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World Series Of Poker
2006 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Result 17th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 26 (2 day event)
Entries -- 526
(291)
Buy-in -- $1,500
Prize Pool -- $789,000
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Ralph Perry
(Las Vegas, NV, USA)
wins $207,817 and
his
bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
Ralph Perry |
NV |
$207,817 |
| 2 |
George Abdallah
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TX |
$109,644 |
| 3 |
Brian Kocur |
MD |
$57,330 |
| 4 |
Luzhe Zhang |
Vienna |
$50,164 |
| 5 |
Ray Lynn |
VA |
$42,998 |
| 6 |
Spiros Mitrokostas
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MT |
$35,831 |
| 7 |
Frank Henderson
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TX |
$28,665 |
| 8 |
Jason Newburger
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IL |
$21,499 |
| 9 |
Russell Salzer
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NY |
$14,333 |
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| 19 |
David Williams |
$3,583 |
| 21 |
Berry Johnston |
$3,583 |
| 28 |
Donnacha O'Dea (Dublin) |
$2,508 |
| 35 |
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (Hull) |
$2,508 |
| 37 |
Kirill Gerasimov |
$2,150 |
| 43 |
Paul Jackson (Birmingham) |
$2,150 |
| 45 |
Miami John Cernuto |
$2,150 |
| 49 |
Men "The Master" Nguyen |
$1,792 |
| 54 |
Humberto Brenes |
$1,792 |
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| Key
Facts |
54 places paid.
Four
years after finishing third in the 2002 championship event, Perry finally
tastes victory
Las Vegas, NV - 'The Butterfly Effect' is common
expression which explains the unbreakable connection between all earthly
things. It was first coined several years ago as a scientific concept.
The question posed was, 'Does a butterfly flapping its wings in Kansas
create a typhoon in the South Pacific?' Since even a tiny butterfly affects the
air current with the flapping of its wings, it then follows that a storm cycle
months later and thousands of miles away is a distant by-product of the
butterfly's initial motion.
'The Butterfly Effect' also applies to
poker. Unfortunately, many fail to grasp its nuances. For instance, even the
most subtle actions affect the outcome of a poker tournament. Consider the fact
that any motion whatsoever - a laugh, a sneeze, or even the most ordinary of
common distractions - will cause a poker dealer to shuffle a deck of cards in a
slightly different way. Just one card out of place at any time, by consequence,
changes the entire sequence of cards which follow the rest of the tournament.
Since the actions of one table very likely are seen and heard by
players at adjoining tables, those secondary tables too, are affected by the
initial motion. Then, the next tables are affected also, and so on. Sure, poker
is a game of skill.
But it's also quite possible that an innocuous
chuckle by the player in Seat Five on Day One at Table 164 at the 2005 World
Series of Poker influenced the outcome of the biggest poker tournament in
history. Joe Hachem's victory was a combination of billions of figurative
butterfly wings flapping, combined with the talent to make a win possible.
Rafael 'Ralph' Perry was born in Russia. During his childhood, Perry's
family immigrated to Israel. At the age of 17, Perry arrived in the United
States. Perry's butterfly effect took place 15 years ago in Brooklyn, New York.
The 25-year-old was invited into a pool hall one night and discovered a poker
game going on in the back room. Perry decided to sit down in the game, and his
life was never the same after that.
'The game was Seven-Card Stud,'
Perry remembered fondly. 'I decided to play. I played for an hour. I ended up
winning like twenty dollars. I played every single hand I loved the game so
much.' After his win, Perry was invited by friends to go to a local card club
in Brooklyn, where he quickly became a regular player. When poker was legalized
in Atlantic City, Perry started playing there. Then, he heard about a place
where there were even more poker games - Las Vegas.
'When I first came
to Las Vegas, my intention was to get a job as a blackjack dealer. But, I never
had to go out and get a job,' Perry said. 'I started playing in low-limit stud
games. It was all I knew how to play. From that day forward, I started playing
stud.' One afternoon, Perry was sitting down inside a local cardroom where the
action was slow. 'I looked over at the next table and saw massive piles of
chips in the center of the table. The pots were monsters,' Perry said. 'I asked
the floorman, ‘what game is that?' He said, ‘Texas Hold'em.' I asked,
‘How do you play it?' They told me and I learned how to play.' Sure
enough, that second butterfly effect created a typhoon a few years later. Perry
won his way into the 2002 World Series of Poker's championship event and ended
up finishing third. 'I had a horrible WSOP up until the main event that year,'
Perry recalled. 'Then, I finished third and won half-a-million dollars. That
was the most money I ever had.'
Four long years have since passed since
Perry was thrust in the spotlight. He has made more than his share of cashes
and final tables in tournaments, but for all his financial success, Perry had
yet to earn a breakthrough tournament victory. That would all change on July
18, 2006.
by Nolan Dalla |
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