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Poker Tournament Results
38th Annual World Series of Poker
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Saifuddin Ahmad |
| 1 |
Saifuddin Ahmad (Newport Beach, CA, USA) |
$217,329 |
| 2 |
William Jensen (College Park, MD, USA) |
$133,151 |
| 3 |
Michael Graffeo (Fort Mill, SC, USA) |
$88,481 |
| 4 |
Justin Pechie (Thompson, CT, USA) |
$59,274 |
| 5 |
Tommy Rounds (Paradise, CA, USA) |
$43,811 |
| 6 |
Hal Havlisch (Fresno, CA, USA) |
$34,362 |
| 7 |
Bob Pacleb (Vallejo, CA, USA) |
$25,771 |
| 8 |
Joe Mandia |
$18,899 |
| 9 |
Gerald Kane (MA, USA) |
$13,475 |
| 10 |
David Ventura (Waterloo, ON, Canada) |
$9,020 |
| 11 |
David "C4" Plastik (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$9,020 |
| 12 |
Rick Fuller (Kirkland, WA, USA) |
$9,020 |
| 13 |
Don Zewin (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$8,161 |
| 14 |
Joe Sebok (San Francisco, CA, USA) |
$8,161 |
| 15 |
Steve Buchanan |
$8,161 |
| 16 |
Mike Barrow |
$7,302 |
| 17 |
Richard Redmond (London, UK) |
$7,302 |
| 18 |
Phi Nguyen (Santa Ana, CA, USA) |
$7,302 |
| 19 |
Michael Halford AKA "Kidfrmtenn" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 20 |
Thomas Koral (Skokie, IL, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 21 |
Van Nguyen AKA "mrs master" (Bell Gardens, CA, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 22 |
Warren Karp (Lake Forrest, CA, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 23 |
Tim Kasparoff (Whittier, CA, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 24 |
Rehne Pederson |
$6,443 |
| 25 |
Anahit Galajian (Glendale, CA, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 26 |
Lonnie Heimowitz (Monticello, NY, USA) |
$6,443 |
| 27 |
Jan Lundberg (Sweden) |
$6,443 |
| 28 |
Charlie Ng (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 29 |
Noah Boeken (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
$5,584 |
| 30 |
Gediminas Andrusaitis |
$5,584 |
| 31 |
Benson Nguyen |
$5,584 |
| 32 |
Yueqi "Rich" Zhu (Rowland Heights, CA, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 33 |
Roger Gold (san francisco, CA, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 34 |
Roxanne Rhodes AKA "The Rock" (Granite Bay, CA, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 35 |
Ayaz Mahmood (Lahore, TX, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 36 |
Rayan Nathan (Beaumont, TX, USA) |
$5,584 |
| 37 |
Yuval Bronshtein AKA "Yuvee" (Atlanta, GA, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 38 |
Rolf Slotboom (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
$4,725 |
| 39 |
Charles Knox (Akron, OH, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 40 |
Demetrios Arvanetes (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 41 |
Mario Esquerra AKA "Super" (Whittier, CA, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 42 |
Joe Deniro (Studio City, CA, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 43 |
Richard Collinsworth (Dallas, TX, USA) |
$4,725 |
| 44 |
Billy McMahan (Newport Tn) |
$4,725 |
| 45 |
James Bach (London, UK) |
$4,725 |
Tournament Report
Tournament Notes:
-- The winner of the $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em championship was Saifuddin Ahmad, a 59-year-old business owner from Newport Beach, CA. He is married and has two children. This was his first victory at the World Series of Poker.
-- Ahmad is originally from the nation of Bangladesh. He came to the United States to attend college in his late teens and earned a Masters Degree in chemical engineering from Cal-Tech.
-- Ahmad now owns several Tony Roma's restaurants in the Los Angeles area.
-- Ahmad first learned to play bridge and competed in several tournaments. He gravitated to poker playing in recent years. This is his third consecutive year to play at the WSOP.
-- The final 15 minutes of the tournament was a dream come true for Ahmad. He was roughly even in chips with his opponent. Then, Ahmad won several key hands, including spiking a key river card to make a straight on the final hand of the night to achieve his victory. First place paid $217,329.
-- Ahmad is proud of his first WSOP gold bracelet. But he is even more proud of his two children. His son graduated from Harvard. His daughter graduated from Cal-Berkeley.
-- William Jensen, from Washington, DC was the runner up. During the final table, he was cheered on by his two friends – Alex Borteh and Eric Froelich, both former gold bracelet winners.
-- Hal Havlisch, from Fresno, CA took 6th place. Havlisch has organized poker tournaments in his local area that raised several thousand dollars for families in financial distress.
-- David Plastik, the bombastic poker pro from Las Vegas, finished 11th. In the 1980s Plastik was a highly-successful rock music photographer, and formally worked for (now deceased) comedian Sam Kinison.
-- One of Europe's top poker writers Rolf Slotboom, from Amsterdam, took 38th place.
-- Participating in this tournament was Dr. Jerry Buss, the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.
-- by Nolan Dalla
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