2007 WSOP Event # 3

Event #3

No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $1,500

Number of Entries: 2,998

Total Prize Money: $4,497,000

Date of Tournament: June 2-4, 2007

Tournament Notes:

Event #3 is the largest non-WSOP main event poker tournament in history. The previous record was Event #17 at the 2006 World Series of Poker. That event attracted 2,891 entries. This years first $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold championship destroyed the previous record by 107 players. There were approximately 2600 entries and 400 alternates, for a combined field of 2,998 players. This ranks as the third-largest poker tournament of all-time, behind the 2005 and 2006 championship (main) events.

The winner was Ciaran O'Leary. The new champ is originally from Ireland. He now lives in Seattle, WA. O'Leary has played at the WSOP during six of the last ten years. However this was his first time ever to cash. What a huge payout it turned out to be $727,012 for first place.

Ciaran O'Leary's first name is pronounced KIR-AHN. His nickname is "Big C."

O'Leary was all-in at the final table five times. He survived each confrontation.

A full house of spectators packed into the Rio poker arena and was treated to an exciting show. OLeary was clearly the crowd favorite. Each time he was all-in, he got up and walked away from the table. Several times he left the arena entirely and walked into the busy tournament area, with television cameras rolling to capture every step. It was obvious this was OLearys way to relieve tension. The strategy worked.

Ireland has produced several WSOP gold bracelet winners , most notably the 1999 main event champion, Noel Furlong. With this victory, O'Leary is now the second-highest WSOP winner who is originally from Ireland.

At the start of the final table, all eyes were on Alex Jacob. He arrived with a monstrous chip lead , with over 3,000,000 in chips while the average stack was about 800,000. He ended up busting out in third place. Jacob cashed four times at last years WSOP and made two final table appearances.

The runner up was Paul Evans from Mt. Shasta, CA. This was his second time to take second place in a WSOP event. He also finished second at the final table back in 2000.

2003 WSOP champion Chris Moneymaker cashed in this event. He finished in the 233rd spot.

This was ESPNs second WSOP broadcast of 2007. The ESPN telecast is expected to air some time after July 10, 2007.

