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35th Annual World Series of Poker

WSOP World Championship - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

May 28, 2004 at 12:00 PM
Binion's Gambling Hall
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$10,000
Prize Pool	$24,224,400
Entries	2576
Report Available

Gregory P. Raymer

Place	Name	Prize
1	Gregory P. "Fossilman" Raymer (Stonington, CT, USA)	$5,000,000
2	David Williams (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$3,500,000
3	Josh Arieh (Atlanta, GA, USA)	$2,500,000
4	Dan Harrington (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$1,500,000
5	Glenn Hughes (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$1,100,000
6	Al Krux (Syracuse, NY, USA)	$800,000
7	Matt Dean (Woodlands, TX, USA)	$675,000
8	Mattias Andersson AKA "PokerMats" (Sweden)	$575,000 and Won WSOP seat at www.BugsysClub.com and also PokerSchoolOnline Member
9	Michael McClain (Davis, CA, USA)	$470,400
10	Marcel Luske AKA "The Flying Dutchman" (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	$373,000
11	Dewey Archer (Lake Charles, LA, USA)	$373,000
12	James Grimes (Houston, TX, USA)	$373,000
13	John Murphy (San Jose, CA, USA)	$275,000
14	Kevin Bott (Brexburg, ID, USA)	$275,000
15	Eddy Scharf (Cologne, Germany)	$275,000
16	William Erickson (Babylon, NY, USA)	$175,000
17	Gary Jones (London, UK)	$175,000
TIE	Harry Demetriou (London, UK)	$147,500 and Eliminated on same hand as Fullerton
TIE	Richard Fullerton (Aspen, CO)	$147,500 and Eliminated on same hand as Demetriou
20	Bob Jarrett (Winlaw, BC, Canada)	$120,000
21	Scott Carpenter (Fairfax Station, VA, USA)	$120,000
22	Hung La (Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)	$120,000
23	Jason Sagle (Sudbury, ON, Canada)	$120,000
24	Dave Truong (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$120,000
25	David Anderson (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$120,000
26	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)	$120,000
27	Eric Van der Berg (Haarlem, Netherlands)	$120,000
28	Martin Feijo (Brandford, ON, Canada)	$80,000
29	Matt Lefkowitz (Carmel Valley, CA, USA)	$80,000
30	Glenn Cooney (Tampa, FL)	$80,000
31	Bradley Berman (Minnetonka, MN, USA)	$80,000
32	Julian Gardner (Manchester, UK)	$80,000
33	Matthew Hilger (Duluth, GA, USA)	$80,000
34	Daniel Adelson (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$80,000
35	David Angel (La Porte, TX, USA)	$80,000
36	Benjamin Johnson (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$80,000
37	Matthew Treasure (Peekskill, NY, USA)	$60,000
38	Patrick O'Connor (Dublin, Ireland)	$60,000
39	Ramzi Daniel (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$60,000
40	Dung Nguyen ( San Jose, CA, USA)	$60,000
41	Mario Zeledon	$60,000
42	Kevin Schaffel (Weston, FL, USA)	$60,000
43	Steve Lott (Goliad, TX, USA)	$60,000
44	Desmond Portano (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$60,000 and PokerSchoolOnline Member
45	Barry "Doc" Schwartz (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$60,000
46	Anh Van Nguyen (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$45,000
47	Bryan Bevis (Lakeville, MN, USA)	$45,000
48	Jess Kaufman (Littleton, CO, USA)	$45,000
49	Ali Eslami (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$45,000
50	Peter Giordano (Liverpool, NY, USA)	$45,000
51	V Senthil Kumar (San Jose, CA, USA)	$45,000
52	Gavin Smith (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$45,000
53	Doyle Brunson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$45,000
54	Blair Rodman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$45,000
