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WSOP World Championship - No Limit Hold'em Final Day Results & Report

35th Annual World Series of Poker

WSOP World Championship - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day
Binion's Gambling Hall
128 East Fremont Street
Las Vegas, NV, 89101, US
Full Schedule
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer 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...
Profile: Greg "Fossilman" Raymer
Date: May 28, 2004 Time: 12:00 PM

Buy-In: $10,000
Prizepool: $24,224,400
Entries: 2,576
Game Type: No Limit Hold'em

Place Country Name Prize
1 USA Greg "Fossilman" Raymer $5,000,000
2 USA David Williams $3,500,000
3 USA Josh Arieh $2,500,000
4 USA Dan Harrington $1,500,000
5 USA Glenn Hughes $1,100,000
6 USA Al Krux $800,000
7 USA Matt Dean $675,000
8 Sweden Mattias Andersson AKA "PokerMats" $575,000 and Won WSOP seat at www.BugsysClub.com and also PokerSchoolOnline Member
9 USA Michael McClain $470,400
10 Netherlands Marcel Luske AKA "The Flying Dutchman" $373,000
11 USA Dewey Archer $373,000
12 USA James Grimes $373,000
13 USA John Murphy $275,000
14 USA Kevin Bott $275,000
15 Germany Eddy Scharf $275,000
16 USA William Erickson $175,000
17 UK Gary Jones $175,000
TIE UK Harry Demetriou $147,500 and Eliminated on same hand as Fullerton
TIE Richard Fullerton $147,500 and Eliminated on same hand as Demetriou
20 Canada Bob Jarrett $120,000
21 USA Scott Carpenter AKA "King" $120,000
22 USA Hung La $120,000
23 Canada Jason Sagle $120,000
24 Canada Dave Truong $120,000
25 Unknown $120,000
26 USA Chris "Jesus" Ferguson $120,000
27 Netherlands Eric Van der Berg $120,000
28 Canada Martin Feijo $80,000
29 USA Matt Lefkowitz $80,000
30 Glenn Cooney $80,000
31 USA Bradley Berman $80,000
32 UK Julian Gardner $80,000
33 USA Matthew Hilger $80,000
34 USA Daniel Adelson $80,000
35 USA David Angel $80,000
36 USA Benjamin Johnson $80,000
37 USA Matthew Treasure $60,000
38 Patrick O'Connor $60,000
39 USA Ramsey Daniel $60,000
40 USA Dung Nguyen $60,000
41 Costa Rica Mario Zeledon $60,000
42 USA Kevin Schaffel $60,000
43 USA Steve Lott $60,000
44 USA Desmond Portano $60,000 and PokerSchoolOnline Member
45 USA Barry "Doc" Schwartz $60,000
46 Canada Anh Van Nguyen $45,000
47 USA Bryan Bevis $45,000
48 USA Jess Kaufman $45,000
49 USA Ali Eslami $45,000
50 USA Peter Giordano $45,000
51 USA V Senthil Kumar $45,000
52 USA Gavin Smith $45,000
53 USA Doyle Brunson $45,000
54 USA Blair Rodman $45,000
55 Sweden Tobias Persson $35,000
56 USA Tony Abesamis $35,000
57 Frank Russomanno $35,000
58 Henrik Olsen $35,000
59 USA Daniel Alaei AKA "daniel" $35,000
60 USA Chuck Pacheco $35,000
61 Nils Paulsen $35,000
62 USA Chris Heintschel $35,000
63 USA Andy Wynn $35,000
64 USA Brett Ehart $30,000
65 USA Jeff Calkins $30,000
66 USA James Hoeppner $30,000
67 Edward Foster $30,000
68 USA Michael Zelin $30,000
69 USA Todd Rupert AKA "Rupee Doo AKA Big Head" $30,000
70 USA Danny Pourat $30,000
71 Sweden Ayhan Alsancak AKA "KukSopp" $30,000
72 UK Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott $30,000
73 USA Ken Borror $25,000
74 USA Gregg Turk $25,000
75 USA Richard Osborne $25,000
76 Sam Libicki $25,000
77 USA Danny Bigelow AKA "Deuce" $25,000
78 USA Donny Ariel $25,000
79 USA Scott Lundberg $25,000
80 USA Paul Kraus $25,000
81 Kostas Angeloudis $25,000
82 USA Chuck Agnew $20,000
83 Peter Damato $20,000
84 USA Paul North $20,000
85 USA Joe Brooks $20,000
86 USA Randy Holland $20,000
87 USA Mike Matusow AKA "The Mouth" $20,000
88 USA Brad Pierce $20,000
89 USA Tom Bohmer $20,000
90 USA Burt Boutin AKA "the big...BOUTIN" $20,000
91 Germany Philippe Marmorstein $20,000
92 USA Craig Swick $20,000
93 Jacob Spelman $20,000
94 Canada Dave Scharf $20,000
95 USA Michael Breault $20,000
96 USA Greg "Fisherman" Duros $20,000
97 Tony Van $20,000
98 Rose Richie $20,000
99 USA Stephen Bartlett $20,000
100 Dan The Man Rogers $20,000
101 USA Mark Wilds $20,000
102 Yee Chung $20,000
103 Sweden Bo Sehlstedt AKA "Legato" $20,000
