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38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #47 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 29, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$2,000
Prize Pool	$3,709,272
Entries	2038
Report Available

Blair Rodman

Place	Name	Prize
1	Blair Rodman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$707,898
2	Amato Galasso (Ridgewood, NJ, USA)	$448,808
3	Klein Bach (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$289,000
4	Anna Wroblewski AKA "poker pixie" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$192,800
5	Steve "Scotch" Crawford (Annapolis, MD, USA)	$135,000
6	Roland de Wolfe (London, UK)	$98,200
7	Joe Pelton (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$74,000
8	David Schnettler (Saint Cloud, MN, USA)	$55,600
9	Mark McKibben AKA "Mac" (Converse, TX, USA)	$42,000
10	Lance Ingram (Midland, TX, USA)	$33,012
11	Matthew Smith (Lithia, FL, USA)	$33,012
12	Brandon Palm AKA "Chedder" (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$33,012
13	Keegan O'Brien (Appleton, WI, USA)	$29,302
14	Jason Cooke (Seattle, WA, USA)	$29,302
15	Errol Blazys (Bulton, ON, Canada)	$29,302
16	Wayne Philpot (Sanford, Orlando, FL, USA)	$25,593
17	T.J. Cloutier (Richardson, TX, USA)	$25,593
18	Jaydee Bade (Innergrove Heights, MN, USA)	$25,593
19	Kuohg Lu (Elk Grove, CA, USA)	$21,884
20	Donald Nicholson (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)	$21,884
21	Sang Shin Kim (Flower Mound, TX, USA)	$21,884
22	Ryan Dersch (Evansville, IN, USA)	$21,884
23	Ulises Roman (Huntington, WV, USA)	$21,884
24	Khong Ng (California, CA, USA)	$21,884
25	Gary Bogdanski (Lyndhurst, NJ, USA)	$21,884
26	Pontus Khosravi (Sweden)	$21,884
27	Matthew Mauldin (Marshall, TX, USA)	$21,884
28	Lynne Mitchnick (North Bergen, NJ, USA)	$18,546
29	Sean Lefort (Bowmanville, ON, Canada)	$18,546
30	Jennifer Tilly (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$18,546
31	Eugene Todd (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$18,546
32	Nick Frangos (Mays Landing, NJ, USA)	$18,546
33	Michael Chiappetta (Boca Raton, FL, USA)	$18,546
34	Huai Zhang (Mountain View, CA)	$18,546
35	Marcello Delgippo (Sora, Italy)	$18,546
36	Steven Chung (Oak Hill, VA, USA)	$18,546
37	Jess Ravich (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$15,578
38	Srinuan Greenberger (Universal City, TX, USA)	$15,578
39	Phillip Russo (Elmhurst, IL, USA)	$15,578
40	Noah Boeken (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	$15,578
41	Peter Horenstein (Portchester, NY, USA)	$15,578
42	Chad Hancock (Chillicothe, IL, USA)	$15,578
43	Shane Matyias (Hamilton, ON, Canada)	$15,578
44	David Singer (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,578
45	Ray Chan (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$15,578
46	John Tobias (Dekalb, IL, USA)	$12,982
47	Bundhit Intachai (Waipahu, HI, USA)	$12,982
48	Andreas Hagen (Stavanger, Norway)	$12,982
49	Steven Etoch (Prospect, KY, USA)	$12,982
50	Jeppe Mikkelsen (Aarhus, Denmark)	$12,982
51	Arkadiy Tsinis (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,982
52	Jeff Siler (Kansas City, MO, USA)	$12,982
53	John Parker (College Park, MD, USA)	$12,982
54	Christopher Page (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)	$12,982
55	Ali Eslami (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$10,571
56	Michael Westmoreland (St. Louis, MO, USA)	$10,571
57	Cesar Romero (Arcadia, CO, USA)	$10,571
58	Ben Yerushalaim AKA "98 Mute" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,571
TIE	Ken Merrick AKA "Reverend" (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$10,571
60	Brian Kaplan (McHenry, IL, USA)	$10,571
61	David Chiu (Rowland Heights, CA, USA)	$10,571
62	Rafael Furst (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,571
63	Stephen Ladowsky (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$10,571
64	Scott Zakheim (Davie, FL, USA)	$10,571
65	Leo Wolpert (Fairfax, VA, USA)	$8,717
66	Raymond Davis AKA "The Amazing" (Commerce, CA, USA)	$8,717
67	John Roveto AKA "Junior" (Duluth, GA, USA)	$8,717
68	Ron Faltinsky (Monterey Park, CA, USA)	$8,717
69	Brian Buonocore (Canton, OH, USA)	$8,717
70	Martin Perez (Kingwood, TX, USA)	$8,717
71	Michelle Lam (Germany)	$8,717
72	Richard Toth (Miskolc, Hungary)	$8,717
73	Maria Alvarez (Reno, NV, USA)	$7,233
74	Jose Edralin AKA "Joe" (Henderson, NV, USA)	$7,233
75	Dominic Ford (Shamokin, PA, USA)	$7,233
76	John Harris AKA "Daddy-O" (Staley, NC, USA)	$7,233
77	Christinel Dumitru (Romania)	$7,233
78	William Franceshine (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)	$7,233
79	John Esposito (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,233
80	Jordan Morgan AKA "iMsoLucky0" (Norman, OK, USA)	$7,233
81	Justin Shronk (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$7,233
82	Paris Holmes (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$6,120
83	George Abdallah (Houston, TX, USA)	$6,120
84	Michael Tureniec (Solna, Sweden)	$6,120
85	Scott Derrickson (Glendale, CA, USA)	$6,120
86	Todd Elwood (Southlake, TX, USA)	$6,120
87	Kevin Currey (Orlando, FL, USA)	$6,120
88	Kevin Stammen (Coldwater, OH, USA)	$6,120
89	Jason Campbell (Logansport, IN, USA)	$6,120
90	Christopher Bonita (Winthrop, MA, USA)	$6,120
91	Rehne Pedersen (Ålborg, Denmark)	$5,378
92	Rosemary Schwartzhoff (Edmonds, WA, USA)	$5,378
