The winner was Gary Styczynski from Pearl River, New York. He is 42-years-old and is a part-time consultant and poker player. He is married and has two children.
Styczynski arrived at the final table with the dominant stack. He had nearly half of the total chips in play when eight-handed play began. It took him about four hours to win this final battle and take home his first WSOP gold bracelet.
The new poker champ has never cashed previously at the WSOP. However, he did cash three times at a recent poker tournament held at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.
Event #6 marked the debut of the nearly-live simulcast on the official WSOP website – www.worldseriesofpoker.com. For the first time in history, the entire final table was broadcast with hole cards seen by the home audience. Expert commentary was provided by poker pro Brian Wilson (who won a WSOP gold bracelet in 2005) and ESPN’s Howard David (who is normally the radio voice of Monday Night Football).
The WSOP has certainly entered the high-tech age. For the first time ever, all of the final table competitors were sequestered behind a large tent. There was no live audience – again another WSOP first. All spectators were in cyberspace watching over the Internet. Given the wide reach of the Internet and popularity of the official WSOP website, this final table is – at least for the moment – the most widely watched “live” poker tournament ever.
Some things cannot be made up. The seventh-place finisher was a man who won $14 million in the Canadian Lottery. His name is Michael Banks.
Noted poker author and theorist David Sklansky finished 13th in this event. Sklansky, the author of numerous books and generally regarded as the supreme poker and gaming intellect in the business, owns three WSOP gold bracelets (technically, he owns two WSOP gold watches, which was the top prize at the 1982 WSOP instead of bracelets). This event was his best WSOP finish in six years (he finished fifth in an event back in 2001).
James Graham finished in fifth-place. He won a WSOP gold bracelet last year.
The eighth-place finisher was Pete O’Donnell. He quit his job to play poker for a living and moved to Las Vegas just two weeks ago. His new career is off to a good tart, to the tune of $22,359 in prize money.
Event #6 Limit Hold’em Buy-In: $1,500 Number of Entries: 910 Total Prize Money: $1,365,000 Date of Tournament: June 4-6, 2007
Place Player Prize 1. Gary Styczynski $280,715 2. Varouzhan Gumroyan $177,627 3. Hansu Chu $114,278 4. Soheil Shamseddin $75,771 5. James Gorham $53,412 6. Jimmy Holland $40,991 7. Michael Banks $30,433 8. Pete O'Donnell $22,359 9. Dariush Imani $16,148 10. Brandon Wong $11,552 11. Ken Dickensen $11,552 12. Jesse Martin $11,552 13. David Sklansky $10,310 14. John (Brock) Parker $10,310 15. Casey Peters $10,310 16. Derek McCoy $9,068 17. Tanya Lieu $9,068 18. Dan Barnett $9,068 19. Igram Hassan $7,826 20. Scott Lychwick $7,826 21. Jim Blaszkiewicz $7,826 22. Patrick Curran $7,826 23. David Arsht $7,826 24. Bennett Kleinberg $7,826 25. Michael Sun $7,826 26. Joshua Haddad $7,826 27. Steven Cauley $7,826 28. Tien Le $6,708 29. Kurt Maier $6,708 30. Jason Bethune $6,708 31. Paul Bucy $6,708 32. Todd Keikoan $6,708 33. Steven Mandelbaum $6,708 34. Marco Johnson $6,708 35. Mike Pickett $6,708 36. Mark Jones $6,708 37. Chris Russell $5,714 38. Charles Indyg $5,714 39. Aaron Smith $5,714 40. Christopher Lamell $5,714 41. Nhu Huynh $5,714 42. Tam (Tommy) Hang $5,714 43. Richard Schwartz $5,714 44. Steven Rothstein $5,714 45. John Robertson $5,714 46. Abraham Levy $4,844 47. James Guill $4,844 48. Charles Furey $4,844 49. John Pastrana $4,844 50. Ronald Evans $4,844 51. Mark Muchnik $4,844 52. Suriyan Bhinestien $4,844 53. Ray Manlagnit $4,844 54. Matthew Hawrilenko $4,844 55. John Varner $3,975 56. Constantine Araneta $3,975 57. Merri German $3,975 58. Matthew Kelly $3,975 59. David Chin $3,975 60. Randall Witt $3,975 61. Stephen Gerhardt $3,975 62. Douglas Protz $3,975 63. Doug Morgan $3,975 64. Robert Goldfarb $3,292 65. Derek Wakamiya $3,292 66. Joe Deniro $3,292 67. Philip Schier $3,292 68. Leo Vergote $3,292 69. Mike (Champagne) Lancaster $3,292 70. Robert Beveridge $3,292 71. Minh Nguyen $3,292 72. John Biebel $3,292 73. Philong Nguyen $2,795 74. Ira Gibbs III $2,795 75. Matthew Dames $2,795 76. (Minneapolis) Jim Meehan $2,795 77. Nicholas Palmer $2,795 78. Benjamin Robinson $2,795 79. Marc Durand $2,795 80. Eric Nickelson $2,795 81. Boris Muchnik $2,795 82. Thor Hansen $2,360 83. Brad Peeples $2,360 84. Matt Woodward $2,360 85. Al Sorenson $2,360 86. Thom Werthmann $2,360 87. Dave Tobin $2,360 88. David Gorman $2,360 89. Roger Tanabe $2,360 90. Michael O'Malley $2,360
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The winner was Gary Styczynski from Pearl River, New York. He is 42-years-old and is a part-time consultant and poker player. He is married and has two children.