World Poker Tour season 1 results

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

World Poker Tour season 1 results

Below are the results of season 1 of the World Poker Tour

World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour....
(2002–2003).

class="wikitable">

Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st

Jose Rosenkrantz

$108,730

2nd

Jamie Ligator

$45,000

3rd

Luis Milanes

$25,120

4th

Dewey Tomko

Duane "Dewey" Tomko is an United States former kindergarten teacher turned professional poker player, based in Winter Haven, Florida.Tomko is chiefly noted as the runner-up in the World Series of Poker $10,000 betting Texas hold'em main event in both 1982 WSOP and 2001 WSOP ...

$14,650

5th

Jamie Anteneloff

$11,510

6th

R.A.

Discussion

Ask a question about 'World Poker Tour season 1 results'

Start a new discussion about 'World Poker Tour season 1 results'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

Below are the results of season 1 of the World Poker Tour

World Poker Tour

Results

Five Diamond World Poker Classic

Casino: Bellagio
Bellagio

Bellagio is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italy region Lombardy, located on Lake of Como. It has long been famous for its setting at the intersection of the three branches of the Y-shaped lake, which is also known as Lario....
, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
Buy-in: $10,000
5-Day Event: May 27, 2002 to June 1, 2002
Number of Entries: 146
Total Prize Pool: $1,416,200
Number of Payouts: 18

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Gus Hansen Gus Hansen Gustav Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career Hansen has won a record three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament....	$556,460
2nd	John Juanda John Juanda Johnson "John" Juanda is an United States professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California.Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia but is Chinese Indonesian....	$278,240
3rd	Freddy Deeb Freddy Deeb Kassem "Freddy" Deeb is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19....	$139,120
4th	John Hennigan John Hennigan John Randall Hennigan is an United States professional wrestling, better known by his ring names John Morrison and Johnny Nitro. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment performing on their Extreme Championship Wrestling WWE Brand Extension, where he is one half of the current World Tag Team Championship with Mi...	$83,472
5th	Chris Bigler Chris Bigler Chris Bigler is a Switzerland retired businessman, now a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.Bigler began playing poker in 1997 on a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada and studied the game....	$62,604
6th	Scotty Nguyen Scotty Nguyen Thuan "Scotty" Nguy?n is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E....	$48,692

Legends of Poker

Casino: Bicycle Casino
Bicycle Casino

The Bicycle Casino is the world's second largest poker cardroom.Located in Bell Gardens, California, the Bicycle Casino offers a wide variety of poker games and limits, as well as pai gow poker and panguingue and Blackjack....
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
Buy-in: $5,000
2-Day Event: August 30, 2002 to August 31, 2002
Number of Entries: 134
Total Prize Pool: $670,000
Number of Payouts: 9
Winning Hand: Q-Q

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Chris Karagulleyan
Chris Karagulleyan

Chris Karagulleyan is a professional gambler now living in Glendale, California, California, United States. Before becoming a gambler, he worked as a taxi driver and as a baker....
$258,000
2nd Hon Le $122,550
3rd Stan Goldstein $61,270
4th Mark Seif
Mark Seif

Mark Seif is an Egyptian-United States Lawyer and professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada .Seif started playing poker at the age of six in his parents' home game, but did not gain widespread public recognition until finishing fourth in the second World Poker Tour event in August 2002....
$38,700
5th Can Kim Hua
Can Kim Hua

Can Kim Hua is a Vietnamese American professional poker player....
$29,025
6th Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert

Kathleen H. Liebert is an United States professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000....
$22,575

Costa Rica Classic

Casino: Casinos Europa, San José
San José, Costa Rica

San Jos? is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and is at the heart of Gran Area Metropolitana or GAM, located in the Costa Rican Central Valley....
Buy-in: $500 w/ $500 Re-buys
1-Day Event: October 19, 2002
Number of Entries: 134
Total Prize Pool: $234,858
Number of Payouts: 10

