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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #15 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 9, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$3,587,220
Entries	2628
Report Available

Phil Hellmuth

Place	Name	Prize
1	Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$637,254
2	Andy Philachack (Garland, TX, USA)	$394,594
3	Rick Fuller (Kirkland, WA, USA)	$247,518
4	Morgan Machina AKA "The Machine" (Mission Viejo, CA, USA)	$161,425
5	Scott Clements (Mount Vernon, WA, USA)	$112,997
6	David Simon (Incline Village, NV, USA)	$82,506
7	Fabrice Soulier (Avignon, France)	$64,570
8	Ut Nguyen (Downey, CA, USA)	$48,427
9	Taylor Douglas (Athens, GA, USA)	$38,025
10	Kiet Tran AKA "Tuan" (Santa Ana, CA, USA)	$31,568
11	Jay Royer (Coral Springs, FL, USA)	$31,568
12	Matthew LaGarde (Salisbury, MD, USA)	$31,568
13	Ulises Roman (Huntington, WV, USA)	$27,980
14	Michael Dumas (Anniston, AL, USA)	$27,980
15	James Ahlquist (Indialantic, FL, USA)	$27,980
16	Stuart Kemble (Topeka, KS, USA)	$24,393
17	Shannon Easton (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$24,393
18	Andrew Litsch (Edmond, OK, USA)	$24,393
19	Stephen King (St.Pete Beach, FL, USA)	$20,806
20	Jeff Miller (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)	$20,806
21	Bertrand Grospellier AKA "ElkY" (Melun, France)	$20,806
22	Jon Turner AKA "Pearljammer" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$20,806
23	Kim Spielvogel (Boca Raton, FL, USA)	$20,806
24	Marcian Nadjafirad (Great Falls, VA, USA)	$20,806
25	Mark McCormick (North Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$20,806
26	Gary Shelton AKA "The Scorpion" (Houston, TX, USA)	$20,806
27	Mike Appel (Boston, MA, USA)	$20,806
28	Theodore Harris (Mount Shasta, CA, USA)	$17,577
29	Kalyan Venkataraman (South Pasadena, CA, USA)	$17,577
30	Brandon Steven (Wichita, KS, USA)	$17,577
31	Charles Connally (Pasadena, TX, USA)	$17,577
32	Sonny Sanjinda (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)	$17,577
33	Steve Wood (La Quinta, CA, USA)	$17,577
34	Lance Trieu (Frisco, TX, USA)	$17,577
35	Brandon Greulich (Del Mar, CA, USA)	$17,577
36	Matt Walker (Tallahassee, FL, USA)	$17,577
37	Don Colley (Renton, WA, USA)	$14,708
38	Harold Weaver (San Diego, CA, USA)	$14,708
39	Iwan Jones (Cardiff, UK)	$14,708
40	Bill Eichel (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$14,708
41	Hevad "Rain" Khan (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)	$14,708
42	Joe Bartholdi (San Diego, CA, USA)	$14,708
43	Trevor Rice	$14,708
44	Scott Seiver (Cold Springs Harbor, NY, USA)	$14,708
45	Michael Slocum (Darby, MT, USA)	$14,708
46	Mike O'Malley (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,197
47	Angel Garcia (Henderson, NV, USA)	$12,197
48	Donald Lawrence (Miami, FL, USA)	$12,197
49	John Leggett (Frisco, TX, USA)	$12,197
50	Allen Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$12,197
51	Robert Bright AKA "Bob" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,197
52	Robert Geier (Nampa, ID, USA)	$12,197
53	Alan Chirls (Mercer Island, WA, USA)	$12,197
54	Andrew Greenberg (Tampa, FL, USA)	$12,197
55	Steve Fager (Sequiem, WA, USA)	$10,044
56	Dana Messina (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$10,044
57	Brian Deleon (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,044
58	Tuan Tran (San Jose, CA, USA)	$10,044
59	Chris Mantas (Mississauga, ON, Canada)	$10,044
60	Brandon Palm AKA "Chedder" (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$10,044
61	Michael Scully (Anthem, AZ, USA)	$10,044
62	Helge Harders (Germany)	$10,044
