2007 World Series of Poker Event #6
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2007 WSOP Event #6



Event #6

Limit Hold’em

Buy-In: $1,500

Number of Entries: 910

Total Prize Money: $1,365,000

Date of Tournament: June 4-6, 2007

Tournament Notes:

The winner was Gary Styczynski from Pearl River, New York. He is 42-years-old and is a part-time consultant and poker player. He is married and has two children.

Styczynski arrived at the final table with the dominant stack. He had nearly half of the total chips in play when eight-handed play began. It took him about four hours to win this final battle and take home his first WSOP gold bracelet.

The new poker champ has never cashed previously at the WSOP. However, he did cash three times at a recent poker tournament held at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.

Event #6 marked the debut of the nearly-live simulcast on the official WSOP website – www.worldseriesofpoker.com. For the first time in history, the entire final table was broadcast with hole cards seen by the home audience. Expert commentary was provided by poker pro Brian Wilson (who won a WSOP gold bracelet in 2005) and ESPN’s Howard David (who is normally the radio voice of Monday Night Football).

The WSOP has certainly entered the high-tech age. For the first time ever, all of the final table competitors were sequestered behind a large tent. There was no live audience – again another WSOP first. All spectators were in cyberspace watching over the Internet. Given the wide reach of the Internet and popularity of the official WSOP website, this final table is – at least for the moment – the most widely watched “live” poker tournament ever.

Some things cannot be made up. The seventh-place finisher was a man who won $14 million in the Canadian Lottery. His name is Michael Banks.

Noted poker author and theorist David Sklansky finished 13th in this event. Sklansky, the author of numerous books and generally regarded as the supreme poker and gaming intellect in the business, owns three WSOP gold bracelets (technically, he owns two WSOP gold watches, which was the top prize at the 1982 WSOP instead of bracelets). This event was his best WSOP finish in six years (he finished fifth in an event back in 2001).

James Graham finished in fifth-place. He won a WSOP gold bracelet last year.

The eighth-place finisher was Pete O’Donnell. He quit his job to play poker for a living and moved to Las Vegas just two weeks ago. His new career is off to a good tart, to the tune of $22,359 in prize money.





Place Player Prize
 1. Gary Styczynski $280,715
 2. Varouzhan Gumroyan $177,627
 3. Hansu Chu $114,278
 4. Soheil Shamseddin $75,771
 5. James Gorham $53,412
 6. Jimmy Holland $40,991
 7. Michael Banks $30,433
 8. Pete O'Donnell $22,359
 9. Dariush Imani $16,148
 10. Brandon Wong $11,552
 11. Ken Dickensen $11,552
 12. Jesse Martin $11,552
 13. David Sklansky $10,310
 14. John (Brock) Parker $10,310
 15. Casey Peters $10,310
 16. Derek McCoy $9,068
 17. Tanya Lieu $9,068
 18. Dan Barnett $9,068
 19. Igram Hassan $7,826
 20. Scott Lychwick $7,826
 21. Jim Blaszkiewicz $7,826
 22. Patrick Curran $7,826
 23. David Arsht $7,826
 24. Bennett Kleinberg $7,826
 25. Michael Sun $7,826
 26. Joshua Haddad $7,826
 27. Steven Cauley $7,826
 28. Tien Le $6,708
 29. Kurt Maier $6,708
 30. Jason Bethune $6,708
 31. Paul Bucy $6,708
 32. Todd Keikoan $6,708
 33. Steven Mandelbaum $6,708
 34. Marco Johnson $6,708
 35. Mike Pickett $6,708
 36. Mark Jones $6,708
 37. Chris Russell $5,714
 38. Charles Indyg $5,714
 39. Aaron Smith $5,714
 40. Christopher Lamell $5,714
 41. Nhu Huynh $5,714
 42. Tam (Tommy) Hang $5,714
 43. Richard Schwartz $5,714
 44. Steven Rothstein $5,714
 45. John Robertson $5,714
 46. Abraham Levy $4,844
 47. James Guill $4,844
 48. Charles Furey $4,844
 49. John Pastrana $4,844
 50. Ronald Evans $4,844
 51. Mark Muchnik $4,844
 52. Suriyan Bhinestien $4,844
 53. Ray Manlagnit $4,844
 54. Matthew Hawrilenko $4,844
 55. John Varner $3,975
 56. Constantine Araneta $3,975
 57. Merri German $3,975
 58. Matthew Kelly $3,975
 59. David Chin $3,975
 60. Randall Witt $3,975
 61. Stephen Gerhardt $3,975
 62. Douglas Protz $3,975
 63. Doug Morgan $3,975
 64. Robert Goldfarb $3,292
 65. Derek Wakamiya $3,292
 66. Joe Deniro $3,292
 67. Philip Schier $3,292
 68. Leo Vergote $3,292
 69. Mike (Champagne) Lancaster $3,292
 70. Robert Beveridge $3,292
 71. Minh Nguyen $3,292
 72. John Biebel $3,292
 73. Philong Nguyen $2,795
 74. Ira Gibbs III $2,795
 75. Matthew Dames $2,795
 76. (Minneapolis) Jim Meehan $2,795
 77. Nicholas Palmer $2,795
 78. Benjamin Robinson $2,795
 79. Marc Durand $2,795
 80. Eric Nickelson $2,795
 81. Boris Muchnik $2,795
 82. Thor Hansen $2,360
 83. Brad Peeples $2,360
 84. Matt Woodward $2,360
 85. Al Sorenson $2,360
 86. Thom Werthmann $2,360
 87. Dave Tobin $2,360
 88. David Gorman $2,360
 89. Roger Tanabe $2,360
 90. Michael O'Malley $2,360










        

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