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WSOP 2008 Results

After over 50 WSOP tournaments, it is finally over. Well…. almost over. The Main event of the World Series which is a $10,000 buy in NL Holdem tournament played down to the final table last night. They will resume play in a little over three months. This is the first time they have tried This with any tournament, and I’m sure by the time November rolls around, we will know plenty about the “November Nine”. The final table players and chip counts are as follows:

WSOP Main event Final Table

Dennis Phillips 53, St. Louis, Missouri, 26,295,000
Ivan Demidov, 27, Moscow, Russia, 24,400,000
Scott Montgomery, 26, Perth, Ontario, Canada, 19,690,000
Peter Eastgate, 2+2 , Odense, Denmark, 18,375,000
Ylon Schwartz, 38, Brooklyn, New York, 12,525,000
Darus Suharto, 39, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 12,520,000
David Rheem, 28, Los Angeles, California, 10,230,000
Craig Marquis, 23, Arlington, Texas, 10,210,000
Kelly Kim, 31, Whittier, California, 2,620,000

There were plenty of great stories coming out of the WSOP this yeah including some notable pros finally getting a Braclet like Eric Lindgren, David Benyamine, Dario Minieri, and Phil Galfond (OMGclayAiken). this year was very different form last year’s WSOP. There were several seasoned pros winning braclets as well.

Event#1 $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 352

1. Nenad Medic ($794,112)
2. Andrew Bloch ($488,048)
3. Kathy Liebert ($306,064)
4. Mike Sexton ($248,160)
5. Amit Makhija ($198,528)
6. Chris Bell ($157,168)
7. Patrik Antonius ($124,080)
8. Mike Sowers ($99,264)
9. Phil Laak ($74,448)

Event#2 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 3,929

1. Grant Hinkle ($831,462)
2. James Akenhead ($520,219)
3. Chris (Jesus) Ferguson ($388,287)
4. Theo Tran ($327,148)
5. Mike Ngo ($268,154)
6. Aaron Coulthard ($211,841)
7. Melvin Jones ($158,211)
8. David Bach ($117,987)
9. Joe Rutledge ($83,127

Event#3 $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 713

1. David Singer ($214,122)
2. Jacobo Fernandez ($136,644)
3. Gregory Alston ($82,726)
4. Robert Lipkin ($67,641)
5. Russel Harriman ($55,475)
6. Joe Tehan ($43,796)
7. Zachary King ($34,064)
8. Al Barbieri ($26,764 )
9. Glen Bean ($19,465)

Event#4 $5,000 Mixed-Limit Hold’em (Limit/No-Limit)
Amount of entries: 332

1. Erick Lindgren ($374,505)
2. Justin Bonomo ($230,159)
3. Andrew Robl ($144,337)
4. Roland De Wolfe ($117,030)
5. David (Chino) Rheem ($93,624)
6. Howard Lederer ($74,119)
7. David Williams ($58,515)
8. Pat Pezzin ($46,812)
9. Isaac Haxton ($35,109)

Event#5 $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em w/ReBuys
Amount of entries: 766

1. Michael Banducci ($636,736)
2. Jeff Williams ($406,330)
3. Peter Gould ($245,997)
4. Lyric Duveyoung ($201,139)
5. Alan Jaffray ($164,963)
6. Jonathan Aguiar ($130,234)
7. Michael Binger ($101,293)
8. Steven Gross ($79,587)
9. Jamie Rosen ($57,881)

Event#6 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 832

1. Thang Luu ($243,342)
2. Spencer Lawrence ($156,344)
3. George Guzman ($93,806)
4. James (Jim) Pritchard ($78,456)
5. Chris Falconer ($64,243)
6. Greg Jamison ($50,599)
7. Craig Sabel ($39,228)
8. Mark Wilds ($30,700)
9. Scott Clements ($ 2+2 ,172

Event#7 $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 1,593

1. Matt Keikoan ($550,601)
2. Shannon Shorr ($349,141)
3. Carter Gill ($228,897)
4. Theo Tran ($191,231)
5. Chris Bjorin ($155,013)
6. Mihai Manole ($123,141)
7. J.C. Tran ($94,166)
8. Alex Bolotin ($72,436)
9. Mike Lisanti ($50,705)

Event#8 $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event
Amount of entries: 192

1. Anthony Rivera ($483,688)
2. James Mackey ($297,792)
3. Matt Glantz ($184,992)
4. Mike DeMichele ($139,872)
5. Eli Elezra ($108,288)
6. Sammy Farha ($85,728)
7. Jeff Madsen ($67,680)
8. Tom Dwan ($54,144)
9. David Oppenheim ($45,120)

