Poker Tournament Results

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

End of Day 1b Chip Counts - Players Progressing to Day Two from A & B First Name Last Name City Country Chip Table Seat Count Adam Junglen Stow Ohio 84,200 4 5 Daniel Negreanu Las Vegas, NV USA 74,900 7 2 Daniel Nutt Byfleet UK 74,500 7 9 Jason Gray Sydney Australia 72,800 1 7 Remy Biechel NA France 65,500 8 5 James Akenhead London UK 58,800 5 6 Costas Artemi London UK 57,300 7 6 David La Ronde Colchester UK 57,000 2 7 Brandon Cantu Las Vegas, NV USA 54,200 5 5 Salim Ghozali London UK 52,700 1 1 Willie Tann London UK 52,500 7 1 Yevgeniy Timoschenko Mukilteo, WA USA 50,800 3 3 Phil Laak Dublin Ireland 50,000 5 8 Michael Bepper Brighton UK 49,500 1 6 Tim Pennington London UK 43,300 6 3 F. Serhan Cobham UK 40,700 7 7 Jesper Hougaard Copenhangen Denmark 38,800 25 1 Carl Hostrup NA 38,700 1 4 Rumit Somaiya London UK 36,700 25 2 Thomas Marchese Parsippany UK 36,200 7 4 John Kabbaj London UK 35,300 1 3 Isaac Haxton Las Vegas, NV USA 34,400 4 3 William Martin London UK 34,100 2 2 Amir Englund London UK 33,400 5 1 Shaun Deeb Troy, MI USA 33,100 25 5 Mike Halioua Toronto, ON Canada 33,100 25 6 Tim Molyneux Las Vegas, NV USA 31,700 8 6 Keiron Traversari Stafford UK 31,100 6 6 Ben Grundy London UK 30,900 6 9 Oystein Stai Hamar Norway 30,700 8 3 Andy Bloch Las Vegas, NV USA 29,600 14 7 Julian Quance London UK 28,500 3 5 Marc Goodwin Birmingham UK 27,900 2 1 John Juanda Las Vegas, NV USA 27,000 8 9 Terry Cook Market Harborough UK 26,800 5 4 Jim Buckley Leamington Spa UK 26,400 1 5 Linda Lee Las Vegas, NV USA 26,200 25 7 Sidney Harris Hove UK 25,200 5 7 Shahaf Hadaya Jerusalem Israel 25,100 4 7 Xavier Laszcz Paris France 25,100 1 8 Tony Duffield Basinestoke UK 24,800 2 3 Warren Woodall Los Angeles, CA USA 24,400 14 5 Oskar Silow Goteborg Sweden 24,300 1 2 Nathan Lee Grays Essex UK 24,100 1 9 Brian Johnson London UK 24,000 8 8 Ilkka Koskinen Veesa Finland 22,800 8 1 Peter Linton Nottingham UK 22,700 5 3 Sandra Naujoks Berlin Germany 22,500 2 4 Matt Novak Toronto, ON Canada 22,000 8 7 Anthony Mackay London UK 21,400 14 4 Thomas Merved Copenhangen Denmark 21,200 14 6 Zack Chesses London UK 20,600 5 2 Dahe Liu Birmingham UK 20,200 7 3 Kristian Jorgensen NA 20,000 3 6 Ashley Hayles London UK 19,900 8 4 Neil Channing London UK 19,700 3 7 Paul Barnes Cardiff UK 19,500 7 5 Ian Woodley London UK 18,800 6 7 Tim Blake Wanstord UK 18,400 4 4 Carlos Tejado Perez Alicante Spain 18,300 14 1 John Kitchen Hereford UK 17,900 25 3 John Dwyer Dundalk UK 17,400 6 8 Patrick Donoghue Knottingley UK 17,100 6 4 Christoph Bommes Korschenbroich Germany 15,600 14 2 Jan Arne Bjerke Hamar Norway 15,500 2 5 Granvillano Orazio Catania Italy 14,700 5 9 Ian Bott London UK 14,500 3 8 Joseph El-Shater London UK 14,300 4 9 Surinder Sunar Wolverhampton UK 14,200 4 6 Demis Hassabis London UK 12,700 4 8 Torstein Iversen Oslo Norway 12,200 14 8 Vitaly Lunkin Moscow Russia 12,100 25 8 Gary Pearce Guernsey UK 12,100 7 8 Max Steinberg Fairfield, IA USA 11,800 3 4 Gino Gabriel Leicester UK 11,500 14 3 John Jenkins Motherwell UK 11,300 8 2 Alessandro Dal Bello Padova Italy 11,100 4 1 Michael Binger Las Vegas, NV USA 11,000 6 1 Michael O'Sullivan Dublin Ireland 11,000 3 9 Ken Corkery Cork UK 10,900 2 8 Leo Kam Ottawa, ON Canada 10,500 2 9 Denis O'Mahoney London UK 9,900 6 2 John Buttifant Romford UK 9,800 2 6 Darren Fuller London UK 8,400 3 2 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV USA 7,000 25 4 Jac Arama London UK 6,300 3 1 Soheil Zamanian Uppsala Sweden 3,700 4 2 Arkadi Kilman London UK NA 6 5 Tournament Notes (Day 1-B) · World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair includes the final four gold bracelet events of the 2008 season. WSOP events 1-55 were played in Las Vegas, Nevada from 28 May through 14 July. Events 56-59 are played in London, England from 19 September through 3 