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World Poker Finals / WPT Event Season 4

WPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day
November 18, 2005 at 4:00 PM
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Tournament Schedule
Buy-In $10,000 + $200
Prize Pool $7,845,400
Entries 783
Report Available
Nick Schulman

Nick Schulman

Place Name Prize
1 Nick Schulman AKA "slick" (New York, NY, USA) $2,167,500
2 Anthony Licastro (Long Valley, NJ, USA) $1,035,000
3 Bill Gazes (New York, NY, USA) $759,000
4 Allen Cunningham (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $483,000
5 Lyle Berman (Columbus, OH, USA) $345,000
6 Leonard M Cortellino (Lewiston, ME, USA) $276,000
7 Samir Shakhtor (Malmoe, Sweden) $207,000
8 Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA) $172,800
9 Avdo Djokovic (Staten Island, NY, USA) $138,000
10 Steve Jacobs (Philadelphia, PA, USA) $117,300
11 Josh Ewing (S.Lake Tahoe, CA, USA) $103,500
12 Bryan Veach AKA "Rockets" (Hyde Park, NY, USA) $96,000
13 Eric Haber AKA "sheets" (Muttontown, NY, USA) $89,700
14 Thomas Schreiber AKA "mr big" (Danielson, CT, USA) $82,800
15 Steven Fiorentini (Winchester, MA, USA) $75,900
16 Peter Giordano (Liverpool, NY, USA) $65,550
17 Tony Sanitch (San Pedro, CA, USA) $65,550
18 Loi Van Phan (Seattle, WA, USA) $55,200
19 Joseph Cappello AKA "bobo" (New Rochelle, NY, USA) $48,300
20 Eric Sonnenstuhl (Waltham, MA, USA) $41,300
21 Vinny Curry (New Britain, CT, USA) $24,500
22 Abraham Gray (Lawrenceville, GA, USA) $34,500
23 Ken Selby (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $34,500
24 Jim Pechac (Phoenix, AZ, USA) $34,500
25 Benjamin Kim (Flushing, NY, USA) $35,500
26 Alex Jacob (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $27,600
27 Dennis Fabian (Norwalk, CT, USA) $27,600
28 Feming Chan (W. Windsor, NJ, USA) $27,600
29 Felton Raphael (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $27,600
30 Mark Zulkiewicz (Amherst, MA, USA) $27,600
31 Erik Seidel (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $20,700
32 Ed Pelham (Stamford, CT, USA) $20,700
33 Ilya Liviz (Foster City, CA, USA) $20,700
34 Steve Wong AKA "S 18" (Hoofddorp, Netherlands) $20,700
35 Jeff Paquette (McGregor, MN, USA) $20,700
36 Andy Black (Dublin, Ireland) $17,200
37 Eugene Ji (Rego Park, NY, USA) $17,200
38 Matthew Sahagian AKA "Sage" (Acton, MA, USA) $17,200
39 Vinny Lambiase (S Walpole, MA, USA) $17,200
40 Jason Decker (Clifton, NY, USA) $17,200
41 Michael "The Claw Hung Long" May (New York, NY, USA) $14,000
42 Marco Savoni (Windsor, ON, Canada) $14,000
43 Chris Barbeisch (Greene, NY, USA) $14,000
44 Thomas Coan (Bohemia, NY, USA) $14,000
45 Glyn Banks AKA "Rachet" (Smithville, TN, USA) $14,000
46 Tom McCormick AKA "The Shamrock Kid" (Fargo, ND, USA) $14,000
47 Stephen D Diamantas (Wesley Chapel, FL, USA) $14,000
48 Hasan Habib (Downey, CA, USA) $14,000
49 Young V Phan (Garden Grove, CA, USA) $14,000
50 Sean Michael Scott AKA "Goodfellar" (Hull, UK) $14,000
51 Willie Tann (Bovingdon, UK) $12,000
52 Barry S Berger (Englewood, NJ, USA) $12,000
53 Dave F Scharf (Columbia, SC, USA) $12,000
54 Daniel Yanofski (W.Orange, NJ, USA) $12,000
55 Mohammad H Berenjinataj (Arlington, TX, USA) $12,000
56 Lawrence Lakatosh (Red Lion, PA, USA) $12,000
57 Michael M Menard (North Smithfield, RI, USA) $12,000
58 Joanne "JJ" Liu (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $12,000
59 Thomas Fuller (Boulder, CO, USA) $12,000
60 Carmen Menechella (Niagara Falls, ON, Canada) $12,000
61 John P Sousa (Pelham, NH, USA) $12,000
62 David B Thompson (Bethlehem, CT, USA) $12,000
63 Erik Cajelais (Lachenaie, QC, Canada) $12,000
64 Hyon S Kim (New York, NY, USA) $12,000
65 Michael Mella (Armonk, NY, USA) $12,000
66 Mark Carlson (Wilbraham, MA, USA) $12,000
67 Jason E Zausmer (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $12,000
68 James D Campbell AKA "POKERPRO33" (Worcester, MA, USA) $12,000
69 Scott G Wilson (Victoria, BC, Canada) $12,000
70 Spiro Mitrokostas (West Yarmouth, MA, USA) $12,000
71 William Edler AKA "Bill" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,000
72 Amanda Baker AKA "Mandy" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,000
73 Brian T Batt (Chicago, IL, USA) $11,000
74 Robert T Wittman (Dubuque, IA, USA) $11,000
75 Farzad Bonyadi (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA) $11,000
76 Steven W Dilliard (Malone, FL, USA) $11,000
77 John Disandro (Jamestown, RI, USA) $11,000
78 Temp Hutter (Charlottesville, VA, USA) $11,000
79 Amir Vahedi (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) $11,000
80 Stafford A Woodley (Bronx, NY, USA) $11,000
81 Kyle Bowker (Walton, NY, USA) $11,000
82 William Krackomberger (Galloway, NJ, USA) $11,000
83 Peter Campo (Waterford, CT, USA) $11,000
84 Jerome L Saunders (Orlando, FL, USA) $11,000
85 Jerry Burgess (Louisburg, NC, USA) $11,000
86 Howard Elfant (New York, NY, USA) $11,000
87 Jeffrey B Henry (Mitchellville, MD, USA) $11,000
88 Dean Hamrick (Plymouth, MI, USA) $11,000
89 Andrew Kelsall (Lutz, FL, USA) $11,000
90 Jerry W Young (Henderson, NV, USA) $11,000
91 Donna Blevins (Inverness, FL, USA) $11,000
92 Arnold Spee (Agoura Hills, CA, USA) $11,000
93 Sam Haddad (Westwood, MA, USA) $11,000
94 Mark "The Shark" Seif (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,000
95 Chris Karagulleyan (Glendale, CA, USA) $11,000
96 Marsha Waggoner (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,000
97 Walter Marion Williams (Augusta, GA, USA) $11,000
98 Roy Thung (White Plains, NY, USA) $11,000
99 Mark P Ader (Novi, MI, USA) $11,000
100 Anthony J Camillery (Walden, NY, USA) $11,000
101 Ryan Buckholtz (Encino, CA, USA) $11,000
102 Ralph E Porter AKA "Rep" (Woodinville, WA, USA) $11,000
103 Richard J Cairo (Highland Park, IL, USA) $11,000
104 Frank Meany (Thomaston, CT, USA) $11,000
105 Ronald Kirk (McKinney, TX, USA) $11,000
106 Massoud Nickjouian (Woodbridge, VA, USA) $11,000
107 Mark S Awalt (West Enfield, ME, USA) $11,000
108 Kathy Liebert (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,000
109 Joseph J Peruti (Cheshire, CT, USA) $11,000
110 Kenneth E Myers (Shreveport, LA, USA) $11,000
111 Eric J Hutchens (Burnsville, MN, USA) $11,000
112 Michael R Ramsey (Lutz, FL, USA) $11,000
113 William McKinney (Princeton, WV, USA) $11,000
114 Michael Pascullo (Syosset, NY, USA) $11,000
115 Anthony M Nader (Milton, MA, USA) $11,000
116 Frank Callaghan (Dublin, Ireland) $11,000
117 Matthew Smith (Lithia, FL, USA) $11,000
118 Andrew T Wallach (Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, USA) $11,000
119 Daniel D Sommer (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) $11,000
120 Christopher W. Loveland (Hollis, NH, USA) $11,000