55	Tobias Persson (Malmo, Sweden)	$35,000
56	Tony Abesamis (West Covina, CA, USA)	$35,000
57	Frank Russomanno (Cedar Grove, NJ)	$35,000
58	Henrik Olsen (Denmark)	$35,000
59	Daniel Alaei (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$35,000
60	Chuck Pacheco (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$35,000
61	Nils Paulsen (Oslo, Norway)	$35,000
62	Chris Heintschel (Escondido, CA, USA)	$35,000
63	Andy Wynn (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$35,000
64	Brett Ehart (Evergreen, CO, USA)	$30,000
65	Jeff Calkins (New York, NY, USA)	$30,000
66	James Hoeppner (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$30,000
67	Edward Foster (Northampton, England)	$30,000
68	Michael Zelin (East Windsor, NJ, USA)	$30,000
69	Todd Rupert (Reeds Spring, MO, USA)	$30,000
70	Danny Pourat (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$30,000
71	Ayhan Alsancak AKA "KukSopp" (GÃ¶teborg, Sweden)	$30,000
72	Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (Hull, UK)	$30,000
73	Ken Borror (Brandon, FL, USA)	$25,000
74	Gregg Turk (Sterling, VA, USA)	$25,000
75	Richard Osborne (Martinez, CA, USA)	$25,000
76	Sam Libicki (Rohnert Park, CA)	$25,000
77	Danny Bigelow (Gilbert, AZ)	$25,000
78	Donny Ariel (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$25,000
79	Scott Lundberg (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA)	$25,000
80	Paul Kraus (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$25,000
81	Kostas Angeloudis (Bayside, NY)	$25,000
82	Chuck Agnew (Hollister, CA, USA)	$20,000
83	Peter Damato (Philadelphia, PA)	$20,000
84	Paul North (Forest Hills, NY, USA)	$20,000
85	Joseph Brooks (Egg Harbor, NJ, USA)	$20,000
86	Randy Holland (Winnetka, CA, USA)	$20,000
87	Mike Matusow AKA "The Mouth" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$20,000
88	Brad Pierce (Newark, DE, USA)	$20,000
89	Tom Bohmer (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$20,000
90	Burt Boutin (Henderson, NV, USA)	$20,000
91	Philippe Marmorstein (Munich, Germany)	$20,000
92	Craig Swick (Big Sky, MT, USA)	$20,000
93	Jacob Spelman (Ann Arbor, MI)	$20,000
94	Dave Scharf (Saskatoon, SK, Canada)	$20,000
95	Michael Breault (Dracut, MA, USA)	$20,000
96	Greg "Fisherman" Duros (Seal Beach, CA, USA)	$20,000
97	Tony Van	$20,000
98	Rose Richie (St Petersburg, FL)	$20,000
99	Stephen Bartlett (Livonia, MI, USA)	$20,000
100	Dan The Man Rogers (Lenexa, KS)	$20,000
101	Mark Wilds (Biloxi, MS, USA)	$20,000
102	Yee Chung (New York, NY)	$20,000
103	Bo Sehlstedt AKA "Legato" (Stockholm, Sweden)	$20,000
104	Peter Sterns (Hamilton, NJ)	$20,000
105	Charles Buffalo (Chandler, AZ, USA)	$20,000
106	Saleem Tawil (Austin, TX)	$20,000
107	Yarom Limor AKA "braveyoyo" (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$20,000
TIE	John Esposito (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$17,500
TIE	Daniel Larsson (Linkoping, Sweden)	$17,500
110	Robert Boyd (Culver City, CA)	$15,000
111	Jan Olav Sjavik (Oslo, Norway)	$15,000
112	Markus Feurle AKA "feurinho" (Bregenz, vlbg, Austria)	$15,000
113	Lee Watkinson (Cheney, WA, USA)	$15,000
114	David Weisberger (New York, NY, USA)	$15,000
115	Peter Moore (Fernandina Beach, FL, USA)	$15,000
116	Curt Kohlberg (Western, MA, USA)	$15,000
117	J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA)	$15,000
118	Billy Duarte (Berthoud, CO, USA)	$15,000
119	Tod Skarecky (London, England)	$15,000
120	Abraham Mosseri (New York, NY, USA)	$15,000
121	Tommy Grimes (Houston, TX, USA)	$15,000
122	Dayne Baverman (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
