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Event #3
No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,998
Total Prize Money: $4,497,000
Date of Tournament: June 2-4, 2007

Tournament Notes:

Event #3 is the largest non-WSOP main event poker tournament in history. The previous record was Event #17 at the 2006 World Series of Poker. That event attracted 2,891 entries. This year’s first $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold championship destroyed the previous record by 107 players. There were approximately 2600 entries and 400 alternates, for a combined field of 2,998 players. This ranks as the third-largest poker tournament of all-time, behind the 2005 and 2006 championship (main) events.

End of Day One chip leader is Alex Jacob, from Las Vegas. This is his second year to play at the WSOP. Last year, he cashed four times. His best WSOP finish to date was fifth in the pot-limit hold’em event. He also won the United States Poker Championship in December, 2006.

270 players remain at the end of Day One.

Two former World Champions remain alive – Greg “Fossilman” Raymer (2004) is 59th. Chris Moneymaker (2003) is 110th.

Prior to the start of the event World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack addressed a room filled to total capacity. He acknowledged opening day challenges and introduced some changes which were brought about by player input. Sign-up lines were considerably shorter on the second day of the WSOP, despite the one of the largest fields in history.

The large field means that 308 players will receive prize money. The cutoff was reached late in the evening at the end of Day One. In-the-money finishers will be listed in the End of Day Two report (tomorrow).

Play resumes on Sunday, June 3rd at 2 pm. Play will continue until the final nine-player point is reached – which will comprise the final table.

End of Day One Results:

