Carter Phillips
Further evidence that poker is more like sport, the final table of the World Series Of Poker Event 16 had an average age of 22.8. As in normal sporting endeavour the younger you are the more supple you are and consequently the better player you are.
So poker is following the model of sporting acheivement. Undoubtedly older people can do well but in the end I would rather back someone like Nadal than McEnroe.
The winner of this event was Carter Phillips aho has only being playing full time for 18 months and has now amassed an amazing $1.8 million world wide, averaging roughly $100,000 every month – nice living doncha think!
Event 16: six-handed no-limit hold ’em
Buy-in: $1,500
Entries: 1,663
Prize pool: $2,245,050
Players in the money: 162
1. Carter Phillips ($482,774)
2. Samuel Gerber ($298,726
3. Craig Bergeron ($189,661)
4. Hugo Perez ($124,690)
5. Russell Thomas ($84,256)
6. David Diaz ($58,483)
7. Thong Tran ($41,645)
8. Mikhail Lakhitov ($41,645)
9. Alexander Wilson ($30,420)
10. Mark Flowers ($30,420)
11. Matthew Ezrol ($22,787)
12. Kevin Iacofano ($22,787)
13. Matt Zoorob ($17,488)
14. Conrad Monica ($17,488)
15. Michael Meyers ($17,488)
16. Jesse Martin ($17,488)
17. Ryan Snickles ($17,488)
18. Steven Tabb ($17,488)
19. Daniel Johnson ($13,739)
20. Steven Fenic ($13,739)
21. Feming Chan ($13,739)
22. Matthew Schulte ($13,739)
23. Eric Bolinder ($13,739)
24. Sanghyon Cheong ($13,739)
25. Dennis Wong ($11,045)
26. Ray Henson ($11,045)
27. Milad Jorshari ($11,045)
28. Nicholas Davies ($11,045)
29. Bryan Micon ($11,045)
30. Jordan Morgan ($11,045)
31. Blake Slade ($9,070)
32. Vladimir Kochelaevskiy ($9,070)
33. Lee Childs ($9,070)
34. Dorlan Schick ($9,070)
35. Mark Seif ($9,070)
36. Stuart Barclay ($9,070)
37. Roger Teska ($7,610)
38. Chris Viox ($7,610)
39. Wesley Clark ($7,610)
40. JP Kelly ($7,610)
41. Michael Downey ($7,610)
42. Dash Dudley ($7,610)
43. Robert Williamson ($6,533)
44. Chris Bjorin ($6,533)
45. Jorge Arias ($6,533)
46. David Sands ($6,533)
47. Matthew Mercurio ($6,533)
48. Simon Nguyen ($6,533)
49. Timothy Adams ($5,724)
50. Jonathan Duhamel ($5,724)
51. Darren Elias ($5,724)
52. Kevin Boudreau ($5,724)
53. David Olson ($5,724)
54. Steven Kelly ($5,724)
55. Jeffrey Chu ($5,118)
56. William Lin ($5,118)
57. Anthony Lessel ($5,118)
58. Cort Kibler-Melby ($5,118)
59. Kenneth Terrell ($5,118)
60. Chad Layne ($5,118)
61. Joseph Stefan ($4,669)
62. Anthony Licastro ($4,669)
63. Rui Cao ($4,669)
64. Rio Gralnick ($4,669)
65. Matthew Waxman ($4,669)
66. Tyler Netter ($4,669)
67. Gabriels Lepore ($4,288)
68. Angus Lynn ($4,288)
69. Steven Rice ($4,288)
70. Vincent Vanderfluit ($4,288)
71. Dustin Bailey ($4,288)
72. Scott Barrows ($4,288)
73. Daniel Quinn ($4,288)
74. Per Alexander Hildebrand ($4,288)
75. Ralph Ratchford ($4,288)
76. Simon Charette ($4,288)
77. Julien Nuijten ($4,288)
78. Allan Silberstang ($4,288)
79. Marc-Pierre Chadi ($3,951)
80. Steven McNally ($3,951)
81. Michael Kucinski ($3,951)
82. Tristan Wade ($3,951)
83. Christopher Lindh ($3,951)
84. Evgeniy Zaytsev ($3,951)
85. Stefan Rapp ($3,951)
86. Tyler Witteman ($3,951)
87. Arun Chugani ($3,951)
88. Stephen Moss ($3,951)
89. Nathan Huvelle ($3,951)
90. Lance Harris ($3,951)
91. James Guinther ($3,636)
92. Neil Tyler ($3,636)
93. Eric Buchman ($3,636)
94. Eduard Scharf ($3,636)
95. Ronald Grauer ($3,636)
96. Jerry Yang ($3,636)
97. Aaron Mermelstein ($3,636)
98. Tyler Chung ($3,636)
99. Derek Christensen ($3,636)
100. Chris Wafula ($3,636)
101. Samuel Bernstein ($3,636)
102. Francois Billard ($3,636)
103. Benjamin Roberts ($3,636)
104. Andre Akkari ($3,636)
105. Jamie McCarrel ($3,636)
106. James Herndon ($3,636)
107. Jamal Clark ($3,636)
108. Ronald Lee ($3,636)
109. Robert Lipkin ($3,345)
110. David Pederson ($3,345)
111. Kevin Haw ($3,345)
112. Al Barbieri ($3,345)
113. Aaron Steury ($3,345)
114. Bruce Seaquist ($3,345)
115. Manish Patel ($3,345)
116. Judson Dymond ($3,345)
117. Donald Rubinstein ($3,345)
118. Francois Balmigere ($3,345)
119. Justin Filtz ($3,345)
120. Carl Johnson ($3,345)
121. Jan Skampa ($3,345)
122. Jeffrey Palarino ($3,345)
123. Michael Darling ($3,345)
124. Steve Yea ($3,345)
125. Paul Whiting ($3,345)
126. Basile Blancpain ($3,345)
127. Brook Whisenant ($3,075)
128. Richard Robinson ($3,075)
129. Matthew Hawrilenko ($3,075)
130. Jeffrey Levine ($3,075)
131. Hoyt Corkins ($3,075)
132. James Goldstein ($3,075)
133. Andrew Dyonisio ($3,075)
134. Nicholas Petrangelo ($3,075)
135. Anthony Spinella ($3,075)
136. Brian Kennish ($3,075)
137. Ryan Thurlow ($3,075)
138. Ted Lawson ($3,075)
139. Andrew Mullens ($3,075)
140. Joeph Kustosz ($3,075)
141. Mikhael Saakian ($3,075)
142. Dominik Kulicki ($3,075)
143. Steven Dibari ($3,075)
144. Chad Thomsen ($3,075)
145. Steven Schartner ($2,828)
146. Dennis Marinack ($2,828)
147. Felipa Ramos ($2,828)
148. Antonio Girardi ($2,828)
149. Ryhan Hughes ($2,828)
150. Kevin Kansler ($2,828)
151. Cyril Jassinowsky ($2,828)
152. William Mikolay ($2,828)
153. Rodrigo Sirichuk ($2,828)
154. Lance Schuchard ($2,828)
155. Elizabeth Indig ($2,828)
156. Nabih Zaczac ($2,828)
157. Christopher Kassela ($2,828)
158. Thomas Manzella ($2,828)
159. Marc Davis ($2,828)
160. Michael Glasser ($2,828)
161. James St Hilaire ($2,828)
162. Mark Kohner ($2,828)