)	$2,435
106	Mark Sandness (Minneapolis, MN, USA)	$2,435
107	Michael Sandler (Stamford, CT, USA)	$2,435
108	Patrick Grant (Denver, CO, USA)	$2,435
109	Julio Ceballas (Colombia)	$2,143
110	Peter Nguyen AKA "Byrd Man" (Tustin, CA, USA)	$2,143
111	Justin St John (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)	$2,143
112	Kenneth Webster (Decatur, NE, USA)	$2,143
113	David Boyett (Vista, CA, USA)	$2,143
114	Josef Helphinstine	$2,143
115	Tyler Witteman (Sedona, AZ, USA)	$2,143
116	Steve Balezentes (Santa Maria, CA, USA)	$2,143
117	Melanie (Esquivel) Simpson AKA "PokerMel" (San Jose, CA, USA)	$2,143
118	Mike Raimon (Brandeton, FL, USA)	$2,143
119	Christopher Scalzitti (South Jordan, UT, USA)	$2,143
120	Jay Royer (Coral Springs, FL, USA)	$2,143
121	Edward Brogdon (Litchfield Park, AZ, USA)	$2,143
122	Jonathan Calhoun AKA "Boatsy and LuckyJon" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$2,143
123	James Wagner (West Valley, UT, USA)	$2,143
124	James O'Malley	$2,143
125	Joe Pharo (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$2,143
126	David Robertson (Henderson, NV, USA)	$2,143

Tournament Report

The winner of the $1,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold´em World Championship was Jason Warner from Vancouver, BC (Canada). He is a 22-year-old sales associate working in a hardware store and (was/is) an aspiring professional poker player.
This was Warner´s second time to enter a WSOP event. A few days ago, he busted out of the $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold´em tournament. First place today paid $481,698.
Warner works at a home supply store named "Surrey New and Used" located in Surrey, BC. The store is similar to Home Depot or Lowe´s in the U.S. No word yet on whether or not Warner plans to continue working after winning nearly half-a-million dollars.
Warner has been playing poker regularly at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, BC over the past year. He is single.
Warner wore a New York Yankees baseball cap while seated at the final table. Oddly enough, his heads-up opponent was David Zeitlin - from New York City. The runner up collected a very respectable $269,778.
This was the third final table broadcast over the official WSOP website - www.worldseriesofpoker.com. The entire final table was broadcast with hole cards seen by the home audience. Expert commentary was provided by Scott Preston (who is fantastic doing the play-by-play) and the "Clown Prince of Poker," Mike Laing - who stood in for Brian Wilson (also doing first-rate work). The broadcast is truly revolutionary in the depth of content and coverage and is "must viewing" for any poker fan.
The oldest player of the final six was 39-years. The youngest was 21.
Joe Awada, former circus juggler turned poker pro, finished ninth. He won a WSOP gold bracelet in 2004.
Arguably tournament poker´s hottest player over the first half of the year, J.C. Tran from Sacramento, CA, cashed in 15th place. Tran has over $5 million in lifetime tournament winnings - but less than ten percent of that impressive sum has been won at the WSOP.
Seven-time WSOP gold bracelet winner finished in 48th place in this event. He now has 43 lifetime cashes (ranked 8th all-time). He has won over $3M at the WSOP (ranked 16th all-time).
At least two poker players have already cashed three times at this year´s World Series - Steve-Paul Ambrose and Tony Cousineau.