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LA Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 6

Event #29 - WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship
Final Day

February 28, 2008
Commerce Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$9,600 + $400
Prize Pool	$6,384,000
Entries	665
Report Available

Phil Ivey

Place	Name	Prize
1	Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$1,596,100
2	Quinn Do (El Monte, CA, USA)	$909,400
3	Charles Moore (Dallas, TX, USA)	$625,630
4	Nam Le (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$411,770
5	Scott Montgomery AKA "r_a_y" (Perth, ON, Canada)	$296,860
6	Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$229,820
7	Weikai Chang (San Carlos, CA, USA)	$172,370
8	Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$127,680
9	Jeffrey Schwimmer (Valley Village, CA, USA)	$92,570
10	Michael Watson (St. Johns, NL, Canada)	$61,610
11	Blair Hinkle (Weatherby Lake, MO, USA)	$61,610
12	Jennifer Tilly (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$61,610
13	Michael Carson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$55,220
14	Matt Brady (Havertown, PA, USA)	$55,220
15	Peter De Best (Yorba Linda, CA, USA)	$55,220
16	Parad Yury (Chicago, IL, USA)	$48,840
17	Brian Taylor (Macon, GA, USA)	$48,840
18	David Singer (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$48,840
19	Paul Smith (Poway, CA, USA)	$42,450
20	Colin Wickersheim (San Diego, CA, USA)	$42,450
21	Lance Allred (Hollywood, CA, USA)	$42,450
22	Mike Hamparsomian (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$42,450
23	Avdo Djokovic (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$42,450
24	George Panagakis (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$42,450
25	Brian McCann (Reseda, CA, USA)	$42,450
26	Eric Hershler (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$42,450
27	Richard Barstow (Fresno, CA, USA)	$42,450
28	Wayne Chang (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$36,390
29	Danny Fuhs (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$36,390
30	Andrew Robl (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$36,390
31	Neil Ho (Orange, CA, USA)	$36,390
32	Hassan Kamoei (Indio, CA, USA)	$36,390
33	Mickey "Mouse" Mills (Downey, CA, USA)	$36,390
34	Toto Leonidas (Glendale, CA, USA)	$36,390
35	Keith Tilston (Austin, TX, USA)	$36,390
TIE	Noah Schwartz (Bay Harbor Island, FL, USA)	$33,835
TIE	Alan Goehring (Henderson, NV, USA)	$33,835
38	Agop ""Jack"" Boghossian (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$31,280
39	Shawn Buchanan (Abbotsford, BC, Canada)	$31,280
40	Hoan Ly (Alhambra, CA, USA)	$31,280
41	Kyle Burnside (Somerset, MA, USA)	$31,280
42	Kevin Thong (Monterey Park, CA, USA)	$31,280
43	Tom West (Los Altos, CA, USA)	$31,280
44	David Stroj (Chula Vista, CA, USA)	$31,280
45	Aaron Been (Gainsville, FL, USA)	$31,280
46	Scott "R" Wilson (Somerville, MA, USA)	$26,170
47	Thomas Berg (Chicago, IL, USA)	$26,170
48	Michael Hudson (Lake In The Hills, IL, USA)	$26,170
49	Mike Wattel (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$26,170
50	Svetlana Gromenkova (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$26,170
51	Benjamin Zamani (Boca Raton, FL, USA)	$26,170
52	Tim Sweeton AKA "Chico" (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$26,170
53	Michael Kamran (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$26,170
54	James Lee (Weehawken, NJ, USA)	$26,170
55	Thu Nguyen (Bell Gardens, CA, USA)	$22,020
56	Bob Stupak (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$22,020
57	Michael Katz (Manalapan, NJ, USA)	$22,020
58	Jeff Chotikul (Centreville, VA, USA)	$22,020
59	Ray Henson (Houston, TX, USA)	$22,020
60	Marcel Sabag (Tarzana, CA, USA)	$22,020
61	Jose Brenes (Coral Gables, FL, USA)	$22,020
62	Joseph Schulman (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$22,020
63	Stephen Ladowsky (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$22,020

Tournament Report

A Tale of Two Phillies

Six days ago, 665 hopefuls appeared at the Commerce Casino to vie for the title of World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic Champion. Phil Ivey was one of the more familiar faces in the huge crowd. Depsite the fact that he owns five WSOP bracelets, Phil had yet to claim a WPT title, despite seven final table appearances.
Phil Ivey started the day as chip leader with a cushion of $1.5 million over his closest competitor, but he had to face some tough competition. Nam Le, who already held a WPT title, was the short stack and Phil Hellmuth, widely recognized as one of the best Hold'em tournament players in the world, was in third.
'Hellmuth is my good luck charm" said Ivey. According to him, when both Phils compete at the same final table, Phil Ivey takes it down. "But I was glad he busted out early" Ivey said. Hellmuth was the first to depart in 6th place when he got all in on the turn with a single pair, only to face Nam Le's two pair. Nam Le also dispatched Scott Montgomery in 5th place.
It looked like Nam Le was going to make a run for his second WPT title when he got all in with pocket Aces and called by Phil Ivey, who just held pocket 3s, but Phil caught a trey on the turn to bust Nam in 4th place. There was no stopping the Ivey buzz-saw after that. On the next hand, he send Charles "Woody" Moore packing when his top two pair held up against Woody's pair with open-ended straight draw. Charles "Woody" Moore finished in 3rd place.
Heads-up play began with Phil Ivey holding a better than 4-to-1 chip lead over Quinn Do. It only took two hands and Quinn was put to the test when Phil moved all-in on a board showing A 8 6A. After agonizing for several minutes, Quinn made the call showing 9 8 for two pair. Phil held A 8 for the full house and had Quinn drawing dead.
Phil Ivey now owns his first WPT title, but undoubtedly not his last.