2008 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Place Winner Sponsor Prize (USD)
1 Grant Hinkle 831,462
2 James Akenhead 520,219
3 Chris 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 Josh 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 24,133
20 Ryan D'Angelo 24,133
21 Mariano Cefalu 24,133
22 Thomas Fuller 24,133
23 Avraham Arguan 24,133
24 Andre Boyer 24,133
25 Evan McNiff 24,133
26 Pia Jeppesen 24,133
27 Steve Cho 24,133
28 Marvin Bulkholder 18,770
29 Scott Montgomery 18,770
30 Alan Puzantyan 18,770
31 Cesar Flores 18,770
32 Karim Vegas 18,770
33 Michael Ium 18,770
34 Nadim Shabou 18,770
35 David Robertson 18,770
36 Clayton Kalisek 18,770
37 Stephen Dick 14,480
38 Sean Ferrer 14,480
39 Richard Byrd 14,480
40 Richard Toth 14,480
41 Mike Souza 14,480
42 Johnny Carlson 14,480
43 Amir Monsefi 14,480
44 Scott Einiger 14,480
45 Ginikachukwu Izuogu 14,480
46 Anthony Meeker 12,871
47 Lars Bonding 12,871
48 Jeff Hutchison 12,871
49 Brian Haas 12,871
50 Chris Poma 12,871
51 Todd Holley 12,871
52 Andre Dyonisio 12,871
53 Edgar Renteria 12,871
54 Joe Gotlieb 12,871
55 Steve Kolb 11,262
56 Aaron Kanter 11,262
57 Elliot Shmukler 11,262
58 Arnold Spee 11,262
59 Johannes Strassmann 11,262
60 James Atachazo 11,262
61 Kenneth Shelton 11,262
62 Anthony Young 11,262
63 Jordan Cristos 11,262
64 Saeed Danejhi 9,653
65 Stuart 'thedonator' Paterson 9,653
66 Garrett Allen 9,653
67 John Murphy 9,653
68 Gevork Kasabyam 9,653
69 Danny Fisher 9,653
70 Mark Hirakawa 9,653
71 Al Rogers 9,653
72 Ronnie Goodwin 9,653
73 Ryan Roeder 8,044
74 Alexander MacKenzie 8,044
75 Jon Heneghan 8,044
76 Chris DeFalco 8,044
77 Jay Greenspan 8,044
78 Arnaud Mattern 8,044
79 Edward Nassif 8,044
80 Matt Brady 8,044
81 Michael Hartzheim 8,044
82 Jorge Rodriguez 6,972
83 Paul Fehlig 6,972
84 Sean Porter 6,972
85 Jimmy Athanas 6,972
86 Brian Maguire 6,972
87 Tom Bentham 6,972
88 Chris Steinbacher 6,972
89 Manelic Minaya 6,972
90 Long Duong 6,972
91 Cameron Main 5,899
92 Kris Crudup 5,899
93 Dale Morrow 5,899
94 Craig Brennan 5,899
95 Shane 'Shaniac' Schleger 5,899
96 Christopher Westmas 5,899
97 Yong An 5,899
98 Derek Schneider 5,899
99 Steve Levy 5,899
100 Robert Herman 4,826
101 Warren Pospisil 4,826
102 Lyric Duveyoung 4,826
103 Richard Vallandigham 4,826
104 Dan Schmiech 4,826
105 Alan Lai 4,826
106 Shayne Heine 4,826
107 Andrew Zuzolo 4,826
108 David Bogner 4,826
109 Ian Kim 4,826
110 Todd 'Dan Druff' Witteles 4,826
111 Arda Fikri 4,826
112 Ken Shaevel 4,826
113 Ashley Mayhew 4,826
114 Daniel Sindelar 4,826
115 Pat White 4,826
116 Allin Collins 4,826
117 Alex Moore 4,826
118 Maen Shaddu 4,826
119 Thi Pham 4,826
120 Terrence Chan 4,826
121 Motoyuki Mabuchi 4,826
122 Dominick Cuzzi 4,826
123 Bon Phan 4,826
124 Davis Batson 4,826
125 Andrew Taylor 4,826
126 Joseph Goldstein 4,826
127 Erica Schoenberg 4,558
128 Paul Sexton 4,558
129 Quynam Nguyen 4,558
130 Quentin Krueger 4,558
131 Charles Ambrogi 4,558
132 Travis Green 4,558
133 Hooman Nikzad 4,558
134 Dominic Biondi 4,558
135 Benjamin Hamnett 4,558
136 Kenny Tran 4,558
137 Michael Shoemaker 4,558
138 Jeff Carris 4,558
139 Nikolay Evdakov 4,558
140 Tony Korfman 4,558
141 John Roveto 4,558
142 Derek Wakamiya 4,558
143 Ryan Remele 4,558
144 Katja Svendsen 4,558
145 Giovanni Mervo 4,558
146 Mark Vos 4,558
147 Jason Lilly 4,558
148 Anthony Sanches 4,558
149 Rami Boukai 4,558
150 Aaron Kweskin 4,558
