WSOP Event #31

World Series of Poker Event #31, Six Handed No Limit Hold’em, 15-18 June 2008

Entrants: 1,012
Buy in: $2,500
Prize pool: $2,327,600

Final results:

1. Dario Minieri, $528,418

2. Seth Fischer, $330,519

3. Justin Filtz, $214,139

4. Kevin Song, $141,983

5. John O’Shea, $98,923

6. Stuart Marshak, $73,784

The $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship attracted 1,012 entries, creating a prize pool totaling $2,327,600. The top 108 finishers collected prize money.

The winner was Dario Minieri, from Italy. He is a 23-year-old professional poker player. Minieri collected $528,418 for first place and also earned his first WSOP gold bracelet.

This was Minieri’s fourth time to cash at the WSOP. Previously, he was best known within the poker world for being one of the chip leaders at the end of Day One in last year’s WSOP Main Event. Minieri went on to cash out, finishing 96th in the 2007 world championship.

Minieri becomes the second WSOP gold bracelet winner from Italy at this year’s WSOP. Max Pescatori, from Milan, won his second WSOP victory last week.

1998 world champion Scotty Nguyen finished in seventh place. This was his first time to cash at this year’s World Series. He now has 35 career in-the-money finishes.

Other former WSOP gold bracelet winners who cashed in this event included Shankar Pillai (31st), Ian Johns (33rd), Max Pescatori (41st), Mark Vos (82nd), David “Devilfish” Ulliott (94th), and Brandon Cantu (106th).

The current Milwaukee’s Best Light “Player of the Year” standings shows Erick Lindgren on top of the points list, with one gold bracelet win and four cashes. However, Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein are now close behind.

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