123	Arthur Loring (Palm Beach, FL, USA)	$15,000
124	Casey Kastle (Chicago, IL, USA)	$15,000
125	Gregory Geller (Glendale, CO, USA)	$15,000
126	Yaser Al Keliddar (Arlington, VA, USA)	$15,000
127	Craig Crivello (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)	$15,000
128	Kenneth Maust (Troy, MI)	$15,000
129	Andy Church (London, England)	$15,000
130	Jesse Jewell (Hayes, VA)	$15,000
131	Mark Weitzman (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$15,000
132	John Sheckherd (Nipomo, CA)	$15,000
133	William Brindise (Rumson, NJ, USA)	$15,000
134	Larry Anderson (San Jose, CA, USA)	$15,000
135	Frank Brabec (Crystal Lake, IL, USA)	$15,000
136	Orjan Gronmo (Bodoa, Norway)	$15,000
137	Melvin Phillips (Duncan, OK)	$15,000
138	George Huber (Pahrump, NV, USA)	$15,000
139	Russ Hamilton (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
140	Rene Oliveras (Morristown, NJ, USA)	$15,000
141	Donald Moseley (Houston, TX, USA)	$15,000
142	Jordan Siegal (Henderson, NV, USA)	$15,000
143	John Pires (Santa Clara, CA, USA)	$15,000
144	Jeffrey Freedman (Simi Valley, CA, USA)	$15,000
145	Raymond Davis AKA "The Amazing" (Commerce, CA, USA)	$15,000
146	Kevin O'Connell (Manchester, UK)	$15,000
147	Carl Quinton (Liverpool, England)	$15,000
148	Robert Hartmann (Monarch Beach, CA, USA)	$15,000
149	Jeffrey Burdsall (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
150	Gus Hansen AKA "The Great Dane" (Copenhagen, Denmark)	$15,000
151	David Griffith (Rye, NY, USA)	$15,000
152	Zakeri Behman (Overlands Park, KS)	$15,000
153	Robert Fogarty (Kill Devil Hills, NC, USA)	$15,000
154	Dewey Tomko (Winter Haven, FL, USA)	$15,000
155	Patrick Hanley (Henderson, NV)	$15,000
156	Garth Weeks (Aldergrove, BC, Canada)	$15,000
157	Emmanuel Moraitis (Chicago, IL)	$15,000
158	Aviv Sharaf (New York, NY, USA)	$15,000
159	Lucy Rokach (Stoke on Trent, UK)	$15,000
160	Mojtaba Seyedin (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
161	Richard Tomman (Belvidere, IL)	$15,000
162	Sargon Ruya (Linkoping, Sweden)	$15,000
163	Thomas Hammond (Bloomfield, Hills MI)	$15,000
164	John Wheeler (London, England)	$15,000
165	Perry Friedman AKA "The Baiter" (Las Vegas, GA, USA)	$15,000
166	Andy Cracchiolo (Phoenix, AZ)	$15,000
167	Juha Helppi (Helsinki, Finland)	$15,000
168	Gabriel Thaler (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
169	Timothy White (North Oxford, MA, USA)	$15,000
170	Eli Elezra (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
171	Greg Sawka (Newark,DE)	$15,000
172	Paul Nobles (Eagan, MN)	$15,000
173	Ken Evanowski (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$15,000
174	Howard Andrew AKA "Tahoe" (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)	$15,000
175	Jeffrey Bull (Chicago, IL)	$15,000
176	Greg Blau (Shreveport, LA, USA)	$15,000
177	William Krackomberger (Galloway, NJ, USA)	$15,000
178	George Youkhanna AKA "Papadakalis" (Modesto, CA, USA)	$15,000
179	Thomas Werthmann AKA "Big Baller" (Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA)	$15,000
180	Antonio Salorio AKA "vortex" (Coral Springs, FL, USA)	$15,000
181	Al Korsin (Albuquerque, NM, USA)	$10,000
182	Jan Sorensen (Odense, Denmark)	$10,000
183	Paul Jackson AKA "Action" (Birmingham, UK)	$10,000
184	Eirik Villand AKA "eirivi" (Bergen, Hordaland, Norway)	$10,000
185	Dennis Colletti Jr (Bradenton FL)	$10,000
186	Troy Rude (San Antonio, TX, USA)	$10,000
187	Scott Marks (Summerdale, PA, USA)	$10,000
188	Jamie O'Sullivan (Greensborg, NC, USA)	$10,000
189	Jacob Battenberg (Denver, CO)	$10,000
190	Tomer Benvenisti (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,000
