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Event #3
Entries -- 2998 (2776)
Buy-in --
$1,500
Prize Pool -- $4,497,000
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Ciaran O'Leary
(Seattle, WA, USA)
wins $727,012 and
WSOP
bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
Ciaran O'Leary
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WA |
$727,012 |
| 2 |
Paul Evans |
CA |
$450,150 |
| 3 |
Alex Jacob |
Vegas |
$282,367 |
| 4 |
Jeffrey Yoak |
CA |
$184,152 |
| 5 |
Craig Crivello
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ZA |
$128,907 |
| 6 |
Andreas Krause
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Germany |
$94,122 |
| 7 |
Thad Smith |
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$73,661 |
| 8 |
Bart Hanson |
CA |
$55,246 |
| 9 |
Matthew Vengrin
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NY |
$43,378 |
| 10 |
Eric Baldwin |
WI |
$36,012 |
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| Other
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270 places paid
- 84th Darren Sprengers (United Kingdom) $6,548, 107th Roland de Wolfe (London)
$5,115, 127th Wai Kei Liu (United Kingdom) $4,706
Event #3 is the largest
non-WSOP main event poker tournament in history. The previous record was Event
#17 at the 2006 World Series of Poker. That event attracted 2,891 entries. This
year's first $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold championship destroyed the previous
record by 107 players. There were approximately 2600 entries and 400
alternates, for a combined field of 2,998 players. This ranks as the
third-largest poker tournament of all-time, behind the 2005 and 2006
championship (main) events. The winner was Ciaran O'Leary. The new champ is
originally from Ireland. He now lives in Seattle, WA. O'Leary has played at the
WSOP during six of the last ten years. However this was his first time ever to
cash. What a huge payout it turned out to be -- $727,012 for first place.
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