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2008 WSOP Event 17 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
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Event 17 -- No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1
Event 17 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout had a lot of players show up for it as it sold out completely! Some of the recognizable faces in the crowd
were Jesper Hougaard, David Singer,
Nenad Medic, Kenna James, Robert Varkonyi, Phil Gordon,
Gavin Smith, Tim Vance, Lee Watkinson,
Hoyt Corkins, Humberto Brenes, Daniel Negreanu, John Phan, J.C. Tran, Phil Ivey,
Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Greg Mueller,
Carlos Mortensen, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Melissa Hayworth, Nam Le, Scott Freeman, Nick Binger, Michael Mizrachi,
Toto Leonidas,
Victor Ramdin, Josh Arieh, Shannon Shorr, Thor Hansen, Joe Sebok and Chad Brown. Whew!
The math was simple for this one, there were 1,000 entries, 100 will make the money and after
Day 1, 10 are left. Prize pool rose to $1,370,596 thanks to the $1,500 entry fee. Here are the payouts for the final table:
- $335,565.00
- $209,527.00
- $129,675.00
- $82,582.00
- $40,267.00
- $23,887.00
- $15,697.00
- $12,421.00
- $9,828.00
- $7,507.00
There were 1,000 players who sat down at 12 noon to begin this shootout tournament. It was brutal as
play ended at 7:00 am the next day! You had tons of top talent in the field, and no one wanted to
go out easy. The heads up between Kyle Bowker and Travis Roseberry took six hours to complete by
itself before Kyle finally hit two pair with all the chips to the middle in order to advance to
the next round.
Eliminations that occurred include Carlos Mortensen, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon,
Erick Lindgren,
Annie Duke, David Williams, J.C. Tran, Michael Binger, James Akenhead and Nenad Medic. Daniel
Negreanu was busted after his pocket 9's were crushed by the paired A's of his opponent. Steve Wong
is gone from the tables after meeting the pocket K's of Scott Fischman. Vanessa Rousso was visibly
upset after losing the balance of her stack to a player holding pocket Q's. Jennifer Tilly tried
to vanquish her opponent with pocket Q's, but it busted her instead as the other player paired his
Ace card. Nick Schulman
lost to the Queen kicker of Jeff Williams. Dmitri Nobles went to the sidelines after his K 10
failed against the other player with A Q. Michael Binger with two pair (Q's and 8's) lost out
to a larger two pair (Q's and J's) and ended up leaving his chair as a result.
The busts were happening so fast that this has to be on a percentage basis the quickest in WSOP
history. When the dust settled, there were 10 remaining for the final table. Now this was scheduled to be a 3 day event by the WSOP,
but it may be over tomorrow. The 10 victors will meet again on Tuesday at 2:00 pm to play again.
- Casey Coleman 300,000
- Matthew Giannetti 300,000
- Thomas West 300,000
- Rory Monahan 300,000
- Kyle Bowker 300,000
- John Strzemp III 300,000
- Mike Schwartz 300,000
- Sergey Rybachenko 300,000
- Jason Young 300,000
- Alexander Triner 300,000
Event 17 -- No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Final Table
Here are excerpts from the report written by the WSOP:
(Jason)
Young recently left his job to pursue playing poker for a living.
In his prior job, he worked for six years for the Parks and Recreation
Department, involved in various community projects. Young collected
$329,872 for first place. He remarked afterward: "When I worked as
a recreation coordinator, I made $35,000 a year. Now, I just made
ten years of my former salary in just two days!"
This was unquestionably the most dramatic final table of the WSOP thus far.
Young's victory almost did not happen. In fact, his cagey opponent –
Mike Schwartz – nearly pulled off the greatest recorded comeback in WSOP history.
When playing heads-up Schwartz lost a huge pot and was down about 40 to 1 in chips.
He had only 140,000 of the 10,000,000 chips in play (1.4 percent) with his big
blind posted at 120,000. Incredibly, Schwartz won several hands over the next
hour and was all-in down only about 7 to 3 in chips, holding the best hand.
Had he won the final hand of the tournament, Schwartz would have been at a 3 to
2 advantage in heads-up play.
The final hand pitted Schwartz' 4-4 against Young's A-J. Schwartz was about
to seize the chip lead, but an ace on the turn sealed the victory for the
first-time WSOP gold bracelet winner.
- Jason Young $335,565
- Mike Schwartz $209,527
- John Strzemp III $129,675
- Rory Monahan $82,582
- Matthew Giannetti $40,267
- Kyle Bowker $23,887
- Sergey Rybachenko $15,697
- Thomas West $12,421
- Alexander Triner $9,828
- Casey Coleman $7,507
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