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Poker Tournament Results
38th Annual World Series of Poker
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William Edler |
| 1 |
William Edler AKA "Bill" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$904,672 |
| 2 |
Alex Bolotin AKA "Diesel" (Brooklyn, NY, USA) |
$504,686 |
| 3 |
Erik Friberg AKA "Lilar" (Stockholm, Sweden) |
$345,582 |
| 4 |
Greg Pohler (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$232,669 |
| 5 |
Dutch Boyd (Columbia, MO, USA) |
$169,369 |
| 6 |
Gioi Luong (Westminster, CA, USA) |
$110,860 |
| 7 |
Thierry Van den Berg (Almera, Netherlands) |
$83,145 |
| 8 |
Emil Patel (East Hanover, NJ, USA) |
$83,145 |
| 9 |
David Daneshgar (Westlake Village, CA, USA) |
$58,852 |
| 10 |
Tony Guoga AKA "G" (Melbourne, Australia) |
$58,852 |
| 11 |
Raj Sawant (Chartsworth, CA, USA) |
$34,558 |
| 12 |
Danny Noam (Cave Creek, AZ, USA) |
$34,558 |
| 13 |
Raja Kattamuri (Dallas, TX, USA) |
$27,031 |
| 14 |
Ram Vaswani (Hendon, UK) |
$27,031 |
| 15 |
Charles K Lehr (Bossier, LA, USA) |
$27,031 |
| 16 |
Dustin Woolf AKA "Neverwin a.k.a. Warren" (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$27,031 |
| 17 |
Lance Allred (Hollywood, CA, USA) |
$27,031 |
| 18 |
Phil Galfond (Madison, WI, USA) |
$27,031 |
| 19 |
Ted McCollom (Seabrook, TX, USA) |
$21,898 |
| 20 |
Bill Gazes (New York, NY, USA) |
$21,898 |
| 21 |
Rene Mouritsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
$21,898 |
| 22 |
Mark Vos AKA "pokerbok" (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) |
$21,898 |
| 23 |
Nick Nowkirk (Lincoln, NE, USA) |
$21,898 |
| 24 |
Greg Pearson (USA) |
$21,898 |
| 25 |
John Racener AKA "Spikey" (Port Richey, FL, USA) |
$16,776 |
| 26 |
Vandy Krouch |
$16,776 |
| 27 |
Michael Guttman (Melbourne, Australia) |
$16,776 |
| 28 |
Nick Schulman AKA "slick" (New York, NY, USA) |
$16,776 |
| 29 |
Matt Brady (Havertown, PA, USA) |
$16,776 |
| 30 |
Robert Bright AKA "Bob" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$16,776 |
| 31 |
Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA) |
$13,344 |
| 32 |
Eugene Katchalov (Brooklyn, NY, USA) |
$13,344 |
| 33 |
Mikko Pispala AKA "pispi/miki" (helsinki, Finland) |
$13,344 |
| 34 |
Francois Balmigere AKA "Balmix/Turbomuck" (Toulouse, France) |
$13,344 |
| 35 |
Joe McGowan (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$13,344 |
| 36 |
Axel Holm |
$13,344 |
| 37 |
Alex Prendes (Miami, FL, USA) |
$11,291 |
| 38 |
Joe Beevers (Hendon, UK) |
$11,291 |
| 39 |
Mark Muchnik (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$11,291 |
| 40 |
Stephen Deetz (Eleva, WI, USA) |
$11,291 |
| 41 |
Morgan Machina AKA "The Machine" (Mission Viejo, CA, USA) |
$11,291 |
| 42 |
Kush Patel (Southborough, MA, USA) |
$11,291 |
| 43 |
Sam Grizzle (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$9,238 |
| 44 |
Jamie Gold (Malibu, CA, USA) |
$9,238 |
| 45 |
Roland de Wolfe (London, UK) |
$9,238 |
| 46 |
Nestor Martinez (Houston, TX, USA) |
$9,238 |
| 47 |
Scott Clements (Mount Vernon, WA, USA) |
$9,238 |
| 48 |
Men "The Master" Nguyen (Bell Gardens, CA, USA) |
$9,238 |
| 49 |
Justin Bonomo (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) |
$8,212 |
| 50 |
Michael Hewitt |
$8,212 |
| 51 |
Aaron Been (Gainsville, FL, USA) |
$8,212 |
| 52 |
Robert Glenn (Carson City, NV, USA) |
$8,212 |
| 53 |
Gary Philipchuk AKA "SB" (Warman, SK, Canada) |
$8,212 |
| 54 |
Allen Cunningham (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$8,212 |
| 55 |
Jordan Smith AKA "scarface_79" (Tool, TX, USA) |
$7,185 |
| 56 |
Emanuele Carboni |
$7,185 |
| 57 |
Tony Hachem (Victoria, Australia) |
$7,185 |
| 58 |
Jeffery Aiani |
$7,185 |
| 59 |