104 Peter Sterns $20,000
105 USA Charles Buffalo $20,000
106 Saleem Tawil $20,000
107 USA Yarom Limor AKA "braveyoyo" $20,000
TIE USA John Esposito $17,500
TIE Sweden Daniel Larsson $17,500
110 Robert Boyd $15,000
111 Norway Jan Olav Sjavik $15,000
112 Austria Markus Feurle AKA "feurinho" $15,000
113 USA Lee Watkinson $15,000
114 USA David Weisberger $15,000
115 USA Peter Moore $15,000
116 USA Curt Kohlberg $15,000
117 USA J.C Tran $15,000
118 USA Billy Duarte $15,000
119 Tod Skarecky $15,000
120 USA Abraham Mosseri $15,000
121 USA Tommy Grimes $15,000
122 USA Dayne Baverman $15,000
123 USA Arthur Loring $15,000
124 Slovenia Casey Kastle $15,000
125 USA Gregory Geller $15,000
126 USA Yaser Al Keliddar $15,000
127 USA Craig Crivello $15,000
128 Kenneth Maust $15,000
129 Andy Church $15,000
130 Jesse Jewell $15,000
131 USA Mark Weitzman $15,000
132 John Sheckherd $15,000
133 USA William Brindise $15,000
134 USA Larry Anderson $15,000
135 USA Frank Brabec $15,000
136 Orjan Gronmo $15,000
137 USA Melvin Phillips $15,000
138 USA George Huber $15,000
139 USA Russ Hamilton $15,000
140 USA Rene Oliveras $15,000
141 USA Donald Moseley $15,000
142 USA Jordan Siegel $15,000
143 USA John Pires $15,000
144 USA Jeffrey Freedman $15,000
145 USA Raymond Davis AKA "The Amazing" $15,000
146 UK Kevin O'Connell $15,000
147 Carl Quinton $15,000
148 USA Robert Hartmann $15,000
149 USA Jeffrey Burdsall $15,000
150 Denmark Gus Hansen AKA "The Great Dane" $15,000
151 USA David Griffith $15,000
152 Zakeri Behman $15,000
153 USA Robert Fogarty $15,000
154 USA Duane Tomko AKA "Dewey" $15,000
155 Patrick Hanley $15,000
156 Canada Garth Weeks $15,000
157 Emmanuel Moraitis $15,000
158 USA Aviv Sharaf $15,000
159 UK Lucy Rokach $15,000
160 USA Mojtaba Seyedin $15,000
161 Richard Tomman $15,000
162 Sweden Sargon Ruya $15,000
163 Thomas Hammond $15,000
164 John Wheeler $15,000
165 USA Perry Friedman AKA "The Baiter" $15,000
166 Andy Cracchiolo $15,000
167 Finland Juha Helppi $15,000
168 USA Gabriel Thaler $15,000
169 USA Timothy White $15,000
170 USA Eli Elezra $15,000
171 Greg Sawka $15,000
172 USA Paul Nobles $15,000
173 USA Ken Evanowski $15,000
174 USA Howard Andrew AKA "Tahoe" $15,000
175 Jeffrey Bull $15,000
176 USA Greg Blau $15,000
177 USA William Krackomberger $15,000
178 USA George Youkhanna AKA "Papadakalis" $15,000
179 USA Thomas Werthmann AKA "Big Baller" $15,000
180 USA Antonio Salorio AKA "vortex" $15,000
181 USA Al Korsin $10,000
182 Denmark Jan Sorensen $10,000
183 UK Paul Jackson AKA "Action" $10,000
184 Norway Eirik Villand AKA "eirivi" $10,000
185 Dennis Colletti Jr $10,000
186 USA Troy Reed $10,000
187 USA Scott Marks $10,000
188 USA Jamie O'Sullivan $10,000
189 Jacob Battenberg $10,000
190 USA Tomer Benvenisti $10,000
191 USA Abraham Gray $10,000
192 USA Bryan Dillon $10,000
193 Netherlands Rob Hollink $10,000
194 Canada Andrew Goetsch $10,000
195 Michael Mexal $10,000
196 USA Robert Skutelsky $10,000
197 Costa Rica Alex Brenes $10,000
198 USA Michael "OTLDOC" Fillat $10,000 and PokerSchoolOnline Member
199 USA Shrini Kelkar $10,000
200 USA Bob Fikac $10,000
201 Herman Grimes $10,000
202 Margartoi Belinovich $10,000
203 Leon Garcia $10,000
204 USA Gene Timberlake $10,000
205 UK Neil Channing AKA "Bad Beat" $10,000
206 USA George Abdallah $10,000
207 Erin Ness $10,000
208 USA Samir Zoudo $10,000
209 Richard Cordani $10,000
210 USA Vincent Napolitano $10,000
211 Adam Garfinkle $10,000
212 USA Earl Odom AKA "dumchit" $10,000
213 USA Steven Greenberg $10,000
214 USA Aaron Ogus $10,000
215 USA O'Neil Longson $10,000
216 Matthew Stodola $10,000
217 USA Reagan Silber $10,000
218 USA Daniel Sosa AKA "S-Pantz" $10,000
219 USA David Cupps $10,000
220 USA Ivon Crewse AKA "Porkchop" $10,000
221 USA Michael Pino $10,000
222 Sweden Peter Hedlund $10,000
223 USA Ron Faltinsky $10,000
224 USA Paul Tom $10,000
TIE USA Duane Tomko AKA "Dewey" $10,000
TIE USA David Combs AKA "Tackman" $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

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