Started 29th Jun, 2009

2009 World Series of Poker

Event 54 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

Payout Structure

Buy In: $ 1,500 Total Prizepool: $ 3,846,570 Entries: 2,818

Tony Veckey

Thu Jul 02 2009

Winner of Event 54 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

It took nearly 11 hours for Tony Veckey to claim the Event 54 title, but he'll tell you it was worth the effort and the missed flight home to Chicago. Our newest WSOP bracelet winner bested a field of 2,818 to walk away with the hardware and more than $673,000 in first-place money. Veckey played an aggressive and smart game throughout, raising his opponents and applying pressure whenever possible. Congratulations, Tony, for a tournament well-played!

Place Prize Winner Sponsor
1$ 673,276Tony Veckey 
2$ 418,122Jason Wheeler 
3$ 276,029Joseph Chaplin 
4$ 195,213Sergey Konkin 
5$ 147,131Andrew Malott 
6$ 117,358Christopher Bonita 
7$ 98,933Chistopher DeMaci 
8$ 87,855David Jaoui 
9$ 81,970Miha Remic 
10$ 57,506Mike Ratcliff 
11$ 57,506Arkadiy Tsinis 
12$ 57,506Brian Green 
13$ 40,350Felix Lambertz 
14$ 40,350Thai Tran 
15$ 40,350Vivek Rajkumar 
16$ 28,310John Spagnuolo 
17$ 28,310Todd Lundwall 
18$ 28,310Kevin Rosini 
19$ 19,848Jon Christensen 
20$ 19,848Steven Rubinfeld 
21$ 19,848Matt Stern 
22$ 19,848Wayne Chow 
23$ 19,848Paul Nunes 
24$ 19,848Philippe Narboni 
25$ 19,848Eric Hayes 
26$ 19,848Stephen Outram 
27$ 19,848Mike Maher 
28$ 15,578Brandon Wong 
29$ 15,578Kiran Desai 
30$ 15,578Joshua Norris 
31$ 15,578Kim Andre Svarstad 
32$ 15,578Kenny Nguyen 
33$ 15,578John Farrell 
34$ 15,578Dallin Pender 
35$ 15,578Omar McFarlane 
36$ 15,578Zsombor Gall 
37$ 11,616Florian Ristl 
38$ 11,616Gary Burks 
39$ 11,616Henry Merchan 
40$ 11,616Mike Sica 
41$ 11,616Daniel Brown 
42$ 11,616Mario Rodriguez 
43$ 11,616David Woo 
44$ 11,616Randy Pfeifer 
45$ 11,616Eric Knodler 
46$ 9,116Craig Gray 
47$ 9,116Jamie Kerstetter 
48$ 9,116Scott Black 
49$ 9,116Donald Boivin 
50$ 9,116Chris Heintschel 
51$ 9,116Tuong Eddie Le 
52$ 9,116Raymond Rahme 
53$ 9,116Jorge Arias 
54$ 9,116Raymond Hicks 
55$ 7,462Jason Collins 
56$ 7,462Bruce Perry 
57$ 7,462Vanna Tea 
58$ 7,462Jason Hodges 
59$ 7,462Eddie Seliga 
60$ 7,462Toni Ojala 
61$ 7,462Adrian Vizmanos 
62$ 7,462Mike Allis 
63$ 7,462Bhupinder Singh 
64$ 6,269Jason Thomas 
65$ 6,269Richard En 
66$ 6,269Jason Reed 
67$ 6,269Chad Tinney 
68$ 6,269John Leggett 
69$ 6,269Jonathan Mcgowan 
70$ 6,269Vince Lacariere 
71$ 6,269Joseph Kouaho 
72$ 6,269Mark Zen 
73$ 5,385Martial Blangenwitsch 
74$ 5,385Jeffrey Chotikul 
75$ 5,385Craig Corcoran 
76$ 5,385Chad Martin 
77$ 5,385Ben Palmer 
78$ 5,385Daniel Cote 
79$ 5,385Josh Mammon 
80$ 5,385Alexandre Gomes 
81$ 5,385Gregory Chambon 