Place	Player	Prize
1.	Cairan O'Leary	$727,012
2.	Paul Evans	$450,150
3.	Alex (Yahtzem) Jacob	$282,367
4.	Jeffrey Yoak	$184,152
5.		$128,907
6.	Andreas Krause	$94,122
7.	Thad Smith	$73,661
8.	Bart Hanson	$55,246
9.	Matthew Vengrin	$43,378
10.	Eric Baldwin	$36,012
11.		$36,012
12.	Artin Panossian	$36,012
13.	Chad Davis	$31,920
14.	Jason Potter	$31,920
15.	Scott Takeshita	$31,920
16.	Ryan Fair	$27,827
17.	Richard DiNunzio	$27,827
18.	Kenneth Sigel	$27,827
19.	Edward Lee	$23,735
20.	Mitch Garshofsky	$23,735
21.	Leon Kunkel	$23,735
22.	Jess Kaufman	$23,735
23.	David Fischer	$23,735
24.	Christopher Grillo	$23,735
25.	Tristan Wade	$23,735
26.	Derrick Molnar	$23,735
27.	Abdul Fadeyi	$23,735
28.	Doug (Rico) Carli	$20,052
29.	Michael Binger	$20,052
30.	Robert Samano	$20,052
31.	Colin Pentan	$20,052
32.	Erik Haakenson	$20,052
33.	Sanjeer (Bobby) Bais	$20,052
34.	Santo Messina	$20,052
35.	Benjamin Santoli	$20,052
36.	Sergeit Veytser	$20,052
37.	Patrick Blye	$16,778
38.	John Christy	$16,778
39.	Joseph Pintavalle	$16,778
40.		$16,778
41.	Joseph Skluzacek	$16,778
42.	Scott Ya	$16,778
43.	Jose Padilla	$16,778
44.		$16,778
45.	Long Nguyen	$16,778
46.	Benjamin Logan	$13,914
47.	Timothy Jaxon	$13,914
48.	Jean-Pierre Angelil	$13,914
49.	Chad Wagner	$13,914
50.	Shawn Reed	$13,914
51.	Todd Lundwall	$13,914
52.	Nigel Vonas	$13,914
53.	Marc Naalden	$13,914
54.	Robert Addison	$13,914
55.	Goriac Yousif	$11,458
56.	Jon Matthew	$11,458
57.	Gevin Trung Diep	$11,458
58.	Christopher East	$11,458
59.	Steve Kolb	$11,458
60.	Don Hoeland	$11,458
61.	Igor Golovin	$11,458
62.	Stephen Cook	$11,458
63.	Jose Rosenkrantz	$11,458
64.	David (Dragon) Pham	$9,412
65.	Jeff Rodriguez	$9,412
66.	Gorden Hodkins	$9,412
67.	Benny Cho	$9,412
68.	Nan Wang	$9,412
69.	Robert Marshall	$9,412
70.	Frederick Brenner	$9,412
71.	Michael Banducci	$9,412
72.	Ron Tourony	$9,412
73.	Christopher Bonita	$7,775
74.	Erle Mankin	$7,775
75.	Richard Weisman	$7,775
76.	Robert Aron	$7,775
77.	Richie Wong	$7,775
78.	Michael Stewart	$7,775
79.	Ron Lane	$7,775
80.	Manish Parekit	$7,775
81.	Michael Akkashian	$7,775
82.	Robert Mariano	$6,548
83.	Marvin Guss	$6,548
84.	Darren Sprengers	$6,548
85.	Blaine McGowan	$6,548
86.	Scott Lidji	$6,548
87.	Brian Ichikawa	$6,548
88.	Jesse Berger	$6,548
89.	Chris Ladner	$6,548
90.	Christopher Collins	$6,548
91.	Paul Pulcher	$5,729
92.	Ryan Bulthaup	$5,729
93.	Alan Sass	$5,729
94.	Stephen Hastings	$5,729
95.	Joseph Burgess	$5,729
96.	Lynn Franklin	$5,729
97.	Maria Ho	$5,729
98.	Chad Burum	$5,729
99.	Mark Howell	$5,729
100.	John Strzemp	$5,115
101.	Brian Saxe	$5,115
102.	Mike Shearer	$5,115
103.	Unknown	$5,115
104.	Siagzar (Reza) Payvar	$5,115
105.	Franco Brunetti	$5,115
106.	Young Phan	$5,115
107.	Roland De Wolfe	$5,115
108.	Stephen Schoonover	$5,115
109.	Erick Lindgren	$5,115
110.	Trung Ly	$5,115
111.	Robert Searfoss	$5,115
112.	Steve Wise	$5,115
113.	David Cohen	$5,115
114.	Donovan Cox	$5,115
115.	Arnold Spee	$5,115
116.	Christopher DeMaci	$5,115
117.	Ryan Kogan	$5,115
118.	Tony Palermo	$5,115
119.	Brian Kneier	$5,115
120.	Brian McPeek	$5,115
121.	Benjamin Bono	$5,115
122.	Jared Anderson	$5,115
123.	Anthony Maggio	$5,115
124.	Jeff Cabanillas	$5,115
125.	Alex Melnikow	$5,115
126.	Tri Nguyen	$5,115
127.	Wai Kei Liy	$4,706
128.	Sean LeFort	$4,706
129.	Heidi Tomich	$4,706
130.	Matthew Walter	$4,706
131.	Greg (Fossil-Man) Raymer	$4,706
132.	Aaron Fleischner	$4,706
133.	Eric Mizrachi	$4,706
134.	Gary Germann	$4,706
135.	Justin Zomarra	$4,706
136.	Mark Vail	$4,706
137.	Vince Lepore	$4,706
