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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #35 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 21, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$3,468,465
Entries	2541
Report Available

Ryan Young

Place	Name	Prize
1	Ryan Young (Torrance, CA, USA)	$615,955
2	Dustin Dirksen (USA)	$381,381
3	Nam Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$239,230
4	John Esposito (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$156,020
5	Michael Trimby (Northern Ireland, UK)	$109,214
6	Paul Cheung	$79,743
7	Raj Jain	$62,408
8	Darren Glenn	$46,806
9	Joe Holmes (Bullhead City, AZ, USA)	$36,751
10	Ken Adams AKA "DC Kid" (Washington, DC, USA)	$30,510
11	Michael Ium (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$30,510
12	Steve Cohn (Chandler, AZ, USA)	$30,510
13	David Mitchell - Lolis (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$27,043
14	Daniel Francis (Auckland, New Zealand)	$27,043
15	Salvatore Mangiafico (Newington, CT, USA)	$27,043
16	Larry Goldstein (Farmingville, NY, USA)	$23,576
17	James Boltin	$23,576
18	Aaron Kanter AKA "The Big Killer" (Elk Grove, CA, USA)	$23,576
19	Matthew Traudt (Oconomowoc, WI, USA)	$20,109
20	Kevin Prendergaast	$20,109
21	David Matsumoto	$20,109
22	Frank Sinopoli (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$20,109
23	Hans Winzeler (Miami, FL, USA)	$20,109
24	Rick Washinsky (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$20,109
25	Charles Zanatian (Green River, WY, USA)	$20,109
26	Alejandro Maldonado	$20,109
27	Joseph Joffino (Torrance, CA, USA)	$20,109
28	Phil Gordon (South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA)	$16,989
29	Jonas Klausen (Denmark)	$16,989
30	Bryan Uyeua	$16,989
31	Jon Dull (Fresno, CA, USA)	$16,989
32	Adrian Jimenez AKA "Jr"	$16,989
33	George Ramos (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$16,989
34	Paul Bendetti (Calabasa, CA, USA)	$16,989
35	Fabio Bianchi	$16,989
36	Belinda Casey	$16,989
37	Juan Carlos Alvarado AKA "J.C." (Mission, TX, USA)	$14,215
38	Walt Strakowski (West Palm Beach, FL, USA)	$14,215
39	Timothy Foley (Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)	$14,215
40	Kevin Song (Hacienda Heights, CA, USA)	$14,215
41	Unknown	$14,215
42	Robert Fulop (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$14,215
43	David Hedley (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$14,215
44	Benjamin Chung (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$14,215
45	Robert Bryan (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$14,215
46	Fred Ruscetti	$11,788
47	Jimmy Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,788
48	David Wells (Ogdensburg, NY, USA)	$11,788
49	Jacobo Fernandez (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$11,788
50	Daniel Vittikko	$11,788
51	Saleen Damania (Lakeside, CA, USA)	$11,788
52	Travis Green (Irvine, CA, USA)	$11,788
53	Thomas Dreaper (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,788
54	Michael Meredith (Westfleid, NJ, USA)	$11,788
55	Tim McKean AKA "TMAC" (West Sacramento, CA, USA)	$9,708
56	Dan Shimizu	$9,708
57	Daniel R Dumont (Orlando, FL, USA)	$9,708
58	Dutch Boyd (Columbia, MO, USA)	$9,708
59	Arthur Manfredi	$9,708
60	Edward Pellegrini AKA "cajunsqueeze" (Destrehan, LA, USA)	$9,708
61	John Juanda (Marina Del Rey, CA, USA)	$9,708
62	Antonio Esfandiari AKA "The Magician" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$9,708
63	Keit Lieu	$9,708
64	Vinny Curry (New Britain, CT, USA)	$7,974
65	Elliott Merlin (Miami Beach, FL, USA)	$7,974
66	Richard Mayor (Merrick, NY, USA)	$7,974
67	Thomas Culberson (Ellisville, MS, USA)	$7,974
68	Yarom Limor AKA "braveyoyo" (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$7,974
69	Hak Hyun Lee	$7,974
70	Brent Shrerbon (The Dallies, OR, USA)	$7,974
71	Adam Jed	$7,974
72	Colin Russell (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$7,974
73	Paul Niemela (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,587
74	Jason Kallivokas (Reston, VA, USA)	$6,587
75	Nick "Chairman" Mao (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$6,587
76	Jeppe Mikkelsen (Aarhus, Denmark)	$6,587
77	Anthony Meli	$6,587