October. · All WSOPE results are included in WSOP records -- including all-time wins, cashes, final table appearances, etc. · This marks the second consecutive year of WSOPE Presented by Betfair. In 2007, three gold bracelet events were played in London. · All four events this year are played at Casino at the Empire, located in Leicester Square, in Central London. Leicester Square is best known as the theatre district of the city. Casino at the Empire is part of London Clubs, International, which is owned by Harrah's Entertainment. · The turnout for Event 1 was sufficiently large enough that two starting days (broken into 1-A and 1-B) were necessary. Day 1-A attracted 191 entries. Day 1-B attracted 219 entries. The combined field size for Event 1 was 410 players. · The turnout for WSOPE Event 1 makes this the largest poker tournament in London history. The previous record was the European Poker Tour-London final, held in September 2007, which attracted 392 entries. · Casino at the Empire holds 25 poker tables. Gaming tables were removed during the 16-day duration of WSOPE in order to make necessary room for the large turnout of players and spectators. · All WSOPE tournaments (except H.O.R.S.E.) are played nine-handed, whenever possible. · Players started with 6,000 in tournament chips. Starting blinds were 25-50. Day Ones included eight levels. Each level was one hour in length. · The buy-in amount for Event #1 was ₤1,500, which is equivalent to about $2,755 (USD) at the current exchange rate. · First place will pay ₤144,218. This prize is equal to about $264,019 (USD) at the current exchange rate. · Several notable former WSOP gold bracelet winners and poker pros played in Event 1 -- Day 1-B. This list included Phil Hellmuth, John Phan, Jean-Robert Bellande, Michael Binger, Howard Lederer, Jeff Madsen, Sorel Mizzi, David Williams, Davil "Devil Fish" Ulliott, Andrew Black, Andreas Krause, Andy Bloch, Ben Roberts, Jeffrey Lisandro, Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Melissa Hayden, Allen Cunningham, Robert Williamson III, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Mickey Wernick, and many others. · A special note about Mickey Wernick: Born in Wolverhampton, UK Wernick was a true British poker pioneer. In 1970, he founded one of England's first poker clubs. Wernick was also one of the first foreign-based players to play in the WSOP in Las Vegas. He was largely responsible for helping to popularize poker throughout the Midlands region. Wernick played in this event, but was eliminated on the first day. · Play began at 1:00 pm and ended at 12 midnight, at the conclusion of Level 8. · The "End of Day 1-B" chip leader is Adam Junglen, from Stow, OH (USA) – with 84,200 in chips. Junglen is a professional poker player who travels regularly throughout Europe competing in tournaments. The "End of Day 1-A" chip leader was four-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, from Las Vegas, NV. He has 74,900 in chips, which ranks second entering Day 2. · The top two chip leaders are Americans. All three previous WSOPE events (2007) were won by European players. · When play resumes on Day 2, survivors from Days 1-A and 1-B will combined. Play will continue with blinds set at 600-1200 and antes at 100. Day 2 resumes Sunday, at 1 pm. · The final table (nine players) will be played on Monday, 22 September, starting at 1 pm. Payouts 1 £144,218 2 £89,175 3 £55,350 4 £44,588 5 £36,285 6 £28,598 7 £22,448 8 £17,835 9 £13,222 10 £8,610 11 £8,610 12 £8,610 13 £7,072 14 £7,072 15 £7,072 16 £5,535 17 £5,535 18 £5,535 19 £4,305 20 £4,305 21 £4,305 22 £4,305 23 £4,305 24 £4,305 25 £4,305 26 £4,305 27 £4,305 28 £3,690 29 £3,690 30 £3,690 31 £3,690 32 £3,690 33 £3690 34 £3,690 35 £3,690 36 £3,690 37 £,3075 38 £3,075 39 £3,075 40 £3,075 41 £3,075 42 £3,075 43 £3,075 44 £3,075 45 £3,075

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