191	Abraham Gray (Lawrenceville, GA, USA)	$10,000
192	Bryan Dillon (Prospect, KY, USA)	$10,000
193	Rob Hollink (Groningen, Netherlands)	$10,000
194	Andrew Goetsch (Canada)	$10,000
195	Michael Mexal (Scottsdale, AZ)	$10,000
196	Robert Skutelsky (Boulder, CO, USA)	$10,000
197	Alex Brenes (San Jose, Costa Rica)	$10,000
198	Michael "OTLDOC" Fillat (San Diego, CA, USA)	$10,000 and PokerSchoolOnline Member
199	Shrini Kelkar (Kirkland, WA, USA)	$10,000
200	Bob Fikac (Potomac Falls, VA, USA)	$10,000
201	Herman Grimes (Union,MO)	$10,000
202	Margartoi Belinovich (Moscow, Russia)	$10,000
203	Leon Garcia (Merced, CA)	$10,000
204	Gene Timberlake (Houston, TX, USA)	$10,000
205	Neil Channing AKA "Bad Beat" (London, UK)	$10,000
206	George Abdallah (Houston, TX, USA)	$10,000
207	Erin Ness (Caldwell, NJ)	$10,000
208	Samir Zoudo (Modesto, CA)	$10,000
209	Richard Cordani (Las Vegas, NV)	$10,000
210	Vincent Napolitano (Williston Park, NY, USA)	$10,000
211	Adam Garfinkle (Charlotte,NC)	$10,000
212	Earl Odom (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,000
213	Steven Greenberg (San Diego, CA, USA)	$10,000
214	Aaron Ogus (Redmond, WA, USA)	$10,000
215	O'Neil Longson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$10,000
216	Matthew Stodola (Chicago,IL)	$10,000
217	Reagan Silber (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$10,000
218	Daniel Sosa AKA "S-Pantz" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$10,000
219	David Cupps (Bedford, IN, USA)	$10,000
220	Ivon Crewse AKA "Porkchop" (Lisle, IL, USA)	$10,000
221	Michael Pino (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$10,000
222	Peter Hedlund (Stockholm, Sweden)	$10,000
223	Ron Faltinsky (Monterey Park, CA, USA)	$10,000
224	Paul Tom (USA)	$10,000
TIE	Duane Tomko AKA "Dewey" (Winter Haven, FL, USA)	$10,000
TIE	David Combs AKA "Tackman" (Los Alamitos, CA, USA)	$10,000

Tournament Report

Official final table report to follow
Prize Money
1st $5,000,000 2nd $3,500,000 3rd $2,500,000 4th $1,500,000 5th $1,100,000 6th $800,000 7th $675,000 8th $575,000 9th $470,400
2004 WORLD SERIES OF POKER
THE MAIN EVENT
FINAL TABLE

SEAT 1: MATTIAS ANDERSSON
Chip Count: $740,000
The only non-American to make the final table this year is Mattias Anderson, from Sweden. At age 24, he’s one of four 20-something players in the finale. Andersson previously worked as a salesman in a toy store before crafting his poker game playing on the Internet. Over the past year, he’s supported himself financially playing from his home computer. Andersson noted that “Poker School Online” at PokerPages.com helped him learn about strategy. In his spare time, he also enjoys soccer, pool, miniature golf, and other card games – including “Magic.” In fact, Andersson won the national “Magic” championship in Sweden in 2001. This is his first time to play in the World Series of Poker. Andersson’s motto: “Respect all of your fellow players and try to play your best game.”
SEAT 2: JOSH ARIEH
Chip Count: $3,205,000
Josh Arieh was born in Rochester, NY and now lives in Atlanta, GA. He’s a 29-year-old professional poker player who once worked as a courier for a law firm. Arieh won a gold bracelet at the World Series in 1999 – in the $3,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em event. This is his fifth year to play at the World Series – where he has cashed ten times. He started playing poker several years ago, mostly to kill time after the local pool hall closed. Arieh is married and has two children. About his life, he says, “I’m just a family man trying to make a decent living.”
