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World Series Of Poker
2002 $3,000 Holdem (limit) Result |
LAS VEGAS
April 19th - May 24th, 2002 |
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| 30th April
- 155 (-19%) players. Prizepool $437,100 (-22%). 1st prize $174,840 (-22%).
Turnout well down on last year, which was down on the year before. Barney
Boatman makes another final table, the only non-US to cash.
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Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
John Hom |
CA |
$174,840 |
| 2 |
Benny Wan |
CA |
$87,420 |
| 3 |
Barry Greenstein
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CA |
$43,700 |
| 4 |
Doug Saab |
AL |
$26,220 |
| 5 |
David Plastik |
NV |
$19,660 |
| 6 |
Laumar Hampton
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FL |
$15,300 |
| 7 |
Mike Laing |
PA |
$10,920 |
| 8 |
David Enoch |
KS |
$8,740 |
| 9 |
Ron Stanley |
NV |
$7,000 |
| 10 |
Barney Boatman
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London |
$5,280 |
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| 11 - 12 |
Jesse Daniel,
Paul Kim |
$5,240 |
| 13 - 15 |
Jimmy Cha,
David Pham, John Pha |
$4,800 |
| 16 - 18 |
Daniel
Barnett, Lonnie Heimowitz, Tony Cousineau |
$4,380 |
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Players |
For the first
two hours everyone won a few hands except Barney Boatman, the man who has made
three finals in a row. There are lots of ways to win at poker. Mike Laing's
favorite way is to yak non-stop at an opponent until they commit suicide to get
away from him. But a strange thing happened to Mike's plan. He ran into a
couple of guys deaf to his strategy. Benny Wan, sitting to Laing's right in the
One Seat, was in his own world. The new player to Mike's left, Barry
Greenstein, was on a heater. And John Hom was too far away, in the Six Seat, to
be bothered too much by Mike's constant chatter. Laing turned into his own
worst enemy by >repeatedly raising the pot from early position and paying
off the better hand on the river. Rapidly Mike went from chip leader to low
stack. The Final Table suddenly grew much quieter when Laing went all-in with
10 9 and found pocket 9's in the big blind held by Benny Wan.
At the
three way point Barry Greenstein had over half the chips on the table. It would
have meant some long green for Barry if he'd offered the other two players a
chip count deal, but he didn't. After being so hot for so long, either Barry
went defensive to wait for one of the other two players to emerge as a heads up
opponent, or Greenstein suddenly got NO CARDS. Because three-handed Barry both
stopped playing and, of course, stopped winning. It was a disaster. In an
incredibly short time, the 2-1 chip leader had almost nothing. And this without
playing very many hands and winning almost none. Barry survived two all-ins
then lost the third to John Hom when Barry's Q 5 flopped a Queen, but Hom's A J
flopped a Jack. Barry Greenstein left in a stunned 3rd, and didn't get his
first WSOP bracelet.
Heads up, John Hom had a 5-3 chip and made an offer
to split that was accepted. Benny Wan almost came from worst to first. Still it
was the best effort in this year's WSOP--from 10th in chips at the start all
the way to 2nd place. Benny Wan played spectacularly. He started with less than
1/20th of the chips.
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