2006 жылғы Покер турнирлері сериясы

Series of poker tournaments

The 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) began on June 25, 2006, with satellite events, with regular play commencing on June 26 with the annual Casino Employee event and the Tournament of Champions held on June 28 and 29. Forty more events, in various disciplines including Omaha, seven card stud and razz, plus ladies' and senior tournaments, led up to the 10,000 US$ no limit Texas hold 'em main event starting July 28 and running through the final table on August 10. All events were held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, which marked the first time that a casino other than Binion's Horseshoe (now "Binion's") hosted the final table of the main event. Six days reserved for the first two rounds of play for the main event were established by Harrah's Entertainment, which has run the annual event since its purchase from the Binion family in 2004. The first prize in the main event was $12 million (US$), at that time the richest prize for the winner of any sports or television event in history. The top 12 players became millionaires. The record prize was surpassed at the 2012 WSOP, when the winner of the $1 million buy in Big One for One Drop, Antonio Esfandiari, received a first place prize of $18.3 million. The 2006 World Series featured a much anticipated HORSE tournament with a $50,000 buy in, the highest ever for a single WSOP event. Humberto Brenes, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, and Alex Jacob tied for the most cashes during the WSOP, with eight each. Jeff Madsen, who won two events and made two other final tables (finishing 3rd both times), was named the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year (POTY). He barely edged Hellmuth, who also made four final tables.

Number Event Winner Prize Runner up – 1 $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em Chris Gros $127,616 Bryan Devonshire Results 2 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Brandon Cantu $757,839 Phong "Mark" Ly Results 3 $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em Rafe Furst $345,984 Rocky Enciso Results 4 $1,500 Limit Hold'em Kianoush Abolfathi $335,289 Eric Buchman Results 5 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table Dutch Boyd $475,712 Joe Hachem Results 6 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Mark Vos $803,274 Nam Le Results 7 $3,000 Limit Hold'em Bill Chen $343,618 Yueqi "Rich" Zhu Results 8 $2,000 Omaha Hi Lo (8 or better) Jack Zwerner $341,426 Rusty Mandap Results 9 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Jeff Cabanillas $818,546 Phil Hellmuth Jr. Results 10 $1,500 Seven card stud David Williams $163,118 John Hoang Results 11 $1,500 No limit Hold'em Bob Chalmers $258,344 Tam Ho Results 12 $5,000 Omaha Hi Lo (8 or better) Sam Farha $398,560 Phil Ivey Results 13 $2,500 Limit Hold'em Max Pescatori $682,389 Anthony Reategui Results 14 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/multiple rebuys Allen Cunningham $625,830 David Rheem Results 15 $1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em Mary Jones Meyer $236,094 Shawnee Barton Results 16 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Lee Watkinson $655,746 Mike Guttman Results 17 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Jon Friedberg $526,185 John Phan Results 18 $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Eric Kesselman $311,403 Hyon Kim Results 19 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Seniors Clare Miller $247,814 Mike Nargi Results 20 $50,000 H. O. R. S. E. David "Chip" Reese $1,716,000 Andy Bloch Results 21 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table Bill Chen $442,511 Nath Pizzolatto Results 22 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Jeff Madsen $660,948 Paul Sheng Results 23 $3,000 Limit Hold'em Ian Johns $291,755 Jerrod Ankenman Results 24 $3,000 Omaha Hi Lo (8 or better) Scott Clements $301,175 Thor Hansen Results 25 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout David Pham $240,222 Charlie Sewell Results 26 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Ralph Perry $207,817 George Abdallah Results 26a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys Eric Froehlich $299,675 Sherkhan FarnoodResults 27 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Mats Rahmn $655,141 Richard Toth Results 28 $5,000 Seven Card Stud Benjamin Lin $256,620 Shawn Sheikhan Results 29 $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em John Gale $374,849 Maros Lechman Results 30 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table Jeff Madsen $643,381 Erick Lindgren Results 31 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Justin Scott $842,262 Freddy RouhaniResults 32 $5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Jason Lester $550,746 Alan Sass Results 33 $1,500 Razz James Richburg $139,576 Carlos Mortensen Results 34 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/multiple rebuys Phil Hellmuth $631,863 Juha Helppi Results 35 $1,000 Seven Card Stud High Low 8/OB Pat Poels $172,091 Greg Dinkin Results 36 $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Victoriano Perches $157,338 Arnold Spee Results 37 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em James Gorham $765,226 Osman Kibar Results 38 $5,000 No Limit 2–7 Draw Lowball w/rebuys Daniel Alaei $430,698 David Williams Results 39 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Jamie Gold $12,000,000 Paul Wasicka Results 40 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Praz Bansi $230,209 Anh Lu Results 41 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Paul Kobel $316,144 Tyler Andrews Results 42 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Jim Mitchell $153,173 Stuart Fox Results 43 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Kevin Nathan $171,987 J. C. Tran Results 44 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Kevin Cover $196,968 Joe Brandenburg Results 45 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Anders Henriksson $202,291 Maureen Feduniak Results

