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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #41 - WSOP Seniors - No Limit Hold'em World Championship

June 25, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$1,000
Prize Pool	$1,882,000
Entries	1882
Report Available

Ernest Bennett

Place	Name	Prize
1	Ernest Bennett (Encino, CA, USA)	$348,423
2	Anthony Korfman (Boulder City, NV, USA)	$217,503
3	Rod Clarida (Brea, CA, USA)	$142,147
4	Ed Smith AKA "Lionking" (Twentynine Palms, CA, USA)	$95,907
5	Thomas Catanzaro	$65,080
6	Leon Lewis	$47,953
7	Jack Deutsch AKA "Snake" (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$35,965
8	Ray Abels (Danville, CA, USA)	$26,546
9	Chuck Anderson (USA)	$20,209
10	Hassan Kamoei (Indio, CA, USA)	$15,499
11	Marvin DeVore	$15,499
12	Randall Harrill	$15,499
13	John Zaiss	$13,787
14	Myron Icke AKA "David" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$13,787
15	Thomas Dreaper (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$13,787
16	Sandy Cohen	$12,074
17	Ronald Matusek	$12,074
18	Jeanne David (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,074
19	Jack Maresca	$10,361
20	Robert Stotka	$10,361
21	Dennis Foli	$10,361
22	William Sheffey (Stow, OH, USA)	$10,361
23	Exxon Feyznia (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,361
24	Albert Ethier (Bellflower, CA, USA)	$10,361
25	Keith Uchima	$10,361
26	Vince Burgio (West Hills, CA, USA)	$10,361
27	Bob Menake	$10,361
28	Larry Enos	$8,820
29	Brad Daugherty (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,820
30	Paul Gratsch (Cocoa, FL, USA)	$8,820
31	Imani Heda	$8,820
32	Jimmy McHugh (USA)	$8,820
33	Martin Wennar (USA)	$8,820
34	Tom McEvoy AKA "pokerchump" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$8,820
35	Kenny Piel AKA "Bad Hat" (Tunica, MS, USA)	$8,820
36	Micky Wernick (Birmingham, UK)	$8,820
37	Bud Bidleman	$7,450
38	Joseph Petro (Lafayette, CA, USA)	$7,450
39	Frank Vandal (Bullhead City, AZ, USA)	$7,450
40	Tom Ralph (Sioux Falls, SD, USA)	$7,450
41	Terry Fleischer (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,450
42	Laurence Lubliner (Chicago, IL, USA)	$7,450
43	Douglas MacCallon	$7,450
44	Larry Pequignot	$7,450
45	Bill De Rego (San Jose, CA, USA)	$7,450
46	Michael Rutherford (Temple, TX, USA)	$6,251
47	Gerald Shebar (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$6,251
48	Wayne Baker (Genoa, NV, USA)	$6,251
49	Bud Tufeld (Redondo Beach, CA, USA)	$6,251
50	Howard Andrew AKA "Tahoe" (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)	$6,251
51	Gerald Gregory (New Baltimore, MI, USA)	$6,251
52	Mark Bendure	$6,251
53	Dung Truong	$6,251
54	Tom McCormick AKA "The Shamrock Kid" (Fargo, ND, USA)	$6,251
55	Ronnie Williams (Lawton, OK, USA)	$5,138
56	James Kasputis Sr (Rockford, IL, USA)	$5,138
57	Bill Starr (Minneapolis, MN, USA)	$5,138
58	Richard Sadler	$5,138
59	Colleen Mullaney	$5,138
60	Bob Smith (Dallas, TX, USA)	$5,138
61	Roy Upshaw (Gainesville, TX, USA)	$5,138
62	Mark Abrahams	$5,138
63	James Deluco	$5,138
64	George Geros (Reno, NV, USA)	$4,282
65	Jim Bucci (Hollywood, MD, USA)	$4,282
66	Constantine Zdanowich (El Segundo, CA, USA)	$4,282
67	Hugh Bryan AKA "Skip" (Nixa, MO, USA)	$4,282
68	Arthur Reber (Point Roberts, WA, USA)	$4,282
69	Patti Noris (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$4,282
70	Albert Chorney	$4,282
71	Glenn Martinez	$4,282
72	Nicholas Baxter	$4,282
73	Kelly Smoot	$3,597
74	Wayne Hirao (Richmond)	$3,597
75	Richard Harris (Swansea, UK)	$3,597
76	William Davis AKA "CHEF D" (Sarasota, FL, USA)	$3,597
77	Gary Raimist	$3,597
78	Louis Ray (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,597
79	John Alm (Hyattville, WY, USA)	$3,597
80	Steve Wise (Curl Curl, Australia)	$3,597
81	Edsel Forshee	$3,597
82	Melvin Tubbs (Lawton, OK, USA)	$2,997
83	Julie Parker (Aptos, CA, USA)	$2,997
84	Marshall Winkler (Morrison, CO, USA)	$2,997
85	Robert Hoffman (Culver City, CA, USA)	$2,997
86	Paul Guernsey	$2,997
87	David Malinish	$2,997
88	Joel King	$2,997
89	Kevin Landry (Santa Clarita, CA, USA)	$2,997
90	John "Spyder" McCarthy (Jersey City, NJ, USA)	$2,997
91	David Minto (Alamogordo, NM, USA)	$2,655
92	Ted Smith (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$2,655
93	Paul Apostolides (San Diego, CA, USA)	$2,655
94	Gerald DeNicholas (Tampa, FL, USA)	$2,655
95	Bill Halpern	$2,655
96	Amarillo Slim Thomas Preston (Amarillo, TX, USA)	$2,655
97	Geoffrey Hill	$2,655
98	David Bailey (Henderson, NV, USA)	$2,655
99	Paul Howard (Simi Valley, CA, USA)	$2,655
100	Gary Silvey (Powell, OH, USA)	$2,398
101	Louis Adams (Marina del Rey, CA, USA)	$2,398
102	Lawrence Haber AKA "LORENZO" (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$2,398
103	Leonard Martin (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,398
104	Edward Canfield	$2,398
105	Charles Fisher (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$2,398
106	Unknown	$2,398
107	David Cloud	$2,398
108	Bruce Corman (Nottingham, UK)	$2,398
109	David Bartholomew	$2,398
110	Cameron Doner (Reno, NV, USA)	$2,398
111	Steve Schwartz (Walla Walla, WA, USA)	$2,398
112	Ronald Bowshier	$2,398
113	Roy Dubela	$2,398
114	David Steinman	$2,398
115	Kevin Trubman	$2,398
116	Michael Skyhorse	$2,398
117	Larry Jones (Australia)	$2,398
118	Louise Quintana (Thornton, CO, USA)	$2,398
119	Bernard Denny	$2,398
120	Sally Barr	$2,398
121	Evelyn Eisenbrey (Oklahoma City, OK, USA)	$2,398