Event#9 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Amount of entries: 1,236

1. Ralph (Rep) Porter ($372,843)
2. Nathan Templeton ($231,982)
3. Devin Porter ($151,843)
4. John Conkright ($101,228)
5. Anatoly Shilyuk ($70,860)
6. Michael Brummelhuis ($53,314)
7. Dave Zand ($36,442)
8. Kevin MacPhee ($36,442)
9. Andrew Fegan ($28,006)

Event#10 $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 388

1. Farzad Rouhani ($232,911)
2. Tom Chambers ($142,784)
3. (Miami) John Cernuto ($86,117)
4. Yueqi (Rich) Zhu ($63,807)
5. Gregory Pappas ($48,190)
6. John Racener ($37,481)
7. Daniel Mowczan ($28,557)
8. Michael Mizrachi ($24,095)
9. Brandon Cantu ($19,633)

Event#11 $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
Amount of entries: 360

1. Phillip Tom ($477,990)
2. Greg (FBT) Mueller ($298,638)
3. Leo Wolpert ($187,812)
4. Sirious Jamshidi ($118,440)
5. Tim West ($63,450)
6. Thomas Roupe ($38,070)
7. John Juanda ($16,920)
8. John Murphy ($16,920)

Event#12 $1,500 Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 883

1. Jimmy Shultz ($257,049)
2. Zachary Fellows ($165,165)
3. Vinny Vinh ($99,099)
4. Brendan Taylor ($82,883)
5. Teddy Monroe ($67,868)
6. Marcus Golser ($53,453)
7. Ali Eslami ($41,441)
8. Christoph Niesert ($32,432)
9. Chung Law ($23,423)

Event#13 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 1,397

1. Duncan Bell ($666,777)
2. Steven Merrifield ($428,948)
3. Nathan Doudney ($260,261)
4. Shawn Buchanan ($218,491)
5. Brent Hanks ($178,327)
6. Jason Sanders ($139,769)
7. Ariel Soffer ($107,638)
8. Brent Ditzik ($83,540)
9. Nicolas Levi ($59,442)

Event#14 $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud
Amount of entries: 158

1. Eric Brooks ($415,856)
2. Fu Wong ($259,910)
3. Alexander Kostritsyn ($163,372)
4. Minh Ly ($118,816)
5. Erik Seidel ($92,825)
6. Jim Paluszek ($74,260)
7. David Oppenheim ($59,408)
8. Vasili Lazarou ($48,269)
9. Phil Ivey ($37,130)

Event#15 $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Amount of entries: 1,190

1. Svetlana Gromenkova ($224,702)
2. Anh Le ($144,567)
3. Patricia Till ($73,637)
4. Christine Priday ($87,715)
5. Marla Crumpler ($60,101)
6. Debbie Mitchell ($47,106)
7. Roslyn Quarto ($36,277)
8. Vesenia Garcia ($28,155)
9. Sue Porter ($20,034)

Event#16 $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 551

1. Andrew Brown ($226,483)
2. Ted Forrest ($143,420)
3. Jim Pechac ($88,065)
4. Soheil Shamseddin ($71,961)
5. Kia Hooshmand ($58,877)
6. Ralph Perry ($46,297)
7. Scott Clements ($36,232)
8. Alan Enciso ($28,684)
9. Jimmy Fricke ($21,135)

Event#17 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
Amount of entries: 1,000

1. Jason Young ($335,565)
2. Mike Schwartz ($209,527)
3. John Strzemp III ($129,675)
4. Rory Monahan ($82,582)
5. Matt Giannetti ($40,267)
6. Kyle Bowker ($23,887)
7. Sergey Rybachenko ($15,697)
8. Tom West ($12,421)
9. Alex Triner ($9,828)

Event#18 $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/ReBuys
Amount of entries: 85
Rebuys & Add-ons: 272

Mike Matusow ($537,862)
Jeffrey Lisandro ($347,004)
Barry Greenstein ($225,552)
Erick Lindgren ($156,151)
Tom Schneider ($104,101)
Tony (Tony G) Guoga ($78,075)
David Benyamine ($58,990)
Tom Dwan ($45,111)
Dario (Ryu) Alioto ($34,700)

