WSOP Report.

My wife is now famous! She cashed in her 2nd ever attempt in the WSOP. More about our trip later today. For now I need sleep! Good Luck at the tables. Tony.

BTW - She is number 17.


38th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #14 - WSOP 7 Card Stud
June 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Tournament Schedule
Buy-In $1,500
Prize Pool $577,500
Entries 385
Report Available


Michael Keiner
Place Name Prize
1 Michael Keiner (Braunfels, Germany) $146,987
2 Nesbitt Coburn AKA "Nez" (Minneapolis, MN, USA) $80,876
3 Steve Sung AKA "MuGGyLiCiOuS" (Torrance, CA, USA) $51,222
4 Barry Greenstein (Rancho Palo Verde, CA, USA) $33,698
5 Dale Phillips (Darien, IL, USA) $26,150
6 Gregory P. "Fossilman" Raymer (Stonington, CT, USA) $19,680
7 John Robertson (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $15,097
8 Larry Eubanks (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $11,053
9 Matthew Kelly (Fort Worth, TX, USA) $7,495
10 Craig Thomson (Culver City, CA, USA) $7,495
11 Stephen Richman (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $6,848
12 Varahram Vardjavand (Quickborn, Germany) $6,848
13 James Boyd (Martinsburg, WV, USA) $6,201
14 Ted Forrest (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $6,201
15 Matt Grapenthien (Madison, WI) $5,554
16 Ricardo Festijo (Margate NJ) $5,554
17 Theresa Viganola (USA) $4,906
18 Helmut Koch (Chesterfield, MI, USA) $4,906
19 Donna Cobb (Hot Springs, AR, USA) $4,906
20 Louis Russo (Brooklyn, NY, USA) $4,906
21 Mimi Tran (Torrance, CA, USA) $4,906
22 Yuebin Guo (Brooklyn, NY, USA) $4,906
23 Matthew Humphrey (Indianapolis, IN, USA) $4,906
24 Sanjay Pandya (Smithville, NJ, USA) $4,906
25 Sherkhan Farnood (Afghanistan) $4,259
26 Chris Barnes (Raynham, MA, USA) $4,259
27 Paul Darden Jr (Hamdem, CT, USA) $4,259
28 Keith Shiraki (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $4,259
29 Lewis Lipsey AKA "The Lip" (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $4,259
30 Charles Khoury (Northridge, CA, USA) $4,259
31 Bill Byers (Apollo Beach, FL, USA) $4,259
32 John Campbell (USA) $4,259
33 Harku Shpend (Statten Island, NY, USA) $3,612
34 John Argentin (USA) $3,612
35 Joel Fischbein (las vegas, NV, USA) $3,612
36 William Chen (Lafayette Hill, PA, USA) $3,612
37 Roger Barlow (Center Point, AL, USA) $3,612
38 Todd Keikoan (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $3,612
39 Frank Stollmack (USA) $3,612
40 John Womack (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA) $3,612


Tournament Report
WSOP GOLD BRACELET WINNER EVENT #14 - MICHAEL KEINER
The winner of the $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud championship was Michael Keiner. He is a professional poker player from Frankfurt, Germany. He is 48-years-old.

Keiner was a medical doctor, before turning poker pro. He specialized in cosmetic surgery. Keiner won seven major poker tournaments in Europe before this feat - his first poker tournament win in the U.S. With this victory, Keiner now has five WSOP in-the-money finishes dating back to 2000. First place paid $146,987.

Keiner is the third gold bracelet winner from Germany in WSOP history. The other two players are Matthias Rohnacher (1997) and Eddy Scharf (2001, 2003). In fact, Keiner was motivated to play more events at this year's WSOP by his friend and rival, Eddy Scharf - the two time WSOP event champ. Occasionally, when Keiner spoke to his fellow countryman inside the poker room, Scharf was known to reply in German - 'Speak up Michael - I can't hear you because my two gold bracelets are rattling in my ears and making it difficult to hear you.' Steamed by this, Keiner was determined to play no less than 19 events this year - concentrating in the non-hold'em events with smaller fields. This gave him (numerically) a better chance to win his own gold bracelet. Mission accomplished.

Keiner is certainly accustomed to taking risks. He was wildly successful with his stock investments during the 1990s. However, he openly told the media he 'lost millions' in the stock market. Easy come, easy go. Many of his exploits are chronicled at: www.michaelkeiner.de

For Keiner, his first WSOP victory was as impressive as it was satisfying. He pummeled a final table with at least two bona fide superstars. Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Barry Greenstein finished in fourth place. Former WSOP champion (2004) Greg 'Fossilman' Raymer finished in sixth place. This was one of the more educated final tables in recent memory. The eight finalists included two (former) attorneys, a high-tech entrepreneur, a Harvard M.B.A. and a former doctor from Germany who beat them all - and became a poker champion.

by Nolan Dalla