WSOP Event No. 38 Winner Davidi Kitai
Event No. 38 of the World Series of Poker was a $2,000 buyin Pot Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that started on June 22nd and finished on June 22nd. There were a total of 605 players in the tournament that created a prize pool of $1,101,100 dollars.
The top 63 players at the event cashed out. The turn out at this year's event was slightly higher then last year's 599 entries for the same event. This was the third of three Pot Limit Hold'em events on this year's 2008 World Series of Poker schedule.
The winner is Davidi Kitai, a 28-year-old economic analyst from Brussels, Belgium. Kitai won $244,583 dollars for his first place finish and his first WSOP gold bracelet. He is now the first ever WSOP gold bracelet holder ever from Belgium.
The "Player of the Year" standings currently show Jacobo Fernandez as in the lead with David Benyamine right behind him. The top five players are; Jacobo Fernandez in 1st with 222 points, David Benyamine in 2nd with 220 points, Barry Greenstein and Erick Lindgren both tied for 3rd with 185 points each and Daniel Negreanu in 5th with 170 points.
The final results for Event No. 38 are below.
1 Davidi Kitai $244,583 Brussels Belgium
2 Chris Bell $155,805 Raleigh North Carolina
3 Keith Greer $94,694 Fort Worth Texas
4 Jan Von Halle $77,077 Hamburg Germany
5 Lee Watkinson $63,313 Longbranch Washington
6 Robert Cheung $50,100 Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
7 Ayaz Mahmood $39,089 Houston Texas
8 Ben Roberts $30,830 London England
9 Michele Greco $22,572 London England
10 Benjamin Zamani $14,314 Boca Raton Florida
11 Michael Binger $14,314 Las Vegas Nevada
12 Charles Lehr $14,314 Bossier City Louisiana
13 Jeffrey Sluzinski $11,561 Westland Michigan
14 Amato Galasso $11,561 Ridgewood New Jersey
15 Christopher Dombrowski $11,561 Dade City Florida
16 Neil Channing $8,808 Maida Vale England
17 Davood Mehrmand $8,808 Frankfurt Germany
18 Eugene Todd $8,808 Brooklyn New York
19 Daniel Quinn $6,606 Toronto Ontario, Canada
20 Robert Perry $6,606 Highland Beach Florida
21 Alan Adler $6,606 Bakersfield California
22 Phillip Lowery $6,606 Atlanta Georgia
23 David Brooker $6,606 Stuart Florida
24 Jonathan Tamayo $6,606 Humble Texas
25 Blake Stepp $6,606 Spokane Washington
26 Noam Freedman $6,606 Cambridge Massachusetts
27 Brett Wiesner $6,606 Las Vegas Nevada
28 Gavin Polone $5,505 Beverly Hills California
29 Shaun Linefsky $5,505 Arlington Virginia
30 Trevor Lawson $5,505 Cueshire Australia
31 Paul Foltyn $5,505 Doncaster England
32 Shawn Van Asdale $5,505 Reno Nevada
33 Shane Schleger $5,505 Santa Monica California
34 Clonie Gowen $5,505 Murphy Texas
35 David Chicotsky $5,505 Fort Worth Texas
36 Marco Traniello $5,505 Las Vegas Nevada
37 Derek Dempsey $4,404 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
38 Thomas Fuller $4,404 Boulder Colorado
39 George Shahrezay $4,404 Paramount California
40 Anthony George $4,404 Las Vegas Nevada
41 Matthew Hilger $4,404 Suwanee Georgia
42 Eric Lupovich $4,404 Mont-Royal Quebec, Canada
43 Sunny Chattha $4,404 Lee England
44 Dale Pinchot $4,404 Yardley Pennsylvania
45 Thomas Sanduski $4,404 Las Vegas Nevada
46 Larry Wright $4,074 McQueeny Texas
47 James Gorham Jr. $4,074 Pasadena California
48 Cristian Dragomir $4,074 Bucharest Romania
49 Olivia Boeree $4,074
50 Kyle Wilson $4,074
51 Christopher Howard $4,074 Hampshire England
52 David Machowsky $4,074
53 Jeffrey Langdon $4,074 Santa Fe New Mexico
54 Veronica Castellana $4,074 Tampa Florida
55 Rado Boltryk $3,743 Glenview Illinois
56 Roy Winston $3,743
57 Vanessa Rousso $3,743
58 Andre Johnstone $3,743 Cape Town South Africa
59 Josef Bachar $3,743 Rmat Gan Israel
60 Andrew Rosskamm $3,743 Gates Mills Ohio
61 Paul Quade $3,743
62 Michael Cordell $3,743 Little Rock Arkansas
63 Clifford Spiro $3,743 Naperville Illinois