Event#19 $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 759

Vanessa Selbst ($227,965)
Jamieson Pickering ($145,459)
Stanley Statkiewicz ($88,062)
Thomas Schultz ($72,004)
Eugene Todd ($59,053)
Mel Randolph ($46,621)
Craig Natte ($36,261)
Jamie Robbins ($28,490)
Ken Lairson ($20,720)

Event#20 $2,000 Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 479

Daniel Negreanu ($204,874)
Ugur Marangoz ($126,671)
David Baker ($78,624)
Richard Li ($63,335)
Fu Wong ($51,542)
Jeremy Kottler ($51,542)
Greg Wohletz ($31,886)
Derek Lerner ($25,334)
Hien Tran ($18,782)

Event#21 $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 731

Scott Seiver ($755,891)
Dave Seidman ($482,372)
Ben Sprengers ($292,034)
Jacobo Fernandez ($238,781)
Rajesh Vohra ($195,834)
Chuck Sklar ($154,606)
Anders Henriksson ($120,249)
Adam Geyer ($94,481)
Scott Freeman ($68,714)

Event# 2+2 $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Amount of entries: 414

Jens Voertmann ($298,253)
Douglas Ganger ($182,822)
Marcel Luske ($110,264)
Hoyt Corkins ($81,698)
Jared Davis ($61,702)
Steve Zolotow ($47,990)
Rostislav Tsodikov ($36,564)
Jennifer Harman-Traniello ($30,851)
Paul Zimbler ($25,138)

Event#23 $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 1,344

Blair Hinkle ($507,563)
Mark Brockington ($326,552)
Daniel O’Brien ($198,132)
David Paul Steicke ($166,333)
Dustin Dirksen ($135,757)
Chris Bjorin ($106,404)
Dominick Kulicki ($81,944)
Andrew Jeffreys ($63,598)
Stephane Tayar ($45,252)

Event#24 $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha
Amount of entries: 457

Max Pescatori ($246,471)
Kyle Kloeckner ($152,410)
Greg Hurst ($94,599)
Allen Cunningham ($76,205)
Kyle Hegeman ($62,015)
Jonathan Depa ($48,876)
Lennart Holtkamp ($38,365)
Minh Ly ($30,482)
John-paul Kelly ($ 2+2 ,599)

Event#25 $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 256

Kenny Tran ($539,056)
Alec Torelli ($336,896)
Vanessa Selbst ($108,288)
Jonathan Jaffe ($108,288)
Lyle Berman ($54,144)
Brandon Adams ($54,144)
Gavin Griffin ($54,144)
Robert Mizrachi ($54,144)
David Williams ($36,096)

Event#26 $1,500 Seven Card Razz
Amount of entries: 453

Barry Greenstein ($157,643)
Chris Klodnicki ($97,389)
Chris Viox ($58,743)
Mark Tenner ($43,284)
Brandon Leeds ($33,081)
Joseph (Joey) Michael ($25,661)
Archie Karas ($19,478)
Mike Wattel ($16,386)
Frank Kassela ($13,294)

Event#27 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,706

Vitaly Lunkin ($628,417)
Brett Kimes ($387,837)
Robert Firestone ($277,026)
Kenneth ‘drama llama’ Terrell ($232,702)
Trevor Donaldson ($190,225)
Richard Alm ($149,594)
Barry Schultz ($112,657)
Robert Brown ($84,954)
Philip Yeh ($57,990)

Event#28 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys
Amount of entries: 152
Rebuys & Add-ons: 483

Philip Galfond ($817,781)
Adam Hourani ($493,748)
David Benyamine ($316,307)
Johnny Chan ($246,874)
Kirill Gerasimov ($192,870)
John Juanda ($154,296)
Daniel Negreanu ($123,437)
Phil Hellmuth ($100,292)
Brian Rast ($84,863)

Event#29 $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 716

John “Razor” Phan ($434,789)
John Neckar ($277,452)
Matthew Vengrin ($167,973)
Alex Bolotin ($137,343)
David Singer ($112,641)
Stuart Newman ($88,927)
Thuyen Doan ($69,165)
George Dunst ($54,344)
Sebastian Segovia ($39,523)

Event#30 $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 218

Rob Hollink ($496,931)
Jerrod Ankenman ($307,380)
Tam (Tommy) Hang ($194,674)
Aaron Katz ($158,813)
J.C. Tran ($128,075)
Brock Parker ($102,460)
Andrew Bloch ($81,968)
Cy Jassinowsky ($66,599)
Christopher Vitch ($51,230)

Event#31 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Amount of entries: 1,012

