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World Series Of Poker
2006 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout Result 16th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 25 (3 day event)
Entries -- 600
(780)
Buy-in -- $2,000
Prize Pool -- $1,109,035
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David "Dragon" Pham
(Cerritos, CA, USA)
wins $240,222 and
his bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
David "Dragon" Pham
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CA |
$240,222 |
| 2 |
Charles E Sewell
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OK |
$124,488 |
| 3 |
Roland de Wolfe
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London |
$65,520 |
| 4 |
Jerald
Williamson |
CA |
$49,140 |
| 5 |
Chad Layne |
NV |
$43,680 |
| 6 |
Jason Dewitt |
CA |
$38,220 |
| 7 |
David Bach |
GA |
$32,760 |
| 8 |
Dustin Woolf |
CA |
$32,760 |
| 9 |
Adam Kagin |
NV |
$21,840 |
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| 11 |
Kathy Liebert |
$16,380 |
| 20 |
Mike Sexton |
$4,805 |
| 23 |
Captain Tom Franklin |
$4,805 |
| 25 |
Carlo Citrone |
$4,805 |
| 48 |
Josh Arieh |
$4,805 |
| 49 |
Todd Brunson |
$4,805 |
| 52 |
Marcel Luske |
$4,805 |
| 56 |
James Woods |
$4,805 |
| 59 |
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson |
$4,805 |
| 62 |
Layne Flack |
$4,805 |
| 81 |
Chau Giang |
$4,805 |
| 93 |
John Duthie (London) |
$4,805 |
| 99 |
Jeff Shulman |
$4,805 |
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| Key
Facts |
100 places paid.
Vietnamese-born poker champ collects $240,222 top prize in No-Limit Hold-em
Shootout
Las Vegas, NV - If America is the 'land of opportunity,' then
poker is the amphitheater for fast-track success. The green felt provides equal
opportunity for just about everyone to become rich and famous. Things which are
important to the rest of society - such as race, religion, age, sex, education,
language skills, family ties, personal background, and job title - have
absolutely no bearing on who wins or loses at the poker table. Indeed, poker is
the most 'democratic' of all games. Short, tall, skinny, fat, black, white,
male, female - none of these things matter when the cards are dealt.
David 'Dragon' Pham arrived in the United States at the age of 17.
During the mid-1980s, he was one of many Vietnamese immigrants who left
everything behind in search of a better life. They crammed into small lifeboats
which floated around the South China Sea for days, before being rescued and
brought to the United States.
Pham eventually settled down in the Los
Angeles area and worked a number of low-wage jobs before being introduced to
the game of poker by his cousin. Pham-s cousin had won several major poker
tournaments and was quite well-known within the local Vietnamese-American
community. He even shared some of his prize money with family members. The
cousin-s name was Men 'the Master' Nguyen.
Pham started playing poker
about ten years ago, and tutored by his mentor 'the Master,' he gradually
improved his game. Before long, Pham was one of the best tournament players in
poker. Pham got so good so fast, that he won Card Player magazine-s 'Player of
the Year' in 2002. Pham was anointed as 'the Dragon,' an odd nickname
considering that Pham is one of the calmest and most polite poker players on
the tournament circuit. Prior to this year, Pham won his only WSOP gold
bracelet back in 2001, in the S.H.O.E. championship, a contest of four
different games.
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, presented by
Milwaukee-s Best Light, Pham was one of 600 players who paid $2,000 each to
enter the No-Limit Hold-em Shootout. It took two days to eliminate 590
competitors. That left ten players to return for the third day to compete for
the championship.
Since the finale was a shootout format, this meant
every player at the final table arrived with the exact same number of chips.
Although there were some tough competitors amongst the final ten, David Pham
had to like his chances in this field. He was the only previous WSOP gold
bracelet winner of the final ten players.
by Nolan
Dalla |
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