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39th World Series of Poker 2008

Event #21 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em

June 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
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Buy-In	$5,000
Prize Pool	$3,436,670
Entries	731
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Scott Seiver

Place	Name	Prize
1	Scott Seiver (Cold Springs Harbor, NY, USA)	$755,856
2	David Seidman (Chicago, IL, USA)	$482,372
3	Ben Sprengers (Plantation, FL, USA)	$292,035
4	Jacobo Fernandez (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$238,781
5	Rajegh Vohra (Lake Worth, FL, USA)	$195,835
6	Chuck Sklar (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$154,607
7	Anders Henriksson (Stockholm, Sweden)	$120,250
8	Richard Adam Geyer (Austin, TX, USA)	$94,482
9	Scott Freeman (Oak Park, CA, USA)	$69,714
10	Jorge Arias (Caracas, Venezuela)	$42,946
11	Michael Mizrachi (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$42,946
12	Jon Van Fleet (Lubbock, TX, USA)	$42,946
13	Rayan Nathan (Adelaide, Australia)	$34,357
14	Humberto Brenes (San Jose, CA, USA)	$34,357
15	Josef Monro (Beverly Hills, MI, USA)	$34,357
16	Eric Baldwin (Beaver Dam, WI, USA)	$25,767
17	Jared Okun AKA "Smokinokun" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$25,767
18	Kathy Woo (New York, NY, USA)	$25,767
19	Cody Slaubaugh AKA "Thugmoneymkr" (Rugby, ND, USA)	$19,583
20	Unknown	$19,583
21	Quoc Vu (Garland, TX, USA)	$19,583
22	Chris McCormack (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$19,583
23	Aaron Coulthard (Ontario, ON, Canada)	$19,583
24	Kathy Liebert (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$19,583
25	Unknown	$19,583
26	Mark Radoja (Ariss, ON, Canada)	$19,583
27	John Murphy (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)	$19,583
28	Eric Liu (Rockville, MD, USA)	$16,147
29	Noah Boeken (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	$16,147
30	Jorrit van Hoof (Eindhoven, Netherlands)	$16,147
31	Thandat Tran (El Monte, CA, USA)	$16,147
32	Patryk Hildebranski (Kitchener, ON, Canada)	$16,147
33	Blake Cahill (Kansas City, MO, USA)	$16,147
34	Alex Kamberis (Bloomington, IN, USA)	$16,147
35	Ryan Rapaski (Clinton Township, MI, USA)	$16,147
36	Sam El-Sayed (Laos)	$16,147
37	Hasan Habib (Downey, CA, USA)	$12,712
38	Danny Smith AKA "cpfactor" (Folsom, CA, USA)	$12,712
39	Anna Wroblewski AKA "poker pixie" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,712
40	Jerrod Ankenman (Avon, CT, USA)	$12,712
41	Alex Melnikow (Syracuse, NY, USA)	$12,712
42	Manelic Minaya AKA "Manny" (Tampa, FL, USA)	$12,712
43	Keith Tilston (Austin, TX, USA)	$12,712
44	James Hart (Northwood, TX, USA)	$12,712
45	Alex Jacob (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,712
46	Anthony George Dunst (Madison, WI, USA)	$11,681
47	Travis Pearson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$11,681
48	Jeremiah Vinsant (Murfreesboro, TN, USA)	$11,681
49	Claudio Pagano (Silea, Italy)	$11,681
50	David Mccollum (Happy Valley, OR, USA)	$11,681
51	Reza Tabatabai (London, UK)	$11,681
52	Steve Brecher AKA "brec" (Reno, NV, USA)	$11,681
53	Wendell Teets (Lemon Grove, CA, USA)	$11,681
54	Joshua Ladines (St Cloud, FL, USA)	$11,681
55	Steve Gross (Marlboro, NJ, USA)	$10,650
56	James Lee (Weehawken, NJ, USA)	$10,650
57	Brent Roberts (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$10,650
58	David Singer (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,650
59	Michael Brummelhuis (Netherlands)	$10,650
60	John Sexson (Indianapolis, IN, USA)	$10,650
61	Sarah Bilney AKA "Aussie Sarah" (Canberra, Australia)	$10,650
62	David Brannan (Plymouth, UK)	$10,650
63	Audrey Gouyer (Pointe Sauane, France)	$10,650
64	Robert Zoellner (Tulsa, OK, USA)	$9,619
65	Kevin Stammen (Coldwater, OH, USA)	$9,619
66	Amato Galasso (Ridgewood, NJ, USA)	$9,619
67	Christopher Miranda (Miami, FL, USA)	$9,619
68	Peter Granlund (Uppsala, Sweden)	$9,619
69	Dag Palovic AKA "Lucky D." (Bratislava, Slovakia)	$9,619
70	Unknown	$9,619
71	Rocco Lazazzaro (Port Jefferson, NY, USA)	$9,619
72	Jan Heitmann AKA "Erdnase" (Munich, Germany)	$9,619

