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World Series Of Poker 2006 $5,000 7 Card Stud Result 19th July	LAS VEGAS June 25 – August 10 2006 Next Event

Event # 28 (2 day event)
Entries -- 182 (192)
Buy-in -- $5,000
Prize Pool -- $855,400

Benjamin Lin
(Rockville, MD, USA)
wins $256,620 and
his bracelet

Pos.

Player

Origin

Prize

Benjamin Lin

$256,620

Shahram Sheikhan

$171,080

Cyndy Violette

$102,648

Allen Kessler

$76,986

Miami John Cernuto

$55,601

Patrick Bueno

Paris

$38,493

Lupe Munquia

$29,939

Mike Caro

$21,385

Russell Salzer

$12,831

David Grey (

$12,831

Lonnie Heimowitz

$12,831

Key Facts

16 places paid.
Maryland ant thrashes all-star lineup at final table

Las Vegas, NV – When play at the final table of the $5,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud championship became three-handed, a few bystanders glanced at the remaining players up on the main stage at the Rio. They had the following exchange:
Spectator1: Who’s left?
Spectator 2: I see Cyndy Violette up there.
Spectator 1: Who else?
Spectator 2: There’s Sean “Sheik” Sheikhan.
Spectator 1: What about the other guy?
Spectator 2: I don’t know. He’s just some other guy.

Benjamin Lin represents all the “other guys” who play poker. He epitomizes many thousands of mostly-unknown names and faces who plow through huge tournament fields, make final tables, yet are not given the attention and iration they probably deserve. While television and media focus mostly on the poker superstars, many “other guys” (and ladies, too) are out there day in and day out fighting for prize money and respect – not necessarily in that order.

Three days ago, Benjamin Lin walked into the Rio Las Vegas as a 31-year-old ant from suburban Washington-DC, who liked to play poker in his spare time. After winning the Seven-Card Stud championship at the 2006 World Series of Poker, presented by Milwaukee’s best Light, Lin is walking out of the Rio as the latest WSOP gold bracelet winner. He pulverized a highly-competitive field of 182 entrants who each put up five grand in what has become known as the “world championship” of one of poker’s most long-established games.

After 174 players had been eliminated over two days, eight players took the final table on the Rio poker stage. The eight finalists comprised a formidable lineup. Two were former WSOP gold bracelet winners – “Miami John” Cernuto with three wins, and Cyndy Violette with one victory. This final table was exceptional for at least one reason. Perhaps no single individual has done more for poker during his lifetime than Mike ‘The Mad Genius” Caro. The former hippie used to destroy lowball draw games that were popular in California during the 1970s. Later, he started writing about poker and became one of the game’s top theorists. Caro played against (and beat) a computer, devised numerous strategies that helped thousands of poker players, and appeared on national television numerous times as the game’s top spokesman. In the 1990s, he founded “Mike Caro University,” which held classes at the Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles. Books, magazine articles, and seminars turned losers into winners. Yet for all of his contributions to poker science over the years, many newcomers still do not know of Caro’s profound impact on the game.

Benjamin Lin took his place in the elite class of 396 players (out of over a 100 million worldwide) who have won a WSOP gold bracelet over the entire 37-year history of the world’s premier poker spectacle. Lin’s winnings amounted to $256,620. Winning an event at the World Series changes everything. Perhaps the next time he makes it to a final table heads-up, the conversation will now describe Benjamin Lin as a poker champion – playing against the other guy.
Report by Nolan Dalla

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