WSOP Event No. 24 Winner Max Pescatori

Event No. 24 of the World Series of Poker was a $2,500 buyin Half Pot Limit Omaha and Half Pot Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that started on June 12th and finished up on June 14th.  This event had 457 people enter in creating a $1,051,100 dollar prize pool of which the top 45 finishers in the tournament would see.

When the World Series of Poker started including "mixed game" events they showed they were popular events in the WSOP so they are including more such events to draw in players.  This was the first time that such an event was included on the WSOP schedule after a similar event held last year was quite successful.

The winner of the event was Max Pescatori, from Milan, Italy.  This player spends more time in Las Vegas then at his home in Europe and regularly appears on the American Poker Tournament Circuit.  For his fist place finish he got $246,509 dollars and his second WSOP gold bracelet.  So far during his career he has cashed 17 times at the World Series of Poker.

“The joy (of this win) can never be the same as winning my first one when Italy won the World Cup,” Pescatori said in a post-tournament interview.  “The first bracelet is always the best one.  But this second win is also important because it is the confirmation of skill.  This serves to affirm to myself and gives me confidence that I am pretty good.”

The results of Event No. 24 are below.

1    Max Pescatori    $246,509    Milan    Italy
2    Kyle Kloeckner    $152,409    St. Louis    Missouri
3    Greg Hurst    $94,599    Tazewell    Tennessee
4    Allen Cunningham    $76,204    Las Vegas    Nevada
5    Kyle Hegeman    $62,014    Jacksonville    Florida
6    Jonathan Depa    $48,876    Chicago    Illinois
7    Lennart Holtkamp    $38,365    Utrecht    Netherlands
8    Minh Ly    $30,481    Las Vegas    Nevada
9    John-Paul Kelly    $22,598    Brighton    United Kingdom
10    David Penly    $14,715    Surrey    United Kingdom
11    David Bergerson    $14,715    Taos    New Mexico
12    Howard Lederer    $14,715    Las Vegas    Nevada
13    Martel De La Chesnaye    $12,087
14    Kory Mitchell    $12,087    Denver    Colorado
15    Dustin Sitar    $12,087    Las Vegas    Nevada
16    George Rahme    $9,459    Burbank    California
17    Ryan Carey    $9,459    Las Vegas    Nevada
18    Henning Granstad    $9,459    Oslo    Norway
19    Kenny Fitzgerald    $7,357    Roseville    California
20    Gabriel Costner    $7,357    Long Beach    Mississippi
21    Steven Hudak    $7,357    Baltimore    Maryland
22    Alan Vinson    $7,357    London    United Kingdom
23    Pascal Perrault    $7,357    Paris    France
24    Jean-Philipp Leandri    $7,357    Paris    France
25    Rolf Slotboom    $7,357    Amsterdam    Netherlands
26    Mark Davis    $7,357    Dublin    Ireland
27    Daniel Fuhs    $7,357    Long Beach    California
28    Patrick Bueno    $6,306         France
29    Sorel Mizzi    $6,306    Toronto    Ontario, Canada
30    Paul Taylor    $6,306    Las Vegas    Nevada
31    Daniel Martin    $6,306    Graves End
32    Zachary Hyman    $6,306    San Francisco    California
33    Thibaud Daram    $6,306    Paris    France
34    Jesse Mceuen    $6,306    Akron    Ohio
35    Hilbert Shirley    $6,306    Winter Haven    Florida
36    Nicholas Gibson    $6,306    Bucks
37    Allen Kessler    $5,255    Hunt Valley    Pennsylvania
38    Jeffrey Duvall    $5,255    Surrey    United Kingdom
39    Justin Phillips    $5,255    Oregon City    Oregon
40    Shawn Buchanan    $5,255   Abbottsford    British Columbia, Canada
41    Charles Satterwhite    $5,255    Houston    Texas
42    Daniel Didech    $5,255    Long Grove    Illinois
43    Richard Stephen    $5,255    Sugarland    Texas
44    Paul Chenoweth    $5,255    Bosque Farms    New Mexico
45    Joshua Mammon    $5,255    Richmond    British Columbia, Canada