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World Poker Open / WPT Season 6

Event #23 - WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship
Final Day

January 24, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Gold Strike Casino Resort
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$10,000 + $30
Prize Pool	$2,590,000
Entries	259
Report Available

Brett Faustman

Place	Name	Prize
1	Brett Faustman	$892,413
2	Hoyt Corkins (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$458,267
3	Men "The Master" Nguyen (Bell Gardens, CA, USA)	$241,193
4	Freddy Deeb (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$168,835
5	Gabe Costner (Albertville, AL, USA)	$123,008
6	John Spadavecchia (Lighthouse Pt., FL, USA)	$96,477
7	Michael Baas (Houston, TX, USA)	$72,358
8	Dutch Boyd (Columbia, MO, USA)	$48,239
9	Sean Burstein	$28,943
10	Jose Rosenkrantz (Miami, FL, USA)	$24,119
11	William McMahon (Ceder Grove, NJ, USA)	$24,119
12	Johnny Price	$24,119
13	Ken Christopher	$19,295
14	Greg Boe	$19,295
15	Jimmy Tran (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$19,295
16	Jim Rumptz (Cordova, TN, USA)	$14,472
17	Neal Hensarling	$14,472
18	Barry Greenstein (Rancho Palo Verde, CA, USA)	$14,472
19	Gary Flur (Plantation, FL)	$12,060
20	Gary Gibbs (Hot Springs, AR, USA)	$12,060
21	T.J. Cloutier (Richardson, TX, USA)	$12,060
22	John Phan (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$12,060
23	Brian Taylor (Macon, GA, USA)	$12,060
24	Erick Lindgren (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$12,060
25	Jonathan Tare (New York, NY, USA)	$12,060
26	David Tran (El Monte, CA, USA)	$12,060
27	Brandon Steven (Wichita, KS, USA)	$12,060

Tournament Report

Brett Faustman Strikes Gold at the World Poker Open GoldStrike Casino Resort, Tunica, MS

The star-studded final table came together just after 4pm CST Thursday to fight it out for the almost $900,000 first prize. Two former WPT winners were present and four of the six players combined have earned enough jewelry to film a rap video: 11 WSOP bracelets and 2 WSOP Circuit Championship rings.
Short-stacked John Spadavcecchia was first to go in 6th place when his pocket sixes lost a race to Hoyt Corkin's QJ. It then took more than three hours before the next player departed. Gabe Costner's pocket fives lost a race to Hoyt's AJ and he earned 5th place.
A couple of hours later, a short-stacked Freddy Deeb picked a bad time to make a move, running his 87 suited into Brett Faustman's AK. This time the best hand held up and Freddy departed in 4th place.
Following in Freddy's footsteps, Men 'the Master' picked the wrong time to make a move -- all-in over the top of Hoyt's opening raise. Hoyt's pocket Jacks had Men's KT suited in bad shape and Men could not catch up, finishing in 3rd place.
Brett Faustman held a small lead at the beginning of heads-up play and at one point lost the lead to Hoyt during the 43 hands played, but in the end, it was Brett's pocket Queens defeating Hoyt's pocket deuces. The 28-year-old insurance salesman was able to wrestle the Alabama Cowboy to the mat.
In addition to the prize money, Brett also received a $25k seat in the WPT Championship at Bellagio in April and a gold and diamond WPO bracelet.