Dario Minieri ($528,418)
Seth Fischer ($330,519)
Justin Filtz ($214,139)
Kevin Song ($141,983)
John O’Shea ($98,923)
Stuart Marshak ($73,784)
Scotty Nguyen ($50,508)
Frank Rusnak ($50,508)
Todd Terry ($38,870)

Event#32 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,304

Jose-Luis Velador ($574,734)
Anthony Signore ($366,387)
Osmin Dardon ($243,734)
Jae h Chung ($204,422)
Shane Stacey ($166,682)
Dean Bui ($132,088)
Dany Georges ($100,638)
Utsab Saha ($77,051)
Justin Hoffman ($53,464)

Event#33 $5,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 261

Sebastian Ruthenberg ($328,756)
Chris (Jesus) Ferguson ($202,406)
Robert Lauria ($125,737)
Marcel Luske ($95,069)
Annie Duke ($73,602)
Alessio Isaia ($58,268)
Steve Sung ($46,001)
Robert Beveridge ($36,801)
Howard Lederer ($30,667)

Event#34 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha W/ReBuys
Amount of entries: 320
Rebuys & Add-ons: 1,350

Layne Flack ($577,725)
Daniel Makowsky ($355,050)
Jacobo Fernandez ($ 2+2 ,659)
Dario (Ryu) Alioto ($180,534)
Ted Forrest ($144,427)
Kyle Kloeckner ($114,338)
Michael Guzzardi ($90,267)
Tim West ($72,213)
Francis (Frank) Vizza ($54,160)

Event#35 $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Amount of entries: 381

Michael Rocco ($135,753)
Al Barbieri ($83,210)
Levon Torosyan ($50,186)
Maxwell Troy ($37,184)
Giacomo (Jack) D’Agostino ($28,083)
Dan Kalpakis ($21,842)
Andre Boyer ($16,642)
Jeff Siegal ($14,041)
Charles Moore ($11,441

Event#36 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,447

Jesper Hougaard ($610,304)
Cody Slaubaugh ($389,128)
Aaron Kanter ($258,862)
Danny Wong ($217,110)
Doug Middleton ($177,028)
Justin Wald ($140,286)
Rick Solis ($106,884)
Owen Crowe ($81,833)
John Shipley ($56,782

Event#37 $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 235

David Benyamine ($535,687)
Greg Jamison ($331,350)
Jason Gray ($209,855)
Alfredo (Toto) Leonidas ($171,197)
Mike Matusow ($138,062)
Eugene Katchalov ($110,450)
Ram Vaswani ($88,360)
David Chiu ($71,792)
Hieu Ngoc (Tony) Ma ($55,225)

Event#38 $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 605

Davidi Kitai ($244,583)
Chris Bell ($155,805)
Keith Greer ($94,694)
Jan Christoph Von Halle ($77,077)
Lee Watkinson ($63,313)
Robert (RCW) Cheung ($50,100)
Ayaz Mahmood ($39,089)
Benjamin (Ben) Roberts ($30,830)
Michael Greco ($ 2+2 ,572)

Event#39 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,720

David Woo ($631,550)
Matthew Wood ($389,844)
Eric Beren ($278,460)
Habib Khanis ($233,906)
Thom Werthmann ($191,209)
Curtis Early ($150,368)
Thanh dat Tran ($113,240)
Michael Glasser ($85,394)
Jim Paras ($58,290)

Event#40 $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball - Limit
Amount of entries: 238

John “Razor” Phan ($151,911)
Shunjiro Uchida ($95,795)
Gioi Luong ($61,582)
Robert Mizrachi ($41,055)
Ben Ponzio ($28,738)
David Sklansky ($20,527)
Billy Baxter ($15,053)
Suk Min Sung ($15,053)
Mike Wattel ($12,316)

Event#41 $1,500 Mixed Hold’em - limit/no-limit
Amount of entries: 731

Frank Gary ($219,562)
Jonathan Tamayo ($140,093)
Nick Binger ($84,814)
Chris Rentes ($69,348)
Alex Jalali ($56,875)
David Machowsky ($44,901)
Mats Gavatin ($34,923)
Michael Chu ($27,439)
David Sorger ($19,956)

Event#42 $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em World Championship
Amount of entries: 2,218

Dan Lacourse ($368,832)
Dale Eberle ($235,141)
Marc Fluss ($156,424)
Jerry Yamachika ($131,194)
Fred Berger ($106,974)
Charles Wood ($84,771)
Peter Silverstein ($64,588)
Edward Clark ($49,450)
Martin (Marty) Wilson ($34,312)

