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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #18 - WSOP Limit Hold'em World Championship

June 10, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$5,000
Prize Pool	$1,207,900
Entries	257
Report Available

Saro Getzoyan

Place	Name	Prize
1	Saro Getzoyan (Lexington, MA, USA)	$333,379
2	Geoff Sanford (Halifax, NS, Canada)	$200,511
3	William Thorson (Varberg, Sweden)	$136,493
4	Thor Hansen (El Segundo, CA, USA)	$93,008
5	David Gee (Gilbert, AZ, USA)	$68,850
6	Thomas Koral (Skokie, IL, USA)	$54,356
7	Raymond Dehkharghani (Huntingtin Beach, CA, USA)	$41,069
8	Don Todd (Davie, FL, USA)	$30,198
9	Gabriel Nassif (Paris, France)	$21,742
10	Max Casal (Burbank, CA, USA)	$15,099
11	Jack Santos AKA "(Sergio)" (Oceanside, CA, USA)	$15,099
12	Ayaz Mahmood (Lahore, TX, USA)	$15,099
13	Jonathan Gaskell (Wigan, UK)	$13,891
14	Rick Chase (USA)	$13,891
15	Max "Italian Pirate" Pescatori (Milan, Italy)	$13,891
16	Brandon Wong (Fresno, CA, USA)	$12,683
17	Ian Johns (Seattle, WA, USA)	$12,683
18	Mojtaba Seyedin (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,683
19	Liz Lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$11,475
20	Eric Froehlich AKA "EFro" (Springfield, VA, USA)	$11,475
21	John Younger (San Antonio, CA, USA)	$11,475
22	Matt Woodward (Waterboro, ME, USA)	$11,475
23	Steve Sung AKA "MuGGyLiCiOuS" (Torrance, CA, USA)	$11,475
24	Ed Fernandez (San Jose, CA, USA)	$11,475
25	James Gorham (Vista, CA, USA)	$11,475
26	Andrew Prock (Oakland, CA, USA)	$11,475
27	Javier Torresola (Tempe, AZ, USA)	$11,475

Tournament Report

WSOP GOLD BRACELET WINNER EVENT #18 – SARO GETZOYAN

-- Saro Getzoyan won the $5,000 buy-in "Limit-Hold'em World Championship" at the 2007 World Series of Poker. He is a 27-year-old software developer from Lexington, MA. He is single.

-- Getzoyan's parents came to the U.S. from their native Armenia. He attended undergraduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and earned a Masters Degree from New York University.

-- This was Getzoyan's first time to cash at the WSOP. He has been playing in this tournament since 2005, but had not done much in the previous two years. First place paid $333,379.

-- Getzoyan was concerned that making it to this final table might cost him his job. Just three weeks ago, he took a new position as a software developer for a hedge fund firm in Massachusetts. The previous night, Getzoyan was looking into changing his flight itinerary so that if he busted out of the final table, he could make it to work the next day. Unfortunately, Getzoyan would be forced to miss that flight. He was seen in front of a computer an hour after his victory, looking for the best cross-country airfare back to Boston. "Money doesn't change anything. That's just the way I am," he reportedly commented.

-- Getzoyan arrived at the table low on chips and was sixth in the chip count. It took him about seven hours to achieve victory.

-- Fourth-place finisher Thor Hansen has been playing very well at this year's WSOP. This event marked his third time to cash. He also moved up into 15th place on the all-time "Number of Lifetime Cashes" list, with 36. Hansen is now tied with Mickey Appleman and Jay Heimowitz.

-- Former WSOP gold bracelet winners in-the-money included Hansen (4 th), Max Pescatori (15th), and Eric Frohlich (20th).

-- This was the official "Limit Hold'em World Championship." The tournament has the highest buy-in of any such tournament in the world. Interestingly, as recently as five years ago limit hold'em tournaments used to outdraw no-limit tournaments, sometimes as much as 2 to 1. However, no-limit games have far surpassed limit in popularity, especially in tournaments.

-- This was the most cosmopolitan final table of this year's World Series. The final nine players originated from seven different nations – including Canada, China, France, Iran, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

-- by Nolan Dalla