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2006 World Series of Poker

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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 scheduled for June 28 and 29. Forty more events in various events including Omaha, seven-card stud and razz, plus ladies' and senior tournaments will lead up to the 10,000 USD no-limit Texas hold 'em main event starting July 28 and running through the final table on August 10.

All events will be held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, which will mark the first time that a casino other than Binion's Horseshoe (now "Binion's") will host the final table of the main event. Six days reserved for the first two rounds of play for the main event has been established by Harrah's Entertainment, which has run the annual event since its purchase from the Binion family in 2004.

The estimated first prize in the main event is $10 million. If reached, this will be the richest prize for the winner of any sports or television event in history.

2006 featured a much anticipated $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. event - the highest WSOP buy-in ever.

Preliminary Events

Event
Number 		Event Winner Prize Runner-up Results
1 $500 Casino Employee's 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 Russ 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 William 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 $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or better) Sam Farha $398,560 Phil Ivey Results
12 $1,500 Limit Hold'em Bob Chalmers $258,344 Tam Ho Results
13 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Max Pescatori $682,389 Anthony Reategui Results
14 $1,000+$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 $236,094 Shanee 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 William 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 Ankenmen 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
26a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys Eric Froehlich $299,675 Sherkhan Farnnod
27 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Event in Progress $655,141
28 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud
29 $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em
30 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table
31 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
32 $1,500 Razz
33 $5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
34 $1,000+$1,000 No Limit Hold'em
w/multiple rebuys
35 $1,000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB
36 $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
37 $5,000+$5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
38 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
No-Limit Hold'em Media Event
39 $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
40 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
41 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
42 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
43 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
44 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
45 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Main Event

The Main Event will be the biggest event and the world championship of the 2006 WSOP. The tournament will be a $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em event. Due to the massive fields of the tournament, the field will be split into 4 groups of up to 2700 and play on separate days. Each of the 4 groups will play down to 800 people. The field will be whittled down to the newest world champion to be crowned on August 10.

See also

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