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33rd Annual World Series of Poker

Event #28 - WSOP Limit Hold'em

May 14, 2002 at 12:00 PM
Binion's Gambling Hall
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Buy-In	$1,500
Prize Pool	$516,060
Entries	366
Report Available

Hung La

Place	Name	Prize
1	Hung La (Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)	$190,920
2	Stephen Kaufman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$98,060
3	Patricia Gallagher (San Diego, CA, USA)	$49,020
4	Jesse Daniel (Oxnard, CA, USA)	$30,960
5	Gary Jones (London, UK)	$23,220
6	Paul Ladanyi (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$18,060
7	Cy Jassinowsky (Johannesburg, South Africa)	$12,900
8	Diego Cordovez (Palo Alto, CA, USA)	$10,320
9	An "The Boss" Tran (Westminster, CA, USA)	$8,260
10	Daniel Barnett (San Clemente, CA, USA)	$6,200
11	Phi Nguyen (Santa Ana, CA, USA)	$6,200
12	Ivan Trepner (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,200
13	David Warga (Tempe, AZ, USA)	$5,160
14	Joel Chaseman (Potomac, MD, USA)	$5,160
15	Chris Bach (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$5,160
16	Susan Millstone (El Cajun, CA, USA)	$4,120
17	T.J. Cloutier (Richardson, TX, USA)	$4,120
18	Scott O'Bryan (Kokomo, IN, USA)	$4,120
19	Michael T Keohan AKA "Mike" (Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)	$3,100
20	Roger Easterday (Austin, TX, USA)	$3,100
21	Ahmad Mubarak (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,100
22	Hunter Zuber (Chandler, AZ, USA)	$3,100
23	Randy Holland (Winnetka, CA, USA)	$3,100
24	Luis Santoni (Pembroke Pines, FL, USA)	$3,100
25	Thor Hansen (El Segundo, CA, USA)	$3,100
26	Frank Henderson (Houston, TX, USA)	$3,100
27	Matt Salo (Lino Lakes, MN, USA)	$3,100

