2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,844
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$900,670
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Day 4 Starting Seat Assignments

Key:

B01-1 = Blue, Table 1, Seat 1
O08-9 = Orange, Table 8, Seat 9
G11-5 = Green, Table 11, Seat 5

Blue Section

B01-1: Matt Matros - 822,500
B01-2: Mitchell Smith - 332,500
B01-3: Frank Chimienti - 175,000
B01-4: Denny Lee - 162,000
B01-5: Brian Hansen - 634,500
B01-6: Helge Pedersen - 517,000
B01-7: Eric Tom - 218,500
B01-8: Alan Jaffray - 908,500
B01-9: David Saab - 321,500

B03-1: Jeff Kimber - 632,500
B03-2: Petteri Pirinen - 245,500
B03-3: Dale Hoy - 322,500
B03-4: Ferdinand Quelle - 518,500
B03-5: Virgil Beddingfield - 347,000
B03-6: George Ramsey - 113,500
B03-7: Leonardo Emperador - 385,500
B03-8: Jimmy Nickens - 150,500
B03-9: Ed Godfrey - 84,000

B05-1: Hannu Korva - 331,500
B05-2: Dylan Linde - 217,500
B05-3: Mikael Johansson - 181,000
B05-4: Reggie Lyons - 200,000
B05-5: Paul Ridley - 78,500
B05-6: Herbert Morici - 189,000
B05-7: Hyon Kim - 285,500
B05-8: Tony Basile - 77,500
B05-9: Michael Carroll - 204,000

B06-1: Matthew Jensen - 625,000
B06-2: Magnus Petersson - 352,000
B06-3: Andreas Berggren - 612,500
B06-4: Robin Larsson - 374,000
B06-5: Tiffany Michelle - 249,000
B06-6: Craig Stein - 230,500
B06-7: Evan Woodington - 63,500
B06-8: Mads Andersen - 98,500
B06-9: Greg Debora - 319,000

B08-1: Gary Do - 125,000
B08-2: Cort Kibler-Melby - 439,000
B08-3: Darus Suharto - 420,500
B08-4: Dennis Phillips - 295,000
B08-5: Brad Johnson - 424,000
B08-6: Ivan Demidov - 573,500
B08-7: Kido Pham - 228,500
B08-8: Scott Harris - 68,500
B08-9: Michael Vanier - 129,000

B10-1: David Dao - 310,000
B10-2: Jeremy Gaubert - 254,000
B10-3: Brian Lamanna - 54,000
B10-4: Kai Chang - 325,000
B10-5: Peter Ling - 294,500
B10-6: Tino Lechich - 211,500
B10-7: Cristian Dragomir - 824,000
B10-8: Carmel Petresco - 158,500
B10-9: David Benefield - 399,000

B11-1: Terry Stewart - 641,500
B11-2: Marc Podell - 558,000
B11-3: Mike Souza - 260,000
B11-4: Tomer Berda - 69,500
B11-5: Eric Bamer - 584,000
B11-6: Suresh Prabhu - 310,500
B11-7: Derek Buonano - 588,000
B11-8: Andrew Qiu - 100,500
B11-9: Manuel Bevant - 212,500

B13-1: Sarkis Akopyan - 858,000
B13-2: Whitney Blanton - 50,500
B13-3: Allen Kennedy - 199,000
B13-4: Jean-Robert Bellande - 124,500
B13-5: Phil Hellmuth - 475,000
B13-6: Andy Schultz - 193,000
B13-7: Adam Zinn - 116,500
B13-8: Mark Crocker - 96,000
B13-9: Adam Levy - 473,500

B15-1: Bob Bright - 324,000
B15-2: Jeremy Renz - 297,500
B15-3: David Ritter - 21,500
B15-4: Jason Young - 51,500
B15-5: Jason Sagle - 130,000
B15-6: Craig Marquis - 147,000
B15-7: Markus Feurle - 280,000
B15-8: Jesse McEven - 356,000
B15-9: Chris Klodnicki - 330,500