78	Gary Gibbs (Hot Springs, AR, USA)	$6,587
79	Brian Hansen (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)	$6,587
80	Aaron J Simon (Franklin, MA, USA)	$6,587
81	Peter Nguyen AKA "Byrd Man" (Tustin, CA, USA)	$6,587
82	Michael Lee (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$5,547
83	Garrett Gruener	$5,547
84	Jonathan Weinstock (Baltimore, MD, USA)	$5,547
85	Michael Zats (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$5,547
86	John Zaheri (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,547
87	Sali Ma (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,547
88	Hevad "Rain" Khan (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)	$5,547
89	Darron Burroughs	$5,547
90	Greg Warner (Tampa, FL, USA)	$5,547
91	Patrice Boudet (France)	$4,854
92	Michael Shuster (Reno, NV, USA)	$4,854
93	Daniel Ryan (Grand Forks, ND, USA)	$4,854
94	Gia Truong (British Columbia, Canada)	$4,854
95	Joshua Tieman (Kildeer, IL, USA)	$4,854
96	Joe Sebok (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$4,854
97	Alan Kelleher (Ireland)	$4,854
98	Joseph Tehan (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,854
99	Mike Chandler	$4,854
100	Fabio Carlos Loducca (Italy)	$4,334
101	Alan Henson	$4,334
102	Clonie Gowen (Dallas, TX, USA)	$4,334
103	Thomas Starkey	$4,334
104	Robert Cheung AKA "RCW" (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$4,334
105	Luke Staudenmaier (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)	$4,334
106	Dan Mitnick (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$4,334
107	Len Demchak (Streetsboro, OH, USA)	$4,334
108	Daren Stabinski	$4,334
109	Dennis Brent	$4,334
110	Steven Prater	$4,334
111	Joel Lyon AKA "The Rock" (Edmond, OK, USA)	$4,334
112	Matts Rahmn (Stockholm, Sweden)	$4,334
113	Matt Sallee AKA "TowTruck" (Hudson, IA, USA)	$4,334
114	Travis Remmert (Iowa City, IA, USA)	$4,334
115	Jennifer Lam (San Fransisco, CA, USA)	$4,334
116	Brian Horowitz	$4,334
117	Ben Prince (Lark Park, GA, USA)	$4,334
118	Paul Foltyn (Doncaster, UK)	$4,334
119	Kathy Liebert (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,334
120	Anthony Roux	$4,334
121	Sean Lefort (Bowmanville, ON, Canada)	$4,334
122	Mark Buchholz (Salem, OR, USA)	$4,334
123	Joseph Worth	$4,334
124	Ramon Gonzalez	$4,334
125	Dat Luu (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$4,334
126	Clark Hamagami (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$4,334
127	Scott Creasey	$3,987
128	Scott O'Reily (UK)	$3,987
129	Eduardo Santi (Argentina)	$3,987
130	Alfred Gattenby	$3,987
131	John How	$3,987
132	Dan Scherf (Findlay, OH, USA)	$3,987
133	Breton Parry	$3,987
134	Lenny Kwatinetz	$3,987
135	Anthony George Dunst (Madison, WI, USA)	$3,987
136	Dave Plaskett (Boulder Creek, CO, USA)	$3,987
137	Neil Timothy	$3,987
138	Jeremy Burleson (Stanley, NC, USA)	$3,987
139	Sean Chen (San Diego, CA, USA)	$3,987
140	Ben Babauta	$3,987
141	Andrew Chad	$3,987
142	Keith Gregory	$3,987
143	Kayshan Wothy	$3,987
144	Shaun Linefsky	$3,987
145	Dao Bal	$3,987
146	Tom Clark AKA "Marker Down" (Summit, PA, USA)	$3,987
147	Jamie Cohen (Middletown, RI, USA)	$3,987
148	Jeffrey Sims	$3,987
149	Kris Fields (Cincinnati, OH, USA)	$3,987
150	Dan Sudhop (Zionsville, IN, USA)	$3,987
151	Kevin O'Dell	$3,987
152	Thomas Huemiller	$3,987
153	Davis Aalvik AKA "psycho ward" (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$3,987
154	Mark Griffin (UK)	$3,987
155	Maen Shadda (San Diego, CA, USA)	$3,987
156	Frank Orasaki	$3,987
157	Hayden Fitzgerald	$3,987
158	Andrew Youngblood (Dearborn, MI, USA)	$3,987
159	Don Yaughn (Fort Valley, GA, USA)	$3,987
160	Hao Kuan	$3,987
161	Danielle McCauley AKA "Dani" (Highlands Ranch, CO, USA)	$3,987
162	Donavon Sparrow (Henderson, CO, USA)	$3,987
163	Corey Kuick	$3,640
164	Chris Avery (Newark, NY, USA)	$3,640
165	Kenneth Lum	$3,640
166	Ronald Bender	$3,640
167	Eric Kurtzman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,640
168	Ernest Shepherd (Lizella, GA, USA)	$3,640
169	Per Magnusummex	$3,640
170	George Crawford (Kihei, HI, USA)	$3,640
171	Paul Lessard AKA "Jmoney" (Peoria, AZ, USA)	$3,640
172	Jason Pizzo AKA "Goodfella_84" (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$3,640
173	Adam Jacobson	$3,640