Tournament Report

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If a man had talked like this, he would have been thrown out. From a tiny little woman, it was funny.
There were 366 entrants in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em for a total prize pool of $516,060. Three tables were paid, a total of 27 players.
To setup the Final Table Tuesday night, Paul Ladanyi's pocket 8's held up against Philong Nguyen's all-in A 10. The 'blue' show was about to begin.
THE FINAL TABLE 42 mins left of 75. The blinds were $1,000/$2,000
-------Player Hometown Chip Count
Seat 1) Patty Gallagher - San Diego CA. $54,500
Seat 2) Cy Jassanowsky - Johannesburg, So. Africa. $35,000
Seat 3) Paul Ladanyi - Budapest, Hungary. $92,500
Seat 4) Jesse Daniel - Ventura, CA. $76,000
Seat 5) Meng La - Torrance, CA. $84,000
Seat 6) Steve Kaufman - Cincinnati, OH. $76,000
Seat 7) An Tran - Las Vegas, NV. $24,500
Seat 8) Gary Jones - London, UK. $77,000
Seat 9) Diego Cordovez - Palo, Alto CA. $20,000
Seat 10) Daniel Barnett - Edmonds, WA. $15,500
Every year, at the WSOP, new players emerge from obscurity to become household names. A player with the potential to become a certified character that we will watch for years is Patty "Machine Gun' Gallagher. She can play. And she IS a character. Oh, and she is also by her own insistence a foul-mouthed b***h. "I've got the biggest b***s in the place. I'm Patty G. "She likes to say at the top of her voice. It's like Mae West was channeling through a petite Filipino-American woman who loves to laugh and who especially loves to taunt men. She breaks the unwritten rule of poker etiquette by talking to her opponents when they are trying to decide to call her bets. "Why are you talking to me when I have a hand," Meng La finally said to her. He said she gave him a "headache" and he asked her to quit speaking to him altogether. Patty proved over the course of the day that she could bet the river with absolutely nothing. "Don't flirt with me," she said to Steve Kaufman as he stared at her looking for a bluff tell. She is a piece of work, there can be no doubt.
As Daniel Barnett found out to his chagrin in 10th, Patty actually picked up a real hand once in a while. Daniel was the shortest stack and he went all-in from the button with A 6. Patty was on an early rush that took her to the chip lead. 'Machine Gun' Gallagher had pocket Aces in the small blind.
'The Boss,' An Tran was the next to be gunned down by Gallagher. Tran reraised Patty from the button with pocket 3's. She'd raised with the K Q of Spades under the gun. It's likely that in the thirty plus cashes Tran has had at the WSOP, he's never crossed anyone like Patty Gallagher. She wasn't missing any hands at the time and made K's and Q's.
The next short stack that had to gamble was Diego Cordovez. Meng La raised from middle position with A 3. Cordovez went all-in from the big blind with K 6. One 3 was enough, but Meng got two to give the talented Diego 8th.
'Johannesburg' was in the 1 post at the recent Kentucky Derby and lost to 'War Emblem' by several lengths. Cy Jassanowsky, from Johannesburg, was in the 2 post at this Final Table and lost to Meng La in a photo finish. Cy had a K 9. When a King flopped, he reraised Meng La's raise all-in. La had K 10 and the 10 played. Cy couldn't anymore.
Intensity, thy name is Paul Ladanyi. One notch east of Phil Hellmuth is a hungry Paul Ladanyi. His desire to win burns right on the surface of his face. When he gets a beat, he's capable of throwing, kicking or screaming things. Passed early by the red-hot Patty Gallagher for the chip lead, Ladanyi had plenty to be upset about when his stack was decimated. He lost most of the remainder of his chips when Meng La made a higher flush on Paul with a fourth Spade on the river. Paul was there on the turn. Still fuming, Landanyi finished a disastrous 6th when he and Patty got into a raising duel. After five bets they were obliged to quit to see the flop. To no one's surprise, except maybe Ladanyi's, Gallagher had pocket Aces that held up against Paul's pocket 10's.
Just like Diego Cordovez, Gary Jones was forced to move in search of some chips. When the flop came A K 7, Jones went all-in from the big blind with his King. Unfortunately for Gary, England is ruled by a Queen not a King. Steve Kaufman had Pokerland's ruler, an Ace, to bid the young Englishman 'Tally-ho' in 5th.
All the males at this table were being baited by Patty Gallagher. Jesse Daniel from Ventura (or is it Jesse Ventura from Daniel?) got it the worst. He couldn't figure out what she had, and every time he guessed he seemed to be wrong. Often he just folded in confusion. Too short now to guess, Jesse went all-in with that proven failure, K x. Actually Jesse's hand wasn't that bad-K 6 of Hearts. Steve Kaufman had pocket 8's that sent Ventura back to Minnesota (or was it Daniel back to California?).
Three-handed now, Patty had half the chips on the table. She was cooking with gas at the time. But her tournament inexperience was about to show. Steve Kaufman tried to get a deal going that would have given Patty over $100k. She didn't know deals and didn't trust men bringing them. It was to cost her over $50,000. Suddenly, the 'Machine Gun' had run out of bullets. The tournament veterans, Kaufman and La worked her over pretty good. She will learn from this experience and is a likely candidate to return to a Final Table soon. Especially in her dominant game, Limit Hold'em. That boisterous voice was finally struck dumb by the river card Meng La caught to wipe Patty out in 3rd. Patty had top pair when Meng made a gutshot King high straight on the river with his K 9.
Steve Kaufman is a backer of tournament players so he had a large crowd of interested rooters. If Steve wins $190k, we'll get some additional buy-ins, they probably thought. Meng "The Ninja" La agreed to a partial save when the chips were even then he ripped Kaufman apart. Meng, who had been so infuriated by Patty Gallagher, hung on to take the lion's share of the prize pool. It's the second big win for La this season and vaults him into an elite circle of players. Professor Kaufman tried a straight draw all-in against the made three Queens of Meng and was schooled.