Frank Blumlein (Germany) |
$7,185 |
| 60 |
Dan Santoro AKA "Luie Sojo" (Long Island, NY, USA) |
$7,185 |
| 61 |
Gary Horn (Sugarland, TX, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 62 |
Nicolas Levi AKA "CrocMonsieur" (London, UK) |
$6,159 |
| 63 |
Douglas Temmer (Megum, WI, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 64 |
Vicky Coren (London, UK) |
$6,159 |
| 65 |
Christian Oman (Stockholm, Sweden) |
$6,159 |
| 66 |
Tobey Maguire (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 67 |
Kyle Bowner (Wallon, NM, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 68 |
Jeff Madsen (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 69 |
Jim Rumptz (Cordova, TN, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 70 |
James Pittman (Yorbalinda, CA, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 71 |
Will McHahan (Newport, TN, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 72 |
Michael Eriksen (Denmark) |
$6,159 |
| 73 |
Chris McCormack (Laurel Hollow, NY, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 74 |
Jonas Entin (Granada Hills, CA, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 75 |
Johan Storakers (Stockholm, Sweden) |
$6,159 |
| 76 |
Mark Bartlog (Germany) |
$6,159 |
| 77 |
Ezra Teitelbaum (New York, NY, USA) |
$6,159 |
| 78 |
Gregg Merkon (Plano, TX, USA) |
$6,159 |
Tournament Report
WSOP GOLD BRACELET WINNER
EVENT # 45 - BILL EDLER
The $5,000 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em championship was won by Bill Edler, from Las Vegas, NV. Edler is a 42-year-old poker pro who has cashed in many previous tournaments. This was his first victory at the World Series of Poker.
Prior this win, Edler had only two previous cashes at the WSOP. Both took place in 2005. Edler's victory was impressive for many reasons, not the least of which was the fact he started play at the final table dead last in chips. Edler had 535,000 at the start to Erik Friberg's 2.800,000. He conquered the six-handed finale in about four hours.
Edler was cheered on at tableside by his close friends Erick Lindgren, Gavin Smith, and Chris Bell. Despite the overpowering poker talent in the trio, Edler was the first among them to win a WSOP gold bracelet. "To a professional poker player, this is the Holy Grail," he said.
Edler is one of the WSOP's most unorthodox champions. He earned a law degree from the University of California-Berkley. Yet, he never took the bar exam nor practiced law. He drives a 12-year-old Ford Mustang (by choice) and plays golf for high stakes with a set of 20-year-old golf clubs.
Edler was formally the manager of Casino San Pablo, located in San Francisco's East Bay. He started out working at the club as a prop, and is one of the few persons to rise through the ranks and eventually run the casino and cardroom.
The final hand of the tournament pitted Edler's A-10 against Alex Bolotin's A-Q. Edler spiked a ten on the flop and won the biggest hand of the night. First place paid $904,672. This was the third-highest payout of this year's World Series.
Edler is married and has a seven-year-old daughter. In fact, he celebrated his wedding anniversary this past week. On what turned out to be the final hand of the tournament, Edler was forced to make a very tough call for most of his chips. At one point during his two-minute deliberation he rubbed his wedding ring, and then announced "call." After the tournament concluded, Bluff Media play-by-play announcer Howard David asked Edler if he was thinking about his wife during the brutally tough decision. "Oh yes, I was thinking of her," Edler responded. "Great answer," retorted David.
by Nolan Dalla |
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