Poker Tournament Results

38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #27 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 16, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$3,159,975
Entries	2315
Report Available

David Stucke

Place	Name	Prize
1	David Stucke (Henderson, NV, USA)	$603,069
2	Young Cho (Enid, OK, USA)	$382,357
3	Seth Weinger (Hemet, CA, USA)	$246,478
4	Michael Ium (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$164,319
5	David Woo (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$115,339
6	Noam Freedman (Cambridge, MA, USA)	$83,739
7	Tom Dobrilovic (West Nyack, NY, USA)	$63,200
8	Luis Sanchez (La Habra, CA, USA)	$47,400
9	Thai Ton (Garland, TX, USA)	$36,340
10	Benjamin Kang (Berlin, Germany)	$28,124
11	Sabyl Cohen-Landrum (Folsom, CA, USA)	$28,124
12	Corey Hochman (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$28,124
13	Edward Roach (Chandler, AZ, USA)	$24,964
14	Kyle Kraska AKA "Kraskadamus" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$24,964
15	Stephen Ladowsky (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$24,964
16	Michael Linton	$21,804
17	Craig Crivello (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$21,804
18	Michael Spiegel AKA "durango" (Lighthouse Point, FL, USA)	$21,804
19	John White (Houston, TX, USA)	$18,644
20	Mark Leho AKA "The HO" (Knoxville, TN, USA)	$18,644
21	Tim West (Los Altos, CA, USA)	$18,644
22	Todd Kilpatrick	$18,644
23	Jeremy Little	$18,644
24	Philip Lowery (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$18,644
25	Dylan Wilkerson (Oakland, CA, USA)	$18,644
26	Andrew Reanrungroch (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$18,644
27	Sascha Everdany	$18,644
28	Raymond Davis AKA "The Amazing" (Bell, CA, USA)	$15,800
29	Michael Hewitt	$15,800
30	Thomas Walter (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,800
31	Timothy Sullivan	$15,800
32	Stephane Tayar (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$15,800
33	Zuhdi Mansour	$15,800
34	James Milburn	$15,800
35	Bruce Van Horn (Ada, OK, USA)	$15,800
36	Tristram Coffin AKA "TC" (Ithaca, NY, USA)	$15,800
37	Tony Lee (Santa Ysabel, CA, USA)	$13,272
38	Christopher Pullaro	$13,272
39	Adam Hudson (Highland Ranch, CO, USA)	$13,272
40	Jim Pechac (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$13,272
41	Earl Peterson (Sun City, CA, USA)	$13,272
42	John Murphy (San Jose, CA, USA)	$13,272
43	Brian Lamanna (Leechburg, PA, USA)	$13,272
44	George Pierce (Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA)	$13,272
45	Tom McCormick AKA "The Shamrock Kid" (Fargo, ND, USA)	$13,272
46	Kenneth Horn (Spicewood, TX, USA)	$11,060
47	Sompong Ouaupevima	$11,060
48	Scott Yellen	$11,060
49	Jason Wilson (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)	$11,060
50	David Williams (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,060
51	Jean "Prince" Gaspard (Evanston, IL, USA)	$11,060
52	Shawn Hattem (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$11,060
53	Arthur Evans (Davie, FL, USA)	$11,060
54	Benny Chen (ON, Canada)	$11,060
55	Mike Nargi (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,006
56	Noah Kelly (Eugene, OR, USA)	$9,006
57	Corey Parpart (Henderson, NV, USA)	$9,006
58	Michael Ciaravino (Rock Ledge, FL, USA)	$9,006
59	Garrett Bradley (Wichita, KS, USA)	$9,006
60	Kyu Cho (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$9,006
61	Craig Issod (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$9,006
62	Noelle Huard (Landover, MD, USA)	$9,006
63	Daniel Barnett (San Clemente, CA, USA)	$9,006
64	Ken Cutt	$7,426
65	Rachel Behr	$7,426
66	Bryan Hyden (San Jose, CA, USA)	$7,426
67	Steven Hoefs (Avalon, CA, USA)	$7,426
68	Amir Favaedi	$7,426
69	Randy Dehmer AKA "Kid Dynamite" (St. Michael, MN, USA)	$7,426
70	Scott Wyler	$7,426
71	Mark Rollins (Long Beach, NY, USA)	$7,426
72	Todd Scherr (Coconut Creek, FL, USA)	$7,426
73	Henry So (Oxnard, CA, USA)	$6,162
74	Jason Dwyhalo	$6,162
75	Will Higgins (Las Vegas, CA, USA)	$6,162
76	Matthew McDonald	$6,162
77	Jay Jaffe (Morganville, NJ, USA)	$6,162
78	Rick Soderman	$6,162
79	Harry Sleighel	$6,162
80	David Campbell (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$6,162
81	Brian Peterson (San Diego, CA, USA)	$6,162
82	Burt Boutin AKA "the big...BOUTIN" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,214
83	Theodore Teruya	$5,214
84	Arnold Spee (Agoura Hills, CA, USA)	$5,214
85	John Michael (Henderson, NV, USA)	$5,214
86	Garrett Allen AKA "got an arm" (Gilbert, AZ, USA)	$5,214
87	Jeffrey Brown (CA, USA)	$5,214
88	Jason Travis	$5,214
89	Matthew Vengrin (Red Hook, NY, USA)	$5,214