SEAT 3: AL KRUX
Chip Count: $1,305,000
Al Krux is originally from North Carolina, but now lives near Syracuse, NY. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Krux worked as a diamond merchant. He won a World Series gold bracelet in 1996 in the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Hold’em event. He also made the final table in the main event in 1990, when he finished 6th. Krux is married and has four children.
SEAT 4: GREG “FOSSILMAN” RAYMER
Chip Count: $8,215,000
The chip leader coming into the finale is Greg Raymer, a 39-year-old corporate patent attorney from Stonington, CT. Raymer is originally from North Dakota, and worked around the country before settling down with his wife and daughter in the woods of Southeastern Connecticut. Raymer’s best tournament finish was third in the main event at the World Poker Finals, back in 2001 at Foxwoods. This is his first final table at the World Series of Poker – and he comes in with a significant chip advantage at over $8 million. Raymer is known as “Fossilman,” because he collects antique fossils – which he often proudly displays on the poker table. He also has the most unusual shades in poker. Raymer’s motto: “I only appear to be wacko – in reality, I’m much worse.”
SEAT 5: MATT DEAN
Chip Count: $4,920,000
Dean is a 25-year-old aspiring math teacher from Woodlands, Texas – located just outside Houston. He’s currently working on getting his teaching certificate, in order to teach high school math. Dean started playing poker just one year ago. He learned to play poker online, and at his local fraternity house on the campus of Southwestern University. Dean is single and enjoys playing sports, including tennis.
SEAT 6: DAN HARRINGTON
Chip Count: $2,245,000
Dan Harrington is the 1995 world poker champion. He also made the final table in the main event last year – finishing third. This year’s repeat performance means he’s made three final tables within just the past ten years – a remarkable accomplishment by any measure. Harrington grew up in Boston and became a successful investor before turning to poker to make his “second fortune.” Harrington is jokingly referred to as “Action Dan,” a teasing reference to his rock-solid playing reputation. The fact is – Harrington is capable of playing many different styles and has proven to be one of the most dangerous players in the game of No-Limit Texas Hold’Em. Harrington now lives in Santa Monica, CA.
SEAT 7: GLENN HUGHES
Chip Count: $2,275,000
Glenn Hughes, a.k.a. “The Big Cat,” is a 38-year-old married father of two children who now lives in Scottsdale, AZ. He’s a graduate of the University of Mississippi and is now semi-retired. When Hughes isn’t spending time with his family or playing poker, he’s usually out on the golf course. Hughes has finished in the money several times here at the World Series and other tournaments, as well -- but like many of his opponents, this is his first foray onto the world’s brightest poker stage.
SEAT 8: DAVID ANTHONY WILLIAMS
Chip Count: $1,575,000
David Williams is the youngest player at today’s final table. His 24th birthday comes up in just two weeks. Williams currently lives in Dallas, Texas and is currently a student at S.M.U. where he’s majoring in math and economics. He started playing poker seven years ago. Interestingly, Williams credits “The Flying Dutchman” -- Marcel Luske -- as the player who helped him most with his game. Last night past midnight, Luske busted out tenth in this event. About his future, Williams says: “I never want to have a boss. I will open my own business – if poker doesn’t work out.” Williams credits his mother who is here with him today -- who is very supportive of his decision to play poker.
SEAT 9: MIKE McCLAIN
Chip Count: $885,000
Mike McClain is a 39-year-old pro poker player from Lemoore, CA. He earned a BS degree in engineering and worked in the computer industry before turning pro in the East Bay area. McClain is perhaps best known for having his face shown literally hundreds of times nationally on television as the “AGONY OF DEFEAT” shot, during ESPN’s repeated World Series of Poker broadcasts last year. Perhaps this year in 2004, McClain can turn that “agony of defeat” memory into a “thrill of victory” reality. McClain is married and has two children.
TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS: MATT SAVAGE and JIM MILLER
TOURNAMENT COORDINATOR: STEVE MCDONALD
MEDIA DIRECTOR: NOLAN DALLA
DEALER COORDINATOR: MEG PATRICK
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE: MICHAEL O’MALLEY

Not forgetting the man behind the Camera Mark Napolitano of PokerPages.com and PokerSchoolOnline - Awesome Job Mark, thank you for taking the whole World to the 2004 WSOP