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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #28 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$3,000
Prize Pool	$2,481,000
Entries	827
Report Available

Shankar Pillai

Place	Name	Prize
1	Shankar Pillai (Commack, NY, USA)	$527,829
2	Beth Shak (Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)	$328,683
3	Jason Song (Durham, NC, USA)	$212,274
4	Dustin Holmes (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$141,516
5	Ben Fineman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$100,431
6	Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$76,464
7	Perry Friedman AKA "The Baiter" (Las Vegas, GA, USA)	$57,063
8	Brett Richey (Boston, MA, USA)	$42,227
9	Daniel Corbin	$30,814
10	Luke Vrabel (West Hartford, CT, USA)	$21,456
11	Noah Schwartz (Bay Harbor Island, FL, USA)	$21,456
12	Kevin Hong (ON, Canada)	$21,456
13	Edward "Bolivia" Moncada (Oakland, CA, USA)	$19,173
14	Thomas Wahlroos (Helsinki, Finland)	$19,173
15	Scott Bohlman (Horner Glen, IL, USA)	$19,173
16	John-Paul Kelly (Aylesbury, UK)	$16,891
17	Lance Bruner (Minneapolis, MN, USA)	$16,891
18	Tsai Chen (Netherlands)	$16,891
19	Jorge Arias (Caracas, Venezuela)	$14,608
20	Norm McDonald (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$14,608
21	David Gross AKA "thekid08" (London, UK)	$14,608
22	Jeff Rothstein (New York, NY, USA)	$14,608
23	Unknown	$14,608
24	Taylor Caby	$14,608
25	Evelyn Ng AKA "Evybabee, Evy" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$14,608
26	Robert McLaughlin (S E Washington, DC, USA)	$14,608
27	Tim McCarthy (Munster, IN, USA)	$14,608
28	Maureen Feduniak (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,554
29	Phillip Starr	$12,554
30	Mark Shoichet (West Palm Beach, FL, USA)	$12,554
31	Ronnie Sharp	$12,554
32	Riccardo Rinaldi	$12,554
33	Danny Wong (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,554
34	John Zentner III AKA "The Tank" (Moorpark, CA, USA)	$12,554
35	Steven Dannenmann AKA "Stevo" (Severn, MD, USA)	$12,554
36	Shahrokh Sarrafzadeh (Roslyn, NY, USA)	$12,554
37	Lawrence Barbetta (Wayzetta, MN, USA)	$10,728
38	Leo Wolpert (Fairfax, VA, USA)	$10,728
39	Jesse Chinni (College Park, MD, USA)	$10,728
40	Junghyun Choi (Urbana, IL, USA)	$10,728
41	Nick Frangos (Mays Landing, NJ, USA)	$10,728
42	Kyle Cox	$10,728
43	William Burdick (St Petersburg, FL, USA)	$10,728
44	Johannes Steindl (Austria)	$10,728
45	Greg Mueller AKA "FBT" (White Rock, BC, Canada)	$10,728
46	Greg Makovenko	$9,130
47	John Racener AKA "Spikey" (New Port Richey, FL, USA)	$9,130
48	Bradley Libson (Annapolis, MD, USA)	$9,130
49	Jonathan Snyder (USA)	$9,130
50	Jesse Maupin (Rowlett, TX, USA)	$9,130
51	Steve Conigliaro (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$9,130
52	Jonathan Tare (New York, NY, USA)	$9,130
53	Dennis Perry AKA "Ironman" (Williamstown, KY, USA)	$9,130
54	Andrew Wiggins	$9,130
55	Nicholas Niergarth (Milwaukee, WI, USA)	$7,418
56	Marcel Bedard (Quebec, QC, Canada)	$7,418
57	Stephen O'Dwyer AKA "MrTimCaum" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,418
58	Steven Garfinkle (Bellingham, WA, USA)	$7,418
59	David Stefanski (Waterford, CT, USA)	$7,418
60	James Routos (Seattle, WA, USA)	$7,418
61	Danny Podell (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$7,418
62	Phil "Unabomber" Laak (San Jose, CA, USA)	$7,418
63	Gerry Gersten	$7,418
64	Vivek Rajkumar (Seattle, WA, USA)	$6,163
65	Christopher Howard (UK)	$6,163
66	Jeff Garner	$6,163
67	Jerry Burgess (Wake Forest, NC, USA)	$6,163
68	Michel Leibgorin (France)	$6,163
69	Marcello Indelicato	$6,163
70	Sherit Derias (Melbourne, Australia)	$6,163
71	Ira Mazie (Hendersonville, TN, USA)	$6,163
72	Michael Fong (Chicago, IL, USA)	$6,163
73	Justin Newton (Tuscon, AZ, USA)	$5,250
74	Jeff Gray (Clarksville, AR, USA)	$5,250
75	Peter Jetten (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$5,250
76	Shawn Glines (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,250
77	Daniel O'Brien (Redondo Beach, CA, USA)	$5,250
78	Dan Umansky	$5,250
79	Jeff Cohen (Parkland, FL, USA)	$5,250
80	James Gorham (Vista, CA, USA)	$5,250
81	Dan Schmiech (Houston, TX, USA)	$5,250

Tournament Report

The winner of the $3,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship was Shankar Pillai, from Commack, NY. He is a 23-year-old aspiring poker pro, who also spends much of his time working in investments. -- This was the first WSOP event Pillai has ever entered. He won $527,829 and the gold bracelet.
-- Dustin Holmes arrived at the final table as the chip leader (and eventually exited in fourth place). But from the start, all eyes were on superstar Phil Hellmuth, Jr. The 11-time gold bracelet winner was gunning for number 12 and made things interesting for a while. But he eventually busted out in 6th place.

-- Perry Friedman won a WSOP gold bracelet back in 2002. He exited in 7th place.

-- One of the most unusual hands of the year took place when play was nine-handed. Three players moved in with premium cards. For the first time in memory, three players were essentially "all in" with – A-A. A-A, and K-K. The two pocket aces ended up splitting the pot.

-- Play on Day Three began 10-handed. However, the official final table "started" at nine-handed. There was some early suspense as the lowest stacked player at the start of the day, Phil Hellmuth, was uncertain to reach the finale. When Luke Vrabel busted out in 10th place, Phil Hellmuth locked up yet another milestone in poker history. He officially made it to his 39 th final table (lifetime), which placed him into a tie for first place on the all-time "Most WSOP Final Tables" list. He now shares the record with T.J. Cloutier.

-- Cloutier was in the audience, no doubt watching the finale with mixed emotions. Cloutier received a nice ovation from the capacity crowd and a hug from Hellmuth when the announcement was made about the two poker legends sharing the record. Several other poker notables were present, including Phil Ivey who sat in the front row.

-- One poker journalist labeled Hellmuth's achievement "the Triple Crown of Poker." This includes: (1) Most gold bracelets, (2) Most cashes, and (3) Most final tables.

-- Edward "Bolivia" Moncada, who won a WSOP gold bracelet in 2005, took 13 th.

-- Norm McDonald, actor and comedian from "Saturday Night Live" fame, finished in 20 th place. This is the third straight year McDonald has attended the WSOP. It marked his highest WSOP finish to date.

-- Steve Dannenmann, runner up in the 2005 championship event (second to winner Joe Hachem), finished in 35 th place.
-- William Perry finished 53rd. He won last year's World Series of Poker Circuit championship at the Grand Casino in Tunica, MS.