B16-1: Theodore Park - 374,000
B16-2: James Washer - 117,000
B16-3: Judet Cristian - 315,000
B16-4: Van Nguyen - 145,500
B16-5: Bayani Flores - 150,500
B16-6: Ziv Bachar - 210,000
B16-7: Chris Smith - 187,500
B16-8: Scott Hale - 94,500
B16-9: Owen Crowe - 900,000

B18-1: Mike Spinasanta - 249,500
B18-2: Scott Montgomery - 162,500
B18-3: Edward Roger - 477,000
B18-4: Robert Betts - 277,500
B18-5: Garrett Beckman - 192,000
B18-6: Peter Christensen - 124,500
B18-7: Jens Klaning - 689,000
B18-8: Jeff Heyn - 103,000
B18-9: Scott Landrem - 82,000

B20-1: Tommy Le - 731,000
B20-2: Kara Scott - 171,000
B20-3: Kory Mitchell - 195,000
B20-4: Jason Glass - 503,500
B20-5: Shawn Farley - 119,000
B20-6: Geert Jans - 728,500
B20-7: Russ Silva - 50,500
B20-8: Tyron Krost - 212,000
B20-9: Dan Assor - 658,500

B21-1: Alan Gould - 464,500
B21-2: David Olson - 219,500
B21-3: Paul Leckey - 114,000
B21-4: Daniel Fechser - 170,500
B21-5: Dominik Kulicki - 134,500
B21-6: Adam York - 240,500
B21-7: Joe Brandenburg - 99,500
B21-8: Andrew Rosskamm - 465,000
B21-9: Ryan Eber - 231,500

B23-1: Vito Branciforte - 564,500
B23-2: Chris Anzivino - 267,500
B23-3: Bruce Hyde - 200,000
B23-4: Ben Roberts - 200450
B23-5: Mark Wilds - 152,500
B23-6: Kevin Schaffel - 393,500
B23-7: Jeffrey Anderson - 462,000
B23-8: Brent Sheirbon - 395,000
B23-9: Craig Goodling - 80,000

B25-1: Andy Armstrong - 113,000
B25-2: Patrick Fortin - 227,500
B25-3: Eetu Vehilainen - 105,000
B25-4: Aaron Gordon - 371,500
B25-5: Gert Anderson - 214,500
B25-6: Kellen Hunter - 210,500
B25-7: Chan Do - 160,000
B25-8: Jani Vilmunen - 361,000
B25-9: Jerry Martin - 111,000

B26-1: William Purle - 367,000
B26-2: Alberto Fontrytzner - 489,000
B26-3: Jason Su - 555,000
B26-4: Andre Johnstone - 443,500
B26-5: Matthew Calhoun - 174,000
B26-6: Lou Esposito - 302,000
B26-7: Peter Eastgate - 253,500
B26-8: Clint Schafer - 544,000
B26-9: Leo Wolpert - 253,500

B28-1: Brent Roberts - 182,000
B28-2: Joe Bolnick - 258,000
B28-3: Jeffrey Papola - 295,500
B28-4: Nghia Le - 323,000
B28-5: Tim West - 63,500
B28-6: Darren Grant - 101,500
B28-7: Brian Schaedlich - 22,000
B28-8: Robert Georato - 747,000
B28-9: Michael Pedley - 323,500

B30-1: Kirill Gerasimov - 146,500
B30-2: Karen Manfrede - 222,500
B30-3: Bernard Brady - 288,500
B30-4: Denys Drobyna - 34600
B30-5: Gus Hansen - 355,000
B30-6: Tom Hanlon - 140,500
B30-7: Danny Mitnick - 265,500
B30-8: Chris Overgard - 276,500
B30-9: Larry Wright - 452,000

B31-1: Jason McCarty - 130,500
B31-2: Daniel Buzgon - 86,000
B31-3: Jose Baeza - 107,000
B31-4: Keoni Schwartz - 286,500
B31-5: Zafar Aslam - 143,500
B31-6: Mark Vos - 468,000
B31-7: Iwan Jones - 67,500
B31-8: Peter Hedlund - 146,500
B31-9: Dwayne Stacey - 144,000

