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World Series Of Poker
2006 $5,000 7 Card Stud Result
19th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 28 (2 day event)
Entries -- 182 (192)
Buy-in -- $5,000
Prize Pool -- $855,400
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Benjamin Lin
(Rockville, MD, USA)
wins $256,620 and
his
bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
Benjamin Lin |
MD |
$256,620
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| 2 |
Shahram Sheikhan
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NV |
$171,080 |
| 3 |
Cyndy Violette
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NJ |
$102,648 |
| 4 |
Allen Kessler |
PA |
$76,986 |
| 5 |
Miami John Cernuto
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NV |
$55,601 |
| 6 |
Patrick Bueno |
Paris |
$38,493 |
| 7 |
Lupe Munquia |
TX |
$29,939 |
| 8 |
Mike Caro |
MO |
$21,385 |
| 9 |
Russell Salzer
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NY |
$12,831 |
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| 14 |
David Grey ( |
$12,831 |
| 16 |
Lonnie Heimowitz |
$12,831 |
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Facts |
16 places paid.
Maryland accountant thrashes all-star lineup at final table
Las
Vegas, NV – When play at the final table of the $5,000 buy-in Seven-Card
Stud championship became three-handed, a few bystanders glanced at the
remaining players up on the main stage at the Rio. They had the following
exchange:
Spectator1: Who’s left?
Spectator 2: I see Cyndy
Violette up there.
Spectator 1: Who else?
Spectator 2: There’s
Sean “Sheik” Sheikhan.
Spectator 1: What about the other guy?
Spectator 2: I don’t know. He’s just some other guy.
Benjamin Lin represents all the “other guys” who play poker.
He epitomizes many thousands of mostly-unknown names and faces who plow through
huge tournament fields, make final tables, yet are not given the attention and
admiration they probably deserve. While television and media focus mostly on
the poker superstars, many “other guys” (and ladies, too) are out
there day in and day out fighting for prize money and respect – not
necessarily in that order.
Three days ago, Benjamin Lin walked into the
Rio Las Vegas as a 31-year-old accountant from suburban Washington-DC, who
liked to play poker in his spare time. After winning the Seven-Card Stud
championship at the 2006 World Series of Poker, presented by Milwaukee’s
best Light, Lin is walking out of the Rio as the latest WSOP gold bracelet
winner. He pulverized a highly-competitive field of 182 entrants who each put
up five grand in what has become known as the “world championship” of
one of poker’s most long-established games.
After 174 players had
been eliminated over two days, eight players took the final table on the Rio
poker stage. The eight finalists comprised a formidable lineup. Two were former
WSOP gold bracelet winners – “Miami John” Cernuto with three
wins, and Cyndy Violette with one victory. This final table was exceptional for
at least one reason. Perhaps no single individual has done more for poker
during his lifetime than Mike ‘The Mad Genius” Caro. The former
hippie used to destroy lowball draw games that were popular in California
during the 1970s. Later, he started writing about poker and became one of the
game’s top theorists. Caro played against (and beat) a computer, devised
numerous strategies that helped thousands of poker players, and appeared on
national television numerous times as the game’s top spokesman. In the
1990s, he founded “Mike Caro University,” which held classes at the
Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles. Books, magazine articles, and seminars
turned losers into winners. Yet for all of his contributions to poker science
over the years, many newcomers still do not know of Caro’s profound impact
on the game.
Benjamin Lin took his place in the elite class of 396
players (out of over a 100 million worldwide) who have won a WSOP gold bracelet
over the entire 37-year history of the world’s premier poker spectacle.
Lin’s winnings amounted to $256,620. Winning an event at the World Series
changes everything. Perhaps the next time he makes it to a final table
heads-up, the conversation will now describe Benjamin Lin as a poker champion
– playing against the other guy.
Report by Nolan Dalla
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