$1,500 Limit Hold'em-Event #11-2006 WSOP Results

Event #11
$1,500 buy-in
Limit Hold'em
2006 World Series of Poker
(WSOP)
Final Tournament Results

2006 World Series of Poker
Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino – Las Vegas
Official Results and Report

Event #11
Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1,500
Number of Entries: 701
Total Prize Money: $956,865
Defending Champion (2005):
Reza Payvar

Official Results:

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Bob “Big Red” Chalmers
Tam Ho
Warren Woolridge
Thanh Nguyen
Doug Saab
Jan Sjavik
Graham Duke
Bob Bartmann
David Calla
Michelle Lancaster
Adam Smith
David Baker
Zack Fritz
Alan Steinberg
Guy Cicconi
Robert Lee Addison
Bobby Law
Sasson E. Eliyaho
Matthew Hilger
Lawrence Wein
Peter Inglis
Edwin Bob Roth
Joseph Sebok
Phuong C Nguyen
Jason Eakes
Ryan McGuire
Richard Joel
Derek Andrew
Richard Okazaki
Robert Willis
Adam Wallace
Jeffrey Heiberg
Gregory Weldon
Andreas Hagen
Donnie Sitic
Christopher Ziajka
Doug Ikeda
Steve Del Borrell
Dawson Dvorak
Tom McCormick
Harold Lockwood, Jr.
Carlo Citrone
Steven Diano
Barbara Cardin
Benjamin Williams
Daniel Anderson
Kevin Daniel
Anthony Pirone
Alexander Vuong
John Hurst
Chris Hartman
Gary Gosewehn
Christopher Lamell
Rory Duncan
Chris Bell
Gevin Trung Diep
Michael Shanahan
Richard Sweetman
Jeff Mervis
Alex Morteh
Raul Paez
Randy McKay
Jose Torres
Brent Shaw
Tanya Bui
Cliff Flachsenhar
Michael Schultz
Paul Taylor
Claude Sanders
Rovert Gilbert
Emil Gunnarson
Peter Nathan

Vancouver, BC
Las Vegas, NV
London, UK
Kent, WA
Trussville, AL
Oslo, Norway
Kitchener, ON
Stillwater, OK
Farmingville, NY
Avon, CT
Mansfield, TX
Katy, TX
Las Vegas, NV
Gardena, CA
Chadds Ford, PA
Santa Barbara, CA
Chetek, WI
Holon, Israel
Atlanta, GA
Los Angeles, CA
Erie, CO
Saratoga, CA
RPV, CA
Auburn, WA
Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas, NV
Conyers, GA
Henderson, NV
Honolulu, HI
Mallow, Ireland
Edmonton, Canada
Buffalo, WY
Toms River, NJ
Slavanger, Norway
Las Vegas, NV
Naples, FL
Lavergne, TX
Laurel Pg, MD
Lincoln, NE
Fargo, ND
Weathorford, TX
UK
Las Vegas, NV
Tampa, FL
San Antonio, TX
N Pomona, CA
Newnan, GA
Watertown, MA
RPV, CA
Dallas, TX
Fairbanks, Alaska
Port Washington, WI
Deer Park, TX
Calgary, Canada
Raleigh, NC
Gilroy, CA
Sendia, GA
Londonberry, NH
Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas, NV
Barcelona, Spain
Finley, ND
Hollywood, FL
Langley, BC, Canada
San Jose, CA
Belgrade, MT
Atascadero, CA
Cathedral City, CA
Houston, TX
Laurel, MD
Sweden
Las Vegas, NV

$258,344
$135,396
$76,549
$66,981
$57,412
$47,843
$38,275
$28,706
$16,137
$10,526
$10,526
$10,526
$8,612
$8,612
$8,612
$6,698
$6,698
$6,698
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$4,784
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$3,349
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,775
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$2,249
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,914
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675
$1,675

Tournament Report

“Big Red” Takes the Big Money

Bob Chalmers, a.k.a. “Big Red,” Wins First-Ever WSOP Gold Bracelet

Canadian businessman takes top prize in Limit Hold’em championship,
earns $258,344

Las Vegas, NV – Those who have never played poker for big money often fail
to appreciate the physical and emotional sacrifice that it takes to win.
Winning poker is work, not play. Unfortunately, television frequently portrays
poker as an effortless game. There are no clocks which display the drawn-
out passage of time. Hundreds of arduous hands are edited out. The
players’ mental and physical dexterity is impossible to calculate.

Bob Chalmers embodies the type of player who approaches poker as a test
of both will and patience. The 56-year-old business consultant from
Vancouver, British Columbia vanquished 700 challengers in the $1,500 buy-in
Limit Hold’em world championship. Chalmers, nicknamed “Big Red” for his
distinctive auburn-tinged crest, won his first World Series of Poker gold
bracelet. Chalmers’ extensive business background served him well at this
final table.

“What I realized from playing at this final table is that it takes a lot of work to
win,” Chalmers said in a post-tournament interview. “Sure, some luck helps.
But, it’s really hard work. There was not a time when I was not thinking of
my stay at the final table as like working. It seemed like a long time. The
easy thing for me was to understand that (winning) wasn’t going to happen
in just a hand or two, but it rather would be a process that took time -- so I
looked at it that way.”

