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World Series Of Poker 2005 $1,500 No Limit Holdem Shootout Result
17th June |
LAS VEGAS June 2, 2005 July 15, 2005
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Players begin
with $1,500 in tournament chips. One player advances from each table of Rd 1 to
Rd 2. The number of players advancing from each Rd 2 table to the Final Table
will depend on the number of entries. |
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Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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1 |
Anthony Reategui
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Chandler, AZ |
$269,100
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2 |
Paul Kroh |
Battle Mountain,
NV |
$146,380
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3 |
Phil Gordon |
El Paso, TX |
$75,350 |
4 |
Young Phan |
Irvine, CA |
$64,585
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5 |
Kenny Robbins |
Las Vegas, NV |
$53,820 |
6 |
Ted Lawson |
Plantation, FL |
$43,055
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7 |
Dariush Imani |
Layton, UT |
$32,290 |
8 |
Allen
Goldstein |
Houston, TX |
$25,835
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9 |
Erick Lindgren
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Las Vegas, NV |
$20,450 |
10 |
Keith Quilty |
Las Vegas, NV |
$16,145
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Tie/14 |
Yevgeny
Kafelnikov |
Miami, FL |
$7,535
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Tie/14 |
Peter Costa |
Narborough,
Leicester |
$7,535 |
Tie/14 |
Kirill Gerasimov
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Moscow |
$7,535
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Report |
If Anthony
Reategui ever decides to quit playing poker for a living and start a business,
he might consider a career as a demolition man. He flattened a formidable final
table lineup in such convincing fashion, that the outcome was foreseeable even
when as many as seven players remained. When he busted his closest rival in
chips and gobbled up more than half the chips in play, it appeared the
remaining players were all competing for second place. Reategui effectively
busted seven of his nine opponents, making a shambles of their confidence and
leaving a wasteland where their chips once proudly rested.
Reateguis victory came in Event #16. The No-Limit Shootout
championship requires different skills than are required for standard poker
tournaments. In a shootout, the goal is to outlast all the players at your
table, much like the way a single-table satellite is played. The player who
wins his/her respective table moves on to play in the next shootout round,
until the final table takes place and the champion is determined. Each time a
new shootout begins, all players start with the same number of chips. So,
early chip leaders are insignificant in the grand scheme of
shootout strategy. Surviving, outlasting, and ultimately winning are the
goals.
The total prize pool amounted to $1,076,400. The final table
included one former gold bracelet winner Ted Lawson who won $500,000 in
the Pot-Limit Omaha championship last year.
Anthony Reagetui is a
29-year-old poker pro who was born in Chicago. However, he has spent most of
his life in the Phoenix area. He worked in a car wash before he discovered
poker six years ago. Since then, Reagetui has grinded out a steady income from
online poker games and casinos in and around Phoenix.
Most interesting
is the fact that Reagetui got his inspiration to enter the World Series from
Pat Poels, who won the Omaha High-Low championship (Event #4) at this
years tournament. Before, I used to think I was dead money in these
tournaments, Reagetui said. Then Pat (Poels) told me,
dont worry about it, youre a good player, youll get
there. So, I decided to play and got red hot in this event. And look,
here I am.
Asked about his plans for some of the $269,100 in
prize money, Reagetui says he intends to play more poker. The best thing
about winning is that I can stay in action longer. I can also play a bit
higher, now. I also told all my friends that if I won wed all go to
Hawaii. Thats like six or seven of us.
Official Report by Nolan
Dalla World Series of Poker Media Director |
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