Event#43 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 720Martin Klaser ($216,249)
Casey Kastle ($137,985)
Michael Fetter ($83,538)
Erik Seidel ($68,304)
Jon Maren ($56,019)
Chad Burum ($44,226)
Joseph Haddad ($34,398)
Larry Wright ($27,027)
Tom Chambers ($19,656)

Event#44 $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em w/ReBuys
Amount of entries: 879
Rebuys & Add-ons: 2,508

Maxwell Greenwood ($693,392)
Rene Mouritsen ($445,523)
Albert Iverson ($267,314)
Scott Freeman ($223,572)
Jesse Chinni ($183,069)
Aleksandr Dzianisau ($144,187)
Curt Kohlberg ($111,786)
Phung Ngo ($87,484)
Alex Bolotin ($63,183)

Event#45 $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
Amount of entries: 148

Scotty Nguyen ($1,989,120)
Mike DeMichele ($1,243,200)
Erick Lindgren ($781,440)
Matt Glantz ($568,320)
Lyle Berman ($444,000)
Barry Greenstein ($355,200)
Huck Seed ($284,160)
Patrick Bueno ($230,880)
Ralph Perry ($177,600)

Event#46 $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Amount of entries: 805

Joe Commisso ($911,855)
Richard Lyndaker ($570,551)
Edward Ochana ($368,891)
Sam Trickett ($245,927)
Thomas Lutz ($174,041)
Davidi Kitai ($120,693)
Will Failla ($82,858)
Jim Wong ($82,858)
Steven Ware ($63,941)

Event#47 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better
Amount of entries: 543

Ryan Hughes ($183,368)
Ronald Long ($113,240)
Thomas Hunt III ($68,686)
Alessio Isaia ($50,122)
Jonas Klausen ($39,355)
Tim D’alessandro ($30,444)
Joshua Feldman ($23,019)
David Sklansky ($19,306)
James Richburg ($15,593

Event#48 $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,317

Alexandre Gomes ($770,540)
Marco Johnson ($491,273)
Ryan D’Angelo ($326,812)
Robert Brewer ($274,101)
Alan Cutler ($223,497)
Kirill Gerasimov ($177,111)
Sverre Sundbo ($134,942)
Gabriel Costner ($103,315)
Dan Rome ($71,687)

Event#49 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,718

J.C. Tran ($631,170)
Rasmus Nielsen ($389,557)
John Conroy ($278,255)
Peter Nguyen ($233,734)
Joe Pelton ($191,068)
Chad Siu ($150,257)
Jasper Hoog ($113,157)
Robert Kalb ($85,331)
Christoph Kohnen ($58,248)

Event#50 $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha
Amount of entries: 381

Marty Smyth ($859,549)
Peter Jetten ($528,256)
Michael Mizrachi ($331,279)
Billy Argyros ($268,605)
Richard Harroch ($214,884)
Thang (Kido) Pham ($170,116)
Tom Hanlon ($134,302)
Brandon Moran ($107,442)
Greg Hurst ($80,581)

Event#51 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Amount of entries: 803

James Schaaf ($256,412)
Tam (Tommy) Hang ($158,933)
Phil Hellmuth ($93,168)
Esther Rossi ($68,505)
Jason Dollinger ($54,804)
Sam Silverman ($42,966)
Annand (Victor) Ramdin ($32,992)
Matt Grapenthien ($27,511)
Edward Brogdon ($ 2+2 ,031)

Event#52 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Amount of entries: 2,693David Daneshgar ($625,443)
Scott Sitron ($385,974)
Dan Heimiller ($275,695)
Farzad Rouhani ($231,584)
Corwin Cole ($189,311)
Matthew Matros ($148,875)
Andrey Zaichenko ($112,116)
Jeff Courtney ($84,546)
Voitto Rintala ($57,712)

Event#53 $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Amount of entries: 823

Matthew Graham ($278,180)
Jean-Robert (Bobby) Bellande ($173,564)
Joe Deniro ($107,845)
Brandon Wong ($69,088)
Danny Wong ($33,701)
Spencer Lawrence ($20,221)
John Kranyak ($13,480)
Andrew Prock ($10,335)
Mike Kachan ($7,526)

Everyone should keep in mind that most of the players in this year’s WSOP qualified to play by playing in an online satellite at Pokerstars, Full Tilt, and Cake Poker . So keep your game sharp for next years qualification by playing.

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