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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #43 - WSOP Limit Hold'em

June 26, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$2,000
Prize Pool	$859,040
Entries	472
Report Available

Saifuddin Ahmad

Place	Name	Prize
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 Peche (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" (Memphis, TN, 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 (Adelaide, Australia)	$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" (Alpine, 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