174	Juha Helppi (Helsinki, Finland)	$3,640
175	Charles Mayes AKA "Teuadin" (Palm Coast, FL, USA)	$3,640
176	Richard Clark (Marietta, OH, USA)	$3,640
177	William Wellman AKA "CHOP CHOP" (GODFREY/LAS VEGAS, IL, USA)	$3,640
178	Robert Miller (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,640
179	Aram Zerounian (Foothill Ranch, CA, USA)	$3,640
180	Jonathan Kreisner	$3,640
181	Randall Cooper (Burlington, IA, USA)	$3,640
182	Ted Leva (Houston, TX, USA)	$3,640
183	Mike Hamparsomian (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$3,640
184	Farhad Sinaei (New Britain, CT, USA)	$3,640
185	Gerald Bauer	$3,640
186	Shelby Miller (Alamagordo, NM, USA)	$3,640
187	Darrell Struck (Dallas, TX, USA)	$3,640
188	Tom Chambers (Chicago, IL, USA)	$3,640
189	Cezary Czesnowski	$3,640
190	Panayote Vilandos (Houston, TX, USA)	$3,640
191	Pamela Brunson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,640
192	Douglas Mandeville (Shelton, CT, USA)	$3,640
193	Steven Reeves (UK)	$3,640
194	Nicholas Manganaro (Omaha, NE, USA)	$3,640
195	John Massouh	$3,640
196	Paul Ahmed (Springdale, AR, USA)	$3,640
197	Ryan Robert	$3,640
198	Steve Ashhurst	$3,640
199	Darren Miller	$3,295
200	Benjamin Logan (Bristol, RI, USA)	$3,295
201	Gary Fenchuk	$3,295
202	Jeff Bergerson (Roseville, MN, USA)	$3,295
203	Gerald White AKA "Jerry" (Gravois Mills, MO, USA)	$3,295
204	Carlos Posso (Miami, FL, USA)	$3,295
205	Mason White (Jackson, CA, USA)	$3,295
206	Raymond Lau (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$3,295
207	Kenneth Hoback	$3,295
208	Stan Schrier (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,295
209	Robert Starkey	$3,295
210	Jamie Heitner (Plantation, FL, USA)	$3,295
211	Gregory Sheppard	$3,295
212	Michael Rybicki AKA "BickiBoy" (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)	$3,295
213	Gregory Bartky	$3,295
214	Christopher Floyd	$3,295
215	Wayne McGregor	$3,295
216	Eugene Todd (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$3,295
217	Fred Goldberg (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$3,295
218	Richard Chang (Mission Viejo, CA, USA)	$3,295
219	Philip Lowery (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$3,295
220	Robert Lang (La Verne, CA, USA)	$3,295
221	Michael Perock	$3,295
222	Michael Vogel (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,295
223	Matthew Walsh (UK)	$3,295
224	John Dodd	$3,295
225	Cheung Sun	$3,295
226	Trever Lau	$3,295
227	Nicole Caramatti	$3,295
228	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)	$3,295
229	Wade Woelfel (Mawkato, MN, USA)	$3,295
230	Gregory Grivas (Carlsbad, CA, USA)	$3,295
231	Stephen Snider	$3,295
232	John Schmidt	$3,295
233	Nicola Cavacini (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,295
234	Lazalo Rojas	$3,295
235	Jeffrey Wisler	$2,948
236	Kyle Hoffman	$2,948
237	Jason Light (Encino, CA, USA)	$2,948
238	Jeff Campbell (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$2,948
239	Tom McEvoy AKA "pokerchump" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,948
240	Todd Benoit	$2,948
241	Michael Sulser	$2,948
242	James Shaw (Lawton, OK, USA)	$2,948
243	Eric Lucas	$2,948
244	Guan Leminh	$2,948
245	Herman Everett (Del Rio, TX, USA)	$29
246	Peirce Shaad (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$2,948
247	Matthew Stout AKA "All In At 420" (Atlantic City, NJ, USA)	$2,948
248	Richard Murnick (Upper Montclair, NJ, USA)	$2,948
249	James Peterson (Hope Mills, NC, USA)	$2,948
250	John Junker	$2,948
251	Russ Floyd (Houston, TX, USA)	$2,948
252	Daniel Prenat	$2,948
253	Chris Hooper (Tulsa, OK, USA)	$2,948
254	Jeffery Cotan	$2,948
255	Charles Newton	$2,948
256	Charles Cardiel	$2,948
257	Louie Ramos AKA "LD" (Jersey City, NJ, USA)	$2,948
258	Donald Carlton (Woodstock, IL, USA)	$2,948
259	Gerry Gersten	$2,948
260	Carl Brewington (Hermitage, TN, USA)	$2,948
261	Jamal Trice	$2,948
262	George Ludwig	$2,948
263	Daniel Gabrielson	$2,948
264	Nick Binger (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,948
265	Jerome Goston	$2,948
266	David Leisge	$2,948
267	Darren Kennedy (New Westminster, BC, Canada)	$2,948
268	Randy Dorfman (Coconut Grove, FL, USA)	$2,948
269	Jason Johnson (Coral Springs, FL, USA)	$2,948
270	Unknown	$2,948