63	Eric Dilda (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$10,044
64	Parimal Parmar AKA "Primo" (Lomita, CA, USA)	$8,251
65	Kelly Hale (Neenah, WA, USA)	$8,251
66	Richard Loiselle (Burlington, VT, USA)	$8,251
67	Philip Webb (San Marino, CA, USA)	$8,251
68	Shawn Glines (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,251
69	Donald Sjulstad (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$8,251
70	Chris Wunderlich (Hegley, AZ, USA)	$8,251
71	Jesse Martin (Shrewsbury, MA, USA)	$8,251
72	Chris Birchby (Hollywood, CA, USA)	$8,251
73	William Kelly (Concord, OH, USA)	$6,816
74	David Bailey (Henderson, NV, USA)	$6,816
75	Raj Sawant (Topeka, KS, USA)	$6,816
76	Larry Tull (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$6,816
77	Chris Platt (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,816
78	Michael Ciaravino (Rock Ledge, FL, USA)	$6,816
79	Brian Chavez (Odess, TX, USA)	$6,816
80	Joseph Alberger (Lutz, FL, USA)	$6,816
81	Jason Dewitt (Mishawaka, IN, USA)	$6,816
82	Sean Wright (Pleasant Grove, UT, USA)	$5,740
83	Ronnie Jackson (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,740
84	Marc Moulton (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$5,740
85	Philip Tom AKA "'chairman'" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,740
86	Steven McClusky (Oxford, MA, USA)	$5,740
87	Joseph Montervino (Yardville, PA, USA)	$5,740
88	Duane VanKeulen (Abbotsford, BC, Canada)	$5,740
89	Weiyan Chan (Raleigh, NC, USA)	$5,740
90	Gregg McAdoo (Spearfish, SD, USA)	$5,740
91	Jason Beasley (Salem, OR, USA)	$5,022
92	Corey Parpart (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,022
93	Rogelio Salinas (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$5,022
94	Gregory Rogelio (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,022
95	Edward Zakapia (Canada)	$5,022
96	Takash Takii (Sacramento, CA, USA)	$5,022
97	Bradley Marsh (Mississauga, ON, Canada)	$5,022
98	Michael Jonny (New Providence, NJ, USA)	$5,022
99	Michael Snorden (Indianapolis, IN, USA)	$5,022
100	George Devlin (Odgen, UT, USA)	$4,484
101	Mark Utterback (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$4,484
102	Louis Constant (Lake Mary, FL, USA)	$4,484
103	Robert Mervilla (Weehawken, NJ, USA)	$4,484
104	Terence Owens AKA "childers" (Liverpool, UK)	$4,484
105	Richard Rivlin (Laguna Hills, CA, USA)	$4,484
106	Dennis Szody (Redding, CA, USA)	$4,484
107	Nick Rainey (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,484
108	Shane Smith (Hiram, GA, USA)	$4,484
109	Michael Bury (Jupiter, FL, USA)	$4,484
110	Pat Henighan (Chicago, IL, USA)	$4,484
111	Russell Goldrich (Lafayette Hills, PA, USA)	$4,484
112	Derek Peyrot (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,484
113	Unknown	$4,484
114	Elliot Bowker AKA "Rekwob" (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)	$4,484
115	Samuel Wax AKA "Sam" (Tampa, FL, USA)	$4,484
116	Zachary Clark (Chino, CA, USA)	$4,484
117	Steven Wilk (Helores, TX, USA)	$4,484
118	Derek Lerner (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$4,484
119	Ken McKay (Langley, BC, Canada)	$4,484
120	Joseph Miguel (Riverside, CA, USA)	$4,484
121	Shayne Heine (Turlock, CA, USA)	$4,484
122	Roy Carter (Carrollton, TX, USA)	$4,484
123	James Van Alstyne (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,484
124	Aaron Lerner (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$4,484
125	Jorge Huguet (Miami, FL, USA)	$4,484
126	Serena Liu (Fremont, CA, USA)	$4,484
127	Gary Sealy (Richmond Heights, OH, USA)	$4,125
128	David Ramirez (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)	$4,125
129	Chai Pung (Stow, OH, USA)	$4,125
