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World Series Of Poker
2006 $1,000 Seniors - No Limit Hold'em Result 12th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 19 (2 day event)
Entries -- 1184
(825)
Buy-in -- $1,000
Prize Pool -- $1,184,000
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Clare Miller
(Alamogordo, NM, USA)
wins $247,814 and
her
bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
Clare Miller |
NM |
$247,814 |
| 2 |
Mike Nargi |
NV |
$129,293 |
| 3 |
Jake Wells |
IL |
$74,882 |
| 4 |
Judy Carlson |
CO |
$53,872 |
| 5 |
Dave Claiborne
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ID |
$43,098 |
| 6 |
Ron Rose |
OH |
$37,710 |
| 7 |
Doug Schuller |
CA |
$32,323 |
| 8 |
Stan Schrier |
NV |
$26,936 |
| 9 |
John Vorhaus |
CA |
$24,242 |
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| 38 |
Jay Heimowitz |
$4,310 |
| 45 |
Eric Dalby (London) |
$4,310 |
| 68 |
John Bonetti ( |
$2,155 |
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| Key
Facts |
103 places paid.
77-Year-Old Clare Miller Wins Seniors World Poker Championship. New Mexico
grandmother is first woman to ever win seniors event, during week of her 41st
wedding anniversary
Las Vegas, NV – There was a point very late in
the 2006 Seniors World Poker Championship when tournament officials approached
the surviving players and offered them the option of calling it a night and
returning the next day. The seniors had played two lengthy, grueling days
during which more than a thousand players had been eliminated. Amongst the nine
exhausted survivors, there were some weary faces. When the tournament director
approached 77-year old Clare Miller, her answer was uncompromising and to the
point. “Deal the cards, we’re playin’!” she snapped.
Poker is a natural pastime for all seniors. It very well may be the
only competitive game which allows persons 50, 60, 70, or even 80-years and
older to compete on an equal playing field with younger players in their 20s
and 30s. Where else but a poker table could a 77-year-old grandmother become a
“world champion?”
Poker not only affords opportunities for
seniors to compete and win. More important, poker brings people of all walks of
life together in a friendly social atmosphere. Many friendships are built
around poker tables. Kuei Chi Chang, an 80-year-old woman from Las Vegas, who
competed in her first-ever poker tournament at the World Series of Poker last
week, said it best: “Poker makes me feel young again.”
This
year’s Seniors World Poker Championship was the largest such competition
ever in poker history. In a World Series which continues to shatter every
conceivable record ever posted in poker, 1,184 players flooded into the Rio Las
Vegas to compete for over a million dollars in prize money, including first
place -- $247,814 in cash. The event began with a solemn moment. The roll call
of names from poker’s glorious past were called out over a silent room
packed to full capacity. Poker’s proud pioneers were remembered --
including Benny Binion, Johnny Moss, and Puggy Pearson who passed away only a
few months ago. “Oklahoma Johnny” Hale was the perfect host for the
proceedings. As the event’s Grand Marshall, Hale inducted two new members
into the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame. Mike “the Mad Genius” Caro and
Paul McKinney were introduced in a brief ceremony.
With that, the
senior’s event began. The competition was open to persons aged 50 and
older. The event attracted an eclectic mix of poker players. Paul McKinney,
last year’s 82-year-old seniors champion (and the latest inductee into the
Seniors Poker Hall of Fame) was on hand to defend his title. Jan Fisher, the
popular writer and columnist for Card Player magazine entered, along with her
father, Dr. Peter Fisher. The Fisher’s participation likely marked the
first time that a father and daughter played together in the seniors
championship. Also, a husband and wife from Alamogordo, New Mexico entered the
tournament. Shelby Miller would outlast all but 39 players in this event. His
wife, Clare Miller would ultimately fare much better.
Clare Miller was
overjoyed with her victory. She broke into tears and her voice quivered as she
experienced the thrill of a lifetime. Afterward, Miller told her own personal
story that she and her husband had struggled in their earlier years together.
Through a lot of hard work and love, the couple built a few businesses and
eventually became quite successful. In their retirement years they turned to
poker as an activity they could play and enjoy together. The fact that Mr.
Shelby Miller finished 40th in the same tournament was clear evidence that this
would be the Miller’s day. Fittingly, the happy couple is celebrating
their 41st wedding anniversary this week. Miller put everything into proper
perspective when she was presented with the coveted WSOP gold bracelet and
prize money totaling nearly a quarter-of-a-million dollars. “We are very
lucky and live very comfortably now, so at this stage the bracelet is probably
more important,” she said. “But they don’t mean anything
compared to my 41-years with Shelby.”
by Nolan
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