B33-1: Geoffrey Herzog - 216,500
B33-2: Michael Ortlieb - 121,500
B33-3: Shawn Pilot - 26600
B33-4: Mark Velloney - 163,500
B33-5: Paul Lieu - 455,500
B33-6: Brian Tatum - 224,500
B33-7: Thayer Rasmussen - 394,000
B33-8: Christian Oman - 209,000
B33-9: Diren Yildiz - 236,000

B35-1: Neil Sweeting - 277,000
B35-2: Steven Rosen - 157,000
B35-3: Thomas Keller - 294,000
B35-4: Reagan Silber - 355,500
B35-5: Mike Matusow - 438,500
B35-6: Robert Hwang - 253,000
B35-7: Cornel Pazai - 515,500
B35-8: Keith Hawkins - 148,500
B35-9: Jamie Rosen - 576,000

B36-1: Mike Bertolini - 157,000
B36-2: Patrick Zamarian - 92,500
B36-3: Maya Geller-Antonius - 245,000
B36-4: Peter Wesselius - 101,500
B36-5: Lonnie Heimowitz - 537,500
B36-6: Greg Peters - 123,000
B36-7: Allen Carter - 300,000
B36-8: Nathan Mullen - 94,500
B36-9: Jamal Sawaqdeh - 201,000

B38-1: Brad Hood - 161,500
B38-2: Phongthep Thiptinnakon - 333,000
B38-3: Tom Cope - 377,000
B38-4: Thamir Akrawi - 153,000
B38-5: Nick Voyatzis - 263,000
B38-6: Nicholas Sliwinski - 575,000
B38-7: Oliver Busquet - 100,500
B38-8: Joshua Norris - 141,000
B38-9: Israel Hodara - 130,000

B40-1: Ronald Adams - 348,500
B40-2: Jason Newburger - 156,500
B40-3: Steve Davis - 117,500
B40-4: Ryan Milisits - 579,500
B40-5: Brandon Cantu - 710,000
B40-6: Kevin Lang - 143,000
B40-7: Pat P Callaghan - 308,500
B40-8: Martin El-Kher - 155,000
B40-9: Tai Nguyen - 186,000

B41-1: Chris Crilly - 369,000
B41-2: Phidias Georgiou - 404,000
B41-3: Fredrik Halling - 115,000
B41-4: Ken Holcombe - 34,500
B41-5: Max Troy - 76,000
B41-6: Steven Landfish - 764,500
B41-7: Justin Sadauskas - 401,000
B41-8: Raja Kattamuri - 568,000
B41-9: Devin Porter - 52,000

B43-1: Igor Ioffe - 266,000
B43-2: Tony Clark - 204,500
B43-3: Ylon Schwartz - 554,000
B43-4: Pawel Andrzejewski - 340,000
B43-5: Stephen Kenna - 354,000
B43-6: Jeff Bryan - 52,000
B43-7: Edward Zane - 399,000
B43-8: Tim Loecke - 499,500
B43-9: Sean David - 233,500

B45-1: Jamal Kunbuz - 598,000
B45-2: Clifton Allen - 178,500
B45-3: Aaron Lerner - 155,500
B45-4: Fokke Beukers - 142,500
B45-5: Mauro Lupo - 423,500
B45-6: George Rahme - 369,500
B45-7: Jeffrey Frye - 470,500
B45-8: Paul Kitsos - 261,500
B45-9: Andrew Teng - 486,500

B46-1: Garth Paul - 456,500
B46-2: Trevor Reardon - 75,000
B46-3: Frank Russo - 145,500
B46-4: Allen Cunningham - 386,500
B46-5: John Goesen - 575,000
B46-6: Evan McNiff - 109,500
B46-7: Melvin Lowe - 55,000
B46-8: Theodore Harris - 170,000
B46-9: Shane Pacheco - 467,000

B48-1: Comuelo Navamo - 43,000
B48-2: Justin Wald - 187,500
B48-3: Neville Robbeson - 85,000
B48-4: George McKeever - 92,500
B48-5: Brandon Becker - 347,000
B48-6: Hunter Frey - 204,500
B48-7: Robert Ford - 701,000
B48-8: Jerry Cusick - 337,000
B48-9: Mike Blocksidge - 456,000