130	Kevin Klunder AKA "K-Dollar" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,125
131	George Abdallah (Houston, TX, USA)	$4,125
132	Joseph Oftelie (Anaheim Hills, CA, USA)	$4,125
133	Jeramy Gover (Acworth, GA, USA)	$4,125
134	Kevin Sheehan (Hillsboro Beach, FL, USA)	$4,125
135	Jimmy Robertson (Temple City, CA, USA)	$4,125
136	Catherine Calhoun (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$4,125
137	Frederick Adler (Tuscon, AZ, USA)	$4,125
138	Scott Dorin (Medina, NY, USA)	$4,125
139	Eric Buchman (Valley Stream, NY, USA)	$4,125
140	Eric Kesselman AKA "The Gimp" (New York, NY, USA)	$4,125
141	Ron Colley (Tenino, WA, USA)	$4,125
142	Robert Jondal (Two Harbors, MN, USA)	$4,125
143	Alexander Jahnoff (Mesa, AZ, USA)	$4,125
144	Unknown	$4,125
145	Alan Horowitch (Yuma, AZ, USA)	$4,125
146	Michael Chiafulio (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,125
147	Mike Monteleone (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$4,125
148	Silvio D Mantuano (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,125
149	Mathew Melillo (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$4,125
150	Waylon Frey (Houston, TX, USA)	$4,125
151	Dennis Levi (Jersey City, NJ, USA)	$4,125
152	Rodney Corr (Bay St. Louis, MS, USA)	$4,125
153	Jae Pak (Folsom, CA, USA)	$4,125
154	Chris Walker (Plano, TX, USA)	$4,125
155	Doyle Sanders (Midland, TX, USA)	$4,125
156	John Alleva (Douglaston, NY, USA)	$4,125
157	Sherman Ibarra (Oldsmar, FL, USA)	$4,125
158	Daniel Mcauliffe (Long Beach, NY, USA)	$4,125
159	Christopher Lim AKA "C.I." (Bronx, NY, USA)	$4,125
160	Anthony Taranto AKA "Tree" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,125
161	Jason Nedo (Coquitlam, BC, Canada)	$4,125
162	David Tran (El Monte, CA, USA)	$4,125
163	Joe Simmons (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$3,767
164	Randal Kirk (Kingwood, TX, USA)	$3,767
165	Gregory Money AKA "Cash" (Colleyville, TX, USA)	$3,767
166	Robert Chao (Fountain Valley, CA, USA)	$3,767
167	Adam Naglich (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
168	Chad Bradbury (Wichita, KS, USA)	$3,767
169	Charlie Sewell (Edmond, OK, USA)	$3,767
170	Brian Irvine (Lenexa, KS, USA)	$3,767
171	Terrence Walsh (Jackson, MI, USA)	$3,767
172	Richard Soffa (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$3,767
173	Mark Pnini (New York City, NY, USA)	$3,767
174	Young Lu (Gilbert, AZ, USA)	$3,767
175	Jason Rich (Carmel, IN, USA)	$3,767
176	Joshua Prochaskasaglio (Pacific Grove, CA, USA)	$3,767
177	Samuelson Go (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
178	David Filippi (New York, NY, USA)	$3,767
179	Frederick Kowalske (Traverse City, MI, USA)	$3,767
180	Tim Gillig (Frankfurt, Germany)	$3,767
181	Robert Karr (Diamond Bar, CA, USA)	$3,767
182	Joshua Herrick (Denver, CO, USA)	$3,767
183	Ben Santoli (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
184	Anthony Limantzakis (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)	$3,767
185	Juan Luna (Mather, CA, USA)	$3,767
186	Mohamad Ilyas (Houston, TX, USA)	$3,767
187	Benjamin Truelove (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
188	Steven Cross (Nashville, TN, USA)	$3,767
189	Leslie Wood (Caliente, NV, USA)	$3,767
190	Jeff Simpson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
191	Jose Paoilla (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$3,767
192	Eric Rodziewicz (Tuscon, AZ, USA)	$3,767
193	David Hiben (Bloomington, MN, USA)	$3,767
194	Richard Spring (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
195	Jacobo Fernandez (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$3,767
196	Christopher Varano (Mechanicsburg, PA, USA)	$3,767
