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Event #4
Pot-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1,500
Number of Entries: 781
Total Prize Money: $1,066,065
Date of Tournament: June 3-6, 2007

Tournament Notes:

This promises to be one of most interesting final tables of the WSOP thus far. Chip leader Gavin Smith is shooting for his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet after three phenomenal years on the poker tournament circuit. He is expected to attract a large and rowdy crowd.

While each finalist has an interesting story, a few players stand out: Dr. Bruce Van Horn is making his sixth WSOP final table appearance (lifetime). He was most famous for being the runner-up in the 1996 main event to Huck Seed. He won $585,000 that year.

Jon Freiberg is going for gold bracelet number two. He won over half a million for his win at last year’s World Series

Should either Van Horn or Freiberg win, they would join one of poker’s most prestigious clubs. A victory gives either player over a million-dollars in lifetime earnings at the WSOP,

Finalist Marco Traniello has the somewhat shadowy status of being married to one of the best poker players in the world, wife Jennifer Harman. However, it is Traniello who has outperformed just about everyone at WSOP over the past two years. Traniello cashed a whopping seven times at the 2005 World Series. He cashed four times in 2006. Now with a guaranteed cash in this event, Traniello has a combined total of 12 WSOP cashes dating back to the start of the 2005 WSOP. No other poker player has more.

End of Day Two Results:

The Final Table:

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Seat	Name	Hometown	Chip Count
1	Eric Lynch	Olatta, KS	91,000
2	William Hill	Clarksburg, MD	332,000
3	Tom Savitsky	Randolph, NJ	140,000
4	Michael Spegal	St Marys, GA	241,000
5	Marco Traniello	Las Vegas, NV	277,000
6	Dr. Bruce Van Horn	Ada, OK	315,000
7	Jon "Pokertrip" Friedberg	Las Vegas, NV	204,000
8	Jeff Langdon	Santa Fe, NM	286,000
9	Gavin Smith	Las Vegas, NV	480,000

In the Money Finishers:

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1			$252,290
2			$155,645
3			$101,276
4			$67,162
5			$47,973
6			$36,779
7			$27,718
8			$20,255
9			$14,925
10	John McCarthy	Jersey City, NJ	$10,115
11	Nick Binger	Raleigh, NC	$10,115
12	Tony Basile	Toronto, ON	$10,115
13	Stephen Jones	Springfield, IL	$9,050
14	Bill McNamara	Fairfield, CT	$9,050
15	Robert Gerstenzang	Jamestown, NY	$9,050
16	Javad Navran	CA	$7,985
17	Steve Mills	UK	$7,985
18	Ken Koski	Canton, MI	$7,985
19	Mark Wilds	Biloxi, MS	$6,921
20	Josh Patterson	Simpsonville, SC	$6,921
21	Jean Bellande	Las Vegas, NV	$6,921
22	Graham Wheldon	Cambridge, England	$6,921
23	Cody Slaubaugh	Rugby,ND	$6,921
24	Frank Margolis	Thousand Oaks, CA	$6,921
25	Robert Zipf	Ravenstein, Germany	$6,921
26	Eugene Todd	Brooklyn, NY	$6,921
27	Jameson Hughes	Lakeland, FL	$6,921
28	Robert Thies	Debary, FL	$5,962
29	Francois Safieddine	Denver, CO	$5,962
30	Bart Wetsteijn	Middelburg, Netherlands	$5,962
31	David Roepke	Troy, TX	$5,962
32	Robert Ellis	Houston, TX	$5,962
33	NA	NA
34	Andrew Webking	Seattle, WA	$5,962
35	Nhan Le	Orange County, CA	$5,962
36	Shannon Puskarich	Las Vegas, NV	$5,962
37	Matthew Shepsky	Illinois	$5,962
38	Shane Beckham	New Zealand	$5,111
39	Zorn Venture	CA	$5,111
40	Nick Andricopulos	Chicago, IL	$5,111
41	Gilbert Salas	NA	$5,111
42	Ed Giron	Jacksonville, FL	$5,111
43	Mark Smith	Georgetown, KY	$5,111
44	NA	NA	$5,111
45	Freddy Deeb	Las Vegas, NV	$5,111
46	Keith Tilston	Austin, TX	$4,365
47	Kirke Rivkin	Deerfield, IL	$4,365
48	Archibald Van Horn	Ada, OR	$4,365
49	Wallace Darling	Aurora, CO	$4,365
50	Colin Shattock	UK	$4,365
51	Danny Ciaramella	Brays Landing, PA	$4,635
52	Scott Bohlman	Homer Glen, IL	$4,365
53	Robert Firestone	Santa Barbara, CA	$4,365
54	Daniel Alspach	Las Vegas, NV	$4,365
55	David Hipperson	St. Louis, MO	$3,567
56	Jan Christoph Von Halle	Hamburg, Germany	$3,567
57	Larry Vickers	Winter Garden, FL	$3,567
58	Kenneth Auker	Rock Island, IL	$3,567
59	Joseph Lazaro	Carson City, NV	$3,567
60	Jesse Jamison	Glendale, AZ	$3,567
61	Benjamin Sarnoff	San Francisco, CA	$3,567
62	Katja Thater	Hamburg, Germany	$3,567
63	Ishak Noyan	Sodertalje, Sweden	$3,567
64	David Plastik	Las Vegas, NV	$2,981
65	Nicholas Rosenberger	Orlando, FL	$2,981
66	Lee Kun	Oakton, VA	$2,981
67	Nesbitt Coburn	Minneapolis, MS	$2,981
68	Derek Tomimoto	Redondo Beach, CA	$2,981
69	Jonathan Snyder	Mt. Juliet, TN	$2,981
70	Kevin Manley	Arlington Heights, IL	$2,981
71	Mark Lowe	UK	$2,981
72	Arias Jorge	Venezuela	$2,981