WSOP Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship (Event 15) 06/08/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship (Event 15)
Sunday, June 08, 2008 to Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $1,082,000
Entries: 1,190

Place Player Prize
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
10. Tina Dubowy $12,887
11. Ngoc Hoang $12,887
12. Courtney Farrell $12,887
13. Jena Delk $10,179
14. Van Nguyen $10,179
15. Christine Fanelli $10,179
16. Hoa Nguyen $7,472
17. Dawn Murray $7,472
18. Mangala Martin $7,472

WSOP Seven Card Stud (Event 14) 06/07/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Seven Card Stud (Event 14)
Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008 Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,485,200
Entries: 158

Place Player Prize
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
10. Thomas Weideman $37,130
11. Daniel Negreanu $33,417
12. Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez $33,417
13. Alexander Kravchenko $29,704
14. Robert Mizrachi $29,704
15. David Levi $25,991
16. Mike Fiorito $25,991

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em (Event 13) 06/07/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em (Event 13)
Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008 Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $3,213,100
Entries: 1,397

Place Player Prize
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
10. Adam Katz $38,236
11. Napoleon Ta $38,236
12. Yuri Shapiro $38,236
13. Jason Mercier $30,203
14. Joel Casper $30,203
15. John Roveto $30,203
16. Michael Kamran $22,170
17. Jaques Zaicik $22,170
18. Frank Vukasin $22,170
19. Aaron Been $17,351
20. William Ragatz $17,351
21. Peter DeBest $17,351
22. Jason Manger $17,351
23. Pascal Baumgartner $17,351
24. Patri Friedman $17,351
25. Theo Tran $17,351
26. Samuel Rosenweig $17,351
27. Dean Bui $17,351
28. Liz Lieu $14,138
29. Thong Tran $14,138
30. Michael Snorden $14,138
31. Scott Freeman $14,138
32. Scott Cook $14,138
33. Mathias Kuerschner $14,138
34. Vanessa Selbst $14,138
35. Andrew Balduff $14,138
36. Yuval Bronshtein $14,138
37. Sal Simeone $10,925
38. Brian Wildman $10,925
39. Asger Boye $10,925
40. James Hall $10,925
41. James Mccrink $10,925
42. Mihai Manole $10,925
43. Chau Giang $10,925
44. Jacob Solis $10,925
45. Peter Robinson $10,925
46. Craig Gray $9,961
47. Howard Boyd $9,961
48. Antony Phillips $9,961
49. Phillip Duca $9,961
50. Frederick Ford $9,961
51. Marty Wong $9,961
52. Charles Chattha $9,961
53. Benjamin Zamani $9,961
54. Tom Lee $9,961
55. John McGowan $8,997
56. Jeffrey Wan $8,997
57. Joe Simmons $8,997
58. Rodney Pennington $8,997
59. Matt Brown $8,997
60. Stuart Baum $8,997
61. Loren Klein $8,997
62. Paul (Tashi) Kobel $8,997
63. David Gent $8,997
64. Nghia Le $8,033
65. Joseph Perrelli $8,033
66. Jeffrey Tomlinson $8,033
67. Justin Phillips $8,033
68. Peter Moore $8,033
69. Nick Gibson $8,033
70. Chris Bell $8,033
71. Mark Gengaro $8,033
72. Binh Ly $8,033

WSOP Limit Hold'em (Event 12) 06/06/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Limit Hold'em (Event 12)
Friday, June 06, 2008 to Sunday, June 08, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,205,295
Entries: 883

Place Player Prize
1. Jimmy Shultz $257,049
2. Zachary Fellows $165,165
3. Vinny Vinh $99,099
4. Teddy Monroe $82,883
5. Brendan Taylor $67,868
6. Marcus Golser $53,453
7. Ali Eslami $41,441
8. Christoph Niesert $32,432
9. Chung Law $23,423
10. Erick Lindgren $14,775
11. Zachary Henderson $14,775
12. Steven Shkolnik $14,775
13. Jon O'brien $11,772
14. Eric Pratt $11,772
15. Duc Nguyen $11,772
16. Joseph Sanders $8,769
17. Stephen Foutty $8,769
18. Arash Beral $8,769
19. Kevin Marcotte $6,727
20. Mitchell Mantin $6,727
21. Roy Thung $6,727
22. Dean Oshiro $6,727
23. Gary Bogdanski $6,727
24. Michael Lawrence $6,727
25. Terrence Chan $6,727
26. Alexander Laidlaw $6,727
27. Shayne Matyjas $6,727

A VIGilant Response

To the Juice: Please be aware that it is with great vigilance that I am vigorously attempting to attend the Tuesday night vigil. I am certain that no other would invigorate the nights activities as I plan to navigate my way through the many different possible distractions that most would not be willing to circumnavigate. I hope to leave the event early though as I have planned meetings early Wednesday morning and I’m certain that Bill T will gravigrade the activities to an almost unbearable pace. I know that his pervigilation is necessary for him to thoroughly ascertain the value of his cards, but each hand, each vignette is painful. It makes me wish that either he or I were the 20th man at the vigesimation ceremony.

