WSOP Event #12

The winner of the $1,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em World Championship was Jason Warner from Vancouver, BC (Canada). He is a 22-year-old sales associate working in a hardware store and is an aspiring professional poker player.

This was Warner’s second time to enter a WSOP event. A few days ago, he busted out of the $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament. But this time first place was his an he scooped a cool $481,698.

Warner works at a home supply store named “Surrey New and Used” located in Surrey, BC, and there is no word yet on whether or not Warner plans to continue working after winning nearly half-a-million dollars.

Warner has been playing poker regularly at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, BC over the past year.

Warner wore a New York Yankees baseball cap while seated at the final table. Oddly enough, his heads-up opponent was David Zeitlin – from New York City. The runner up collected a very respectable $269,778.

Arguably tournament poker’s hottest player over the first half of the year, J.C. Tran from Sacramento, CA, cashed in 15th place. Tran has over $5 million in lifetime tournament winnings – but less than ten percent of that impressive sum has been won at the WSOP.

Seven-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Erik Seidel finished in 40th place in this event. He now has 43 lifetime cashes (ranked 8th all-time). He has won over $3M at the WSOP (ranked 16th all-time).

At least two poker players have already cashed three times at this year’s World Series – Steve-Paul Ambrose and Tony Cousineau.

Final results:
1. Jason Warner, Vancouver, BC, $481,698
2. David Zeitlin, New York, NY, $269,778
3. Steve Olek, Hollywood, FL, $186,020
4. David Mitchell-Lolis, Las Vegas, NV, $123,689
5. Matt Brady, Upper Darby, PA, $92,523
6. Brian Miller, Atlanta, GA, $61,357
7. William Vosti, Arroyo Grande, CA, $46,749
8. Joe Awada, Las Vegas, NV, $46,749
9. Arturo Diaz, San Diego, CA, $31,166