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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #31 - WSOP Heads Up - No Limit Hold'em World Championship

June 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$5,000
Prize Pool	$1,842,406
Entries	392
Report Available

Daniel Schreiber

Place	Name	Prize
1	Daniel Schreiber (Seoul, South Korea)	$425,594
2	Mark Muchnik (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$230,300
3	Keith Block AKA "Dr. Fells" (Pomona, NY, USA)	$128,968
4	Vanessa Selbst (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$128,968
5	Steve Sarrafzadeh (Roslyn, NY, USA)	$46,060
6	Jared Davis (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$46,060
7	Shannon Shorr (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$46,060
8	Toto Leonidas (Glendale, CA, USA)	$46,060
9	Paul Wasicka AKA "Kwickfish" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$23,030
10	Jason Glass (Buffalo Grove, IL, USA)	$23,030
11	Mike Pickett (Little Canada, MN, USA)	$23,030
12	Carmel Petresco (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$23,030
13	Curt Kohlberg (Western, MA, USA)	$23,030
14	Thomas Wahlroos (Helsinki, Finland)	$23,030
15	Kevin Song (Hacienda Heights, CA, USA)	$23,030
16	Jonah Rogers (Friendswood, TX, USA)	$23,030
17	Scotty Nguyen (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$16,582
18	Aaron Been (Gainsville, FL, USA)	$16,582
19	Ron Faltinsky (Monterey Park, CA, USA)	$16,582
20	Nicholas Niergarth (Milwaukee, WI, USA)	$16,582
21	John Kabbaj (London, UK)	$16,582
22	Robert Cheung AKA "RCW" (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$16,582
23	Peter Jetten (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$16,582
24	Kyle Wilson (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$16,582
25	Paul Gordon (Henderson, NV, USA)	$16,582
26	Alex Bolotin AKA "Diesel" (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$16,582
27	Phillipe Boucher AKA "PhiLLeDINGUE" (Duluth, GA, USA)	$16,582
28	Roman Paradiso (Downey, CA, USA)	$16,582
29	Shae Drobushevich (Moline, IL, USA)	$16,582
30	Michael Judge (Bensalem, PA, USA)	$16,582
31	Carl Olson (Seattle, WA, USA)	$16,582
32	Kirk Morrison (Boise, ID, USA)	$16,582
33	Sean McCabe (Sunny Isles Beach, FL, USA)	$9,212
34	Nath Pizzolatto (Lake Charles, LA, USA)	$9,212
35	Matt Keikoan (Richmond, CA, USA)	$9,212
36	Daniel Alaei (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,212
37	Matt Giannetti (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,212
38	Casey Jarzabek AKA "bigdogpckt5s" (St Catherines, ON, Canada)	$9,212
39	Alex Brenes (San Jose, Costa Rica)	$9,212
40	Shawn Chaconas AKA "luckbox" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$9,212
41	Joe Sebok (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$9,212
42	Jose Tavares (Commerce, CA, USA)	$9,212
43	Daniel Francis (Auckland, New Zealand)	$9,212
44	Jonas Entin (Granada Hills, CA, USA)	$9,212
45	Charles Ambrogi (Dublin, OH, USA)	$9,212
46	Johannes Steindl (Austria)	$9,212
47	Chad Brown AKA "Downtown" (Margate, FL, USA)	$9,212
48	Jennifer Tilly (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$9,212
49	Marc Karam AKA "Myst" (Ottawa, ON, Canada)	$9,212
50	John Hanson (New York, NY, USA)	$9,212
51	Kevin O'Donnell (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$9,212
52	Bart Hanson AKA "deduce bag" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$9,212
53	Roland de Wolfe (London, UK)	$9,212
54	Eric Lynch (Olathe, KS, USA)	$9,212
55	Tony Guoga AKA "G" (Melbourne, Australia)	$9,212
56	Gavin Griffin (Fullerton, CA, USA)	$9,212
57	Nathan Doudney (Dallas, TX, USA)	$9,212
58	Rob Hollink (Groningen, Netherlands)	$9,212
59	Walter Schafer (Norwalk, CA, USA)	$9,212
60	Matthew Humphrey AKA "humphreyin or indianamatt" (Indianapolis, IN, USA)	$9,212
61	Layne Flack (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,212
62	Craig Gray AKA "MrCasino" (Portland, OR, USA)	$9,212
63	Nashaat Antonious AKA "Tony" (Redington Shores, FL, USA)	$9,212
64	Tony Puan (Jonesboro, AR, USA)	$9,212

Tournament Report

The winner of the $5,000 buy-in World Heads-Up Poker Championship was Daniel Schreiber, a 21-year-old student from Seoul, South Korea.
The final match pitted Schreiber against Las Vegas poker pro Mark Muchnik. In the best two-out-of three series, Schreiber won both matches for the sweep. The first match took 79 hands to complete. The second match was much shorter, lasting just 11 hands.
First place paid $425,594. This was his first tournament cash ever, at the WSOP or any other poker event.
With the win, Schreiber became the fifth-youngest WSOP gold bracelet winner in history. He is eight days short of his 22nd birthday.
Here is the updated list of youngest WSOP event winners:
YOUNGEST PLAYER TO WIN A GOLD BRACELET
21 years, 11 days Steve Billirakis in 2007
21 years, 1 month, 9 days Jeff Madsen in 2006
21 years, 3 months, 3 days Eric Froehlich in 2005
21 years, 3 months, 20 days James Mackey in 2007
*NEW* 21 years, 11 months, 9 days – Dan Schreiber in 2007
The heads-up tournament was much different logistically than conventional poker events. With players sitting face to face with a dealer in-between them, the vast tournament arena more closely resembled a series of chess matches than poker games.
Caesars Palace in Las Vegas hosted a Heads-Up poker championship event in spring 2007, telecast on NBC. That competition was limited to 64-players. This tournament attracted 392 entries, the largest heads-up hold'em event in history.
2006 WSOP main event runner-up Paul Wasicka made it as far as the sixth round, and then busted out. According to poker journalist Gary Wise, Wasicka ran off a remarkable 13 straight wins in heads-up matches, dating back to the previous event held at Caesars Palace. That is the longest recorded series of heads-up wins ever recorded in live tournament play.
1998 World Series of Poker champion Scotty Nguyen also busted out in the sixth round. Former gold bracelet winner Kevin Song also busted out in the same frame.
Former WSOP event winner Kirk Morrison was eliminated in the fifth round.
Several former WSOP gold bracelet winners made it past the first day and finished in-the-money. However, they crashed in the fourth round. These players included – Layne Flack, Gavin Griffin, and Jennifer Tilley.
Jennifer Tilly (2005 Ladies World Poker Champion) was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress) in 1994 for her role as the seductress in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway."
Winning required the champion to win 10 consecutive matches – 3 matches on Day One, 3 matches on Day Two, and 4 matches on Day Three.
Play at the final table consisted of the best two games out of three. All preliminary matches were single elimination.
Sixty-four players received prize money. That meant three winning matches were needed to cash (except for those players who received byes in the first round, which was mandated by an odd number of total entries).