Poker Tournament Results

World Poker Finals / WPT Event Season 7

Place	Name	Prize
1	Gaetano Cannata AKA "Tom" (Feeding Hills, MA, USA)	$82,956
2	Jia Liu	$42,734
3	Edward O'Brien	$26,814
4	Robert Teklu (Boston, MA, USA)	$20,110
5	Paul Duchemin (Hopkinton, MA, USA)	$13,407
6	Richard Grant (Waltham, MA, USA)	$11,731
7	Neal Gersony AKA "author of Poker Slam, a novel" (Rocky Hill, CT, USA)	$8,380
8	Mike Gambale (Hanover, MA, USA)	$5,865
9	Louis Pito (Cheshire, CT, USA)	$4,190
10	Daniel Campbell (Marlborough, MA, USA)	$3,416
11	Ehsan Ghods	$2,513
12	Suk Kim (Brocton, MA, USA)	$2,513
13	Daniel Richard	$2,513
14	Judith Gendron	$2,513
15	Tony Giacalone	$2,513
16	Stephen Hinkle (Lebanon, NH, USA)	$2,513
17	John Uhlig (Ansonia, CT, USA)	$2,513
18	Brandon Hawkins (Wakefield, RI, USA)	$2,513
19	Anthony Russo (Braintree, MA, USA)	$2,513
20	Layla Azargoon	$2,513
21	Louis N Dunham (Clinton, CT, USA)	$1,675
22	Jared Rubin (Natick, MA, USA)	$1,675
23	Shkelqim Nazarko	$1,675
24	Ysander Almonte	$1,675
25	John Lenane	$1,675
26	Simon Tran	$1,675
27	Jason Carbone (N Providence, RI, USA)	$1,675
28	Clayton Chandanais	$1,675
29	John A Knutson (Rockport, ME, USA)	$1,675
30	Louis Wierzbicki	$1,675
31	Armah David AKA "Mr. G" (Boston, MA, USA)	$1,340
32	William C Bazilchuk (Waterbury, CT, USA)	$1,340
33	David Stefanski (Waterford, CT, USA)	$1,340
34	Carlo Sciannameo (Worcester, MA, USA)	$1,340
35	David Prothero	$1,340
36	Daniel Suied	$1,340
37	David Munne	$1,340
38	Martin Rawitz (MA, USA)	$1,340
39	John Pura	$1,340
40	Henry Ottaviano	$1,340
41	Herbert Buchine	$1,005
42	Carl Fenske	$1,005
43	Peter Zujewski (Shelton, CT, USA)	$1,005
44	Carmelo Cambareri (Mount Kisco, NY, USA)	$1,005
45	Kristopher McDonnell	$1,005
46	Joe Saccone (Venice, CA, USA)	$1,005
47	Michael Leighton	$1,005
48	Allen Craig	$1,005
49	Michael Lennerton	$1,005
50	Michael Ertel	$1,005
51	James Clark (Brockton, MA, USA)	$837
52	Vincent O'Neill	$837
53	Steven Therrien	$837
54	Daniel Yanofski (W.Orange, NJ, USA)	$837
55	Timothy Rochefort	$837
56	Alexander Cukar AKA "Sugar" (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$837
57	Lawrence Thornton (Essex Junction, VT, USA)	$837
58	Michael Hills	$837
59	John Truskowski	$837
60	Eric Barnes (Littlestown, PA, USA)	$837
61	John Sepulveda	$837
62	Daniel Bouffard (Burlington, VT, USA)	$837
63	Allen Chang (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$837
64	Kenneth Glowacki AKA "WACKER" (Upton, MA, USA)	$837
65	Mark Langenheim	$837
66	Kevin Madeira AKA "Madman" (E Taunton, MA, USA)	$837
67	Neal Marianiello	$837
68	Robert Potter (Manassas, VA, USA)	$837
69	Steven Stork	$837
70	Arthur White	$837
71	Brian Collis	$670
72	David Millis	$670
73	Michael Lennon	$670
74	Scott Bradish	$670
75	Tracy Alley	$670
76	William Botchis (Niantic, CT, USA)	$670
77	Andrew Erdos	$670
78	Preston McNeil	$670
79	Deeneash Krishnanand	$670
80	David Lane	$670
81	Vincent DeAngelico	$670
82	Jeffrey Schwarz	$670
83	Raul Molestina (Jamaica, NY, USA)	$670
84	Gary Medeiros	$670
85	Peter Foss (Embden, ME, USA)	$670
86	Glen Wundeler (Ridgefield, CT, USA)	$670
87	Brian Smith (Henderson, NV, USA)	$670
88	Joshua Silva	$670
89	Paul Defalco	$670
90	Stephen Ross (Waltham, MA, USA)	$670
91	Mark Freischlag (Greenwich, CT, USA)	$670
92	Sam Purcell	$670
93	Ronald Witkos	$670
94	James Denbow (Foster, RI, USA)	$670
95	Roberto Matic (Waterbury, CT, USA)	$670
96	George Bartlett (Clinton, MD, USA)	$670
97	Gary Leger	$670
98	David Pacheco (Fall River, MA, USA)	$670
99	William Starace (Raymond, NH, USA)	$670
100	Anastasios Papagiannopoulos	$670