82$ 4,654Bernard van Dijk 
83$ 4,654Joe Morneau 
84$ 4,654Istvan Ratkai 
85$ 4,654Christopher Meinertsen 
86$ 4,654Biagio Morciano 
87$ 4,654Klaus Schwarz 
88$ 4,654Francisco Musalem 
89$ 4,654Van Nguyen 
90$ 4,654George Yutuc 
91$ 4,077Alex Keating 
92$ 4,077Andrew Teng 
93$ 4,077Jesus Salerno 
94$ 4,077Tycho Vandenbergh 
95$ 4,077Jeppe Mikkelsen 
96$ 4,077Patrick Madden 
97$ 4,077Peter Kjaer 
98$ 4,077Nadav Benjosef 
99$ 4,077Dau Ly 
100$ 3,615Jerry Flannigan 
101$ 3,615Michael Foley 
102$ 3,615Sergey Kishnev 
103$ 3,615James Keys 
104$ 3,615David Chang 
105$ 3,615Aaron Kweskin 
106$ 3,615Trent Wyatt 
107$ 3,615Dmitriy Yegorov 
108$ 3,615Steven Serle 
109$ 3,615Johnny D'Silva 
110$ 3,615Jim Pechac 
111$ 3,615Richard Lee 
112$ 3,615Haysam Chiniara 
113$ 3,615Peter Raimondi 
114$ 3,615Alex Bolotin 
115$ 3,615Pasi Motsakov 
116$ 3,615Nathan Root 
117$ 3,615Kevin Kelsey 
118$ 3,615Philip Starner 
119$ 3,615Michael Ium 
120$ 3,615Mike Durand 
121$ 3,615Darren Griffiths 
122$ 3,615Bryan Bechard 
123$ 3,615Robert Finlay 
124$ 3,615Nersan Naidoo 
125$ 3,615Geno Foschi 
126$ 3,615Christopher Campbell 
127$ 3,615Jose Deandrade 
128$ 3,615Rose Cooney 
129$ 3,615Carlos Mortensen 
130$ 3,615Craig Hartman 
131$ 3,615Paul Garbedian 
132$ 3,615Peter Yu 
133$ 3,615Roberto Machado 
134$ 3,615Kaj Emanuel 
135$ 3,615John Lawson 
136$ 3,308Gabriele Lepore 
137$ 3,308Charalampos Tsaoussis 
138$ 3,308Kevin Eyring 
139$ 3,308Marat Mudriyan 
140$ 3,308Thomas Maguire 
141$ 3,308Richard Sorenson 
142$ 3,308Ut Nguyen 
143$ 3,308Jinyun Lin 
144$ 3,308Suzanne Lussier 
145$ 3,308Steen Vester 
146$ 3,308Robert Hohenwalter 
147$ 3,308David Bownds 
148$ 3,308Qui Ho 
149$ 3,308Dan Larsen 
150$ 3,308Dane Steele 
151$ 3,308Jack Converse 
152$ 3,308Paul Koeppl 
153$ 3,308Thad Mitchell 
154$ 3,308Lauren Kling 
155$ 3,308Victoriya Taranova 
156$ 3,308Ulian Embert 
157$ 3,308Eric Larcheveque 
158$ 3,308John Houtsma 
159$ 3,308Lawrence Shawe 
160$ 3,308Florian Blumel 
161$ 3,308Jerry Skelton 
162$ 3,308Henrik Tollefsen 
163$ 3,308Kenny Chuor 
164$ 3,308Vincent Chung 
165$ 3,308Ernesto Basa Jr 
166$ 3,308Greg Alston 
167$ 3,308Mick Kokkeler 
168$ 3,308Dangkhoa Nguyen 
169$ 3,308Anthony Harb 
170$ 3,308Frank Muller 
171$ 3,308Amit Makhija 
172$ 3,077Nicolas Vogel 
173$ 3,077Thomas Fuller 
174$ 3,077Michael Batell 
175$ 3,077Craig Ripley 
176$ 3,077Matthias Kuerschner 
177$ 3,077Ryan Eckhart 
178$ 3,077Travis Allen 
179$ 3,077Michael Lehmann 
180$ 3,077Kenneth Terrell 
181$ 3,077Steven Zarifis 
182$ 3,077Kim Wooka 
183$ 3,077Andrew Shepherd 
184$ 3,077Brett Nalder 
185$ 3,077Roy Shimada 
186$ 3,077Wendeen Eolis 
187$ 3,077Sanford Lee 
188$ 3,077Ronaldo Uliana 
189$ 3,077Jonathan Dull 
190$ 3,077Glenn Cooper 
