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Poker Tournament Results
38th Annual World Series of Poker
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Michael Graves |
| 1 |
Michael Graves (Springdale, AR, USA) |
$742,121 |
| 2 |
Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$387,193 |
| 3 |
Shawn Luman (Cimmaron, KS, USA) |
$224,229 |
| 4 |
Shawn Hattem (Montreal, QC, Canada) |
$161,339 |
| 5 |
Chad Batista (Coral Springs, FL, USA) |
$129,064 |
| 6 |
Kris Tate |
$112,931 |
| 7 |
Isaac Haxton (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$96,798 |
| 8 |
Arnold Spee (Agoura Hills, CA, USA) |
$80,665 |
| 9 |
Thierry Cazals (France) |
$72,599 |
| 10 |
Ali Alawadhi AKA "desert storm" (Longwood, FL, USA) |
$64,532 |
| 11 |
Alex Bolotin AKA "Diesel" (Brooklyn, NY, USA) |
$59,692 |
| 12 |
Jordan Morgan AKA "iMsoLucky0" (Norman, OK, USA) |
$54,852 |
| 13 |
Matt Lefkowitz (Carmel Valley, CA, USA) |
$50,012 |
| 14 |
Vivek Rajkumar AKA "Black Magic" (Seattle, WA, USA) |
$45,173 |
| 15 |
David Williams (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$40,333 |
| 16 |
Sam Simon (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) |
$35,493 |
| 17 |
Serge Gagnon (Jacksonville, FL, USA) |
$30,653 |
| 18 |
Michael Melkersen (New Market, VA, USA) |
$25,813 |
| 19 |
Marco Johnson (Walnut Creek, CA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 20 |
Chien Dinh (Atlanta, GA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 21 |
Daniel Alaei AKA "daniel" (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 22 |
David Cai (Westminster, CA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 23 |
Peter Feldman (Harper Woods, MI, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 24 |
Xhelal Fusha (Fort Worth, TX, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 25 |
Amnon Filippi (New York, NY, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 26 |
Ryan Jones (Torrance, CA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 27 |
Joseph Udine (Philadelphia, PA, USA) |
$20,973 |
| 28 |
Beqir Salihu (Fort Worth, TX, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 29 |
Ylon Schwartz (Brooklyn, NY, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 30 |
Craig Marquis AKA "craigmarq" (Arlington, TX, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 31 |
Andre Hawit (Foster City, CA, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 32 |
Scott Seiver (Cold Springs Harbor, NY, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 33 |
Steve Billirakis AKA "MrSmokey1" (Bourbonnais, IL, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 34 |
Barney Boatman (Hendon, UK) |
$16,133 |
| 35 |
Steven Weinstein (Andes, NY, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 36 |
Shaun Deeb (Troy, NY, USA) |
$16,133 |
| 37 |
Alan Sass AKA "TheUsher" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 38 |
Carl Olson (Seattle, WA, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 39 |
Raul Lozano AKA "cubanito" (Dallas, TX, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 40 |
Vadim Trincher (New York, NY, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 41 |
Ron McMillan (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 42 |
Eitan Nisali (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 43 |
Chris Bush (Vancouver, BC, Canada) |
$12,906 |
| 44 |
Frederick Sisneros (Rancho De Taos, NM, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 45 |
Jared Harriman (Yarmouth, ME, USA) |
$12,906 |
| 46 |
J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 47 |
Bryan O'Connell (Ireland) |
$9,680 |
| 48 |
Michael Andrews (New York, NY, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 49 |
Thomas Bihl AKA "Buzzer" (Frankfurt, Germany) |
$9,680 |
| 50 |
Paul McCaffrey (Boston, MA, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 51 |
Sean Picquelle (Costa Mesa, CA, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 52 |
Everett Carlton (St Paul, MN, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 53 |
Collin Halstead AKA "cnote" (Phoenix, AZ, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 54 |
Sean McCabe (Sunny Isles Beach, FL, USA) |
$9,680 |
| 55 |
Justin Bonomo (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 56 |
Michael Binger (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 57 |
Kelly Kim (Whittier, CA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 58 |
Leo Wolpert (Fairfax, VA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 59 |
Quinn Do (El Monte, CA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 60 |
Lee Watkinson (Lakebay, WA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 61 |
Scott Bohlman (Homer Glen, IL, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 62 |
Berry Johnston (Bethany, OK, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 63 |
Carolyn Gardner (San Diego, CA, USA) |
$8,067 |
| 64 |