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First Name	Last Name	Chips	Table	Seat
Alex	Jacob	189,400	64	6
Eric	Baldwin	155,600	75	1
Ryan	Fair	154,400	60	2
Jeff	Yoak	144,800	71	3
Roland	DeWolfe	144,000	57	4
David	Pham	139,300	54	2
Blye	Patrick	132,000	59	3
Benny	Cho	121,700	67	8
Sergei	Veytser	118,400	55	3
Jeff	Cabanillas	116,900	71	7
Shawn	Reed	103,100	67	1
Michael	Banducci	102,000	55	8
Jose	Velador	97,500	71	10
Dapo	Fadeyi	95,800	68	6
Arnold	Spee	94,800	65	9
Sanjeou	Bais	93,500	71	8
Marc	Naalden	90,000	60	6
Matt	Stern	88,100	76	6
Brian	Ichikawa	86,000	58	1
Paul	Evans	82,300	72	7
Leon	Kunkel	81,600	73	5
Michael	Criag	81,400	65	10
Alex	Melnikow	79,700	64	10
Timothy	Jaxon	76,900	72	10
Mark	Swartz	71,900	69	6
Joe	Sidoryk	71,600	59	9
Scott	Clements	71,600	52	4
Bart	Hanson	71,500	63	8
Long	Nguyen	71,000	60	5
Douglas	Carli	69,200	67	3
Colin	Dentan	68,700	58	3
Chris	East	65,000	60	7
Matthew	Stout	63,100	58	7
Mitch	Garshofsky	63,100	54	4
Gorialk	Yousif	63,000	62	5
Christopher	Bonita	62,400	66	3
Michael	Binger	62,400	70	5
Alan	Sass	62,300	60	8
Chad	Davis	62,000	59	4
Ronald	Tosrony	60,100	56	9
Matt	Vengrin	59,900	61	6
Tristan	Wade	59,900	69	8
Skluzacek	Joe	58,300	78	4
Darren	Sprengers	56,900	53	7
Ron	Lane	56,800	70	3
Richard	Weisman	56,300	63	6
Steve	Wise	55,800	77	10
Reza	Payvar	55,200	55	2
Artin	Panossiam	54,600	70	9
Erick	Lindgren	54,500	63	7
Matt	Vahimiah	53,400	56	10
Tom	Magnetta	53,000	77	8
Mike	McStott	52,400	73	2
Neil	Bluttner	52,100	72	1
Don	Holland	51,900	57	1
Todd	Lundwall	51,750	74	1
James	Tutino	51,000	68	7
Joe	Pintavalle	50,200	76	3
Greg	Raymer	49,000	71	1
Eskimo	Clark	48,600	61	2
John	Christy	48,100	58	8
Adam	Spiegelberg	47,600	78	8
Erle	Mankin	47,600	76	10
Ciaran	O'Leary	47,100	66	6
Vernon	Harness	45,900	58	2
Christopher	Collins	45,300	54	6
Neil	O'Brien	45,300	55	4
Pitteh	Ryan	45,100	61	7
Chad	Burum	44,700	72	9
Roberto	Mariano	44,200	77	5
Mike	Schoonover	43,200	57	2
Andreas	Krause	42,800	53	4
Steve	Cook	42,800	65	2
Jared	Pickering	42,600	78	10
Jeff	Rodriguez	42,600	67	6
Forest	Bronzan	42,500	70	7
Craig	Crivello	41,900	72	5
Robert	Gianguitti	41,000	64	7
Igor	Goldvin	40,900	74	3
Lucio	Procopio	40,400	72	6
Bryan	Bulthaup	39,900	54	8
Steve	Kolb	39,000	75	8
Richie	Wong	36,900	64	5
Matthew	Ricciardi	36,600	62	8
Lefort	Sean	36,500	56	5
Scott	Yu	36,300	63	9
Ben	Santoli III	35,900	57	6
Matthew	Schwartz	34,400	78	2
Blaine	McGowan	33,700	71	5
Mike	Parekm	33,600	66	7
Rich	Dinunzio	32,700	54	7
Jesse	Berger	32,500	58	9
Anthony	Maggio	32,400	54	10
Bono	Ben	32,300	56	7
Ali	Pabarja	32,000	66	10
Abel	Griffin	31,800	56	4
Eric	Mizrachi	31,600	52	3
Charlie	Sewell	31,400	74	2
David	Pena	30,600	67	2
Richard	Park	30,100	70	6
Scott	Mumby	30,100	60	10
Michael	Stewart	29,500	6	2
Nan	Wang	29,200	67	5
Justin	Zamarra	28,900	52	2
Kenneth	McMahan	28,600	68	1
Mihail	Karasoulis	28,400	53	1
Frankie	Havard	28,200	73	1
Gordon	Hopkins	28,000	69	10
Heidi	Tomich	27,700	75	2
Chris	Moneymaker	27,600	55	5
Jason	Potter	27,500	53	6
Ryan	Daut	27,500	70	10
Brian	Saxe	27,100	52	6
Robert	Samano Jr	27,000	66	9
Joseph	Burgess	26,100	75	10
Marshall	Robert	26,100	59	7
Mark	Howell	25,800	68	3
Ralph	Porter	25,700	69	9
D	Von Sachsen	25,300	52	9
Jim	Libreth	25,300	66	5
Patez	Kiran	25,200	59	5
Gary	Germann	25,100	62	7
John	Pearman	24,400	77	4
David	Cohen	24,300	55	9
Diep	Gevin	24,300	59	2
Brian	McPeek	23,900	71	6
Fred	Breuner	23,800	72	4
Minh	Nguyen	23,800	74	5
Tony	Collier	23,800	69	1
Maria	Ho	23,600	59	10
Jonathan	Brody	23,300	57	8
Sam	Paolini	23,300	53	2
Horowitz	Michael	22,900	56	1
