While the rest of us were at the WSOP, my very good friend Richard Holmes was home working hard to put this together. This is what he sent me...
RICHARD HOLMES HARD AT WORK
As most of you know, I’m unable to go to the US for another three years, so I wasted two months of my life keeping track of all "players of interest' during this year’s Series. I'm 100% certain of the accuracy of the cashes and fairly certain of most buy ins as PokerNews reported all these players daily. In the three rebuy events, I gave each player the average, so everything will not be perfect, but I think it still gives a pretty accurate result for most players. I fully expected that all these sponsored players would show huge losses but this year was definitely the year of the pro and the results are largely impressive proving that very good players probably do have an edge.
Some points of interest:
1. As seems to be the case every year there was a multiple winner - John Phan
2. Brothers who won bracelets - Grant and Blair Hinkle
3.Besides the Ladies Event, Vanessa Selbst was the only other female winner who took home a bracelet this year.
4. 17 of 53 bracelets were won by well known "pros".
5. Nikolay Evdakov cashed 10 times, but no big ones.
6. Chau Giang cashed 8 times and lost 62k, Rolf Slotboom cashed 7 times and lost 25k
7. Dario Minieri played 22 tournaments for 1 cash, 1 bracelet, and 354k profit!!
8. All the big name UK players had a horrible tournament.
Below you will find the results I have listed for most players of interest. If not listed, it is because the win or loss was marginal either way. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 1k.
Females
Winners
Vanessa Selbst + 297k
Kathy Libert 264
Evelyn Ng 11
Losers
Katja Thater - 134k
Jennifer Harmon 123
Jennifer Tilly 85
Isabelle Mercier 85
Vanessa Rousso 82
Shannon Elizabeth 79
Anna Wrobleweski 59
Sabyl Landrum 48
Beth Shak 44
Erica Schoenberg 39
Clonie Gowen 34
Liz Lieu 34
Annie Duke 33
Cyndy Violette 28
Kristy Gazes 27
NB. Sarah Bilney 5 cashes (small loss)
Most recent main event champions.
Jerry Yang - 20k
Jamie Gold - 68k
Joe Hachem - 72k
Greg Raymer - 176k
Chris Moneymaker - 37k
Old school guys, only 1 winner!
Doyle Brunson + 36k
Losers
Mickey Appleman - 143k
T.J Cloutier 133
Steve Zolotow 105
Dewey Tomko 101
Mel Judah 76
Berry Johnston 71
Tom McEvoy 50
Tom Franklin 44
Sam Grizzle 42
Eskimo Clark 35
David Sklansky 31
Billy Baxter 27
Australians - Really impressive winners!
Billy Agryos (Croc) + 178k
Jeff Lisandro 172
David Saab 125
Jamie Pickering 115
Jason Gray 114
Michael Guzzardi 62
Mark Vos 45
Tino Lechich 23
Julian Powell 23
Roy Vandersluis 4 cashes not sure entries?
Losers
Tony Guoga - 93k
Garry Benson 76
Sam Koussis 54
Richard Ashby 52
Van Marcus 43
Emad Tahtouh 30
Big name winners!
Scotty Nguyen + 1.884K
Eric Lindgren 1.146
J.C Tran 794
David Benyamine 737
Nenad Medic 732
Mike Matusow 731
Barry Greenstein 570
John Phan 520
Andy Bloch 514
Shane Schleger 477
Chris Ferguson 464
Kenny Tran 443
Layne Flack 425
Dario Minieri 354
Shannon Schorr 315
Daniel Negreanu 287
Michael Mizrachi 249
David Singer 220
Alexander Kostritsyn 206
Chris Bjorn 201
Greg Mueller 192
Huck Seed 171
Phil Helmouth 167
Ted Forrest 156
Mike Sexton 118
Max Pescatori 96
Ralph Perry 84
Jean Bellande 78
Justin Bonomo 70
Marcel Luske 67
Victor Ramdin 53
Eric Seidel 45
Alex Jacob 43
And the big name losers!
Freddy Deeb - 188k (last years biggest winner besides Jerry Yang!!)
Andy Black 172
Amnon Filippi 162
John Hennigan 162
Mark Goodwin 150
Johnny Chan 149
Alex Kravchenko 147
Bill Chen 147
Todd Brunson 144
Michael Binger 143
Robert williamson 111
Gavin Smith 137
Daniel Alaei 133
Nick Schulman 133
Alan Kessler 132
Thor Hansen 120
Bill Gazes 119
Marco Traniello 116
Joe Cassidy 112
Roy Winston 110
John D'Agostino 107
David Chiu 103
Barney Boatman 101
David Grey 101
Dave Ulliott 100
Burt Boutin 97
Bill Edler 97
Hasin Habib 96
David Levi 95
Jonathon Little 87
Sorrel Mizzi 84
Carlos Mortenson 84
Scott Fishman 80
Eric Lynch 80
Steve Billirakis 80
Kevin Saul 79
Ross Boatman 77
Mark Seif 76
Dan Shak 76
Jeff Schulman 72
Michael Binger 72
Joe Sebok 71
Josh Arieh 70
Harry Demetriou 70
Barry Schulman 67
Dutch Boyd 67
Jarrod Hamby 67
Jimmy Fricke 67
David Pham 67
Gus Hansen 65
Rafe Furst 65
Shaun Sheikhan 64
Chau Giang 62
Amir Vahedi 62
Jason Lester 61
Mark Gregorich 60
Joe Beevers 59
Darryl Dicken 58
Brad Booth 58
Noah Boeken 56
Fabrice Soullier 56
Antonio Esfiandiri 55
Lee Watkinson 52
Nam Le 51
Brett Jungblutt 50
Humberto Brenes 50
Men Nguyen 43
Kenna James 40
David Plastik 39
Phil Ivey 39
Hevad Khan 39
Tom Dwan 36
Paul Wasicka 36
Howard Lederer 35
Scott Clements 35
Paul Darden 34
Blair Rodman 34
Robert Mizrachi 25
Patrick Antonious 25
I hope u found it interesting?
-Rich
This would’ve taken Richard plenty of time and effort so thank you very much, mate for sending it to me and letting me use it for the Croc report, as well as the perusal of all PokerNetwork readers. Thanks Richard, I owe you a dinner.
Ciao from Billy The Croc