$500 No Limit Holdem - 2008 Legends of Poker Event #9

2008 Legends of Poker
$500 No Limit Holdem
Final Results
World Poker Tour (WPT)
Season 7 Results

2008 Legends of Poker Tournament
The Bicycle Casino
Bell Gardens, California
World Poker Tour (WPT) Season 7
August 6, 2008

No Limit Hold'em
Buy-in: $500 + $45
Number of Entries: 290
Prize Pool: $140,650

Official Results:

Place Name Hometown Prize

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Shan Jing
Ramzi Srour
Gbadebo Adejunmobi
Glenn Cozen
Eric Hershler
Edward Hsu
Adam Weinraub
Keith Rogers
Lance Tahata
Ron Harri
Dung X. Le
Johnny Pham
James Lenaghan
Tony Ferrer
Matthew Damadeo
Manuel Labandeira
Duoc Nguyen
Nazir Habhab
Alan Steinberg
James Fugatti
Kevin McCormack
Rocky Enciso
David Phelps
Elie Mrad
Ovenson Benoit
Bill Williams
Bryn Asch

Arcadia, CA
Burbank, CA
Santa Monica, CA
S. Pasadena, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Montebello, CA
Orange, CA
Walnut, CA
Los Angeles, CA
La Jolla, CA
Midway, CA
Moreno Valley, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Buena Park, CA
Manhattan Beach, CA
Corona, CA
Bell Gardens, CA
Fontana, CA
Gardena, CA
San Pedro, CA
Chino, CA
Glendale, CA
Balboa Lake, CA
Covina, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Riverside, CA
Orange, CA

$52,040
$25,880
$12,650
$8,440
$6,330
$4,925
$3,515
$2,815
$2,110
$1,760
$1,760
$1,760
$1,405
$1,405
$1,405
$1,195
$1,195
$1,195
$985
$985
$985
$985
$985
$985
$985
$985
$985

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2008 Legends of Poker Tournament Report Event #9
$500 No Limit Holdem

Shan Jing Works the Big Stack

With 290 players converging in The Ballroom at The Bike for event #9, a
$500+$45 No Limit Hold'em event, the prize pool grew to $140,650. First
place was $52,040 and three tables were paid with 27th spot paying $985.

The final table was set just before 2am at level 14 with an ante of 500 and
blinds of 2000/4000. The average chip stack was 130,000 since the starting
chips were 4,500. It took less than one orbit before the first elimination. On
hand #8 chip leader Shan Jing is all-in with his pocket 10s against Kevin
Haeri's K-Q. The flop was A-4-3 missing both players and extending Shan's
lead. The turn 7 and river 8 bricked for Kevin and he found himself out in 10th
place and collected $1,760.

One more trip around the table was almost complete when Shan Jing raised
from the cutoff and was called all-in from the big blind. Shan held A-10 and
Lance Tahata showed a dominated A-3. The flop was K-8-7 with no help to
Lance and decreasing the chance of a chopped pot. The turn King and river
5 sealed the win for Shan. Lance Tahata was eliminated in 9th place for
$2,110.

On hand #38, Eric Hershler, a WPT Champion, was all-in with a K-J covering
Keith Rogers in the big blind with K-8. The board was A-9-2-3-9 and Eric's
Jack kicker played. Keith Rogers, from Walnut, CA was out in 8th place and
earned $2,815.

Just 6 hands later, 3 players got it all in and saw a flop of Qh-9h-3h. Debo
Adejunmobi held Kh-K, Adam Weinraub held Q-10, and Edward Hsu held
10-10. The turn Jh sealed the deal for Debo with the King high flush. The
inconsequential river was an offsuit 6. Adam Weinraub finished in 7th place
for $3,515. Debo collected the sizable side pot from Edward.

The last elimination came at hand #67 when Edward Hsu did battle with the
chip leader Shan Jing. Edward held A-6 and ran into Shan's pocket Queens.
The board came 9-6-5-10-8 and Edward could not find his outs. Edward Hsu
was eliminated in 6th place and earned $4,925.

Hand #98 was an interesting hand when Glenn Cozen, 1993 WSOP Main
event runner-up, re-raised Eric Hershler all-in and Eric called preflop. Eric
held big slick A-K and Glenn held a dominated K-J. The board fell 5-3-2-4-A.
The river Ace took away the win from Eric and gave each player half the pot.
Glenn has been called the luckiest man in WSOP Main Event history by
moving up to 2nd place at the 1993 Main Event when Jim Bechtel took out
John Bonetti and Glenn "folded" his way into 2nd place.

The final five players played for about 40 more hands with some casual talk of
looking at a chip count every 10 hands or so. Finally, shortly after 5am, a chip
count was evaluated and accepted. Shan Jing held the chip lead for the entire
final table and throughout the latter stages of the tournament as well.

-- Jay "Bugsy" Siegel

Biography

Shan Jing has been playing poker for about 2 years. He transferred out to
Los Angeles from New York City and realized he had arrived at the Poker
Capitol of the world and started learning & training to play tournament No
Limit Hold'em. A computer engineer for a top national bank, Shan plays
exclusively tournaments and has won entries into many tournaments through
on-line and live satellites. Shan played in the 2006 WSOP and has placed
17th place in the 2006 $10k event at Commerce Casino. Shan attributes his
results to lots of PokerStars on-line training and obsessive poker reading
including the 2+2 forum (twoplustwo.com). Shan says his style is similar to T.J.
Cloutier (tight-aggressive) and he also believes that he can read his
opponents well. He will adapt his style of play appropriately after he has made
a read of this table.