WSOP Event #6

Event #6 the $1,500 Limit Hold’em tournament attracted 910 runners which meant a $1,365,000 prizepool. The event was won by Gary Styczynski from Pearl River, New York. He is 42-years-old and is a part-time consultant and poker player. He is married and has two children.

Styczynski arrived at the final table with the dominant stack, with nearly half of the total chips in play when eight-handed play began. It took him about four hours to win the final battle and take home his first WSOP gold bracelet.

The new poker champ has never cashed previously at the WSOP. However, he did cash three times at a recent poker tournament held at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.

Remarkably, the seventh-place finisher was a man who won $14 million in the Canadian Lottery. His name is Michael Banks.

Noted poker author and theorist David Sklansky finished 13th in this event. Sklansky, the author of numerous books and generally regarded as the supreme poker and gaming intellect in the business, owns three WSOP gold bracelets (technically, he owns two WSOP gold watches, which was the top prize at the 1982 WSOP instead of bracelets). This event was his best WSOP finish in six years (he finished fifth in an event back in 2001).

The eighth-place finisher was Pete O’Donnell. He quit his job to play poker for a living and moved to Las Vegas just two weeks ago. His new career is off to a good tart, to the tune of $22,359 in prize money.

Final results:
1. Gary Styczynski, Pearl River, NY, $280,715
2. Gumroyan Varouzhan, Las Vegas, NV, $177,627
3. Hansu Chu, Los Angeles, CA, $114,278
4. Soheil Shamseddin, Houston, TX, $75,771
5. James Gorham, Los Angeles, CA, $53,412
6. James Holland, Fayetteville, NC, $40,991
7. Michael Banks, Bolton, England, $30,433
8. Peter O’Donnell, Las Vegas, NV, $22,359
9. Dariush Imani, Las Vegas, NV, $16,148