B50-1: Robert Wood - 242,500
B50-2: Dave Colclough - 140,000
B50-3: Anthony Meeker - 398,000
B50-4: Tim Taylor - 358,000
B50-5: Rafael Caiaffa - 428,500
B50-6: Marc Tschirch - 150,500
B50-7: Mark Ketteringham - 950,000
B50-8: Hevad Khan - 338,500


Green Section

G02-1: Noah Kawashige - 76,000
G02-2: Alex Tinsley - 43,500
G02-3: Bernie Koerner - 155,000
G02-4: John Bowler - 104,000
G02-5: Hasan Habib - 326,000
G02-6: Morten Antonsen - 48,000
G02-7: Barry Leventhal - 600,000
G02-8: Rick Lowe - 81,000
G02-9: Kelly Kim - 376,000

G03-1: Mike Ngo - 235,500
G03-2: Everett Carlton - 144,000
G03-3: Matthew Beisner - 155,000
G03-4: Jasper Lee - 134,500
G03-5: Jose Martin - 215,500
G03-6: Alex Outhred - 326,000
G03-7: Darryl Ronconi - 302,000
G03-8: Charles Dolan - 87,000
G03-9: Peter Neff - 626,500

G04-1: Nathan Hays - 196,000
G04-2: Chino Rheem - 707,500
G04-3: Eric Bremond - 387,500
G04-4: Yde van Deutekom - 462,000
G04-5: Marco Marcon - 71,500
G04-6: Michelle Sainz - 173,500
G04-7: Mark Radoja - 362,000
G04-8: Peter Biebel - 439,000
G04-9: Eric Thompkins - 148,000

G05-1: Bob Whalen - 366,500
G05-2: Chris Bjorin - 40,500
G05-3: Bill Seber - 328,000
G05-4: Matt Lessinger - 268,000
G05-5: Nicholas Keegan - 10300
G05-6: Larry Bernstein - 158,000
G05-7: Bob Coor - 144,000
G05-8: Shahram Sheikhan - 724,000
G05-9: Josh Chait - 318,000

G06-1: Dale Andrews - 135,000
G06-2: Hugo Navarrete - 86,500
G06-3: Michael Schnabel - 130,000
G06-4: Damien Creurer - 281,000
G06-5: Jeremy Joseph – 1,458,000 - Chip leader
G06-6: Kenneth Lee - 79,500
G06-7: Michael Graffeo - 193,500
G06-8: Ed Aister - 289,500
G06-9: Will Brewin - 121,500

G07-1: Jeremiah Smith – 1,079,500
G07-2: Chad Layne - 382,000
G07-3: Tom Cummins - 177,500
G07-4: Nick Rampone - 148,500
G07-6: Albert Kim - 422,000
G07-7: Lisa Parsons - 230,000
G07-8: Justin Scott - 541,500
G07-9: Felix Osterland - 361,500

G08-1: Chase Madden - 159,500
G08-2: Jon Friedberg - 426,000
G08-3: Charalampos Tsaoussis - 52,500
G08-4: Anthony Zinno - 528,000
G08-5: Phi Nguyen - 645,000
G08-6: William Burdick - 249,000
G08-7: Bertrand Grospellier - 181,500
G08-9: Doug Ashmore - 358,000

G09-1: Gary Friedlander - 136,500
G09-3: Travis Cook - 110,500
G09-4: Evan Jarvis - 366,500
G09-5: Paulo Loureiro - 114,000
G09-6: Jim Dalessandro - 208,500
G09-7: Ross Smith - 196,500
G09-8: Chris Barrile - 873,500
G09-9: Lanini Davor - 635,000

G10-1: Cory Albertson - 260,000
G10-2: Jose Barbero - 272,500
G10-3: Aaron Keay - 341,000
G10-4: Brian Eckstrom - 156,000
G10-5: Deng Dong - 480,000
G10-6: Paul Vicary - 112,500
G10-7: Ray Henson - 358,500
G10-8: Dragoslav Timarac - 71,000

