2008 World Series of Poker

Event 5 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em w/ Re-buys
Day: 3
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♦j♣
Prize
$636,736
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Final Begins at 3 pm

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Chip leader Michael Banducci
Chip leader Michael Banducci
Join us this afternoon at 3 pm PT for the final table of Event #5, Event 5 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys. Michael Banducci leads the way with 1,655,000, well ahead of second-place Alan Jaffray's 1,222,000.

Here's the seating assignments, home towns and starting chip counts for the nine finalists:

Seat 1: Michael Banducci (Traverse City, Michigan) 1,655,000
Seat 2: Jonathan Aguiar (Las Vegas, Nevada) 361,000
Seat 3: Michael Binger (Las Vegas, Nevada) 186,000
Seat 4: Steve Gross (Marlboro, New Jersey) 112,000
Seat 5: Jamie Rosen (Boca Raton, Florida) 475,000
Seat 6: Jeff Williams (Dunwoody, Georgia) 683,000
Seat 7: Alan Jaffray (Silver Springs, Nevada) 1,222,000
Seat 8: Peter Gould (London, United Kingdom) 702,000
Seat 9: Lyric Duveyoung (Fairfield, Iowa) 659,000

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Final Table Bios – Seat 9, Lyric Duveyoung (659,000)

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Lyric Duveyoung
Lyric Duveyoung
Lyric Duveyoung has already made his presence known in the 2008 World Series of Poker. Duveyoung cashed in Event #2 ($1,500 No-Limit Hold'em) and earned $4,827 for his 102nd-place finish. Duveyoung calls Fairfield, Iowa, home. This will mark his fourth tournament cash, including a 16th-place finish at the 2008 Five-Star World Poker Classic and another 16th place at the 2004 World Poker Challenge.

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Final Table Bios - Seat 6, Jeff Williams (683,000)

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Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams
Jeff "yellowsub86" Williams, the youngest player at today's final table, hails from Dunwoody, Georgia. He is best known for winning the European Poker Tour's Grand Final in Monte Carlo when he was only 19, a win good for $1,179,558. He also has a fourth-place finish at the WPT Five-Star World Classic Poker Classic.

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Final Table Bios - Seat 4, Steve Gross (112,000)

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Steve Gross
Steve Gross
Steve "gboro780" Gross has the unhappy honor of holding the shortest stack entering today's final table. The Marlboro, New Jersey, resident has over $275,000 in online earnings to his credit. His first-ever World Series cash is also his first appearance at a World Series of Poker final table.

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Final Table Bios - Seat 3, Michael Binger (186,000)

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Michael Binger
Michael Binger
In 2007, Michael Binger cashed in eight World Series of Poker events, tying the record held by Humberto Brenes and Phil Hellmuth. This followed his 3rd-place finish in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, which was good for a $4,123,310 payday. Now living in Las Vegas, Binger holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford University, where his research focused on such topics as quantum chromodynamics, supersymmetry, and the Higgs boson. You will not confuse him by throwing out phrases like "flop texture." He has the second-shortest stack coming into play today.

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