93	Tom McEvoy AKA "pokerchump" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$5,378
94	Jae Lim (Denver, CO, USA)	$5,378
95	Ganesh Rao (UK)	$5,378
96	Domenico Scalamogna (Vaughan, ON, Canada)	$5,378
97	John Vlassis (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$5,378
98	Pat Henighan (Chicago, IL, USA)	$5,378
99	Jogi Karamshi (Copenhagen, Denmark)	$5,378
100	David Redlin (Sylvania, OH, USA)	$4,822
101	Alan Snow (Cartersvillie, GA, USA)	$4,822
102	Reginald Cardiel (Lakewood, WA, USA)	$4,822
103	Robert Williams (Sahuarita, AZ, USA)	$4,822
104	Ross Tyler (LaMesa, TX, USA)	$4,822
105	Kevin Hildebrand (Syracuse, NY)	$4,822
106	Scott Bohlman (Horner Glen, IL, USA)	$4,822
107	John Spadavecchia (Lighthouse Pt., FL, USA)	$4,822
108	Zachary King AKA "Carter" (Marietta, GA, USA)	$4,822
109	Jan Svendesen (Norway)	$4,822
110	Matt Molinari (New York, NY, USA)	$4,822
111	Kirk Morrison (Boise, ID, USA)	$4,822
112	Peter Mendelsohn (Bayside, NY, USA)	$4,822
113	David Greenberg (Owings Mills, MD, USA)	$4,822
114	Richard Stephens (Sugarland, TX, USA)	$4,822
115	Kaan Becer (Richmond, BC, Canada)	$4,822
116	Steven Black (St Catharines, ON, Canada)	$4,822
117	Bill Rothstein (New York, NY, USA)	$4,822
118	Doug Baird (Tuscon, AZ, USA)	$4,822
119	James Mutchler (Brighton, CO, USA)	$4,822
120	Jason Levine (Valley Village, CA, USA)	$4,822
121	Chris Bedowitz AKA "Louis" (Denver, CO, USA)	$4,822
122	William Beasley (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$4,822
123	Andrew Hart (Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA)	$4,822
124	Denny Lee (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,822
125	Bao Pham (Garland, TX, USA)	$4,822
126	Robert Taylor (Dublin, Ireland)	$4,822
127	Jakob Brekken	$4,451
128	Marco Lurigio (Streamwood, IL, USA)	$4,451
129	Benjamin Hamnet (Holbrook, PA, USA)	$4,451
130	Isaac Haxton (Syracuse, NY, USA)	$4,451
131	Zlatan Musa (Randers, Denmark)	$4,451
132	Alan Myerson (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$4,451
133	An Vuong (Garland, TX, USA)	$4,451
134	Ly Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$4,451
135	Bruce Williams (Brant, NY, USA)	$4,451
136	Santeri Valikoski (Espoo, Finland)	$4,451
137	Jonathan Gray (Halifax, MA, USA)	$4,451
138	James Mackey (Columbia, MO, USA)	$4,451
139	Garrett Crane (Springville, UT, USA)	$4,451
140	Efrain Lopez (Miami, FL, USA)	$4,451
141	Timothy Stearns (Burbank, CA, USA)	$4,451
142	Rob Sterken (Netherlands)	$4,451
143	Kennith Anderson (St. Louis, MO, USA)	$4,451
144	George Pierce (Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA)	$4,451
145	Dylan Hartung (Portland, OR, USA)	$4,451
146	Kevin McBride (Boca Raton, FL, USA)	$4,451
147	Eric Rabelas (San Diego, CA, USA)	$4,451
148	Simon Ford (Calgary, AB, Canada)	$4,451
149	Albert Penkalski (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,451
150	Michael Marquez (South Gate, CA, USA)	$4,451
151	Nick Binger (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,451
152	Daragh Brangan (Plymouth, MI, USA)	$4,451
153	Paulo Carrillo AKA "pcfadul" (Caracas, Venezuela)	$4,451
154	Terry Ballew (Reno, NV, USA)	$4,451
155	Michael Mizrachi (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$4,451
156	Tim Seidensticker (Miami, FL, USA)	$4,451
157	Jeffrey Lim (Guymon, OK, USA)	$4,451
158	David Bailey (Henderson, NV, USA)	$4,451
159	James Gorham (Vista, CA, USA)	$4,451
160	Roy Cook (Temecula, CA, USA)	$4,451
161	Giovanni Massa (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$4,451
162	Ali Zayed (El Passo, TX, USA)	$4,451
163	Daniel Saad (Keller, TX, USA)	$4,080
164	Alexander Veldhuis (Rotterdam, Netherlands)	$4,080
165	Thomas Smith (St. Cloud, MN, USA)	$4,080
166	Mike Souza (San Diego, CA, USA)	$4,080
167	Jason Welch (Fort Collins, CO, USA)	$4,080
168	Lawrence Solins (Owingsmills, MD, USA)	$4,080
169	Derek Fink (Jacksonville, FL, USA)	$4,080
170	William Zulager (Moorpark, CA, USA)	$4,080
171	Lorne Dubrowsky (West Bloomfield, MI, USA)	$4,080
172	Arsenio Deguzman (Henderson, NV, USA)	$4,080
173	Rene Angelil (Henderson, NV, USA)	$4,080
174	Michael Bech (Denmark)	$4,080
175	Joe Minaloff (Mississauga, ON, Canada)	$4,080
176	Thomas Standring (San Diego, CA, USA)	$4,080
177	Timothy Davey (Morgan Hill, CA, USA)	$4,080
178	Michael Musella (Arvada, CO, USA)	$4,080
179	Jerome Bradpiece (London, UK)	$4,080
180	Georgina Salinas-Torres (Plano, TX, USA)	$4,080
181	Marco Johnson (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)	$4,080
182	Hal Havlisch (Fresno, CA, USA)	$4,080
183	John Galbraith (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,080
184	Don Dizon (Westport, CT, USA)	$4,080
185	James Rouse (Oceanside, CA, USA)	$4,080
186	Rahul Chaudhari (Chesterfield, MO, USA)	$4,080
187	Nevio Nicolich (New York, NY, USA)	$4,080
188	Martin Feijo (Brandford, ON, Canada)	$4,080
189	Peter Rho (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$4,080
190	Michael Bertolini (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$4,080
191	Lee Fama (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$4,080
192	Robert Milakovic (Victorville, CA, USA)	$4,080
193	Eduardo Gil (Miami, FL, USA)	$4,080
194	Peter Levine (Waltham, MA, USA)	$4,080
195	Robert Smith (Pittsburg, KS, USA)	$4,080
196	Joakim Anjou (Norrkoping, Sweden)	$4,080
197	Matthew Bolsvert (Tyngsboro, MA, USA)	$4,080
198	Shane Pacheco (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$4,080