Orange Section

O01-1: Leo Fernandez - 346,500
O01-2: David Naimark - 66,500
O01-3: Chris Zapf - 112,500
O01-4: Scott Carpenter - 87,000
O01-5: Doron Malinasky - 247,500
O01-6: Kristian Obbarius - 309,500
O01-7: Karle Wilson - 785,000
O01-8: Dean Hamrick - 374,000
O01-9: Frankie O'Dell - 339,000

O03-1: Evelyn Ng - 414,500
O03-2: JR Reiss - 207,000
O03-3: Kevin Mason - 770,500
O03-4: Andres Alvarez - 54400
O03-5: Terry Lade - 500,000
O03-6: David Baker - 195,000
O03-8: Clayton Newman - 168,000
O03-9: Adam Schwartz - 133,000

O04-1: Niklas Flisberg - 219,500
O04-2: Leonard Nicoletta - 124,000
O04-3: Nikolay Losev - 557,500
O04-4: Mirza Nagji - 91,500
O04-5: Saide Raymond - 134,500
O04-6: Veronica Dabul - 223,500
O04-7: Banh Le - 155,000
O04-8: Chip Jett - 318,500
O04-9: Chad Freid - 210,000

O06-1: Kyle Carlston - 932,500
O06-2: Andy Goetsch - 157,500
O06-3: Joanne Monteavaro - 45,000
O06-5: Alfredo Fernandez - 480,500
O06-6: Steve Pestal - 271,500
O06-7: Peter Aiello - 61,000
O06-8: Steven Goosen - 298,500
O06-9: Nichlas Mattsson - 103,000

O07-1: Marc Fineman - 411,000
O07-2: Richie Owens - 114,500
O07-3: Aditya Agarwal - 222,000
O07-4: Joseph Ward - 141,000
O07-5: Eric Kesselman - 214,000
O07-6: Hoyt Corkins - 439,500
O07-7: Paul Kristoffersson - 347,500
O07-8: Tracy Scala - 368,000
O07-9: Stefan Mattsson - 169,500

O09-1: Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 931,000
O09-3: Anton Nikaj - 223,000
O09-4: Jeff Madsen - 349,000
O09-5: Egerton Bullock - 232200
O09-6: Mike Wattel - 89,000
O09-7: Glenn Cozen - 112,500
O09-8: Steven de Vries - 82,500
O09-9: Greg Byard - 253,500

O10-1: James McManus - 875,000
O10-2: Mark Owens - 466,500
O10-3: Raul Paez - 212,000
O10-4: Anthony Scherer - 299,500
O10-5: Andreas Martens - 104,500
O10-6: Shahram Rastegari - 337,500
O10-7: Johnny Chan - 252,000
O10-8: Tracey Nguyen - 476,500
O10-9: Alana Morin - 374,500

O12-1: Ed Fernandez - 251,500
O12-2: Phillip Liou - 185,500
O12-3: Sylvain Coeur - 300,500
O12-4: Jason Riesenberg - 141,000
O12-5: Paul Snead - 506,000
O12-6: Gary Berbiglia - 13,000
O12-7: Andy Witek - 261,000
O12-9: Stephane Hornet - 194,000

O13-1: Haysam Chiniara - 79,500
O13-2: Sigurd Eskeland - 399,500
O13-3: Dustin Holmes - 734,000
O13-4: Joe Bishop - 247,500
O13-5: Jon Turner - 726,500
O13-6: JP Kelly - 217,000
O13-7: Lawrence Jacobs - 141,500
O13-8: Adam Schoenfeld - 200,000
O13-9: David Angel - 164,000

O15-1: Justin St John - 99,000
O15-3: Alexander Kostritsyn - 887,000
O15-4: Tom Schaffer - 49,500
O15-5: Moon Kim - 127,000
O15-6: Santeri Valikoski - 366,000
O15-7: Minna Ritakorpi - 178,000
O15-8: Jonathan Plens - 546,000
O15-9: Samir Shakhtoor - 405,000