Tournament Report

Tournament Notes:

-- The winner of the 2007 Seniors Poker World Championship was Ernest Bennett. He is a 55-year-old former business owner from Encino, CA. This was his first WSOP victory.

-- Bennett was born in Canada. He moved to the U.S. at a young age. Bennett attended college and earned a B.S. in civil engineering. He owned a successful chain of dry cleaners and recently sold off his businesses.

-- Bennett started playing seriously about five years ago. He learned the game mostly through playing with friends. He has a very impressive string of cashes in recent years. In fact, Bennett has cashed over 30 times in tournaments since 2004. However, he has yet to win a major tournament.

-- Bennett arrived at the final table with a significant chip advantage. It took him just over five hours to achieve victory. This was Bennett's first time ever to cash at the WSOP. First place paid $348,423.

-- "Aggressive poker – that's the only way I know how to play," Bennett said in a post-tournament interview. "I'm always raising. Sometimes I have to try and slow it down, but I think the aggressive style works for me."

-- Leon Lewis was the 6th-place finisher. Lewis was once a nationally-ranked pistol shooter and former police officer.

-- This event was won by a woman last year – the first such occasion. Clare

Miller became the first lady to win the seniors event in history. Women players did not fare as well this year. The highest woman finisher in this tournament was Jeanne David of Las Vegas (18th).

-- The age requirement to play in the Seniors World Poker Championship was 50 years or higher. Player ages at the final table ranged from 51 (youngest) to 71 (oldest).

-- This was the largest seniors poker event of all time. The 1,882 entries destroyed the previous record that was set last year (1,184) by more than 30 percent.

-- Former WSOP gold bracelet winner and poker writer/author Vince Burgio finished in 26th place.

-- 1991 world poker champion Brad Daugherty finished in 29th place.

-- 1983 world poker champion Tom McEvoy finished in 34th place.

-- Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Howard "Tahoe" Andrew finished in 50th place. This is Tahoe's 34th consecutive year to play at the WSOP, which is the all-time record.

-- Gambling author and psychologist Arthur Reber (The New Gambler's Bible ) formally an academic at Brooklyn College took 68th place.

-- Poker legend "Amarillo Slim" Preston, the 1972 world poker champion cashed for the first time in five years at the WSOP. The poker icon finished in 96th place and was given a nice ovation from the crowd.

-- Former WSOP gold bracelet winner and mystic Phil "Doc" Earle, from Newfoundland, Canada cashed in 145th place.

-- by Nolan Dalla