151 John Farley 4,558
152 Daniel Barnett 4,558
153 Jason Gallagher 4,558
154 Mounir Spour 4,558
155 Jose Velador 4,558
156 Le Banh 4,558
157 Jason Schoenberg 4,558
158 Michael Bernstein 4,558
159 Wayne Smith 4,558
160 Jason Habinsky 4,558
161 Mark Polis 4,558
162 Dustin Cole 4,558
163 Christopher Vaughn 4,290
164 Chris Elderkin 4,290
165 Tom Marvin 4,290
166 Robert Aron 4,290
167 Steve Ballowe 4,290
168 Michael Goetsch 4,290
169 Niels Rikhof 4,290
170 Peter Lieberman 4,290
171 Moji Seyedin 4,290
172 Khamsy Nuanmanee 4,290
173 Armando Gonzales 4,290
174 Sarah Bilney 4,290
175 David Maresh 4,290
176 Steven Peasley 4,290
177 Maria Munoz 4,290
178 Roberto Durante 4,290
179 Nghi Tran 4,290
180 Jon Stanfield 4,290
181 Matthew Rousu 4,290
182 Huw Taylor 4,290
183 Troy Miller 4,290
184 David Hong 4,290
185 Alex Trujano 4,290
186 Paul Lee 4,290
187 Jim Anderson 4,290
188 Charles Morgenstern 4,290
189 Michael Kamran 4,290
190 Felix Wright 4,290
191 Mark Gregorich 4,290
192 Davis Aalvik 4,290
193 Brandon Lee 4,290
194 Chris Bjorin 4,290
195 Joe Daddario 4,290
196 Jeremy Williamson 4,290
197 Mark Ketteringham 4,290
198 Rick Fitzpatrick 4,290
199 Tim Gray 4,022
200 Peter Lenkey 4,022
201 Christopher Riley 4,022
202 Mike Elderkin 4,022
203 Mark Hanna 4,022
204 Ronnie Givargis 4,022
205 Brian Kneier 4,022
206 Robert Fitzgerald 4,022
207 Brett Wiesner 4,022
208 Ayaz Mahmood 4,022
209 Rolf Kaus 4,022
210 Richard Herrera 4,022
211 Roy Duleba 4,022
212 Dolph Arnold 4,022
213 Roger Jenkins 4,022
214 Matthew Piggott 4,022
215 James Duke 4,022
216 Richard Brendel 4,022
217 Edward Guerrero 4,022
218 Nikolay Malyshev 4,022
219 Les Spear 4,022
220 John Nieznanski 4,022
221 Mark King 4,022
222 Jeff Finkelstein 4,022
223 Keith Wintermans 4,022
224 Kevin Compton 4,022
225 Stephen Tanner 4,022
226 Tom Lee 4,022
227 William Goff 4,022
228 Evan Schwartz 4,022
229 Edward Uhler 4,022
230 John Morrell 4,022
231 Nick Decker 4,022
232 Michael Cavender 4,022
233 Maria 'Maridu' Mayrinck 4,022
234 Linh Nguyen 4,022
235 Vachagan Zakarian 3,754
236 Kapila Garner 3,754
237 John Mcmahon 3,754
238 Stephen Suarez 3,754
239 Pablo Caraballo 3,754
240 Jean Gaspard 3,754
241 Frank Cremen 3,754
242 Peter Shekeloff 3,754
243 Dustin Pattinson 3,754
244 Adam Richardson 3,754
245 William Shindler 3,754
246 Bryan Johnson 3,754
247 Jean Harlan 3,754
248 Emily Hirleman 3,754
249 Jac Arama 3,754
250 Brett Schwertley 3,754
251 Gavin Griffin 3,754
252 Joe Cutler 3,754
253 Hansu Chu 3,754
254 Raymond Wesley 3,754
255 Roy Holliday 3,754
256 Denny Lee 3,754
257 Mark Johns 3,754
258 Brandon Sampson 3,754
259 Matt Thornton 3,754
260 Michael Olive 3,754
261 Matt Mitchell 3,754
262 Michael Sims 3,754
263 Brian Fitzgerald 3,754
264 Trevor Thomas 3,754
265 Derek Harrington 3,754
266 Edward Brogdon 3,754
267 Fang Tian 3,754
268 Brandon Hoss 3,754
269 Jamin Styers 3,754
270 Matt Zoorob 3,754
271 Cheeon Yue 3,486
272 Marco Traniello 3,486
273 Kimball Wasick 3,486
274 Walt Schafer 3,486
275 Jason Newburger 3,486
276 Jose Rosenkrantz 3,486
277 Derek Grady 3,486
278 Chad Bradbury 3,486
279 Terrence Albright 3,486
280 Todd Bui 3,486
281 Joseph Kalina 3,486
282 Kim Williams 3,486
283 Robert Russell 3,486
284 Martin Hammond 3,486
285 Jinyan Lin 3,486
286 Sean Getzwiller 3,486
287 Michael Yoshino 3,486
288 Gregory Herman 3,486
289 Niles Welch 3,486
290 Danny Adelson 3,486
291 Kaveh Ardestani 3,486
292 Todd Brunson 3,486