191$ 3,077Keoki Ho 
192$ 3,077Michael Yang 
193$ 3,077Jason Pohl 
194$ 3,077Victor McDevitt 
195$ 3,077Steve Simer 
196$ 3,077Veronica Dabul 
197$ 3,077Alex Mass 
198$ 3,077Morten Lovdal 
199$ 3,077Kyle Zartman 
200$ 3,077Julien Andre 
201$ 3,077Ed Stafsholt 
202$ 3,077Evgeny Serebryakov 
203$ 3,077Matt Polishuk 
204$ 3,077Paulo Branco 
205$ 3,077In Kwon 
206$ 3,077Rip Fritzer 
207$ 3,077Eric Adornetto 
208$ 2,923Jennifer Richie 
209$ 2,923Xavier Jacquet-Duval 
210$ 2,923Franck Calonnec 
211$ 2,923Jody Howe 
212$ 2,923Eric De Grande 
213$ 2,923Tom Blackwell 
214$ 2,923Daniel Falkenstein 
215$ 2,923Zhiliang Chen 
216$ 2,923Peter Jelinek 
217$ 2,923Antonio Maestro 
218$ 2,923Enrico Lazzari 
219$ 2,923Andres Rey 
220$ 2,923Diana Grimme 
221$ 2,923Bryan Paris 
222$ 2,923Eugene Tito 
223$ 2,923Richard Wyrick 
224$ 2,923Lee Biddulph 
225$ 2,923Todd Arnold 
226$ 2,923Julien Legros 
227$ 2,923Timothy McKernan 
228$ 2,923Olivier Decamps 
229$ 2,923Matthew Mille 
230$ 2,923Men Nguyen 
231$ 2,923Dean Hamrick 
232$ 2,923Lance Yuen 
233$ 2,923Aaron Crislip 
234$ 2,923Tom Daly 
235$ 2,923Andras Kovacs 
236$ 2,923James Husain 
237$ 2,923Tom Percy 
238$ 2,923Ingo Becker 
239$ 2,923Hevad Khan 
240$ 2,923Antonino Karman 
241$ 2,923Jeffrey Casas 
242$ 2,923Gavin Tamashiro 
243$ 2,923Jeffrey Joseph 
244$ 2,923Howard Smith 
245$ 2,923David Warady 
246$ 2,923Gerald Eberle 
247$ 2,923Jan Romate 
248$ 2,923Michael Noon 
249$ 2,923John Reinhold 
250$ 2,923Chris Wunderlich 
251$ 2,923Julien Lanne 
252$ 2,923Robert Edenshaw 
253$ 2,769Garrett Harper 
254$ 2,769Russ Krueger 
255$ 2,769Robert Thrane 
256$ 2,769Alexey Tkachencko 
257$ 2,769Costantino Rao 
258$ 2,769Scott Epstein 
259$ 2,769Todd Richardson 
260$ 2,769Jules Dreamell 
261$ 2,769Anthony Varriano 
262$ 2,769Jos Urhausen 
263$ 2,769Waylon Frey 
264$ 2,769Rizziero Osso 
265$ 2,769Geoffrey Brooks 
266$ 2,769Michael Jones 
267$ 2,769Lambert De Vries 
268$ 2,769Claude Narcisse 
269$ 2,769Philip Brautigam 
270$ 2,769James Matteucci 
271$ 2,769Benoit Rossignon 
272$ 2,769Tom Scudieri 
273$ 2,769Gustavo Nazario 
274$ 2,769Scott Dorsch 
275$ 2,769John Hom 
276$ 2,769Tom Inuie 
277$ 2,769Alexander Borteh 
278$ 2,769Chris Dolan 
279$ 2,769Frank Sinopoli 
280$ 2,769Christian Bowerman 
281$ 2,769Heriot Mungo IV 
282$ 2,769Jeff Gore 
283$ 2,769Daniel Minor 
284$ 2,769Mark Compton 
285$ 2,769Theo Tran 
286$ 2,769Brent Joost 
287$ 2,769Patrick Shane Devan 
288$ 2,769Craig Hower 
289$ 2,769Mark Gearhart 
290$ 2,769Kenneth Skidmore 
291$ 2,769Denise Molloy 
292$ 2,769Frederick Jensen 
293$ 2,769Allyn Shulman 
294$ 2,769Alan Steer 
295$ 2,769Terry Brackenbury 
296$ 2,769Taylor Shpur 
297$ 2,769Chris Alchenberger 
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