197	Morris Goldstein (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,767
198	Travis Remmert (Iowa City, IA, USA)	$3,767
199	Innes Young (Leeds, UK)	$3,408
200	Ronald Miller (Troutman, NC, USA)	$3,408
201	Aaron Williams (Helena, MT, USA)	$3,408
202	Tom McEvoy AKA "pokerchump" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
203	Robert Castoire (Cecilia, KY, USA)	$3,408
204	Kyle Rickey (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
205	Eric Tomberlin (Jacksonville, FL, USA)	$3,408
206	Leonard Loventhal (Millani, HI, USA)	$3,408
207	Tuan Vu (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
208	Mike Downing (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
209	Christopher Bonita (Winthrop, MA, USA)	$3,408
210	Kunal Jerath (Mclean, VA, USA)	$3,408
211	Kyle Fleisman (Calgary, AB, Canada)	$3,408
212	Vincent Tinio (Chicago, IL, USA)	$3,408
213	Randy Reagan (Tampa, FL, USA)	$3,408
214	James Squires (Redondo Beach, CA, USA)	$3,408
215	Jason Forry (Chicago, IL, USA)	$3,408
216	Brian Hansen (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)	$3,408
217	Andrew Van de Kop (Dallas, TX, USA)	$3,408
218	Paul Brown (Jacksonville, FL, USA)	$3,408
219	Heather Schuchaskie (Lansing, MI, USA)	$3,408
220	Mihai Manole (Romania)	$3,408
221	Ayad Hussein (Chicago, IL, USA)	$3,408
222	John Hernandez (Pico Rivera, CA, USA)	$3,408
223	Christopher Cross (Glendale, AZ, USA)	$3,408
224	Alan Keating (Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA)	$3,408
225	Rafael Ibaibarriaga (Reno, NV, USA)	$3,408
226	Nath Pizzolatto (Lake Charles, LA, USA)	$3,408
227	Mike Lutz (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
228	Joseph Michael (Austin, TX, USA)	$3,408
229	William Cottam (Tulsa, OK, USA)	$3,408
230	Arthur Flangas AKA "Artie" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,408
231	Steven Weixel (Rocky River, OH, USA)	$3,408
232	Jeffrey Rogers (Roseville, CA, USA)	$3,408
233	Maria Kassab (Miami, FL, USA)	$3,408
234	Andrew Youngblood (Dearborn, MI, USA)	$3,408
235	Sean Brennan (West Windsor, NJ, USA)	$3,049
236	Raymond Millard (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)	$3,049
237	Stan Jablonski (Fort Mohave, AZ, USA)	$3,049
238	Justin Stonehill (Stafford, VA, USA)	$3,049
239	David Morgan (South Weymouth, MA, USA)	$3,049
240	Michael Pollowitz (Shoreline, WA, USA)	$3,049
241	David Lichtman (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$3,049
242	Arnold Kirschenmann (Bakersfield, CA, USA)	$3,049
243	John MacDonald (Aurora, CO, USA)	$3,049
244	Shawn Hattem (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$3,049
245	Richard Geahr (Huntsville, AL, USA)	$3,049
246	Brian Kip (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,049
247	Daniel Roslawski (Milwaukee, WI, USA)	$3,049
248	Kent Kruger (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$3,049
249	Ron Jenkins (El Monte, CA, USA)	$3,049
250	Scott Marciel (Mililani, HI, USA)	$3,049
251	Randall Swope (Zanesville, OH, USA)	$3,049
252	Robert Cosgrove (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$3,049
253	Craig Rice (Iowa City, IA, USA)	$3,049
254	Steven Taxarchis (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)	$3,049
255	Bradley Smith (Thornhill, ON, Canada)	$3,049
256	Angel Perez (Compton, CA, USA)	$3,049
257	Cameron Anicete AKA "Ron" (Elk Grove, CA, USA)	$3,049
258	Jacky Chitwood (Celina, TN, USA)	$3,049
259	Dick Delange (Stanwood, WA, USA)	$3,049
260	Charles Stika (Peoria, AZ, USA)	$3,049
261	Gabriel Fullmer (Mount Jackson, VA, USA)	$3,049
262	Braedon Beraro (New Iberia, CA, USA)	$3,049
263	John Chou (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)	$3,049
