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World Series Of Poker
2006 $2,500 No Limit Holdem Short Handed Result 13th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 21 (3 day event)
Entries -- 740
(548)
Buy-in -- $2,500
Prize Pool -- $1,702,000
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William Chen
(Lafayette Hill, PA, USA)
wins $442,511 and
his 2nd bracelet this week |
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Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
William Chen |
PA |
$442,511 |
| 2 |
Nath Pizzolatto
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TX |
$238,280 |
| 3 |
Michael Guttman
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Melbourne |
$139,564 |
| 4 |
Dan Hicks |
FL |
$107,226 |
| 5 |
Alex Bolotin |
NY |
$78,292 |
| 6 |
Harry Demetriou
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London |
$58,719 |
| 7 |
Harold Cohen |
CA |
$48,507 |
| 8 |
Peter Jetter |
ON |
$43,401 |
| 9 |
Gregg Merkow |
TX |
$38,295 |
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| 16 |
Phil Gordon |
$14,467 |
| 30 |
Joe Beevers |
$8,085 |
| 45 |
Jim McManus |
$5,957 |
| 51 |
Farzad Bonyadi |
$5,957 |
| 54 |
David "C4" Plastik |
$5,957 |
| 59 |
Jonathan Gaskell (Wigan, GB) |
$4,255 |
| 66 |
Richard Ashby (Watford, GB) |
$4,255 |
| 74 |
Tom Birmingham (Bristol, GB) |
$2,127 |
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Facts |
74 places paid.
Bill
Chen Wins Second WSOP Gold Bracelet This Week
Las Vegas, NV - It's a
peculiar thing that our culture gives far greater attention to the peripheral
things than those which are genuine. We bestow our highest adulation on the
rich, the famous, and the beautiful. Everywhere you look - be it magazines,
newspapers, television, or the Internet - pop idols are the focus. It's one
reason why athletes and movie stars make hundreds of times more money than
school teachers.
When surveys are taken and school children are asked
who they most admire and respect - it's usually a celebrity. Not a scientist,
or an academic, or a philosopher. Can anyone name any of last year's Nobel
Prize winners? Probably not. But we certainly know all the latest celebrity
gossip. Society's warped sense of what constitutes 'value' will almost
certainly produce catastrophic consequences down the road. In the meantime, we
must do what we can to recognize the real extraordinary talents amongst us who
stand out above the rest in the ways that really matter.
If mental
endowment was the sole basis for being rich and famous, then Bill Chen would be
a combination of Donald Trump and Paris Hilton. The quantitative analyst for
Susquehanna (a highly-successful financial services firm founded by poker
players) holds a PhD in mathematics from Cal-Berkeley. With all respect to
other scholarly powerhouses in the game of poker, such as Chris 'Jesus'
Ferguson (hold a PhD from UCLA) and Andy Bloch (a graduate of MIT and Harvard
Law School), Chen may very well be the most brilliant mind in the game today.
And now, he is experiencing a huge personal breakthrough Most poker
players would be thrilled to win a WSOP gold bracelet once in a lifetime. Bill
Chen is currently winning two bracelets -- a week. Chen demolished a
highly-competitive field of 740 players in the Short-Handed World Poker
Championship. It came just seven days after he won his first gold bracelet in
the $3,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em championship (good for $343,618).
Played six to a table, short-handed hold'em magnifies strengths and
weaknesses. Simply put, there is no opportunity to sit around and wait for big
cards and good hands. Short-handed poker forces the player into making more
decisions, which are by circumstance tougher decisions. This format naturally
favors those players with the best analytical abilities.
After 731
players were eliminated over the first two days of the tournament, Chen walked
over the final table in a relatively swift four and a half hours - the quickest
final table yet at this year's World Series of Poker presented by Milwaukee's
Best Light. Chen made it look almost too easy. Chen's victory is even more
remarkable for the fact that he was at a sizable chip disadvantage from the
start - ranked fifth out of six finalists. The chip leader, Michael Guttman
arrived fresh off his second-place finish in the Pot-Limit Omaha championship,
held three days ago.
Poker players everywhere will get a chance to
learn more about Chen's poker secrets in his new book, 'The Mathematics of
Poker,' co-written with Jerrod Ankenman. It's scheduled to be released soon. If
book sales might be helped by Chen's win last week, they will certainly get an
even bigger lift from this second win.
by Nolan
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