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World Series Of Poker
2006 $50,000 No Limit H.O.R.S.E Result 12th July |
LAS VEGAS
June 25 – August 10 2006
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Event # 20 (3 day event)
Entries -- 143
(new)
Buy-in -- $50,000
Prize Pool -- $7,150,000
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David "Chip" Reese
(Las Vegas, NV, USA)
wins $1,784,640 and
his 4th bracelet |
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| Pos. |
Player |
Origin |
Prize |
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| 1 |
David "Chip" Reese
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NV |
$1,784,640 |
| 2 |
Andrew Bloch |
NV |
$1,029,600 |
| 3 |
Phil Ivey |
NV |
$617,760 |
| 4 |
Jim Bechtel |
TX |
$549,120 |
| 5 |
T.J. Cloutier |
TX |
$480,480 |
| 6 |
David Singer |
NY |
$411,840 |
| 7 |
Dewey Tomko |
FL |
$343,200 |
| 8 |
Doyle Brunson |
NV |
$274,560 |
| 9 |
Patrik Antonius
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Helsinki |
$205,920 |
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| 10 |
Robert Williamson III |
$205,920 |
| 11 |
Gavin Smith |
$205,920 |
| 12 |
Barry Greenstein |
$205,920 |
| 13 |
Joe Cassidy |
$137,280 |
| 14 |
David Levi |
$137,280 |
| 15 |
Ralph Perry |
$137,280 |
| 16 |
Cong Do |
$137,280 |
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| Key
Facts |
16 places paid.
Poker
Legend Chip Reese Outlasts the Competition and Wins $1,784,640 in First WSOP
Victory in 24-Years
Las Vegas, NV - The latest World Series of Poker
match was a throwback to an earlier era when poker all was about seemingly
endless games, creaky bones, and weary faces. Card after card after card had
been tossed and turned and reshuffled again and again. Exhausted spectators who
had been standing and cheering hours earlier were now crashed around all sides
of the gallery. And in the middle of the darkened poker room, an overhead beam
illuminated a green felt table, anchored on each side by two aspiring
champions, their faces chiseled with determination.
It all began four
long days earlier. The biggest buy-in poker tournament on the planet took place
at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Consider that it cost
fifty grand -- more than the list price of a brand new Cadillac just to sit
down in the big game. The 20th event on the 2006 World Series of Poker schedule
attracted the toughest compilation of poker talent ever assembled inside one
arena. While the world championship main event is still two weeks away, a
spectacle that will shatter every previous record in poker history, this far
more exclusive competition proved to be the ultimate test of overall poker
skill.
Players played a rotation of poker's six most popular games -
symbolized in the acronym H.O.R.S.E. - which stands for Hold'em (both limit and
no-limit), Omaha High-Low Split, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, and Eight or Better. A
field of 143 of the world's best poker players competed over a grueling
four-day marathon, which became as much a test of mental and physical endurance
as poker skill. For instance, the first day took 14 hours to complete. The
second day was even longer. Day Two began at 12 noon and ended at 9:00 am the
next day. After playing 21 straight hours, the nine surviving players got some
well-deserved rest and returned for a final table which began at 9:00 pm on
Friday night.
The 2006 World Series of Poker presented by Milwaukee's
Best Light offered spectators and an ESPN television audience one of the most
extraordinary final tables ever assembled in the history of the game. The nine
players in the H.O.R.S.E. championship had previously won a whopping 27 WSOP
gold bracelets combined. Present were former world champions, living poker
legends, celebrity superstars, and a few aspiring younger champions who hoped
for a breakthrough victory.