Tournament Report

Tournament Notes:

-- The winner of the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship was Ryan Young, a 23-year old aspiring pro poker player from Torrance, CA. Prior to winning the $615,955 top prize in this event, Young had worked various odds jobs, including waiting tables in a restaurant.

-- Young has been playing poker for about four years. He mostly plays on his home computer.

-- Young arrived at the final table with a significant chip lead. It took him about six hours to win his first WSOP gold bracelet, which was presented afterward by WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.

-- Among those Young vanquished at the final table were tournament veteran John Esposito, a former WSOP gold bracelet winner and high stakes poker player and sports bettor from Las Vegas.

-- The 10th-place finisher was Ken Adams, from Washington, DC . Adams is a highly-successful attorney who was once counsel to White House insider Chuck Colson (of Watergate infamy). Adams successfully litigated the largest legal settlement in US history during the Exxon-Valdez oil spill case in Alaska.

-- Poker celebrity and philanthropist Phil Gordon finished in 28th place. Gordon is the co-founder of the charity "Put a Bad Beat on Cancer," which seeks to raise money for cancer research and awareness. Gordon is urging all of his fellow poker players to contribute one-percent of their winnings at this WSOP to the fund. Put a Bad Beat on Cancer has been active at the WSOP since 2003.

-- With his 228th-place finish (good for a cash), Chris "Jesus" Ferguson moved into undisputed fifth place on the all-time list for lifetime cashes. He now has 48 in-the-money finishes, pulling slightly ahead of Brent Carter. He is two cashes behind Berry Johnson, currently in fourth place with 50.

-- Any who doubts the World Series of Poker is the premier poker event on the planet is advised to take a look at these figures. All five $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em events held at this year's World Series of Poker have attracted 2,300+ entries. The breakdown numbers are as follows:

Event #3 2,998

Event #15 2,628

Event #27 2,315

Event #35 2,541

Event #38 2,778

The combined total number of entrants in just these five events is 13,263, which is greater than the total attendance of all 36 events played at the 2003 WSOP (the year Chris Moneymaker won).

-- by Nolan Dalla