Indeed, Chalmers was “all business” on this night. His $1,500 investment
paid of handsomely, to the tune of $258,344 as the top cash prize.

Several new faces made it to the final table for the first time. The only former
WSOP gold bracelet winner present was Doug Saab, who arrived second in
the chip count. Fittingly, the early chip leader was Chalmers, who enjoyed
the chip advantage during much of the nine-hour final table.

David Calla certainly wasn’t intimidated by the pressure of playing at his first-
ever WSOP final table. After all, Calla is a New York City police detective,
accustomed to some unusual demands. Calla went card-dead from the
start. His initial 148,000 stack was blinded down, and at betting limits of
6,000-12,000, Calla moved his remaining chips into the pot holding king-
queen suited. Graham Duke called and showed jack-ten suited. A ten
flopped and Calla was discharged as the ninth place finisher. He received
$16,137.

Bob Bartman was also making his first final table appearance. The
Oklahoman went out when he was forced to play a weak hand from the small
blind and was beaten by Jan Sjavik’s pair of eights. Bartman collected
$28,706.

Just two hands later, Graham Duke was eliminated. Duke went out with
queen-seven, good for top pair after the flop came 7-3-2. Doug Saab faded
the all-in bet holding an overpair (pocket tens). Duke failed to improve which
locked the software developer into seventh place. He earned $38,275.

A top European player, Jan Sjavik holds a poker record which is unlikely ever
to be matched. Back in 2002, Sjavik won ten super-satellite entries into the
main event of the WSOP. No player on record has ever won more. Sjavik
has also won No-Limit championships in London, and elsewhere. However,
he could finish no higher than sixth place in this event. Sjavik went out on a
draw (holding possibilities to both a straight and a flush), missing
everything. His opponent had pocket kings, which held up. The Norwegian
collected $47,843.

Doug Saab suffered a brutal final half-hour. His chip stack evaporated until
the point came where Saab had to take some risks. He tripled up from a low
stack before finally going bust with pocket threes versus Thanh Nguyen’s
pocket kings. Threes versus kings produced the expected result and Saab
drove off in fifth place. For former gold bracelet winner from Alabama earned
$57, 412.

Thanh Nguyen went out in fourth place on a hand where his cards were not
revealed. Two players split up Nguyen’s chips holding pairs of aces. Nguyen,
the Vietnamese-born engineer and consultant from Washington State, picked
up $66,981 in prize money.

The next decisive hand took place when Bob Chalmers scooped a monster-
size pot. On a final board showing A-A-4-4-A, Chalmers raised Warren
Woolridge on the final round, got called, and flipped over an ace – good for
quad aces. Prior to that hand, Woolridge held a brief chip lead. That hand
would prove to be the homestretch for Chalmers. He then set his sights on
the finish line and outpaced his last two rivals over the next 45 minutes with
aggressive play and keenly accurate decisions.

Warren Woolridge broke down in the final stages of the tournament, unable
to recover from a series of tough spots and second-best hands. Woolridge
was eliminated holding a less-than-satisfactory “ace-high,” which was
steamrolled by Chalmers’ full-house. This was Woolridge’s third time to cash
at the WSOP. He enjoyed his best finish yet in this tournament, third place –
good for $76,549.

With slightly more than 1,000,000 in play and betting limits of 15,000-30,000
Bob Chalmers and Tam Ho started off heads-up play about even. From the
onset, Chalmers seized control of the table. It took him only 28 minutes to
commandeer every single chip off of Tam Ho’s stack. The final hand of the
night came when Ho was all-in with ace-three (good for top pair) versus
Chalmers’ queen-three (which made two pair). The final board showed K-Q-4-
A-3 sealing Ho’s fate as the runner up and giving the proud Canadian his first
WSOP victory. Ho collected $135,396 for second place.

As the new poker champion Chalmers sat down and did an interview carried
live on Bluff Radio over the Sirius Satellite Radio Network, it became
immediately obvious that winning would not change the man.

“I tell you, the money is fantastic,” Chalmers said. “I have a couple of friends
that supported me (to play in this tournament). I will certainly share some of
this with them. The gold bracelet is going to mean a lot to me in other areas
– I mean nobody can put a price on a WSOP bracelet. But – we do play
poker for money.”

Spoken like a true businessman.

Report by Nolan Dalla

Overall Tournament Statistics (through end of Event #12):

Total Entries to Date: 13,306

Total Prize Money Distributed: $ 20,399,125

World Series of Poker Commissioner – Jeffrey Pollack

Director, Sponsorship and Licensing -- Ty Stewart

Director, Communications and Operations – Gary Thompson

Director, Broadcasting and New Media – Craig Abrahams

Vice President of Specialty Gaming -- Howard Greenbaum

WSOP Tournament Director – Robert Daily

WSOP Tournament Director/Director of Poker Operations for Harrah’s
Entertainment – Jack Effel