The nine finalists in the event were as
follows:
SEAT 1: Jim Bechtel - 1993 World Series of Poker champion; one
WSOP gold bracelet
SEAT 2: Doyle Brunson - Inducted into the Poker Hall of
Fame; 1976 and 1977 World Series of Poker champion; ten WSOP gold bracelets
SEAT 3: David 'Chip' Reese - Inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame; three
WSOP gold bracelets
SEAT 4: Dewey Tomko - High-stakes poker player;
runner-up in the main event twice; three WSOP gold bracelets
SEAT 5: Andy
Bloch - Formally on the M.I.T. blackjack team immortalized in the book
'Breaking Vegas'; Harvard Law School graduate; successful winning poker player
for past ten years
SEAT 6: T.J. Cloutier - Former professional football
player; top tournament player in lifetime cashes, final table appearances, and
wins; six WSOP gold bracelets
SEAT 7: David Singer - Top tournament
professional with many cashes and millions won at the poker table
SEAT 8:
Patrik Antonius - Top European poker pro; many tournament cashes and wins
throughout Europe
SEAT 9: Phil Ivey - Superstar poker icon; five WSOP gold
bracelets
The final contest between Andy Bloch and Chip Reese posed two
gladiators of similar styles and character. Reese first arrived in Las Vegas
31-years ago, fresh out of college (Reese is a graduate of Dartmouth
University). He was on his way to attend law school in California, but instead
found his passion and talent for cards and gambling. Since 1974, Reese has won
tens of millions of dollars in high-stakes poker games and earned a
well-deserved reputation as the world's best all-around player.
Bloch
arrived in Las Vegas with a shorter, albeit similar story. Bloch graduated from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later earned his degree from
Harvard University Law School. Like Reese before him, Bloch opted to gamble
professionally rather than work in a more conventional career. He also shared
Reese's cerebral personality to a large extent - favoring substance over style,
tranquility over bravado, and contemplation over haste.
At 1:00 am, as
$1.7 million in cash was brought out to the table, no one in the audience nor
over the worldwide listening audience on the Bluff Radio Network (carried live
by Sirius) could possibly have forecasted the epic match that was to follow.
When the sun cracked over the horizon the following morning, the two contenders
were still sitting there face to face - thinking, planning, contemplating,
strategizing, and searching for the evasive holy poker grail that would pummel
the defiant into submission.
Together, they played an astonishing
300-plus hands heads-up, twice as many hands as it took to eliminate the first
seven players. At one point, spectators who had left the night before began
returning to the poker room again, and saw that neither player had yielded an
inch in the battle of endurance and psychology.
At precisely 9:12 am,
Chip Reece and Andy Bloch shattered a WSOP-record that many thought might never
be broken. In the 1983 main event, Tom McEvoy and Rod Peate battled for seven
straight hours. This epic duel clocked in at 7 hours, 6 minutes.
Bloch
started the duel with a slight chip lead. In fact, he held the lead during most
of the match. At one point, Bloch enjoyed a better than 3 to 1 chip advantage.
Bloch had his opponent all-in a few times, but was never able to finish off the
resilient Reese. On one occasion, Reese was extremely lucky catching a miracle
card to make an inside straight to defy the odds stacked against him. Another
time, Reese caught a flush to survive.
The poker game of all poker
games finally ended when Reese had seized the chip lead midway through the
morning and pushed all-in before the flop with ace-queen. Bloch had taken a few
tough beats and was so low on chips he had to call with nine-eight. The final
board showed J-7-7-4-4, giving Reese the win with the higher kicker (ace).
As the runner-up, Andy Bloch received $1,029,600. But the money was the
last thing that seemed to matter to Bloch, who was so groomed to win his first
gold bracelet. Very few people outside the poker world understand that this
match was not about money. It was about proving something of incalculable value
-- impossible to describe and too foreign to comprehend.
The winner,
David 'Chip' Reese collected $1,784,640 in prize money and the gold bracelet,
presented by World Series of Poker Commissioner, Jeffrey Pollack. It was
Reese's fourth WSOP career win, and his first since 1982. From a historical
perspective, the triumph validates the unofficial title Reese has carried
throughout his storied poker career, as the world's best all-around poker
player.
by Nolan Dalla |
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