WSOP Event No. 17 Winner Jason Young
Event No. 17 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em Shootout tournament that started on June 8th and wrapped up adjacent to the ESPN stage on June 10th. This tournament's final table was played next to the main stage because there were two other tournaments, Event's 15 and 16 were also playing out their final tables at the same time.
There were 1,000 people entered into the event creating a $1,365,000 dollar prize pool. The top 100 players that finished in the tournament would collect a part of the prize money. The turnout for the event grew this year with 100 more people entering in then 2007 when the event had 900 entries.
A "Shootout" game means that the winner must win all of the chips at the table to advance to the next round. The tournament started on day one with all 1,000 players competing in ten handed tables, similar to a Sit n' Go game. Only one player from each table would get to advance to the next round and 100 players made the cut and advanced to day two of the tournament.
Day one of the tournament lasted for 18 hours and 50 minutes and since the round isn't complete until the last table ends the players have to wait until all of the tables have been completed before play can resume in the next round. Round two of the tournament started at 10pm and finished up at 6:50am when the last table finished playing.
Day two of the tournament lasted almost as long starting at 2pm and finally finishing at 1:10am after 11 hours and 10 minutes of play the winner was finally declared. Jason Young outlasted all other players to take home first place in the event and $329,872 dollars. After he won the tournament Young said, “When I worked as a recreation coordinator, I made $35,000 a year. Now, I just made ten years of my former salary in just two days!”
The Final Results for Event No. 17 are.
1 Jason Young $335,565 Suffern New York
2 Mike Schwartz $209,527 Encino California
3 John Strzemp III $129,675 Las Vegas Nevada
4 Rory Monahan $82,582 Carbondale Illinois
5 Matthew Giannetti $40,267 Las Vegas Nevada
6 Kyle Bowker $23,887 Walton New York
7 Sergey Rybachenko $15,697 Moscow Russia
8 Thomas West $12,421 Los Altos California
9 Alexander Triner $9,828 Rockville Maryland
10 Casey Coleman $7,507 Kingston Ontario, Canada
11 Travis Roseberry $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
12 John Mckinney $5,596 Fayetteville North Carolina
13 Garrett Beckman $5,596 Gardener Kansas
14 David Orvis $5,596 Longmont Colorado
15 John Wagner $5,596 Houston Texas
16 Sarvesh Pershad $5,596 Miramichi New Brunswick, Canada
17 Daniel Smith $5,596 Folsom California
18 Craig Marquis $5,596 Arlington Texas
19 Khalid Hameed $5,596 Walnut Creek California
20 Ali Shahryar Eslami $5,596 Van Nuys California
21 Patryk Hildebranski $5,596 Kitchener Ontario, Canada
22 Kurt Younghouse $5,596 Evansville Indiana
23 Orlando Romero $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
24 Casey Mccarrel $5,596 Lafayette California
25 Cory Zeidman $5,596 Coral Springs Florida
26 Craig Gray $5,596 Portland Oregon
27 Damian Artt $5,596 Mesa Arizona
28 Richard Tatalovich $5,596 Scottsdale Arizona
29 Alexander Veldhuis $5,596 Rotterdam Netherlands
30 Craig Brennan $5,596 San Clemente California
31 Marcus Moulton $5,596 Los Angeles California
32 Matthew Lagarde $5,596 Salisbury Maryland
33 Mark Gregorich $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
34 Andrew Miles $5,596 Long Beach Washington
35 Michelle John $5,596 Corona California
36 Robert Babyar $5,596 Mesa Arizona
37 Peter Dalhuijsen $5,596 Utrecht Netherlands
38 Jesper Hougaard $5,596 Belgium
39 Alon Shahar $5,596 Copenhagen Denmark
40 Santos Ortiz $5,596 Windsor Ontario, Canada
41 Patrick O’Conner $5,596 Dormahair Ireland
42 Paul Ferner $5,596 Mitcham England
43 Thomas Slifka $5,596 Henderson Nevada
44 Sean Brandow $5,596 Lacey Washington
45 Edward Pellegrini $5,596 Destrehan Louisiana
46 Michael Sica $5,596 New Bruncswick New Jersey
47 Noah Boeken $5,596 Amsterdam Netherlands
48 Anthony Roux $5,596 London United Kingdom
49 Anthony Nowalany $5,596 Henderson Nevada
50 Jason Gwinn $5,596 Nashville Tennessee
51 David Redlin $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
52 William Burdick $5,596 St. Petersburg Florida
53 Marco Mills $5,596 Mississauga Ontario, Canada
54 Steve Pestal $5,596 Long Beach California
55 Clint Schafer $5,596 Baton Rouge Louisiana
56 Antonio Abesamis $5,596 West Covina California
57 Thor Hansen $5,596 El Segundo California
58 Donald Carlton $5,596 Woodstock Illinois
59 Keith Sexton $5,596 Henderson Nevada
60 Gregory Gill $5,596 Bakersfield California
61 Dong Suh $5,596 Los Angeles California
62 Kevin Picklesimer $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
63 Richard Fohrenbach $5,596 Milford Connecticut
64 Steven Hammerschmidt $5,596 Greenfield Minnesota
65 Robert Harris $5,596 Gulf Shores Alabama
66 Brian Miller $5,596 Duluth Georgia
67 Joseph Bolnick $5,596 Los Angeles California
68 Ryan Hughes $5,596 Phoenix Arizona
69 Dustin Pattinson $5,596 Edinburg Texas
70 Joseph Graziano $5,596 Tualatin Oregon
71 Frank Blumlein $5,596 Frankfort Germany
72 Anton Smolyanskiy $5,596 New York New York
73 Andrey Zaichenko $5,596 Moscow Russian Federation
74 Bradley Helm $5,596 Scottsdale Arizona
75 Richard Geyer $5,596 Austin Texas
76 David Colin $5,596 Short Hills New Jersey
77 Darren Price $5,596 Battle Creek Michigan
78 Justin Stjohn $5,596 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
79 Dale Phillips $5,596 Naples Florida
80 Brian Lamanna $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
81 Andrew Moser $5,596 Davie Florida
82 Benjamin Hamnett $5,596 Holbrook Pennsylvania
83 Ut Nguyen $5,596 Bell Gardens California
84 Noah Jefferson $5,596 Santa Monica California
85 Fabio Coppola $5,596 Rimini RN Italy
86 Frank Miceli $5,596 Barbourville Kentucky
87 James Ferguson $5,596 Austin Texas
88 Loren Klein $5,596 Golden Colorado
89 Christopher Clampitt $5,596 West Columbia South Carolina
90 Patrick Obrien $5,596 Lynnfield Massachusetts
91 Christopher Vaughn $5,596 Atlanta Georgia
92 Jeffrey Darling $5,596 Gilbert Arizona
93 Chadd Huber $5,596 Bryan Ohio
94 Jinyun Lin $5,596 San Jose California
95 Jared Okun $5,596 Las Vegas Nevada
96 Yue Huang $5,596 San Francisco California
97 Marco Liesy $5,596 Speyer Germany
98 Mark Radoja $5,596 Ariss Ontario, Canada
99 Lisa Teebagy $5,596 Lghthse Point Florida
100 Minh Nguyen $5,596 Bell Gardens California