Jordon Siegel (Henderson, NV, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 65 |
Robert Harner AKA "Santa" (Hopewell, VA, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 66 |
Arturo Morales (Costa Rica) |
$6,453 |
| 67 |
Eric Baldwin (Henderson, NV, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 68 |
Jimmy Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 69 |
William Franceshine (Santa Rosa, CA, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 70 |
Gino G Yonan AKA "TooL84Cake" (Stockholm, Sweden) |
$6,453 |
| 71 |
Jimmy Karlsson (Sweden) |
$6,453 |
| 72 |
Matt Sterling AKA "Indiana" (Brownstown, IN, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 73 |
Kevin Saul (Chicago, IL, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 74 |
J G (Anytown, Unknown) |
$6,453 |
| 75 |
Jean-Claude Perrot (Paris, France) |
$6,453 |
| 76 |
Christopher Wolfe (Tacoma, WA, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 77 |
Irving Rice (Delray Beach, FL, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 78 |
Van Marcus (Mill Park, Australia) |
$6,453 |
| 79 |
Thomas Wahlroos (Helsinki, Finland) |
$6,453 |
| 80 |
Pierre Asadi (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$6,453 |
| 81 |
Ghena Dawoud (Sweden) |
$6,453 |
| 82 |
Tuan Tran (San Jose, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 83 |
Rocky Rochford (Las Vegas, NV, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 84 |
Jamie Gold (Malibu, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 85 |
Noel Scruggs (Escondido, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 86 |
Joe Pelton (Newport Beach, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 87 |
Matthew Sweeney (Phoenix, AZ, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 88 |
Robbie Daniels (Wake Forest, NC, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 89 |
Michael Watson AKA "missy" (Toronto, ON, Canada) |
$4,840 |
| 90 |
Roger McDow (Foothill Ranch, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 91 |
Jeffrey Lisandro AKA "Iceman" (Salerno, Italy) |
$4,840 |
| 92 |
Denis Kharotonov (Moscow, Russia) |
$4,840 |
| 93 |
Susan Haughey (Scotland, UK) |
$4,840 |
| 94 |
Morton Ferandsen (Korsoe, Denmark) |
$4,840 |
| 95 |
Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 96 |
Michael Castelli (Ottawa, IL, USA) |
$4,840 |
| 97 |
Ahmed Debabeche (France) |
$4,840 |
| 98 |
Re'Va Alexander AKA "Re'Va Las Vegas" (Houston, TX, USA) |
$3,227 |
| 99 |
David Gregory (London, UK) |
$3,227 |
| 100 |
Joe Hachem (Melbourne, Australia) |
$3,227 |
Tournament Report
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The winner of the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em (with re-buys) championship was Michael Graves. He is a 23-year-old college student from Dallas, TX. This was his first victory at the World Series of Poker.
-- Prior to winning three quarters of a million dollars at the World Series, Graves had two previous tournament cashes on his record. One was at the Reindeer Games Poker Tournament. The other was at the Ozark Poker Championship. Those two cashes were worth a combined $4,621. This payday was a bit higher as first place paid $742,121.
-- Graves is originally from Austin, TX. He is a medical student at the University of Texas-Southwestern.
-- Graves has been playing pokier seriously for about three years. This was his first time to play in the World Series of Poker.
-- The runner up in this event was Theo Tran. He is the "World Series of Checkers" champion.
-- With his cash in this event (56th place) Michael Binger has tied a WSOP record. He now has eight cashes this year, which is the most times in-the-money at a single World Series. He is currently tied with Humberto Brenes and Phil Hellmuth, Jr. who both set the record in 2006. There are still two events on the schedule to play for Binger to get his ninth cash.
-- Hold'em icon Phil Hellmuth, Jr. continues to pad his lead as the all-time "most cashes" leader. He finished in 95th place, which represented his 63rd career in-the-money finish at the WSOP. Men "the Master" Nguyen is a relatively distant second in cashes, currently with 57.
-- 1986 world champion Berry Johnston, who is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, took 62nd place. He now has 52 lifetime cashes, which ranks fourth on the all-time WSOP list.
-- Carolyn Gardner, who won the Ladies World Poker Championship in 1983, finished in 63rd place.
-- Reigning world poker champion Jamie Gold made his third WSOP career cash and second this year with his 84 th-place finish in this event.
-- 2005 WSOP champion Joe Hachem cashed in this event, with his 98th-place finish.
-- Other former WSOP gold bracelet winners who cashed in this tournament included – David Williams (15th ), Daniel Alaei (21st), Steve Billirakis (33rd), and Lee Watkinson (60th).
by Nolan Dalla
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