90	James Sheridan	$5,214
91	Terry Hawkins AKA "Hawk" (Cordova, TN, USA)	$4,582
92	Tony Pusey AKA "Button Pusher" (Jackson, MI, USA)	$4,582
93	James Richards (Arvada, CO, USA)	$4,582
94	Edmund Chui (Hayward, CA, USA)	$4,582
95	Gary Spitzer (Henderson, NV, USA)	$4,582
96	Kirk Bell (Mineral Springs, AR, USA)	$4,582
97	Alex Masterman (London, UK)	$4,582
98	Edgar Henry	$4,582
99	Warren Sheaves	$4,582
100	Christian Bowerman (Stockton, CA, USA)	$4,108
101	Nam Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$4,108
102	Richie Gallen (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$4,108
103	Casey Kastle (Ljubljana, Slovenia)	$4,108
104	Hanson Li	$4,108
105	Matthew Rizzo (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,108
106	Clint Schafer (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)	$4,108
107	Lee Watkinson (Lakebay, WA, USA)	$4,108
108	Toshio Nanao	$4,108
109	Anthony Cartwright (Cheshire, UK)	$4,108
110	Christopher Black (San Diego, CA, USA)	$4,108
111	Jacques Zaicik (Paris, France)	$4,108
112	Dan La	$4,108
113	Dennis Wu (Cleveland, OH, USA)	$4,108
114	Anthony Chatelain (Sweden)	$4,108
115	Robert Castillo	$4,108
116	Wolfbert Bartlema (Nieuw Beerta, Netherlands)	$4,108
117	Yuji Higaki	$4,108
118	Anthony Saladino (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$4,108
119	Michael Kirstein (Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA)	$4,108
120	Mark Castagnetti	$4,108
121	Donald Rousseau (Orlando, FL, USA)	$4,108
122	Romano Martini (Venice, Italy)	$4,108
123	Algred Giuffrida	$4,108
124	William McMahon (Ceder Grove, NJ, USA)	$4,108
125	Gregory Varoz (El Paso, TX, USA)	$4,108
126	William Ragatz	$4,108
127	Steve Drury (Oak Grove, MO, USA)	$3,792
128	David Proffit	$3,792
129	Al Wells (Branson, USA)	$3,792
130	Brian L Malczewski (Buffalo, NY, USA)	$3,792
131	Eugenio Delgado	$3,792
132	Bradley Smith (Thornhill, ON, Canada)	$3,792
133	David Moyle	$3,792
134	Jeff Bell (USA)	$3,792
135	Avelyn Navarro (Mountain View, CA, USA)	$3,792
136	Chad Timmons	$3,792
137	Edward Campbell	$3,792
138	John Javit	$3,792
139	Romeo Puelbo	$3,792
140	Michael Heygood	$3,792
141	Dean Hamrick (Plymouth, MI, USA)	$3,792
142	Ernie Scherer (San Ramon, CA, USA)	$3,792
143	Todd Borowski	$3,792
144	Scott Mulholland (Easten, PA, USA)	$3,792
145	Ryan Robinson (Madrid, Spain)	$3,792
146	Francesso Pisani	$3,792
147	Steven Moss (USA)	$3,792
148	Kenneth Meier (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)	$3,792
149	Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$3,792
150	Jared Schager	$3,792
151	John P. Rooney (Framingham, MA, USA)	$3,792
152	Larry Hicks (Mount Vernon, IL, USA)	$3,792
153	James Conliss	$3,792
154	Lawrence Ha AKA "LDOGG" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,792
155	Israel Amoyal	$3,792
156	Sherit Derias (Melbourne, Australia)	$3,792
157	Robert Diver	$3,792
158	Gregorios Lampries	$3,792
159	Vince Burgio (West Hills, CA, USA)	$3,792
160	Kevin Ho (Gainsville, FL, USA)	$3,792
161	Michael Carter (Milan, TN, USA)	$3,792
162	Brian Yoder	$3,792
163	James Mallinak (Welden Spring, MO, USA)	$3,476
164	Johannes Olsson AKA "wptmaster" (Hudiksvall, Sweden)	$3,476
165	Mark McLaughlin	$3,476
166	Michael Schorer (Grosse Pointe Shores, MI, USA)	$3,476
167	Tony Morina AKA "Plumber" (Paulsboro, NJ, USA)	$3,476
168	Dersim Sylwan (Sweden)	$3,476
169	Patrick Caserta	$3,476
170	Janet Henderson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,476
171	Jonathan Vuong (Rancho Palos Verdes)	$3,476
172	Mark Bryan (Orange, CA, USA)	$3,476
173	Charles Ambrogi (Dublin, OH, USA)	$3,476
174	Paul Zibits (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$3,476
175	Thomas Berg (Chicago, IL, USA)	$3,476
176	Wendeen Eolis (New York, NY, USA)	$3,476
177	Brian McClelland	$3,476
178	Hamed Cholagh (Troy, MI, USA)	$3,476
179	Trophy John Bradley (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$3,476
180	Joseph Montanaro	$3,476
181	Kenneth Hill	$3,476
182	Gregory Kemper	$3,476
183	Ganeshu Krishnan	$3,476
184	Benjamin Bono (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$3,476
185	Damian Artt (Mesa, AZ, USA)	$3,476
186	David Kelbel (USA)	$3,476
187	Steve Karp (North Miami Beach, FL, USA)	$3,476
188	Corky Cummings	$3,476
189	Tyler Harshey	$3,476
190	Greg Shahabe	$3,476
191	Jon Montanaro	$3,476
192	Matthew Stout AKA "All In At 420" (Galloway, NJ, USA)	$3,476
193	Robert Crawford AKA "ok" (Orlando, FL, USA)	$3,476
194	Terry Phillips	$3,476
195	Henry Lao	$3,476
196	Brandon Cashwell (Greenville, NC, USA)	$3,476
197	Enrique Bours	$3,476
198	John Repetti (Henderson, NV, USA)	$3,476

