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WSOP Editor in
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10th August 2006
After
a days rest the World Championship final was played out on the 10th August at
the Rio Suites Hotel in Las Vegas.
Full
Championship Results
Gold, a former Hollywood agent turned
television producer from Malibu, Calif., amassed a commanding chip lead during
the first eight days of the tournament and sat down at the final table with a
whopping $26,650,000 in chips - $8.88 million more than his nearest
competitor.
After an exciting 14 hours of play, he knocked out the rest
of the field, including top poker pro Allen Cunningham.
A Hollywood
talent agent used to securing big deals for television stars earned his own
multimillion-dollar payday after pulling off the acting job of a lifetime on a
Las Vegas card table.
Jamie Gold's bluff in the final hand of the
world's richest poker tournament won him the top prize of $12m (£6.3m)
and a place among Sin City's legends.
"I knew it was my chance," said
Mr Gold, 36, after seeing off Paul "Kwickfish" Wasicka with a pair of queens to
a pair of tens to win the 37th World Series of Poker.
"I just went into
my act. I actually talked him into calling with the worst of it and that won
the whole tournament."
As the last survivor of 8,773 hopefuls who began
play on July 28, Mr Gold whooped for joy as security guards tipped out his
prize of 14 briefcases containing half a tonne of $100 bills on the card table
at the Rio Hotel and Casino, close to the famous Las Vegas strip.
Now
all he needs is a nickname as he joins previous tournament winners including
The Fossilman, Mike the Mouth and Miami John.
Mr Gold, who once
represented actors Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives and James
Gandolfini of The Sopranos, dominated the final stages of the tournament,
eliminating six of the final seven players in four days and amassing almost
$79m in chips.
"I thought he was bluffing," said Mr Wasicka, 25, a
former restaurant manager from Westminster, Colorado. "You kind of just have to
go with your gut. That's what I did, and it was wrong."
The World
Series is poker's blue riband tournament and has grown steadily in prize money
and popularity since its inception 11 years ago, when "Action" Dan Harrington
emerged from a field of 270 to see off Canadian Howard Goldfarb and win the $1m
pot.
This year's final stages were shown live on national TV.
1) Jaimie Gold 2) Allen Cunningham 3) Chip
Standings for final.
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| Jaimie
Gold |
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| Allen
Cunningham |
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| Current Chip
Positions for the final Nine |
| Payout Schedule |
Current Pos. |
Player |
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Chips |
Seat |
| $12,000,000 |
1 |
Jamie Gold
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Malibu, CA
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$25,650,000
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8 |
| $6,102,499 |
2 |
Allen Cunningham
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Las Vegas, NV
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$17,770,000
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5 |
| $4,123,310 |
3 |
Richard Lee
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San Antonio, TX
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$11,820,000
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1 |
| $3,628,513 |
4 |
Erik Friberg
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Stockholm |
$9,605,000
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2 |
| $3,216,182 |
5 |
Paul Wasicka
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Westminster, CO
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$7,600,000 |
3 |
| $2,803,851 |
6 |
Douglas Kim
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Hartsdale, NY
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$6,770,000
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7 |
| $2,391,520 |
7 |
Rhett Butler
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Rockville, MD
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$4,815,000
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9 |
| $1,979,189 |
8 |
Michael Binger
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Atherton, CA
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$3,140,000
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6 |
| $1,566,858 |
9 |
Dan Nassif
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St. Louis, MO
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$2,600,000
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