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Jose Rosenkrantz $108,730
2nd Jamie Ligator $45,000
3rd Luis Milanes $25,120
4th Dewey Tomko
Dewey Tomko

Duane "Dewey" Tomko is an United States former kindergarten teacher turned professional poker player, based in Winter Haven, Florida.Tomko is chiefly noted as the runner-up in the World Series of Poker $10,000 betting Texas hold'em main event in both 1982 WSOP and 2001 WSOP ...
$14,650
5th Jamie Anteneloff $11,510
6th R.A. Head $9,420

Gold Rush

Casino: Lucky Chances Casino, Colma, California
Colma, California

Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area....
Buy-in: $3,000
2-Day Event: November 10, 2002 to November 11, 2002
Number of Entries: 152
Total Prize Pool: $456,000
Number of Payouts: 18

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Paul Darden
Paul Darden

Paul Darden, Jr. is an United States professional poker player, rap music promoter, and night club owner from New Haven, Connecticut....
$146,000
2nd Chris Bigler
Chris Bigler

Chris Bigler is a Switzerland retired businessman, now a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.Bigler began playing poker in 1997 on a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada and studied the game....
$88,000
3rd Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player.When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California.At the age of 19, he changed his name to Antonio which was adopted from living in a Mexican American community in San Jose, and became a professional magician....
$44,000
4th Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
$34,000
5th Vince Burgio
Vince Burgio

Vince Burgio is an United States professional poker player based in West Hills, California, California.Burgio is a graduate of the University of Missouri?Columbia....
$26,000
6th Tommy Garza $21,000

World Poker Finals

Casino: Foxwoods Casino
Buy-in: $10,000
3-Day Event: November 14, 2002 to November 17, 2002
Number of Entries: 89
Total Prize Pool: $915,000
Number of Payouts: 10

Final Table
Place Name Prize
1st Howard Lederer
Howard Lederer

Howard H. Lederer , is a professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author, poet Katy Lederer.Lederer's father is Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St....
$320,400
2nd Layne Flack
Layne Flack

Layne Flack is an United States professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino....
$186,900
3rd Andy Bloch
Andy Bloch

Andrew E. Bloch is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School....
$102,350
4th Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

Phillip D. Ivey is an United States professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times....
$75,650
5th Peter Giordano $57,850
6th Ron Rose
Ron Rose

Ron Rose is an United States poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, is a two time World Poker Tour Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet....
$44,500

World Poker Open

Casino: Binion's Horseshoe, Tunica, Mississippi
Tunica, Mississippi

Tunica is a town in Tunica County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located near the Mississippi River. Historically part of an agricultural area, the town lies on the fringe of a growing gambling resort area, with major casinos attracting visitors from nearby Memphis, Tennessee and all over the Southeastern United States....
Buy-in: $10,000
4-Day Event: January 28, 2003 to January 31, 2003
Number of Entries: 160
Total Prize Pool: $1,600,000
Number of Payouts: 27
Winning Hand: 6-5

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Dave Ulliott Dave Ulliott David A. Ulliott , known by the nickname Devilfish, is an England professional gambling and poker player. Formerly, Ulliott was a minor figure in the Kingston upon Hull Organized crime, but went on to become a World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet-winner, and a mainstay of poker on television....	$589,175
2nd	Phil Ivey Phil Ivey Phillip D. Ivey is an United States professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times....	$290,130
3rd	Johnny Donaldson	$145,065
4th	Buddy Williams	$91,620
5th	Jeremy Tinsley	$68,715
6th	Tommy Grimes	$53,445

Euro Finals of Poker

Casino: Aviation Club de France, Paris
Buy-in: €10,000 ($10,790)
3-Day Event: February 12, 2003 to February 15, 2003
Number of Entries: 86
Total Prize Pool: €831,000 ($894,510)
Number of Payouts: 9