The 2006 Main Event (event #39) remains the largest tournament in poker history by prize pool with a total prize pool of $82,512,162. The tournament, like every WSOP Main Event, is a $10,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em event. Due to the 8,773 player field, there were four separate starting days (1A 1D), each playing down to 800 people. They were later combined into one other set of separate days (2A and 2B) before becoming one whole group. The field was whittled down to 9 players on August 8, and Jamie Gold was crowned World Champion on August 10. The final table of the "Main Event" was offered live on Pay Per View, but unlike ESPN telecasts, viewers at home could not see the hole cards of the players unless the player turned their cards over. Along with the usual $10,000 chip stacks, a new feature to the WSOP was the "All In" button. Tournament directors have informed the participants that the coin could be used in lieu of pushing all of one's chips into the pot. The beige $50,000 chips that were used in 2005 were not used in 2006. Instead, tangerine and yellow $25,000 chips, in the design of the current $25 chips, were used. And for the first time in World Series of Poker History, a $100,000 chip was introduced on day 7. The chips were mint green with black edge spots in the design of the current yellow/black $1,000 chip.

NameNumber of chips(percentage of total)WSOPBracelets*WSOPCashes*WSOPEarnings* Jamie Gold25,650,000 (28.5%)000 Allen Cunningham17,770,000 (19.7%)428$2,371,769 Richard Lee11,820,000 (13.1%)000 Erik Friberg9,605,000 (10.7%)000 Paul Wasicka7,970,000 (8.8%)02$64,437 Doug Kim6,770,000 (7.5%)000 Rhett Butler4,815,000 (5.3%)000 Michael Binger3,140,000 (3.5%)01$101,570 Dan Nassif2,600,000 (2.9%)000
*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2006 Main Event.

When play resumed during day 2 of this event, a table with players, Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, and Kathy Liebert were given extra chips after tournament officials had misplaced Mirza Nagji's chips in the wrong seat. Unknowingly, the rest of the players assumed that this stack was someone else's who was late and blinded off the stack. Eventually a player noticed that the stack was Mirza Nagji's chips, who by that time had been given replacement chips. Players estimate that out of the extra 120,000 in chips that were put into play, around 10,000–11,000 in chips had already been blinded off from the empty stack.

Many poker players who entered into the HORSE event discovered that the cards they were playing with were marked or easily markable. Andy Bloch was assessed a 10‑minute penalty for crumpling a card when a dealer refused to replace the deck after the new deck that came in was rife with markings. When asked for comment, WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said, "I hadn't heard anything about the cards being marked until today. I am looking into getting more fresh setups and I am definitely working on solving the problem."

During Event 25, the $2,000 NL Hold 'em Shootout, the structure was changed mid tournament from a full table into a 6 handed table event. Harry Demetriou, who had been playing in the event, objected to the change in format citing that a shootout should be 9, 10 or 11 handed, yelling about the unfair change in structure. Harry was eventually ejected from the tournament and was later refunded his money. Daniel Negreanu missed the event completely because he assumed that the event would be a full table and he would be able to come into the tournament a little bit later after sleeping in. However, by the time he showed up David Singer had won his table after blinding off Negreanu's stack.