Julian Hart has just been eliminated in 40th place, earning $19,930. Here's the complete list of money finishers to this point:


45th - Scotty Nguyen ($19,930)
44th - Bradley Berman ($19,930)

43rd - Ugur Marangoz ($19,930)
42nd - Orlando Maldonado ($19,930)

41st - T.J. Cloutier ($19,930)
40th - Julian Hart ($19,930)




reported by B J Nemeth at Poker Pages

T.J. Cloutier is all in preflop with pocket sevens, but he is in serious trouble when he is called by two players -- one with A-Q, the other with pocket nines. The flop comes K 8 7, and everyone rechecks their cards -- but nobody has any clubs. Cloutier's set of sevens is in the lead, but the turn card is the 6, putting a flush draw on the board (which would make it a three-way chopped pot), and giving the player with pocket nines an open-ended straight draw. Cloutier had to dodge a lot of outs to win the hand -- and the last card was an offsuit 2.


T.J. Cloutier had just been knocked down to about $15,000 a few minutes before, but he has now tripled back up to about $50,000 in chips.




reported by B J Nemeth at Poker Pages

Here's a list with most of the notable players in today's field:


David Levi, Anthony Reategui, Eli Elezra, Melissa Hayden, Shirley Rosario, Anthony Cousineau, Kenna James, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Al Ardebili, Barry Greenstein, Don Zewin, David Pham, Minh Ly, Joe Awada, Antonio Esfandiari, Davood Mehrmand, Victor Ramdin, David Grey, Humberto Brenes, Olga Varkonyi, Keith Sexton, Marco Traniello, Scott Fischman, Abe Mosseri, Young Phan, Shawn Sheikhan, David Slan, Harry Demetriou, Richard Tatalovich, Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken, Paul Darden, John Juanda, Blair Rodman, Thor Hansen, Jeff Rine, Robert Varkonyi, John Esposito, Barry Shulman, Denis Ethier, John D'Agostino, Allen Cunningham, Freddy Deeb, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Dewey Tomko, David Singer, Mimi Tran, Brandon Adams, Steve Zolotow, Chris Bigler, Kristy Gazes, Chau Giang, Chad Layne, Jennifer Harman, Farzad Bonyadi, Phil Hellmuth, Toto Leonidas, Shannon Elizabeth, Aaron Kanter, Steve Brecher, John Duthie, Jason Lester, Alan Goehring, Kevin Song, Layne Flack, Dan Alspach, Alan Smurfit, Bill Edler, Erick Lindgren, Mark Gregorich, Martin de Knijff, Tony G, Haralabos Voulgaris, T.J. Cloutier, Bradley Berman, Chip Jett, John Myung, John Dale, Captain Tom Franklin, Eric Firestone, Donnocha O'Dea, Nenad Medic, Tony Ma, Matt Matros, Chip Reese, Shane Schleger, Arnold Spee, Amir Vahedi, Liz Lieu, Robert Firestone, Carmel Petresco, Nam Le, Gavin Smith, Minh "PokerHost" Nguyen, Tim Phan, Daniel Negreanu, Alex Prendes Jr, James Van Alstyne, Can Kim Hua, Juha Helppi, Francois Safieddine, Nick Schulman, David Plastik, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Vinny Vinh, Ted Lawson, Daniel Alaei, Robert Mizrachi, Huckleberry Seed, Kenny Goldstein, Michael Gracz, Quinn Do, Gavin Griffin, Bill Gazes, Phil "Unabomber" Laak, Gabe Thaler, Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf, Jennifer Tilly, Chris Karagulleyan, Ted Forrest, Morgan Machina, Jean Robert Bellande, Carlos Mortensen, Mike Matusow, Maria Ho, Cyndy Violette, Jerry Buss, Casey Kastle, Brett Youngblut, Johnny Chan, Allen Kessler, John Smith, Chris Miller, Scotty Nguyen, Lee Watkinson, Stan Goldstein, Gus Hansen, Gene Todd, David Williams, Tuan Le, Patrik Antonius, Harley Hall, and Evelyn Ng.


Notable Hollywood celebrities in that list are Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth.


Also, Kristy Gazes and Mimi Tran were eliminated during the first round.

WSOP Final table finishes All Time till end Dec 2005

At least, according to Poker Top Ten


Famous Poker Players


1. T.J. Cloutier
One of the most well respected players in the tournament scene, T.J. recently wrote a book called 'Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em'. Among his many accomplishments, T.J. was the all-time leading money winner at the World Series of Poker in 2001.


2. Phil Hellmuth

Phil is a well known character in the poker community. He has 6 WSOP Bracelets, including the 1989 WSOP No Limit Hold'em Main event. His homepage is available at www.philhellmuth.com.


3. Johnny Chan
Rising to international recognition with his WSOP main event victory in 1987, and again in 1988, Johnny Chan continues to be one of the most recognized names in poker. His website (chanpoker.com) features photos from the 1987 WSOP.


4. Miami John Cernuto

Miami once claimed his nick name brings him luck, because after he took on the name he entered the 1988 Superbowl of Poker and won his first big pot and the seven-card-stud title. It seems as though he was right (although we believe a fair amount of skill was involved too) and has continued to rise in stature in the poker scene.
In 2003 he won the Heads Up Poker Tournament in Vienna, beat 381 players at the L.A. Poker Classic in Event #5 at No Limit Hold'em - winning the tournament and over $70,000, he won $23,000 in event #17 at the Legends of Poker, and placed fourth in the Limit 7-Card Stud Championship in the United States Poker Championship at Trump Taj Mahal.


5. Thuan "Scotty" Nguyen

Nicknamed "The Prince", Scotty took the WSOP championship title in 1998 and is among the highest earning players of all time.


6. Doyle Brunson
Nicknamed "Texas Dolly", Doyle has 8 WSOP bracelets to his name and has already been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.


7. Stu Ungar (deceased)

Stu Ungar is considered by many contemporaries to be the greatest No Limit Hold'em player of all time, with three WSOP championship titles to his credit. Killed by a cocaine addiction.


8. Eric Seidel
Eric is a highly accomplished player and placed second to Johnny Chan in spectacular form during the 1988 WSOP championship event.


9. Johnny Moss

Johnny Moss is known as the "Grand Old Man" of poker. He has won the World Series of World Championship three times.


10. 'Amarillo Slim' Preston
Amarillo Slim, Poker Ambassador and non-stop source of Tall Tales, has been competing in WSOP events since their inception, with a number of bracelets to his credit.