Tournament Report

1329 anted up $300 to enter the 2008 Foxwoods World Poker Finals No-Limit Hold'em Shoot-out. Single table shoot-outs were held at 10 am and 1 pm and the top three players on each table advanced to the 4 pm Finals. A total of 399 winners returned at 4 pm to pursue the prize pool of $335,173! When play ended on Monday there were 36 players remaining; they resumed play at Noon on Tuesday and by 4 pm the Final Table was underway. It took almost three hours for Gaetano Cannata of Feeding Hills, MA, to claim the title. Gaetano had an amazing up and down battle with runner-up Jia Liu, but finally prevailed to capture the Championship Trophy, commemorative leather jacket and $82,956! The first player to leave the final table was Daniel Campbell. Dan moved all-in with AQ but when Jia turned over K10 and hit the K on the flop, Dan was left in 10th place. The Marlborough, MA, resident had $3,416 for his efforts. Cheshire, CT, native Louis Pito pushed in his last 80K with AJ. Gaetano called with Q10 and after hitting the 10 on the flop, Louis would claim 9th place for $4,190. Mike Gambale of Hanover, MA, would be the 8th place finisher. He pushed all in with a strong 106K with A10 only to be called by Gaetano and AK. The 10 was flopped but the K was turned and Mike realized 8th place and $5,865. Neal Gersony had 95 against Richard Grant's AJ, but neither one hit the board and Neal took down $8,380 for 7th place. Gaetano went for the kill with his commanding chip lead next taking down Richard Grant of Waltham, MA. Richard was all-in with AK, and after a 10JJ flop and Gaetano's J10 left Richard in 6th with a $11,731 payday. Paul Duchemin pushed all-in with KJ after the flop of J3c10c and was called by Gaetano's 6c4c, and with the 2c on the river, Paul finished 5th with a prize of $13,407. Robel Teklu of Boston, MA, went all-in with KJ only to be called by chip leader Gaetano and KQ. After the Q hit on the river, Gaetano picked up another 344,000 in chips and an overwhelming chip lead, while Robel took 4th and $20,110. Gaetano also had the pleasure of taking down the 3rd place finisher, Edward O'Brien, who pushed all-in with K8. Gaetano called with AJ, and with no help for Edward he parted with $26,814 and an impressive 3rd. At the start of head's up action, Gaetano Cannata had nearly a 6 to 1 chip advantage. But his edge was reversed following a series of hands which included two called all-in efforts by Jia Liu. Jia's 1st all-in was for 145K with A4. Gaetano called with J6 and got no help. Jia's 2nd all-in push was with A6 for just over 400K, again Gaetano called, this time with A8 only to see 66K on the flop and a near reversal of chip fortune. Jia eventually realized the chip lead only to be called after pushing all in on a flush draw with 8h2h by Gaetano's draw of 9h6h which neither hit but the 9 played, and 770K was pushed to Gaetano. Several hands later Jia moved all-in with A9 and was called with KsQs. Flop was AsKh6s, turn 7c, river 4s and the flush and the Championship for Gaetano! Reported by Rhue R. Reis for Foxwoods Resort Casino