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The World Poker Tour is a
weekly televised ( USA only at the moment ) series of thirteen poker
tournaments that are united under one banner for television. What makes the WPT
different is that it will film the most prestigious tournaments in an arena
specifically designed for television and air them during a regularly scheduled
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What Tournaments Are
Participating in the WPT? |
The WPT charter member
tournaments are: Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV; The Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles, CA;
Ultimatebet.com, Aruba; Casinos Europa Card Club, San Jose, Costa Rica;
Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, CT; Lucky Chances Casino, San Francisco,
CA; WPT Invitational (pro-celebrity event) hosted by Commerce Casino; Horseshoe
Casino/Gold Strike Casino, Tunica, MS; Aviation Club de France, Paris, France;
Commerce Casino, Los Angeles, CA; Reno Hilton, Reno, NV; PartyPoker.com,
Caribbean Cruise; WPT Championship hosted by Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV.
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The final event of the tour is the World Poker Tour Championship No
Limit Holdem, $25,000 + $300 buy-in. April 14-18 2003 at the Bellagio,
Las Vegas
Prize Pool $2,691,750 Entries 111 1. Gustavo Hanson 2.
Peter Costa 3 Chris Karagulleyan 4 Juna Helpi 5 Paul Darden 6 Howard Lederer 7
Erick Lindgren 8 Surrinder Sunar 9 Daniel Rentzner 10 Layne Flack 11 Dave
"Devilfish" Ulliott 12 Harry Demetriou 13 Chau Giang 14 Erik Seidel 15 Men
"Master" Nguyen 16 Andrew Bloch 17 Russell Rosenblum 18 John Juanda 19 Paul
Phillips 20 Bruce Erickson 21 Allen Cunningham 22 John Esposito 23 James
Hueppner 24 Phil Ivey 25 Steve Zolotow 26 Todd Brunson 27 Ben Roberts 28 David
Levi 29 Bob Stupak 30 Hieu "Tony" Ma 31 Ken Flaton 32 Daniel Negreanu 33 David
Chiu 34 Bill Gazes 35 David Pham 36 Barry Greenstein 37 Paul Magriel 38 Eli
Elezra 39 Jose Rosenkrantz 40 Stan Schrier 41 Chip Jett 42 Casey Kastle 43 Lyle
Berman 44 T. J. Cloutier 45 Chris Johanson 46 Lindsay Jones 47 Humberto Brenes
48 Ron Rose 49 Eskimo Clark 50 Francisco Fonsec 51 Derek Baxter 52 Chip Reese
53 Jim Bechtel 54 Doyle Brunson 55 Mike Vatan 56 Alex Brenes 57 Bruce Yamron 58
Scotty Nguyen 59 Jon Brody 60 Dewey Tomko 61 Barry Shulman 62 Jeff Shulman 63
Bruce Corman 64 Will Wilkinson 65 Vinnie Vinh 66 Bruno Fitoussi 67 Jason Gray
68 Gary Haubelt 69 Robin Keston 70 Jennifer Harman 71 Jaime Ateneloff 72 David
Plastik 73 Meng La 74 Randall Skaggs 75 Pat Callihan 76 Robert Williamson III
77 Marcel Luske 78 Kirill Gerasimov 79 Dr. Max Stern 80 Amir Vehidi 81 Jimmy
Tran 82 Noel Furlong 83 Larry Speck 84 Alan Goehring 85 Mark Edwards 86 Marko
Trapani 87 Martin Deknijff 88 Johnny Chan 89 Maureen Feduniak 90 Bob Feduniak
91 Brad Moss 92 Mark Rose 93 Mike Matusow 94 Annie Duke 95 Minh Ly 96 Alex
Gurevich 97 Tino Lechich 98 Richard Harroch 99 John Spadavecchia 100 Gary Jones
101 Lee Salem 102 John Hennigan 103 Daniel Harrington 104 Russ Hamilton 105 Ted
Forrest 106 Freddie Deeb 107 Jim McManus 108 Ronnie Ebanks 109 Huck Seed 110
Carlos Mortensen 111 Phil Helmuth |
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Result |
1 Alan Goehring Henderson,
Nv $1,011,886* 2 Kirill Gerasimov Moscow, Russia $506,625 3 Phil Ivey
Atlantic City, NJ $253,313 4 Doyle Brunson Las Vegas, Nv $159,987 5 Ted
Forrest Las Vegas, Nv $119,990 6 James Hoeppner Las Vegas, Nv $93,326 7
Derek Baxter London, England $66,661 8 Bruno "King" Fitoussi Paris, France
$53,329 9 Chau Giang Las Vegas, Nv $42,663 10 Layne Flack Las Vegas, Nv
$31,997 11 Bob Feduniak Las Vegas, Nv $31,997 12 Jimmy Tran Houston, Tx
$31,997 13 Allen Cunningham Marina Del Rey, Ca $26,664 14 Marcel Luske
Amsterdam, Netherlands $26,664 15 Martin DeKnijff Stockholm, Sweden $26,664
16 Dr. Max Stern Las Vegas, Nv $21,332 17 Jeff Shulman Las Vegas, Nv
$21,332 18 Will Wilkinson Pacheco, Ca $21,332 19 Meng La Los Angeles,
Ca $15,999 20 Phil Hellmuth Palo Alto, Ca $15,999 21 Robin Keston
London, England $15,999 22 Russell Rosenblum Bethesda, Md $15,999 23
Mark Rose Edna, Tx $15,999 24 Bruce Erickson Felton, Ca $15,999 25
Surinder Sunar Wolverhampton, England $15,999 26 Peter Costa
Leicestershire, England $15,999 TIE 27 Steve Zolotow Las Vegas NV $8,000 27
Casey Kastle Chicago IL $7,999
*Includes entry into $25,000 Buy-in
World Poker Tour Championship event April 19 - 23, 2004 |
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