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Christer Johansson Christer Johansson Christer Johansson is a Sweden professional sports betting and poker player, based in Malm?.Johansson started by playing draw poker with his family, but now concentrates on texas hold 'em....	€500,000 ($538,213)
2nd	Claude Cohen	€160,000 ($172,228)
3rd	Allen Cunningham Allen Cunningham Allen Cunningham is an United States professional poker player. Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally....	€80,000 ($86,114)
4th	Jacques Durand	€32,000 ($34,446)
5th	Tony G Tony G Antanas Guoga , more commonly known as Tony G, is a professional poker player.As a child, he was the Rubik's Cube champion of Lithuania before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11....	€16,000 ($17,223)
6th	Alain Hagege	€13,000 ($13,994)

L.A. Poker Classic

Casino: Commerce Casino
Commerce Casino

Commerce Casino is a cardroom located in the Los Angeles, California suburb of Commerce, California. With over 240 tables on site, Commerce Casino is the largest cardroom in the world....
, Los Angeles
Buy-in: $10,000
4-Day Event: February 21, 2003 to February 24, 2003
Number of Entries: 136
Total Prize Pool: $1,360,000
Number of Payouts: 20

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Gus Hansen Gus Hansen Gustav Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career Hansen has won a record three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament....	$532,490
2nd	Daniel Rentzer	$253,595
3rd	Andy Bloch Andy Bloch Andrew E. Bloch is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School....	$125,460
4th	David Pham David Pham David Pham , is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Bell Gardens, California, California with two World Series of Poker World Series of Poker bracelet and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour....	$80,080
5th	Steven Shkolnik	$53,390
6th	Bob Stupak Bob Stupak Bob Stupak is a Las Vegas, Nevada casino owner and entrepreneur....	$46,715

Party Poker Million

Buy-in: $5,300
1-Day Event: March 6, 2003
Number of Entries: 177
Total Prize Pool: $1,013,800
Number of Payouts: 9

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Howard Lederer Howard Lederer Howard H. Lederer , is a professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author, poet Katy Lederer.Lederer's father is Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St....	$289,150
2nd	Chip Jett Chip Jett *Charles "Chip"* Jett** is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.Jett has been known as "Chip" ever since he left the hospital when he was born....	$175,900
3rd	Joe Simpkins	$105,540
4th	Maureen Feduniak	$79,155
5th	Tim Lark	$52,770
6th	Daniel Coupal	$43,975

World Poker Challenge

Casino: Reno Hilton, Reno
Reno

Reno may refer to:...
Buy-in: $5,000
3-Day Event: March 31, 2003 to April 2, 2003
Number of Entries: 87
Total Prize Pool: $421,746
Number of Payouts: 9

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ron Rose Ron Rose Ron Rose is an United States poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, is a two time World Poker Tour Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet....	$168,298
2nd	Cal Dykes	$96,772
3rd	Tony Le	$50,490
4th	Paul Magriel Paul Magriel Paul David Magriel Jr. is an United States professional backgammon player, poker player and author based in Las Vegas, Nevada....	$29,452
5th	Mark Edwards	$23,140
6th	T.J. Cloutier	$18,934

WPT Championship

Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $25,000
5-Day Event: April 14, 2003 to April 18, 2003
Number of Entries: 111
Total Prize Pool: $2,691,750
Number of Payouts: 28

**Final Table**
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Alan Goehring Alan Goehring Alan Goehring is a retired United States junk bond analyst and trader from Henderson, Nevada. At the age of 37, he became a professional poker player....	$1,011,886
2nd	Kirill Gerasimov Kirill Gerasimov Kirill Gerasimov is a Russian professional poker player.Gerasimov worked as an insurance salesman in Moscow, and started entering poker tournaments throughout Europe in 2001....	$506,625
3rd	Phil Ivey Phil Ivey Phillip D. Ivey is an United States professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times....	$253,313
4th	Doyle Brunson Doyle Brunson Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....	$159,987
5th	Ted Forrest Ted Forrest Ted Forrest is an United States professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker ....	$119,990
6th	James Hoeppner	$93,326