Kevin	Song	22,700	75	7
Steven	Liu	22,700	76	1
Michael	Akkashiaw	22,300	78	6
Matthew	Ramsey	22,200	75	4
Scott	Takeshita	22,200	57	7
Anthony	Palermo	22,000	68	5
Jose	Alfaro	22,000	71	9
Tim	Buczynski	21,900	57	3
Trinh	Nguyen	21,800	64	8
Steven	Yeager	21,600	52	1
Brian	Pumis	21,500	76	8
Lance	Ralls	21,300	65	4
Graham	Andrews	21,200	65	5
Paul	Pulcher	21,100	53	8
Benjamin	Logan	20,900	58	10
John	Srzemp	20,700	74	6
William	Argie Jr	20,500	64	4
Lynn	Franklin	20,300	63	10
Mike	Hieschensohn	20,300	73	8
Brandon	Wong	20,100	76	9
Dave	Fischer	20,100	77	2
Trung	Ly	19,600	68	9
Warren	Karp	19,200	68	2
Daniel	Tamura	19,000	54	1
Joe	Politte	18,800	68	10
John	Galbraith	18,800	64	3
Craig	Handelsman	18,500	63	4
Jose	Rosenkrantz	18,500	61	10
Derek	Molnar	18,400	77	3
Isaac	Lidgi	18,400	76	5
Aaron	Fleischner	18,200	63	2
Marc	Reiser	18,100	60	9
Ernest	Shepherd	17,700	70	1
Scott	Jensen	17,700	74	9
Christian	Bates	17,500	72	2
Jimmy	Holland`	17,500	54	5
Marvin	Guss	17,500	77	9
Joon	Kim	17,300	63	5
Jean-Pierre	Angelil	17,200	73	6
Miguel	Londono	17,200	53	3
Chris	Ladner	17,100	78	5
Donavan	Cox	16,900	61	4
Matthew	Walter	16,500	74	10
Young	Phan	16,300	68	4
John	Hausler	15,800	75	9
Ryan	Kogan	15,800	70	2
Erik	Haakenson	15,600	64	2
Jared	Anderson	15,500	62	1
Kevin	Ho	15,500	74	4
Michael	Dobrich	15,500	62	2
Edward	Salazar	15,300	68	8
Unavailable	Unavailable	15,300	77	1
Dan	Schmiech	15,200	55	1
Louis	Bedowitz	15,000	62	3
Tom	Lee	14,700	55	6
Robert	Addison	14,600	58	4
James	Chiddy	14,500	73	7
Jason	Cunha	14,200	77	6
Michael	Price	14,200	53	5
Lisa	Brumbeloe	14,100	58	6
Brian	Kneier	14,000	64	1
Ian	Keiser	13,900	54	3
Thomas	Sanduski	13,800	78	9
Wanke	Bill	13,800	56	2
William	Mietz	13,700	76	7
Barbara	Garreti	13,500	69
Christopher	Dema	13,500	70	8
Steve	Hastings	13,200	60	3
Kevin	Reive	13,100	75	6
Franco	Brunetti	12,900	69
Brandon	Patin	12,800	56	8
Matt	Lefkowitz	12,500	67	7
Nghia	Tran	12,500	57	10
Vonas	Nigel	12,400	59	1
Dennis	Smith	12,300	67	4
Kevin	McBride	11,900	63	3
Dennis	Rieb	11,800	69	5
Patrick	O'Malley	11,600	69	7
Vincent	Lepore	11,500	52	10
Eugene	Todd	11,400	72	3
Santo	Messina	11,400	62	6
Mark	Peterson	11,300	71	2
Mark	Vail	11,200	66	1
Jeff	Wyckoff	10,900	65	8
Thad	Smith	10,900	65	7
Ropger	Lu	10,800	69	2
Antoine	Bass	10,700	53	10
Chris	James	10,300	73	3
Evan	Dollinger	10,300	76	4
Oleson	Greg	10,100	59	8
Roberto	Macatangay	9,900	61	1
Kenneth	Sigel	9,700	65	1
Mark	Popkin	9,700	72	8
Scott	Lychwick	9,200	60	1
Edward	Lee	9,000	52	5
Kaufmann	Jess	9,000	56	6
Kenneth	Hampton	8,900	57	9
Artin	Christman	8,800	52	8
Billy	Sheffy	8,700	55	7
Justin	Blumenthal	8,600	62	10
Chad	Mulheron	8,300	71	4
Melvin	Denham	8,300	73	4
Raed	Abualfilat	8,200	78	3
Ruben	Carter	8,200	60	4
David	Leighton	8,000	66	4
John	Thompson	8,000	61	8
Hal	Cromwell	7,600	65	3
Richard	Higgins	7,400	63	1
Chad	Bradbury	7,200	75	5
Michael	Shearer	7,200	52	7
Matt	Davis	7,100	62	4
Keith	Greer	6,800	54	9
Dan	McGuire	6,700	67	10
Huy	Pham	6,700	53	9
Christopher	Grillo	6,600	76	2
Keith	Rodgers	6,500	74	7
Rob	Searfoss	6,200	62	9
John	Young	5,500	74	8
K	Davis	5,400	70	4
Phillip	Schechter	5,200	75	3
Christopher	Riley	5,100	67	9
Karl	Mahrenholz	5,000	61	9
Andrew	Ashbey	4,800	56	3
John	Tzortzis	4,700	57	5
Roberto	Jakoby	4,700	61	3
Thomas	Wahlroos	4,700	78	7
Chad	Wagen	4,600	65	6
Mark	Rafn	4,400	78	1
Yarom	Limor	3,600	59	6
Andrew	Schafer	3,000	58	5
Dominick	Cantore	3,000	64	9
Joc	Ogden	2,800	73	10
Trey	Robinson	2,700	66	8
Donna	Varlotto	2,000	73	9
Ronald	Dorual	1,300	77	7
Joel	Ming	1,200	55	10
Charles	Zanatina	700	61	5