Poker Tournament Results

39th World Series of Poker 2008

James Schaaf

Tournament Report

End of Day 1 Chip Counts First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat Phil Hellmuth 46,400 37 05 Steven Diano 38,200 28 04 Joe Hachem 37,500 33 03 Todd Ickow 37,500 21 04 Chad Brown 36,700 30 01 Tommy Hang 36,000 36 02 Lonnie Heimowitz 33,200 40 06 Ken Zeng 32,500 42 08 Michelle Ankenman 32,100 39 03 David Gee 31,000 41 02 Randy Holland 29,800 38 06 Arash Ghaneian 26,600 39 05 Michael Craig 25,000 38 05 Keith Sexton 24,700 33 02 Allan Enciso 24,200 27 02 Jan Sjavik 24,100 21 05 Eric Pratt 23,900 25 03 Thomas Hunt 23,700 27 07 Jeff Campbell 23,600 40 07 Eugene Katchalov 23,500 40 08 AJ Fernandes 22,900 34 06 Nick Rainey 22,600 36 04 Topias Wahlbeck 22,400 33 01 Bill Williams 22,300 30 06 Mark Gregorich 22,000 36 07 Reed Spore 21,400 43 06 John Juanda 21,000 37 01 Jens Voertmann 20,800 38 03 Scott Epstein 20,600 23 05 Chris Back 20,300 42 07 Vaughan Machado 20,300 35 06 Victor Ramdin 20,200 29 03 James Schaaf 19,900 41 08 Derek McClasky 19,800 40 04 Floyd Alexander 19,400 37 06 Tommy Hufnagle 19,200 34 07 Raymond McClure 19,200 21 07 Daniel Sindelar 19,000 30 07 Bruce Hoyt 18,700 26 06 Giovanni Pizzo 18,600 34 05 Casey Kastle 18,600 43 04 Charles McGowan 18,400 25 06 Joe Bolnick 18,200 21 02 John Cutter 18,100 25 01 Juliano Maesano 17,800 30 03 Adam Kipnis 17,000 31 03 Michael Omalley 16,900 23 06 Huai Zhang 16,900 28 02 Chris McIntyre 16,900 31 07 Peter Busch 16,800 27 04 Howard Rhee 16,700 41 05 Paul Jackson 16,600 42 04 Jan Suchanek 16,500 34 04 George Bourdos 16,300 33 07 Eamon Bobowski 16,200 35 03 Joseph Sanders 16,200 35 04 Edward Tonnellier 16,200 21 03 Eric Arreca 16,200 24 03 Mounir Elkouz 16,100 28 08 Dave Brooker 15,900 27 01 Phillip Penn Sr. 15,900 39 07 did not report did not report 15,900 25 05 Rob Deacon 15,700 28 05 Barry Hartheimer 15,400 22 01 Tyler Isono 15,300 24 01 Jonathan Dwek 15,300 38 01 Andreas Foulias 15,300 26 08 Roland Isra 15,200 34 01 Phil Tom 15,200 24 02 Sebastian Sabic 15,200 38 08 Cliff Pappas 14,800 22 04 Reza Zand 14,500 25 08 Art Young 14,500 25 07 Mickey Appleman 14,200 22 02 Bob Lauria 14,200 35 08 Alex Jacob 13,900 40 05 Brett Richey 13,900 40 03 Brian Haveson 13,800 22 06 Blake Purvis 13,700 27 08 Matt Grapenthien 13,600 42 01 Greg Jamison 13,500 23 04 Adam Heller 13,500 43 03 Hoyt Verner 13,500 38 07 Rob Rightmire 13,300 31 02 Chuck Barker 13,300 35 01 Brian Wehner 13,300 39 08 Larry Kantor 13,000 25 04 Sam Silverman 13,000 31 08 Thor Hansen 12,800 41 03 Denise Molloy 12,800 43 05 Michael Binger 12,800 32 01 Daniel Kramer 12,700 28 03 Peter Van Strien 12,700 34 02 Steven Landfish 12,500 22 07 Robert Redman 12,300 42 05 Severin Walser 12,100 39 02 Mike Matusow 11,900 30 02 John Zaleski 11,400 22 08 Leonard Talerico 11,300 33 08 William Smith 11,200 33 06 Esther Rossi 11,100 28 07 David Doeh 10,700 27 03 Dave Marker 10,500 36 05 Gary Hutzler 10,400 42 02 Allen Cunningham 10,400 26 05 John Galbraith 10,300 31 06 Jerry Buss 9,900 24 08 Michael Baxley 9,900 37 04 Luca Pagano 9,600 29 08 Allen Bari 9,300 32 07 Alan Engle 9,300 37 03 Mary Jones 9,200 27 06 Fuad Koubi 9,200 33 05 Patrick Hu 9,200 23 07 Debbie Burkhead 9,100 26 02 Victoria Coren 8,900 38 04 Hassan Kamoei 8,900 22 05 Stephen Wolff 8,800 23 08 Steve Russell 8,800 21 06 Bart Hanson 8,700 34 08 Joe Schulman 8,700 24 05 Farhad Momeni 8,500 21 01 Julius Hobbs 8,500 42 06 Paul Sokoloff 8,300 37 07 Michael Scipione 8,100 34 02 Jeff Novak 8,000 32 04 Paul Sherr 8,000 40 01 Charles Maelin 7,900 26 07 Esther Taylor 7,900 36 03 Edward Brogdon 7,700 42 03 Tom Koral 7,600 34 03 James Darnaby 7,600 29 02 Jason Dollinger 7,300 43 07 Peter Dawson 7,300 25 02 Von Altizer 7,100 26 04 Michael Jarmark 7,000 36 06 Donald Sims 7,000 29 04 Chip Jett 6,900 24 06 Abraham Laveaga 6,900 41 06 Charles Butler 6,800 29 01 Judge Gehret 6,800 39 04 Doug Dearborn 6,800 32 03 David Rodgers 6,500 39 01 David Waldstein 6,500 43 08 James Athanas 6,300 31 05 Song Webb 6,200 35 07 David Benyamine 6,100 41 04 Wing Wong 5,800 28 01 Siew Day Bickell 5,800 35 05 Joseph Thompson 5,800 29 06 Robert Cramer 5,700 27 05 Brett Jungblut 5,700 22 03 Stefan Rapp 5,400 21 08 Craig Crivello 5,200 31 04 Monty Van Ness 4,900 23 02 Ron Long 4,900 32 02 Michael Reiner 4,900 23 03 Brian Taylor 4,700 41 01 Pierre Lamy 4,600 23 01 Tim Debenport 4,600 33 04 Greg Warner 4,400 24 04 Joseph Colavito 4,300 29 05 Steve Emminger 4,200 32 06 Svetlana Gromenkova 4,000 24 07 Dennis Thorn 3,500 32 08 Andy Wang 3,400 36 08 Teddy Shelby 3,000 40 02 William Kohler 2,700 30 05 George Lewis 2,400 31 01 Jim Pechac 2,400 32 05 Dan Scott 2,300 26 01 John Bunch 2,300 36 01 Paul Pirrone 2,300 35 02 Linda Drucker 2,000 30 08 Bryan Devonshire 1,700 30 04 Richard Brodie 1,700 28 06 Dhruv Doshi 1,500 37 08 Shannon Shorr 1,100 26 03 Perry Friedman did not report 29 07