WSOP Event No. 35 Winner Michael Rocco

Event No. 35 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,500 buyin Seven Card Stud tournament that started on June 18th and finished up on June 21st.  The tournament had 381 players enter in for a total prize pool of $520,065 dollars.  At this event the top 40 finishers (the final five tables) would cash out.

Seven Card Stud originally made it's debut at the World Series of Poker back in 1973 and Puggy Pearson was the first champion.  Since then there have many more winners and there are six players in the history of the WSOIP that won two gold bracelets in the event.  Those players are; Bones Berland, Johnny Moss, Marty Sigel, Mel Judah, Ted Forrest and Men "the Master" Nguyen.

So far there has been only player to win three gold bracelets in the Seven Card Stud event and that player is Artie Cobb.  He played in this year's event but didn't cash.  Last year's champion Michael Keiner played in the event but also didn't cash.  This brings the current streak to 35 straight non cashes for the defending champions in thier respective events.

The winner of this year's event was Mike Rocco, a 48 year old professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.  He won his way into the event by winning a $215 dollar single table satellite and collected $135,753 dollars and his first WSOP gold bracelet for his win. 

He had some support in the stands watching him at the final table and after he won he pointed at Jeffrey Lisandro and Cycndy Violette and said, “I got more phone calls from my friends in the last two days than the last two months – and I don’t even owe them money!”

The final results for Event No. 35 are below.

Final Results:

1    Michael Rocco    $135,753    Las Vegas    Nevada
2    Al Barbieri    $83,210    Philadelphia    Pennsylvania
3    Levon Torosyan    $50,186    Los Angeles    California
4    Max Troy    $37,184    Los Angeles    California
5    Giacomo Dagostino    $28,083    North Providence    Rhode Island
6    Danny Kalpakis    $21,842    Ajax    Ontario, Canada
7    Andre Boyer    $16,642    Acton Vale    Quebec, Canada
8    Jeffrey Siegal    $14,041    Daly City    California
9    Charles Moore    $11,441    Bossier City    Louisiana
10    Roy Rose    $11,441    Hollywood    Florida
11    Bryan Devonshire    $8,841    Henderson    Nevada
12    Sabyl Cohen-Landrum    $8,841    Folsom    California
13    Greg Pappas    $6,240    Las Vegas    Nevada
14    Christopher Tryba    $6,240    North Las Vegas    Nevada
15    Christopher Mcintyre    $4,680    New London    Connecticut
16    Chad Brown    $4,680    Margate    Florida
17    Charles Jett    $3,640    Henderson    Nevada
18    Charles Townsend    $3,640    Dagsboro    Delaware
19    Joel Fischbein    $3,640    Las Vegas    Nevada
20    Ryon Nicholson    $3,640    Portland    Oregon
21    Stefan Rapp    $3,640    Linz    Austria
22    Kobie West    $3,640    Deptford    New Jersey
23    Kim Erfle    $3,640    Bismarck    North Dakota
24    George Brand    $3,640    Dublin    Ohio
25    Daniel Studer    $2,860    Steinhausen    Switzerland
26    Ed Fernandez    $2,860    San Jose    California
27    Bruce Levitt    $2,860    Beverly Hills    California
28    Soroosh Sirang    $2,860    Las Vegas    Nevada
29    Rodney Pardey    $2,860    Las Vegas    Nevada
30    Lu Wang    $2,860    Fremont    California
31    Alan Zarka    $2,860    Clinton Township    Michigan
32    Mike Nelson    $2,860    Renton    Washington
33    Freddie Jones    $2,340    Sun City    Arizona
34    Alan Jaffray    $2,340    Silver Springs    Nevada
35    John Hennigan    $2,340    Las Vegas    Nevada
36    Filmore Humphreys    $2,340    Las Vegas    Nevada
37    Craig Thomson    $2,340    Culver City    Nevada
38    Timothy Finne    $2,340    Fanwood    New Jersey
39    Wayne Stock    $2,340    New York    New York
40    John Regan    $2,340    Mesa    Arizona