WSOP Event No. 19 Winner Vanessa Selbst

Event No. 19 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament that started on June 10th and finished up on June 12th.  There were a total of 759 players in the event that created a $1,036,035 dollar prize pool.  The top 72 players that finished in the event would collect some prize money.

There were a lot more players at this year's tournament than last year when only 578 players registered in 2007.  This made a 31 percent increase in players at this year's event.  The tournament lasted for three days with day one and two taking about 12 hours each but on day three the final table was played out next to the ESPN stage.

Last year's champion was Scott Clements who won his second of two WSOP gold bracelets in this event.  This year he didn't register for the event because he was playing in day two of another tournament. 

This year's winner was Vanessa Selbst, a 23 year old law student and professional poker player from Brooklyn, New York.  She has become the first woman to win a WSOP Open event since Katja Thater won last year in the 2007 Razz championship.  She won $227,933 dollars for her first place finish plus her first WSOP gold bracelet.

The final results for Event No. 19 are below.

1 Vanessa Selbst $227,933 Brooklyn New York
2 Jamison Pickering $145,459 Queensland Australia
3 Stanley “StanDman” Statkiewicz Jr $88,063 Itasca Illinois
4 Thomas Schultz $72,004 Littleton Colorado
5 Eugene Todd $59,054 Brooklyn New York
6 Craig Natte $46,622 Hudsonville Michigan
7 Mel Randolph $36,261 Las Vegas Nevada
8 Jamie Robbins $28,491 Portland Oregon
9 Kenneth Lairson $20,721 Oklahoma City Oklahoma
10 Anthony Phillips $12,950 Essex England
11 Calen McNeil $12,950 Victoria British Columbia, Canada
12 Chris Bjorin $12,950 London England
13 Kyle Hegeman $10,360 Port Jefferson New York
14 Gregory Cox $10,360 Bedford Texas
15 Robertus Hollink $10,360 Groningen Netherlands
16 Trai Dang $7,770 Whittier California
17 Todd Barlow $7,770 Scottsdale Arizona
18 Colin York $7,770 Las Vegas Nevada
19 Jordan Morgan $5,905 Norman Oklahoma
20 Jeffrey Brown $5,905 Langley British Columbia, Canada
21 Lawrence Cowsar $5,905 Flemington New Jersey
22 Randall Holland $5,905 Winnetka California
23 Carter Gill $5,905 Madras Oregon
24 James Lampropoulos $5,905 Boca Raton Florida
25 James Lenaghan $5,905 Mobile Alabama
26 Max Pescatori $5,905 Las Vegas Nevada
27 Jesper Hougaard $5,905 Copenhagen Denmark
28 Nam Le $4,869 Huntington Beach California
29 Phillip Reed $4,869 Darien Connecticut
30 Brian Sharrock $4,869 Myrtle Beach South Carolina
31 Douglas Smith $4,869 Lenexa Kansas
32 George Watson $4,869 Cockeysville Maryland
33 Jason Mcintosh $4,869 W. Lake Village California
34 Chau Giang $4,869 Las Vegas Nevada
35 Ward Crane $4,869 Berea Ohio
36 Eric Rosenman $4,869 Kingwood Texas
37 Mark Deserrano $3,833 Highland Vlg Texas
38 Anthony Cousineau $3,833 Daytona Beach Florida
39 Martin Smyth $3,833 Belfast Ireland
40 Paul Magriel $3,833 Las Vegas Nevada
41 Allyn Shulman $3,833 Las Vegas Nevada
42 Emanuel Failla $3,833 Commack New York
43 Earl Odom $3,833 Las Vegas Nevada
44 Jae Kim $3,833 Atlantic City New Jersey
45 Daniel Martin $3,833 Graves End New York
46 Michael Cook $3,522 London England
47 Marcel Bedard $3,522 Ile-Perrot Quebec, Canada
48 Brian Woods $3,522 Lutherville Maryland
49 Kasey Nam $3,522 Los Angeles California
50 Roland Isra $3,522 Forest Hill New York
51 Jeffery Higgins $3,522 Shrewsbury Massachusetts
52 Leroy Baca $3,522 Belen New Mexico
53 Gerhard Schieber $3,522 Munich Germany
54 Michael Mcstott $3,522 Maple Grove Minnesota
55 Christopher Landgraff $3,211 Tequesta Florida
56 Paul Evans $3,211 Mount Shasta California
57 Douglas Carli $3,211 Alliance Ohio
58 Sean Patrick $3,211 Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada
59 Michael Katz $3,211 Manalapan New Jersey
60 David Ulliott $3,211 Hull United Kingdom
61 Rolf Slotboom $3,211 Amsterdam Holland
62 William Bryant $3,211 Bossier City Louisiana
63 Santos Ortiz $3,211 Windsor Ontario, Canada
64 Robert Parise $2,900 Huntington California
65 John Womack $2,900 Lauderhill Florida
66 Timothy Finne $2,900 Fanwood New Jersey
67 Paul Seibert $2,900 Lakeside California
68 Dax Garrison $2,900 Centralia Illinois
69 Alex Jacob $2,900 Tulsa Oklahoma
70 Charles Satterwhite $2,900 Houston Texas
71 Ryan Carey $2,900 Las Vegas Nevada
72 Kathy Liebert $2,900 Las Vegas Nevad