Tournament Report

NICK SCHULMAN IS THE 2005 CHAMPION! TAKES RECORD PRIZE OF $2,167,500!

Nick Schulman, a resident of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, took First Place in the 2005 World Poker Finals $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em event exactly two months after his 21st birthday.

The youngest player to win a WPT event also won a record prize for his victory; Nick takes home $2,167,500 which includes a $25,500 entry into the WPT Championship event in Las Vegas. Six players sat down a little after 4 PM and it was not long before Lenny Cortellino was the first to depart. The Lewiston, Maine, resident called Tony Licastro's all-in with pocket 8's.

When Tony turned up pocket 10's and, with no help from the board, Lenny was the sixth place winner of $276,000. One week ago, Lenny had won the $5000 No-Limit event and, with his finish today, he collected the Best Overall Player Award for the 2005 World Poker Finals. Lyle Berman, the Hall-of-Famer from Minneapolis, MN, was in 5th place when his AJ all-in was called by Nick with AK. Lyle was hoping to finish higher than his son, Bradley, who was 4th last year; Lyle took home $354,000.

With the blinds going up quickly, Allen Cunningham, Las Vegas, NV, was all-in with J10 but Nick was calling immediately with K's and Allen had to settle for 4th place money of $483,000; not a bad day's work! Bill Gazes hung in for 3rd. He lost a particularly difficult pot with pocket A's when Tony flopped a straight with a K10. In the end, his K8 could not compete with Nick's AQ and he took $759,000 back to Miami Beach, FL. The last two of 783 players who started the event were the chip leaders entering the final table.

Nick had maintained his dominate position throughout the day and, only four hands into heads-up play, the competition was over. Tony Licastro, who won one of the last Act II's and then won his seat in the final Act III, had 82; he went all-in when he turned two pair. But, at the same time, Nick caught a flush and Tony was in 2nd place.

Tony had turned his $225 investment into $1,035,000! The youngest player to win a WPT Championship event was now the first player to take home a prize over $2,000,000 in a $10,000 event!

Reported by Jeffrey A Toth for Foxwoods Resort Casino

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