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Written by Mathias | Friday, June 5th, 2009
The No-Limit Hold ‘em $1,000 Stimulus Special wrapped upped Wednesday, about 45 minutes before midnight. This tournament drew some attention from the media being deemed the WSOP’s answer to the hard economic times. The low buy-in drew in more than 6,000 players, who fought hard for a piece of the $5.4+ million prize pool. This five-day event, which began last Saturday, was one of the longest on the lineup for 2009 and saw one of the biggest player fields in WSOP history. What made this event special is that it opened up the WSOP to the everyday average poker player, changing the WSOP forever from a distinguished and elite tournament series to something anyone could truly take part in and experience.
Day 1 of this event actually took place in two parts, over the course of two days. On the first day (Day 1a), half of the players were seated and on the second day (Day 1b) the other half of the registrants played. Day 1a left 376 players, and Day 1b left 400, so the official Day 2 of Event #4 began a little shy of 800 total remaining poker players. On Day 2, play started at 2:00 p.m. and was scheduled to go until 3:00 a.m. By the end of the day, only 50 players remained, but 621 players did walk away with $1,894 for last cashing place. Day 3 began promptly at 2:00 p.m. and only nine hours later, the final table had been determined: Dan Heimiller, chip leader with 4,155,000 chips; Jeff Oakes at 1,680,000; Nathan Mullen, 1,210,000; Phong Huynh, 1,310,000; James Matz III, 1,885,000; Steve Sung, 3,395,000; Panayote ‘Pete’ Vilandos, 1,940,000; Larry Sidebotham, 1,500,000; and short-stacked Danny Fuhs 965,000.
Play resumed on Day 4 and ultimately came down to Steve Sung, who took first place with a $771,106 payout and his first WSOP bracelet, and Panayote Vilandos Eliminated, who landed second with a nice $473,283. After the way Sung played in the final table, this may not be the last we see of him this year.
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