Tournament Report

WSOP GOLD BRACELET WINNER EVENT # 47 - BLAIR RODMAN

The winner of the $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship was Blair Rodman, from Las Vegas, NV. Rodman, age 53, is a longtime professional gambler. This was his first victory at the World Series of Poker.
Rodman gambles professionally -- mostly on golf, sports, and poker. In fact, his first love is golf. He has been active on the local Las Vegas scene most of his adult life. He has been playing in the WSOP since 1982.
Rodman earned a B.S. degree in business. Aside from gambling, Rodman co-authored the popular book, "Kill Phil" which explains counterstrategies designed to beat the best poker players in the world. Rodman is married. He is originally from Troy, NY. The winner is also active on the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised "21" tournament.
Rodman arrived at the final table relatively low on chips. He was sixth out of the final nine players. However, Rodman managed to survive and eventually took a decisive chip lead at one point when play became two-handed. His opponent then regained the lead, and in a see-saw battle Rodman eventually won the last pot of the nigh. Heads-up play lasted for three hours.
In an odd twist of fate, Rodman almost missed this event. He was knocked out of the Omaha High-Low tournament held on the previous day and departed the Rio passed midnight. Rodman almost skipped the next day's event because he was exhausted. However, he joined with 2,038 entries who participated in this tournament. "I got eliminated on late on the second day in Omaha," Rodman explained in a post-tournament interview. "I almost didn't play (in this tournament). If I would not have been knocked out of that Omaha High-Low event, I would not have been here. So, I guess getting busted in that event was a good thing!"
-- by Nolan Dalla