264	Charles Blanc (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,049
265	John Kim (Harrisburg, NC, USA)	$3,049
266	Greg Branson (Reno, NV, USA)	$3,049
267	Norman Shapiro (Maumee, OH, USA)	$3,049
268	Joao Aquino (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$3,049
269	James Johnson (Birmingham, AL, USA)	$3,049
270	Robert Connor (Columbus, OH, USA)	$3,049

Tournament Report

The winner of the 1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event was Phil Hellmuth, Jr. The poker superstar from Palo Alto, CA won his record 11th gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker. He is now the all-time leader in wins, one ahead of Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan with ten each.
This marked the largest field Hellmuth has ever conquered. The tournament attracted a whopping 2,628 entries.
Coming into the 2006 WSOP, Hellmuth was one-win behind Brunson and Chan. But he has won the last two titles and taken the lead for the first time ever.
This was Hellmuth's 38th final table appearance (lifetime). He is now one away from the all-time leader, T.J. Cloutier - currently with 39.
This marked the 59th time Hellmuth has finished in-the-money at the WSOP. He is the all-time leader in that category. Hellmuth is currently five cashes ahead of the second-place player.
Hellmuth dropped out of the University of Wisconsin to pursue a poker career. He has been one of the most successful players of the last twenty years. 'Hellmuth' has become a bona fide trademark - representing to poker what Tiger Woods is to golf and Michael Jordan was to basketball.
When Hellmuth won the world championship in 1989, he was (and remains) the youngest main event winner in history - at 24.
Hellmuth's phenomenal WSOP run over the past 19 years all started in 1988, when he placed fifth in a Seven-Card Stud High-Low tournament. He won the main event the following year. He is also one of only three players in history to win three gold bracelets within a single year. He holds a record which is unlikely and perhaps impossible to break - three consecutive WSOP wins in three consecutive days (April 26-28, 1993).
First place in this event paid $637,254. This was the third-most money Hellmuth has ever won in a single tournament; his first and tenth wins being the highest payouts ever.
Hellmuth has won and earned millions of dollars over the past ten years. But he, his wife, and two children continue to live in the same house they bought together back in 1996. He drives a gold Lexus with the license plate reading '9POKER9.' He got that after winning his ninth gold bracelet in 2003. One must ask if he can fit '11POKER11' onto a California plate.
The runner up in this event was Andy Philachack from Dallas, TX. Before the finale started, he was asked how he learned to play poker. 'By losing lots of money,' he replied. Philachack certainly made the investment pay off in this event, as second place paid $394,594.
Scott Clements was the only other former WSOP winner at the final table other than Hellmuth. He won the $2,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low event last year. He finished fifth in this event.
Seventh-place finisher Fabrice Soulier was a highly-successful television director in Paris, France. He now plays in many poker tournaments. This was his third WSOP final table in four years.
Eighth-place finisher Ut Nguyen is a protégé of Men 'the Master' Nguyen. Men the Master has been an instructor and mentor to many Vietnamese-born poker players, several of whom who have cashed at the WSOP and won gold bracelets.
by Nolan Dalla