Tournament Report

The winner of the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event was David Stucke, from Henderson, NV. He is a 33-year-old university professor. He is married to wife Cheri, who cheered him on to victory throughout the tournament and at the final table.
-- Dr. Stucke is a professor of physics. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, and received advanced degrees from Iowa State and Penn State.
-- Stucke has been playing poker seriously for about three years. However, he has never cashed in a major event previously. First place prize money for this tournament totaled $603,069. He also collected the coveted gold and diamond bracelet designed by luxury Swiss watchmaker Corum.
-- Early on at the final table, Stucke's most critical hand took place when he moved all-in holding pocket threes. He was called by the chip leader holding two overcards (K-Q). Stucke won the "race," which means he was essentially in a coin flip situation for his tournament life. The difference in prize money between elimination on that hand versus his actual payout was half-a-million dollars. So, pocket threes will most certainly go down as Stucke's favorite hand and greatest poker memory.
-- Thai Ton was the 8th-place finisher. He collected $47,400. Remarkably, this was only the second live tournament Ton has ever played.
-- Sabyl Cohen was the 11th-place finisher in this tournament. She was the highest female finisher in last year's world championship main event, finishing 56th in a record-field of 8,773.
-- Dr. Bruce Van Horn, from Ada, OK finished 35th. He is best-remembered for his second-place showing in the 1996 main event, losing to Huck Seed in the heads-up finale.
-- David Williams -- gold bracelet winner last year and runner-up to Greg Raymer in the 2004 championship event - finished 50 th.
-- Other former WSOP gold bracelet winners who finished in-the-money included Burt Boutin, Lee Watkinson, Minh Nguyen, and Vince Burgio.
-- Wendeen Eolis, from New York City cashed out in 176th place. Eolis became the first woman ever to cash in the WSOP main event, in 1986. She also became the first woman ever to cash in the main event two times, with her second cash in 1993.
-- A few years ago, a 1,000-player field was big news. No more. Since the start of 2006 WSOP $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em events have attracted 2,998, 2,803, 2,776, and 2,126 players respectively. This event had 2,628 entries.
-- This was the sixth tournament of this year's World Series carried "live" at the official website, www.worldseriesofpoker.com. Final table players were sequestered during play. Commentary was provided by Scott Lauer. Color was provided by note poker theorist and full-time player Barry Tanenbaum.
-- by Nolan Dalla

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