138.	Dennis Smith	$4,706
139.	James Libretti	$4,706
140.	Nghia Tran	$4,706
141.	John Galbraith	$4,706
142.	Justin Blumenthal	$4,706
143.	Joon Kim	$4,706
144.	Ronald Dorval	$4,706
145.	Jeremy Clements	$4,706
146.	Frankie Havard	$4,706
147.	Thomas Magnetta	$4,706
148.	William Mietz	$4,706
149.	Robert Gianquitti	$4,706
150.	Matt Ricciardi	$4,706
151.	Robert Jakoby	$4,706
152.	Jimmy Holland	$4,706
153.	Ali Pabarja	$4,706
154.	Scott Mumby	$4,706
155.	Mike Karasoulis	$4,706
156.	Mark Swartz	$4,706
157.	Neil Blatnee	$4,706
158.	Ken Knight	$4,706
159.	Ryan Daut	$4,706
160.	Jose Alfor	$4,706
161.	David Leighton	$4,706
162.	Ralph Porter	$4,706
163.	Matt Ramsey	$4,297
164.	Mike McStott	$4,297
165.	John Hausler	$4,297
166.	William Argie	$4,297
167.	Forest Bronzman	$4,297
168.	Andrew Ashbey	$4,297
169.	Matthew Vahimian	$4,297
170.	Dominik Cantore	$4,297
171.	Craig Handelsman	$4,297
172.	Jared Pickering	$4,297
173.	Lucio Procopio	$4,297
174.	Kevin Ho	$4,297
175.	Vernon Harness Jr.	$4,297
176.	Adam Spiegelberg	$4,297
177.	Michael Hirschensohn	$4,297
178.	Roger Ly	$4,297
179.	Michael Craig	$4,297
180.	Joseph Ogden	$4,297
181.	Michael Price	$4,297
182.	Graham Andrews	$4,297
183.	Samuel Paolini	$4,297
184.	Kiran Patel	$4,297
185.	Tom Lee	$4,297
186.	Warren Karp	$4,297
187.	Matt Lefkowitz	$4,297
188.	Dan McGuire	$4,297
189.	Thomas Sanduski	$4,297
190.	Christian Bates	$4,297
191.	Charles Zanatian	$4,297
192.	James Tutino	$4,297
193.	Steven Yeager	$4,297
194.	Matthew Ross	$4,297
195.	Richard E. Park	$4,297
196.	Melvin Denham	$4,297
197.	Keith Rodgers	$4,297
198.	Patrick Omalley	$4,297
199.	Brandon Patin	$3,888
200.	Minh Nguyen	$3,888
201.	Ian Keiser	$3,888
202.	Edward Salazar	$3,888
203.	David Pena	$3,888
204.	Roberto Macatangay	$3,888
205.	Andrew Schaffer	$3,888
206.	Brandon Wong	$3,888
207.	Griffen Abel	$3,888
208.	Chad Mulheron	$3,888
209.	Kevin McBride	$3,888
210.	Luis Bedowitz	$3,888
211.	Lance Rallis	$3,888
212.	Trey Rubinson	$3,888
213.	Raed Abualdilat	$3,888
214.	Neil O'brien	$3,888
215.	Daniel Tamura	$3,888
216.	William Wanke	$3,888
217.	Kevin Reive	$3,888
218.	Scott Jensen	$3,888
219.	Kenny McMahan	$3,888
220.	Barbara Garrett	$3,888
221.	Jason Dacunha	$3,888
222.	Mark Rafn	$3,888
223.	John Tzortzis	$3,888
224.	Evan Dollinger	$3,888
225.	Brian Poms	$3,888
226.	Chad Bradbury	$3,888
227.	Kevin Song	$3,888
228.	Dennis Reed	$3,888
229.	Leroy Polittle	$3,888
230.	Michael Dobrich	$3,888
231.	Matthew Davis	$3,888
232.	John Thompson	$3,888
233.	Chris Moneymaker	$3,888
234.	William Sheffey	$3,888
235.	Eugene Todd	$3,478
236.	Dorothy VonSachsen	$3,478
237.	Antonie Bass	$3,478
238.	Lisa Brumbeloe	$3,478
239.	John Young	$3,478
240.	K.U. Davis	$3,478
241.	11704">Ernest Shepherd	$3,478
242.	Greg Oleson	$3,478
243.	Charlie Sewell	$3,478
244.	Mark Popkin	$3,478
245.	Mark Peterson	$3,478
246.	Tony Collier	$3,478
247.	Phillip Schechter	$3,478
248.	Thomas Walroos	$3,478
249.	Dan Schmiech	$3,478
250.	Ruben Carter	$3,478
251.	Keith Greer	$3,478
252.	Joel Ming	$3,478
253.	Tim Buczynski	$3,478
254.	Ken Hampton	$3,478
255.	Richard Higgins	$3,478
256.	Scott Lychwick	$3,478
257.	Joseph Sidoryk	$3,478
258.	Mark Reiser	$3,478
259.	Huy Pham	$3,478
260.	Yarom Limor	$3,478
261.	James Chiddy	$3,478
262.	Harold Cromwell	$3,478
263.	Jeffrey Wyckoff	$3,478
264.	James Christopher	$3,478
265.	Donna Varlotto	$3,478
266.	Michael Horowitz	$3,478
267.	Arthur Castner	$3,478
268.	Jon Bordy	$3,478
269.	Christopher Riley	$3,478
270.	Karl Mahrenholz	$3,478

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