Tournament Report

Tournament Notes:

The $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship attracted 731 entrants. The total prize pool amounted to $3,435,700, which is a record payout for this event. The top 72 finishers collected prize money.
Attendance for this event increased by 14 percent over last year. In 2007, this same tournament attracted 640 entries.
The tournament was played over three consecutive days. On Day Three, the final table was dealt out on the feature table, located on the ESPN stage. The secondary final table, located adjacent to the main stage area, featured the conclusion of Event #22 ($3,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E.) in a scheduling overlap. Most days at the WSOP this year will include two final tables.
The winner was Scott Seiver. He is a 23-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, NV. Seiver is originally from Columbus, OH.
Seiver collected a whopping $755,891 for first place. He also earned his first WSOP gold bracelet. So far this year, Seiver has three WSOP cashes, including a 1st, 14th, and 22nd. He also cashed three times at last year's World Series, giving him a total of six career in-the-money finishes.
The second-place finisher was David Seidman, from Chicago, IL.
Jacobo Fernandez made his second final table at this year's WSOP. He took fourth place in this event and was the runner up in the Pot-Limit Hold'em championship (Event #3). This was his fourth cash this year.
Chuck Sklar busted out in sixth place, his highest WSOP finish to date. Sklar is a Hollywood comedy writer who has worked on the Academy Awards broadcast, the Chris Rock Show, and several other television and film projects.
Anders Henriksson took seventh place. This was his third career WSOP final table. In 2006, Henriksson won a gold bracelet in the $1,500 buy-in event.
Scott Freeman was the ninth-place finisher. He took 19th place in the 2007 WSOP Main Event.
James Mackey won this event last year. He entered again this year, but did not cash. This brings the current streak to 21 straight non-cashes for defending champions in their respective events.
Notable in-the-money finishers included former WSOP gold bracelet winners Humberto Brenes (14th), Kathy Liebert (24th), Hasan Habib (37th) and David Singer (58th).
Humberto Brenes achieved his 50th career WSOP cash with his finish in this event. He becomes only the seventh player in the 39-year history of the WSOP to achieve this milestone. Others include - Phil Hellmuth, Men "the Master" Nguyen, T.J. Cloutier, Berry Johnston, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and Erik Seidel.
Through the conclusion of Event #21, the professionals versus amateurs WSOP gold bracelet scoreboard currently reads: Professionals (15) and Amateurs (4). Note: Two events have been won by Semi-Pros (2).
Through the conclusion of Event #21, only one player has cashed five times to date - Nikolay Evdakov, from Moscow, Russia. Evdakov is in serious contention to challenge the record set for "Most WSOP Cashes in a Single Year," shared by Michael Binger (2007) and Humberto Brenes (2006), with eight in-the-money strikes. Three players have cashed four times – Jacobo Fernandez, Craig Gray, and Roland Isra.
The current Milwaukee's Best Light "Player of the Year" standings shows Erick Lindgren on top of the points list with one gold bracelet win and three cashes.