O16-1: Joel Fischbein - 275,500
O16-2: Alexander Borteh - 615,500
O16-3: Scott Zakheim - 76,000
O16-4: Thierry van den Berg - 170,500
O16-5: Keith Ferrera - 578,000
O16-6: Stephen Giufre - 168,500
O16-7: Mark Weil - 119,000
O16-8: Art Tanimoto - 127,000
O16-9: Jason Lester - 100,000

O22-1: Huyen Vo - 224,000
O22-2: Graddus Terwiss Cha Van - 318,000
O22-3: Randy Benton - 176,000
O22-4: Hai Bo Chu - 453,500
O22-6: James Mills - 757,000
O22-7: Aleksandar Rasic - 35,000
O22-8: Cedric Kolstad - 217,000
O22-9: Andrew Brokos - 566,500

O28-1: Robert Mizrachi - 138,000
O28-2: Danny Fuhs - 320,000
O28-3: Jiri Hlavaty - 235,000
O28-4: Marcelo Dabus - 159,000
O28-5: Steve Billirakis - 124,000
O28-6: Salomon Sutton - 225,500
O28-7: Cliff Josephy - 59,000
O28-8: William Soffin - 294,500
O28-9: Tri Nguyen - 370,000

O34-1: Greg Duros - 182,500
O34-2: David Kronick - 66,500
O34-3: Diogo Borges - 500,000
O34-4: Joshua Freeman - 93,500
O34-5: Soren Petersen - 51,500
O34-6: Jolyne Thompson - 84,500
O34-7: Pat Poels - 257,500
O34-8: Mike Purdy - 361,000
O34-9: Bill Blanda - 347,000

O40-1: Billy Pilossoph - 75,000
O40-2: Peter Traply - 828,000
O40-3: Victor Ramdin - 471,000
O40-4: Frank Browne - 145,000
O40-5: Pontus Khosravi - 225,000
O40-6: Thomas Cargill - 139,000
O40-7: Greg Jamison - 173,000
O40-8: Stuart Hosen - 102500

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

Scott Zakheim Eliminated

We've heard several "All In and Calls" in hand #1 of Day 4, and here's one of them.

Under the gun, Scott Zakheim shoves for his last 75,500 and Stephen Giufre calls.

Scott: {K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}
Stephen: {A-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}

Board: {A-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{6-Spades}

Zakheim is one of our first bustouts today.

Greg Peters Eliminated

On one of the very first hands of play at his table, Greg Peters got his remaining chips all in preflop holding {A-Clubs} {K-Spades} vs. Lonnie Heimowitz's {8-Diamonds} {8-Clubs}. Heimowitz had Peters well covered.

The flop was {Q-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds}.

"Ace, king, jack!" called Peters, praying for one of his outs to hit.

The turn, though was the {6-Hearts}, the river was the {9-Diamonds} and Peters was eliminated.

Heimowitz is now up to 660,000.

Tags: Greg PetersLonnie Heimowitz

Refer to Your Tournament Director's Handbook

No doubt quite a few players were out last night celebrating the fact that they cashed in the Main Event. One such player is sitting at Table 6 and looking a little green around the gills, and he asked the dealer, "If I throw up on the table, is that a penalty?"

Russ Silva Doubles Through Jason Glass

Jason Glass opened from middle position with a raise to 12,500. Russ Silva moved all in from the cutoff seat for 50,000 total and when action folded back to Glass, he made the call. The players showed:

Silva: {A-Hearts} {K-Diamonds}
Glass: {K-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}

The board helped neither player as it came {10-Spades} {7-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {3-Hearts} and Silva doubled up to just over 110,000 chips leaving Glass with around 450,000.

Tags: Jason GlassRuss Silva

David Kronick Busts

All in preflop, Joshua Freeman has {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts} and David Kronick has {3-Spades}{2-Hearts}. The board is {9-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{10-Spades}. Freeman has 160,000.

Kronick is eliminated.

"He's either got a tee time or just wanted two live cards," says another player at the table.