293 Parimal Parmar 3,486
294 Dennis Marcum 3,486
295 Derei Asher 3,486
296 Jimmy Cortes 3,486
297 Dionicio Banuelos 3,486
298 David Bannister 3,486
299 Sterling Allen 3,486
300 Jim Kileen 3,486
301 Yarom Limor 3,486
302 Joshua Schiffman 3,486
303 Jon Friedberg 3,486
304 Matt Stout 3,486
305 Carl Sciandri 3,486
306 John Rosanky 3,486
307 Jessica Dawley 3,217
308 Kevin Walton 3,217
309 Joy Adams 3,217
310 Matthew Zola 3,217
311 Jared Davis 3,217
312 William Rincker 3,217
313 Jeff Rogers 3,217
314 Nicolas Dervaux 3,217
315 Dan Hirleman 3,217
316 Mike Oliger 3,217
317 Marcel Bedard 3,217
318 Ciaran Heaney 3,217
319 Fred Louie 3,217
320 Russell McDonnell 3,217
321 Anthony Perkins 3,217
322 Shinchi Chien 3,217
323 Paul Smith 3,217
324 Daryl Olson 3,217
325 Michael Megison 3,217
326 Dale Steven 3,217
327 Gladys Landegger 3,217
328 Christopher Horn 3,217
329 Andy Halseth 3,217
330 Daniel Smith 3,217
331 James Vititoe 3,217
332 William Carlton 3,217
333 James Blake 3,217
334 Ryan Kogan 3,217
335 Victoriano Perches 3,217
336 James Farrington 3,217
337 Robert Winchell 3,217
338 Christopher Savage 3,217
339 Farjallah Yazbek 3,217
340 Jeff Rasmussen 3,217
341 Alexander Buchanan 3,217
342 Caleb Fox 3,217
343 Todd Stumpf 2,949
344 Robert Crosby 2,949
345 Michael Snerdan 2,949
346 Eskimo Clark 2,949
347 Jose Ferreira 2,949
348 Peter Dawson 2,949
349 Michael Binger 2,949
350 James Noonan 2,949
351 Leslie Rice 2,949
352 Kevin Mulvhill 2,949
353 David Singer 2,949
354 Nathan Meyvis 2,949
355 David Novosel 2,949
356 Andrew Droll 2,949
357 Luis Fausto 2,949
358 Russell Lane 2,949
359 Michael Holland 2,949
360 John White 2,949
361 Antuan Bunkley 2,949
362 Ryan Daut 2,949
363 Michael Glaser 2,949
364 Rodney Horton 2,949
365 Eric Green 2,949
366 Anthony Perry 2,949
367 Scott Kraft 2,949
368 Richard Dainton 2,949
369 Nicholas Stille 2,949
370 Jeff Ward 2,949
371 Jason Pecht 2,949
372 Marc Rangel 2,949
373 Cody Slaubaugh 2,949
374 Michael Hockensmith 2,949
375 Nicholas Tsoukalas 2,949
376 Michael Blomerth 2,949
377 Thomas Duprey 2,949
378 Michael Balzer 2,949

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Winner
Grant Hinkle
Winning Hand
♦10♦4
Prize
831,462
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000
Players Info
Prize Pool
5,363,085

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    Grant Hinkle
  • Grant Hinkle, winner 2008 WSOP event #2
    Grant Hinkle, winner 2008 WSOP event #2
  • Grant Hinkle shows us the money
    Grant Hinkle shows us the money
  • Grant Hinkle shows off his first WSOP gold bracelet
    Grant Hinkle shows off his first WSOP gold bracelet
  • Grant Hinkle and James Akenhead go Heads-Up
    Grant Hinkle and James Akenhead go Heads-Up
  • Chris Ferguson, Grant hinkle
    Chris Ferguson, Grant hinkle
  • Chris ferguson
    Chris ferguson
  • Chris Ferguson
    Chris Ferguson
  • Aaron Coulthard
    Aaron Coulthard

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BigM
2008-06-04
Pretty fun
gmasueslilsis
2008-06-04
No, but I've been up since about 4:30. The Hinkle boys have made me know more about poker than I ever thought I would!HA!
BigM
2008-06-04
Sure is Brenda. Did you stay up all night.
KimHinkle
2008-06-04
I will, I'm listening to him being interviewed now, he's got to be exhausted
BigM
2008-06-04
Fantastic! Congratulate him for me.

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