WSOP Event No. 31 Winner Dario Minieri

Event 31 of the World Series of Poker was a $2,500 buyin No Limit Six Handed No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament that started on June 16th and finished up on June 18th.  There were a lot of poker players at this event trying to win but only the top 108 out of the 1,012 players entered would cash at the tournament.

With so many people entered in it created a very large prize pool of $2,327,600 dollars.  The number of entrants in the event increased over last year's 847 entrants for the event for an overall increase in players of 19.4 percent. 

Six Handed Hold'em makes players show off their short handed poker skills.  Instead of a full table with nine players each table only had six players or less as players busted out.  This makes competitors play cards out of the standard range of starting hand requirements.  This style of poker also make post flop skills stand out.

The Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event first debuted at the WSOP in 2005.  There were 3 six handed events on the 2006 schedule but last year there was only one such event on the schedule.  This was the second of three six handed No-Limit Hold'em events on the 2008 WSOP schedule.

The winner of Event No. 31 was Dario Minieri, he is a 23 year old professional poker player from Italy.  He got $528,418 dollars and his first WSOP gold bracelet for the win.  This was his fourth cash at the World Series of Poker but his first 1st place win.  He was also one of the chip leaders at the end of day one in the 2007 WSOP Main Event.

While he didn't make it all the way he did end up finishing in 96th place and did get to cash out at the event.  He is also the second WSOP gold bracelet winner from Italy at this year's World Series of Poker.  The final results for Event No. 31 are below.

1.
Dario Minieri
$528,418

2.
Seth Fischer
$330,519

3.
Justin Filtz
$214,139

4.
Kevin Song
$141,983

5.
John O’Shea
$98,923

6.
Stuart Marshak
$73,784

7.
Scotty Nguyen
$50,508

8.
Frank Rusnak
$50,508

9.
Todd Terry
$38,870

10.
Alon Shahar
$38,870

11.
Bruno Fitoussi
$27,232

12.
Stephen Pierson
$27,232

13.
Leonardo (Leo) Fernandez
$19,086

14.
Michael Skomac
$19,086

15.
Jonathan Honig
$19,086

16.
Howard Boyd
$19,086

17.
Brendan Keenan
$19,086

18.
Cory Albertson
$19,086

19.
Bill Chen
$15,594

20.
Kyle Burnside
$15,594

21.
Kyle Hoffman
$15,594

22.
Jason Mercier
$15,594

23.
Paul Smith
$15,594

24.
Keven Stammen
$15,594

25.
Randall Brueckner
$12,103

26.
Zachary Clark
$12,103

27.
Kenneth Smaron
$12,103

28.
Gary Haglund
$12,103

29.
Scott Augustine
$12,103

30.
Anthony Roux
$12,103

31.
Shankar Pillai
$9,775

32.
Shannon Shorr
$9,775

33.
Ian Johns
$9,775

34.
Scott Zakheim
$9,775

35.
John Chou
$9,775

36.
Igor Panchenko
$9,775

37.
Manelic Minaya
$8,379

38.
Sam Hiatt
$8,379

39.
Larry Jafee
$8,379

40.
Billy Westom
$8,379

41.
Max Pescatori
$8,379

42.
Matthew Hawrilenko
$8,379

43.
Ed Fernandez
$6,982

44.
Daniele Cuomo
$6,982

45.
Jess Yawitz
$6,982

46.
Thomas Hover
$6,982

47.
Jonathan Tamayo
$6,982

48.
Aditya Agarwal
$6,982

49.
Alex Michaels
$6,284

50.
Jose Barbero
$6,284

51.
Michael Glasser
$6,284

52.
Jesse Chinni
$6,284

53.
Michael Chrisanthopoulos
$6,284

54.
Sebastian Soares
$6,284

55.
Andrew Emory
$5,586

56.
Noah Jefferson
$5,586

57.
Thomas Bentham
$5,586

58.
Daniel Walker
$5,586

59.
Eric Lucas
$5,586

60.
John McGowan
$5,586

61.
Gabriel Costner
$5,120

62.
Aleksandr Dzianisau
$5,120

63.
Robert Lipkin
$5,120

64.
Russ Floyd
$5,120

65.
Edmond Park
$5,120

66.
Patrick Goulding
$5,120

67.
Roland Isra
$4,655

68.
Sebastian Ruthenberg
$4,655

69.
Chris Dombrowski
$4,655

70.
Paul Foltyn
$4,655

71.
Roy Vandersluis
$4,655

72.
George Veach
$4,655

73.
James Haver
$4,655

74.
Bob Bradley
$4,655

75.
Brent Hanks
$4,655

76.
Jon Danielsson
$4,655

77.
Avery Cardova
$4,655

78.
Philip Collins
$4,655

79.
Marnix Vandenbroek
$4,189

80.
Jeremiah Vinsant
$4,189

81.
Mike Schwartz
$4,189

82.
Mark Vos
$4,189

83.
Benjamin Mclaughlin
$4,189

84.
Steven Gross
$4,189

85.
Thomas Antonucci
$4,189

86.
Taylor Douglas
$4,189

87.
Ryan Vidovich
$4,189

88.
Robert (Bobby) Wisiak
$4,189

89.
Ian Kim
$4,189

90.
Kenna James
$4,189

91.
Jamel Maistriaux
$3,724

92.
John Roveto
$3,724

93.
John Rogers
$3,724

94.
David (Devilfish) Ulliott
$3,724

95.
William Jensen
$3,724

96.
Devin Lake
$3,724

97.
Panayote Vilandos
$3,724

98.
Phillipe Gelin
$3,724

99.
Clifford Pappas
$3,724

100.
David Bergerson
$3,724

101.
Adam Russell
$3,724

102.
Simon Rossi
$3,724

103.
David Peters
$3,724

104.
Rino Mathis
$3,724

105.
Arnie Toler
$3,724

106.
Brandon Cantu
$3,724

107.
Andrew Ferguson
$3,724

108.
Nicolas Donnelly
$3,724