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World Series Of Poker 2002 $3,000 Holdem (Pot limit) Result |
LAS VEGAS April 19th - May 24th, 2002 |
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4th May -
175 (-23%) players. Prizepool $493,500 (-25%). 1st prize $197,400 (-19%).
Explain Holdem. Ferguson
creates the best battle so far. Read more. Jesus
moves up the winners
ladder. |
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Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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1 |
Fred Berger |
LA |
$197,400 |
2 |
Chris Ferguson
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CA |
$98,700 |
3 |
Brian McCann |
CA |
$49,340 |
4 |
Tom Schneider |
AZ |
$29,600 |
5 |
An Tran |
FL |
$22,200 |
6 |
Tony Cousineau
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FL |
$17,300 |
7 |
Danny Qutami |
CA |
$12,360 |
8 |
Dennis Waterman
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OR |
$9,860 |
9 |
Hylton Socher |
PA |
$7,900 |
10 |
Ken Flaton |
NV |
$5,920 |
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11 - 12 |
Jose Stawski,
David Levi |
$5,920 |
13 - 15 |
Randall
McCallum, Bobby Hoff, David Shu |
$5,420 |
16 - 18 |
Young Phan,
John Duthie, K.U Davis |
$4,940 |
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Key
Players |
The heads-up
battle lasted for three hours in which both sides went from 10-1 chip leader to
10-1 dog before the man from Louisiana, who had never previously played "pot",
beat the 2000 World Champion. Jesus tried to show him his superiority by
linking his three gold bracelets around his stetson. It didn't work.
How
Fred survived is the story of the tournament. Coming from 9th in chips to win
is the greatest performance of the year so far. And this by yet another WSOP
rookie playing a new game for the first time.
First, Fred said, "Last
hand" and threw in his chips with the J 2 of Clubs. Chris had pocket 7's. With
a Jack on the turn, Berger still had a slim chance to become King. Then came
the equalizer. Fred had lost all his money on pocket 3's. Maybe Chris Ferguson
waited one card too long to put Fred all-in on the next key hand. Chris had
Aces on the flop with A 7. When a 3 came on the turn, Ferguson went all-in.
Berger had pocket 3's again! And a set of 3's on the turn. Now Fred was in
business. Ferguson again may have waited too long (he will have to tell the
story from his viewpoint) on the pivotal hand. Chris had A K. Fred had A J. The
flop came Q J 6. Chris went all-in on the flop with only a King and a 10 as
outs. Now Ferguson had only $25,000 left. The last hand Fred Berger won with
King high. He was the Berger King |
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