If this is not appropriately or conveniently communicated, please ask him to navigate his way to my circumnavigable posterior and with all vigor… kiss my big ‘ol butt!

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event 11) 06/06/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event 11)
Friday, June 06, 2008 to Sunday, June 08, 2008 Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,692,000
Entries: 360

Place Player Prize
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
9. Elton Beebe $16,920
10. Eugene Katchalov $16,920
11. Richard Kirsch $16,920
12. John Monnette $16,920
13. Eric Froelich $16,920
14. Adam Levy $16,920
15. William Palmer $16,920
16. Remy Biechel $16,920
17. Robert Firestone $16,920
18. Gabriel Costner $16,920
19. William (Bill) Blanda $16,920
20. Burt Boutin $16,920
21. Alex (Yahtzem) Jacob $16,920
22. Gregg Turk $16,920
23. Maciek (Michael) Gracz $16,920
24. Erik Siedel $16,920
25. Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez $16,920
26. Evan McNiff $16,920
27. Christopher Howard $16,920
28. Isaac Haxton $16,920
29. Joe Sebok $16,920
30. Andrey Zaichenko $16,920
31. Mats Gavatin $16,920
32. Tony Gouga $16,920
33. Paul Roper $16,920
34. Ariel Schneller $16,920
35. Ryan Thurlow $16,920
36. Pier Paolo Ruscalla $16,920

WSOP Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 10) 6/5/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 10)
Thursday, June 05, 2008 to Saturday, June 07, 2008 Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $892,400
Entries: 388

Place Player Prize

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
10. Tad Jurgens $19,633
11. James Van Alstyne $15,171
12. Matthew Graham $15,171
13. Mark Gallo $10,709
14. Hoyt Corkins $10,709
15. Craig Gray $8,032
16. Sam Silverman $8,032
17. Claude Cohen $6,247
18. Cory Wolnewitz $6,247
19. Jeffrey Lisandro $6,247
20. Hieu Ma $6,247
21. Brock Parker $6,247
22. Allen Cunningham $6,247
23. Gary Benson $6,247
24. Kyle Bowker $6,247

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 9) 6/5/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 9)
Thursday, June 05, 2008 to Saturday, June 07, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,687,140
Entries: 1,236

Place Player Prize
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
10. Jared Okun $28,006
11. John Von Halle $19,570
12. Thomas Fuller $19,570
13. Richard Tatalovich $13,665
14. Peter Marr $13,665
15. Mikey Stotz $13,665
16. Jason Dewitt $13,665
17. Frank Blumlein $13,665
18. Tom Braband $13,665

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 9) FINAL TABLE BEGINS 2pm PDT

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 9)
Thursday, June 05, 2008 to Saturday, June 07, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,687,140
Entries: 1,236

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:02:01
2pm Start Time in Short-Handed Final
Join us this afternoon at 2pm PDT for the final table in Event #8, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed.

John Conkright holds a narrow lead over Michiel Brummelhuis and Rep Porter heading into this final, with the seat assignments and starting chip counts as follows: Seat 1: Devin Porter 357,000 Seat 2: John Conkright 997,000 Seat 3: Rep Porter 732,000 Seat 4: Michiel Brummelhuis 883,000 Seat 5: Anthony Shilyuk 310,000 Seat 6: Nathan Templeton 449,000

WSOP World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8) 6/4/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8)
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 to Friday, June 06, 2008 Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,804,000
Entries: 192

Place Player Prize

1. Anthony Rivera $483,688
2. James Mackey $297,792
3. Matt Glantz $184,992
4. Mike DeMichele $139,872
5. Eli (Mr. Vegas) Elezra $108,288
6. Ihsan (Sammy) Farha $85,728
7. Jeff Madsen $67,680
8. Tom Dwan $54,144
9. David Oppenheim $45,120
10. Gus Hansen $45,120
11. Ali Eslami $36,096
12. Tom Schneider $36,096
13. Johnny Chan $27,072
14. Lee Watkinson $27,072
15. Christopher Gentile $18,048
16. Amnon Filippi $18,048
17. William Mcmahan $16,243
18. George Adams $16,243
19. Greg (FBT) Mueller $16,243
20. Adam Friedman $16,243
21. Doyle Brunson $16,243
22. Scott Seiver $16,243
23. Chad Brown $16,243
24. Nikolay Evdakov $16,243

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em (Event 7) 6/4/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em (Event 7)
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 to Friday, June 06, 2008 Buy-in: $2,000
Prizepool: $2,899,260
Entries: 1,593

Place Player Prize

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. Justin Cuong Van (JC) Tran $94,166
8. Alex Bolotin $72,436
9. Mike Lisanti $50,705
10. Manelic Minaya $33,321
11. Yan Chen $33,321
12. Thong Tran $33,321
13. Timothy Taft $26,077
14. Issam Abbas $26,077
15. Dustin (Neverwin) Woolf $26,077
16. Darren Nelson $18,833
17. Scott Montgomery $18,833
18. Keith Carter $18,833

