WSOP Event No.5 Winner Michael Banducci
Event No. 5 of the World Series of Poker was a $1,000 dollar buyin No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament with rebuys allowed. The event started on June 3rd with 766 players and finished up on June 5th with the first place winner, Michael Banducci who won $636,736 dollars. The prize pool for the event got a boost with the 2,258 re-buys creating a total prize pool of $2,894,094 dollars.
With a rebuy poker tournament players are allowed to buy back into the tournament several times as long as they have equal or less chips then what they started with. At the event players started with 2,000 in chips so any player that had a chip count of 2,000 or less could rebuy into the tournament.
The rebuy period ends after the first two levels are played or at this tournament it was after the first two hours. The player that had the most rebuys at the tournament was Suk Sung who bought back in 23 times, investing a total of $23,000 dollars for this event.
Michael Banducci won the tournament with only one rebuy plus a double add on, his total investment into the tournament was $4,000 dollars and he got $636,736 return on that investment. Banducci said in a post tournament interview, "I can’t imagine ever stopping doing what I am doing. I really enjoy it. Only now, I view it more as a business. I put in a set number of hours per week. At one time I was really passionate about poker. But I think I have become more disciplined about what I do."
There were 184 hands played at the final table until the tournament had it's winner the player in second place is Jeff Williams who cashed for $406,330 dollars. This was the fourth event that will be televised by ESPN and it is also the last event that will be taped for a later broadcast on ESPN until the $50,000 dollar HORSE Championship on June 25th.
The final results of Event No. 5 are below.
1 Michael Banducci $636,736 Traverse City Michigan
2 Jeff Williams $406,330 Dunwoody Georgia
3 Peter Gould $245,997 London United Kingdom
4 Lyric Duveyoung $201,139 Fairfield Iowa
5 Alan Jaffray $164,963 Silver Springs Nevada
6 Jonathan Aguiar $130,234 Las Vegas Nevada
7 Michael Binger $101,293 Las Vegas Nevada
8 Steve Gross $79,587 Marlboro New Jersey
9 Jamie Rosen $57,881 Boca Raton Florida
10 Phi Nguyen $36,176 Santa Ana California
11 Randy Haddox $36,176 Houston Texas
12 Adam Levy $36,176 Orlando Florida
13 Alan Sass $28,940 Las Vegas Nevada
14 Raymond Coburn $28,940 Jackson New Jersey
15 Clonie Gowen $28,940 Murphy Texas
16 Le Nam $21,705 Huntington Beach California
17 Craig Gray $21,705 Portland Oregon
18 Christopher Moore $21,705 Milwaukee Wisconsin
19 Daniel Adams $16,496 Kingston Ontario, Canada
20 Robert Cheung $16,496 Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
21 Jonathan Vanfleet $16,496 Lubbock Texas
22 Daniel Negreanu $16,496 Las Vegas Nevada
23 John Hoang $16,496 Fountain Valley Louisiana
24 Nenad Medic $16,496 Niagra Falls Ontario, Canada
25 Amit Makhija $16,496 Brookfield Wisconsin
26 Bill Cole $16,496 Murrieta California
27 John Juanda $16,496 Las Vegas Nevada
28 Kenneth Shelton $13,602 Dallas Texas
29 Anirudh Seth $13,602 Las Vegas Nevada
30 Craig Panzirer $13,602 New York New York
31 Alex Jacob $13,602 Tulsa Oklahoma
32 Adam Glassman $13,602 Chicago Illinois
33 Gary Haglund $13,602 Colorado Springs Colorado
34 Chad Brown $13,602 Los Angeles California
35 Thomas Gabriel $13,602 Gainsville Florida
36 Vachagan Zakarian $13,602 Hollywood California
37 Jeffrey Madison $10,708 Las Vegas Nevada
38 David Peters $10,708 Toledo Ohio
39 Corwin Cole $10,708 San Diego California
40 Timothy West $10,708 Los Altos California
41 Samuel Simon $10,708 Sherman Oaks California
42 James Kelly $10,708 Ormond Beach Florida
43 Carl Olson $10,708 Seattle Washington
44 Randy Cherkas $10,708 Moorestown New Jersey
45 David Baker $10,708 Rochester Hills Michigan
46 Justin Rollo $9,839 Boston Massachusetts
47 Romuald Pycior $9,839 Henderson Nevada
48 Nikolay Evdakov $9,839 Moscow Russian Federation
49 Scott Dorin $9,839 Medina New York
50 Ut Van Nguyen $9,839 Bell Gardens California
51 Lee Watkinson $9,839 Cheney Washington
52 Marco Johnson $9,839 Walnut Creek California
53 Steven Merrifield $9,839 Fairmont West Virginia
54 Mark Dickstein $9,839 New York New York
55 Mark Vos $8,971 Brisbane Australia
56 Jerry Maestas $8,971 Mission Hills California
57 Jesse Chinni $8,971 Ellicott City Maryland
58 Zachary Clark $8,971 Las Vegas Nevada
59 William Baxter $8,971 Las Vegas Nevada
60 William Jordan $8,971 Delray Beach Florida
61 Brian Cospolich $8,971 River Ridge Louisiana
62 James Mccrink $8,971 Las Vegas Nevada
63 Christopher Simons $8,971 Brownstown Michigan
64 Kelley Slay $8,103 Jacksonville Florida
65 Adam Richardson $8,103 Poway California
66 Alexander Balandin $8,103 New York New York
67 Luke Staudenmaier $8,103 Imperial Pennsylvania
68 Jay Mizzi $8,103 Toronto Ontario, Canada
69 James Rouse $8,103 Oceanside California
70 Jonathan Eaton $8,103 Las Vegas Nevada
71 Michael Burchfield $8,103 San Jose California
72 Matthew Lagarde $8,103 Salisbury Maryland