World Series of Poker 2006

The World Series of Poker 2006 was the 37th edition of the Poker World Championship and took place on June 25, 2006 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . It ended with the final table of the Main Event on August 10, 2006.

Tournaments

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The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

The WSOP hosted a total of 45 tournaments in the poker variants Texas Hold'em , Omaha Hold'em , Seven Card stud and Razz . The tournaments included the Tournament of Champions and the HORSE event, which was held for the first time, costing US $ 50,000 .

All tournaments were held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , Nevada . This was the first year that the WSOP was no longer connected to the longstanding Binion's Horseshoe . Humberto Brenes and Phil Hellmuth were in the money the most , along with eight money finishes . As Player of the Year was Jeff Madsen excellent. He bought two bracelets and got five cash. Even Bill Chen won two events during the tournament series. The WSOP 2006 was broadcast by German sports television , now Sport1 , from June 21, 2007 and commented on by Michael Körner .

Tournament schedule

Bill Chen (2008)

Jeff Madsen (2008)

#	Event	winner	origin	Prize money (in $ )	Second
1	$ 500 Casino Employee's No Limit Texas Hold'em	Chris Gros		00.127,616	Bryan Devonshire
2	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Brandon Cantu		00.757.839	Phong "Mark" Ly
3	$ 1500 Pot Limit Hold'em	Rafe Furst		00.345.984	Rocky Enciso
4th	$ 1500 Limit Hold'em	Kianoush Abolfathi		00.335.289	Eric Buchman
5	$ 2500 No Limit Hold'em (6 Handed)	Dutch Boyd		00.475.712	Joe Hachem
6th	$ 2000 No Limit Hold'em	Mark Vos		00.803.274	Nam Le
7th	$ 3000 Limit Hold'em	Bill Chen		00.343,618	Yueqi "Rich" Zhu
8th	$ 2000 Omaha High / Low	Jack Zwerner		00.341.426	Rusty mandap
9	$ 5000 No Limit Hold'em	Jeff Cabanillas		00.818,546	Phil Hellmuth
10	$ 1500 Seven Card Stud	David Williams		00.163.118	John Hoang
11	$ 1500 Limit Hold'em	Bob Chalmers		00.258.344	Tam Ho
12	$ 5000 Omaha High / Low	Sam Farha		00.398,560	Phil Ivey
13	$ 2500 No Limit Hold'em	Max Pescatori		00.682.389	Anthony Reategui
14th	$ 1000 No Limit Hold'em (+ Rebuys)	Allen Cunningham		00.625.830	David Rheem
15th	$ 1000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em	Mary Jones Meyer		00.236.094	Shawnee Barton
16	$ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Lee Watkinson		00.655.746	Mike Guttman
17th	$ 1000 No Limit Hold'em	Jon Friedberg		00.526.185	John Phan
18th	$ 2000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Eric Keselman		00.311,403	Hyon Kim
19th	$ 1000 No Limit Hold'em (Seniors)	Clare Miller		00.247.814	Mike Nargi
20th	$ 50,000 HORSE	David "Chip" Reese		01,716,000	Andy Bloch
21st	$ 2500 No Limit Hold'em (6 Handed)	Bill Chen		00.442,511	Nath Pizzolatto
22nd	$ 2000 No Limit Hold'em	Jeff Madsen		00.660.948	Paul Sheng
23	$ 3000 Limit Hold'em	Ian Johns		00.291,755	Jerrod Ankenmen
24	$ 3000 Omaha High / Low	Scott Clements		00.301.175	Thor Hansen
25th	$ 2000 No Limit Hold'em (Shootout)	David Pham		00.240.222	Charlie Sewell
26th	$ 1500 Pot Limit Omaha	Ralph Perry		00.207.817	George Abdallah
26a	$ 1500 Pot Limit Omaha	Eric Froehlich		00.299,675	Sherkhan Farnud
27	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Mats Rahmn		00.655.141	Richard Toth
28	$ 5000 Seven Card Stud	Benjamin Lin		00.256,620	Shahram Sheikhan
29	$ 2500 Pot Limit Hold'em	John Gale		00.374.849	Maros Lechman
30th	$ 5000 No Limit Hold'em (6 Handed)	Jeff Madsen		00.643.381	Erick Lindgren
31	$ 2000 No Limit Hold'em	Justin Scott		00.842.262	Farzad Rouhani
32	$ 5000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Jason Lester		00.550.746	Alan Sass
33	$ 1500 razz	James Richburg		00.139,576	Carlos Mortensen
34	$ 1000 No Limit Hold'em (+ Rebuys)	Phil Hellmuth		00.631.863	Juha Helppi
35	$ 1000 Seven Card Stud High / Low	Pat Poels		00.172.091	Greg Dinkin
36	$ 1500 Limit Hold'em (Shootout)	Victoriano Perches		00.157.338	Arnold Spee
37	$ 5000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw (+ Rebuys)	Daniel Alaei		00.430,698	David Williams
38	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	James Gorham		00.765.226	Osman Kibar
39	$ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event	Jamie Gold		12,000,000	Paul Wasicka
40	$ 1000 No Limit Hold'em	Praz Bansi		00.230.209	Anh Lu
41	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Paul Kobel		00.316.144	Tyler Andrews
42	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Jim Mitchell		00.153.173	Stuart Fox
43	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Kevin Nathan		00.171,987	JC Tran
44	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Kevin Cover		00.196.968	Joe Brandenburg
45	$ 1500 No Limit Hold'em	Not so Henriksson		00.202.291	Maureen Feduniak

Main Event

Jamie Gold (2006)

→ Main article : 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event

The main event took place from July 28th to August 10th, 2006 in Las Vegas. A total of 8,773 players took part, each paying an entry fee of $ 10,000 for the Texas Hold'em tournament.

The final table started on August 10, 2006. In the final hand, Gold won with Q ♠ 9 ♣ against Wasicka with 10 ♥ 10 ♠ . The twelve million dollars was the highest prize money that had ever been awarded at a sporting event. That record was only broken in 2012 by the Big One for One Drop .

space	origin	player	Age *	Prize money (in $ )
1		Jamie Gold	36	12,000,000
2		Paul Wasicka	25th	06.102.499
3		Michael Binger	29	04,123,310
4th		Allen Cunningham	29	03,628,513
5		Rhett Butler	44	03,216,182
6th		Richard Lee	55	02,803,851
7th		Douglas Kim	22nd	02,391,520
8th		Erik Friberg	23	01,979,189
9		Dan Nassif	33	01,566,858

^* Age at the start of the final table

Web links

Commons : World Series of Poker 2006  - Collection of Images

• World Series of Poker 2006 on the World Series of Poker website
• World Series of Poker 2006 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2006 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database; accessed on November 8, 2015
2. ↑ The starting lineup on espn.go.com of August 10, 2006, accessed on November 8, 2015.