WSOP Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (Event 6) 6/3/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (Event 6)
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 to Thursday, June 05, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,135,680
Entries: 832

Place Player Prize

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 $22,172
10. Mark Gregorich $13,986
11. Jose Razocabrera $13,986
12. Jac Arama $13,986
13. Wayne Kepfer $11,143
14. Shirley Graham $11,143
15. John Lukas $11,143
16. Mallory Smith $8,300
17. Harold Heckethorn $8,300
18. John Shirk $8,300

Congrats SUPAPlaya

So first... A shout out to some of you I haven't seen in awhile. Found me an Omaha game in A-town, so life is good. Also heading out to the LV Jun 18-23rd. Hope to see some of you out there. Drop me a line at nathan (-dot-) shadle (@) gmail (-dot-) com

Shirk woke me about 6AM last night to tell me he busted out 18th in the $1500 Limit O8 event. I'd been following his progress on the play-by-play posts on pokernews.com
http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/event-6-1500-omaha-hi-lo/payouts/

He was among the chip leaders when the event broke into the money (about 11PM EST last night if I remember correctly), and he remained there until I went to bed at about 3:00. He said he got rivered for a couple HUGE pots right before he busted just before the money started escalating quickly.

Here's his final hand, shortly after his text to me said "Time to gamble".:

John Shirk Eliminated in 18th Place ($8,300)

John Shirk had the last of his chips in the pot against Chris Falconer.

Shirk:
Falconer:

Board:

Falconer scoops with a 6 high straight.

In any event, congrats! Was exciting to follow a good friend doing well...

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys (Event 5) 6/3/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em w/ReBuys (Event 5)
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 to Thursday, June 05, 2008 Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $2,894,094
Entries: 766 Rebuys & Add-ons: 2,258

Place Player Prize

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
10. Phi Nguyen $36,176
11. Randy Haddox $36,176
12. Adam Levy $36,176
13. Alan Sass $28,940
14. Raymond Coburn $28,940
15. Clonie Gowen $28,940
16. Nam Le $21,705
17. Craig Gray $21,705
18. Chris Moore $21,705

WSOP Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No Limit) (Event 4) 6/2/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) (Event 4)
Monday, June 02, 2008 to Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,560,400
Entries: 332


Place Player Prize

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
10. Ron Haeri $23,406
11. Chau Giang $23,406
12. Benjamin Zamani $23,406
13. Jason Dewitt $19,505
14. Anh Van Nguyen $19,505
15. David Olson $19,505
16. Andrew Bloch $15,604
17. Jordan Smith $15,604
18. Robert Williamson III $15,604
19. John Neckar $12,483
20. Peter DeBest $12,483
21. Paul Taylor $12,483
22. Michael McKenna $12,483
23. Ariel Schneller $12,483
24. Phil Laak $12,483
25. Eric Cloutier $12,483
26. Michael Craig $12,483
27. Patrik Antonius $12,483

WSOP Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event 3) 6/2/08

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event 3)
Monday, June 02, 2008 to Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $973,245
Entries: 713

Place Player Prize

1. David Singer $214,122
2. Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez $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
10. Ryan Fair $12,166
11. Brandon Schaefer $12,166
12. Doug (Rico) Carli $12,166
13. Philip Yeh $9,732
14. Scott Seiver $9,732
15. Eric Shanks $9,732
16. Robert Fishman $7,299
17. Justin Young $7,299
18. Bobby Law $7,299

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I paid off a poker debt with sexual favors, and I fell in love. It's so romantic. It's romance."

--------------Pamela Anderson in a television interview with Ellen DeGeneres speaking about her most recent husband, Rick Salomon

WSOP No-Limit Hold'em (Event 2) 5/31/2008

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em (Event 2)
Saturday, May 31, 2008 to Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $5,363,085
Entries: 3,929

Place Player Prize

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
10. Jeff Wiedenhoeft $52,021
11. Perry Friedman $52,021
12. Minh Nguyen $52,021
13. Joshua Engerdahl $41,295
14. Eric Hicks $41,295
15. Matthew Kearney $41,295
16. Frank Sinopoli $30,569
17. Brandon Blake $30,569
18. Elia Ahmadian $30,569
19. Blake Kelso $24,134
20. Ryan D'Angelo $24,134
21. Mariano Cefalu $24,134
22. Thomas Fuller $24,134
23. Avraham Arguan $24,134
24. Andre Boyer $24,134
25. Evan McNiff $24,134
26. Pia Jeppesen $24,134
27. Steve Cho $24,134

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Stewie: [hitting on some co-eds] I must say, the most recent campus sporting event was quite spectacular.

Co-ed: Aw. Are you in a fraternity, little boy?

Stewie: Not yet, but I'm thinking of joining I Felta Thigh.

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and actual ability than in poker."

----------Steve Badget