Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009 2009 WSOP - Ray Foley Wins Event 39 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Ray Foley from Northville, MI won Event 39, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em at the 2009 World Series of Poker and took home $657,969 in prize money.
Foley is one of the few amateurs that have won events so far in the 2009 WSOP. Normally the 37-year-old works as a business manager at Chrysler Financial.
"(Before this win) I was contemplating going to poker full-time, mostly online. So this will help make that jump a little easier. This is great timing," Foley said after the tournament.
Ray Foley wins 2009 WSOP Event 39
When the final table started, Foley was the chip leader, but he lost his lead early. He was all-in for his tournament life a few times, but got very fortunate to avoid elimination.
In one hand against runner-up Brandon Cantu, Foley had A-7 and was all-in against Cantu's A-Q, but was saved by a split pot.
"I'm on the great side of variance," Foley said.
The final hand of the tournament came when Foley ended up having the best hand - J-Q versus Cantu's J-7 after the flop came jack-high. Foley's queen kicker ended up playing, which scooped the final pot of the tournament.
"The bracelet....I can't even....its still unbelievable at this point that I have a bracelet. I can't event describe it. And $660,000 - that's a lot of money. It's hard to believe there were 2,715 people in this tournament."
2009 WSOP Event 38 - No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in: $1,500
Entrants: 2,715
Prize pool: $3,705,974
Final results (top 100 of 270 money finishers):
1 | Foley, Ray | $657 969 |
2 | Cantu, Brandon | $403 951 |
3 | Mu, Wei | $269 609 |
4 | Jacob, Alex | $190 857 |
5 | Tyler, Spalding | $143 421 |
6 | Markham, Jonathan | $114 514 |
7 | Vangchailued, Chairud | $96 355 |
8 | Lutes, Richard | $85 608 |
9 | O'connor, Patrick | $80 049 |
10 | Livingston, Matthew | $56 071 |
11 | Crawford, Kelvin | $56 071 |
12 | Glines, Shawn | $56 071 |
13 | Davis, Raymond | $39 246 |
14 | Nicholson, Donald | $39 246 |
15 | Humphrey, Zachary | $39 246 |
16 | Iacovone, Michele | $27 461 |
17 | Derke, Nicholas | $27 461 |
18 | Woolen, Johnny | $27 461 |
19 | Charania, Mohsin | $19 234 |
20 | Bartholdi, Joseph | $19 234 |
21 | Monica, Conrad | $19 234 |
22 | Kolla, Christopher | $19 234 |
23 | Le, Namthien | $19 234 |
24 | Banner, Steven | $19 234 |
25 | Mohs, Steven | $19 234 |
26 | Mitchell, James | $19 234 |
27 | Korberhillejan, Johannes | $19 234 |
28 | Macphee, Kevin | $15 268 |
29 | Corzo, Javier | $15 268 |
30 | Kang, Benjamin | $15 268 |
31 | Priour, Lucas | $15 268 |
32 | Luther, Douglas | $15 268 |
33 | Wade, Tristan | $15 268 |
34 | Crockett, Christopher | $15 268 |
35 | Antonucci, Thomas | $15 268 |
36 | Persson, Magnus | $15 268 |
37 | Jones, Mary | $11 488 |
38 | Leung, Kwan | $11 488 |
39 | Torres, Venancio | $11 488 |
40 | Boshenyatov, Dmitry | $11 488 |
41 | Delis, Mario | $11 488 |
42 | Bonavida, Raymond | $11 488 |
43 | Scott, Minor | $11 488 |
44 | Jensen, Frederik | $11 488 |
45 | Gilbert, Zak | $11 488 |
46 | Suckman, Marc | $9 079 |
47 | Korsog, Torrey | $9 079 |
48 | Campo, Darius | $9 079 |
49 | Peachey, Jon | $9 079 |
50 | Wedekin, Sven | $9 079 |
51 | McCormick, Thomas | $9 079 |
52 | Cartigny, Franck | $9 079 |
53 | Dwyer, Kevin | $9 079 |
54 | Ray, John | $9 079 |
55 | Pomerantsev, Sergey | $7 449 |
56 | Coan, Thomas | $7 449 |
57 | Le, Tommy | $7 449 |
58 | Portano, Desmond | $7 449 |
59 | Allen, Lillian | $7 449 |
60 | Walker, Richard | $7 449 |
61 | Bauer, Sebastian | $7 449 |
62 | Young, Craig | $7 449 |
63 | Lenart, Lester | $7 449 |
64 | Tito, Eugene | $6 300 |
65 | Evans, Hubert | $6 300 |
66 | Stanechewski, Paul | $6 300 |
67 | Linden, Ronald | $6 300 |
68 | Bamminger, Uwe | $6 300 |
69 | Peterson, Sean | $6 300 |
70 | Vanklink, Benjamin | $6 300 |
71 | Repetti, John | $6 300 |
72 | Levy, Adam | $6 300 |
73 | Baker, Amanda | $5 447 |
74 | Seatelli, Jean Paul | $5 447 |
75 | Fox, David | $5 447 |
76 | Grimes, Thomas | $5 447 |
77 | Ta, Napoleon | $5 447 |
78 | Farkas, Julie | $5 447 |
79 | Verstappen, Ronald | $5 447 |
80 | Coelho, Vitor | $5 447 |
81 | Meijer, Maarten | $5 447 |
82 | Woo, Samuel | $4 706 |
83 | Pitzulo, Michael | $4 706 |
84 | Totani, Jerilyn | $4 706 |
85 | Wiesner, Brett | $4 706 |
86 | Leeuwen, Maikel | $4 706 |
87 | Mckinnon, Lauchlin | $4 706 |
88 | Roy, Sebastien | $4 706 |
89 | Bustamante, Anthony | $4 706 |
90 | Demler, Shane | $4 706 |
91 | Tighe, David | $4 113 |
92 | Oneil, Craig | $4 113 |
93 | Howe, Jody | $4 113 |
94 | Tran, Thithi | $4 113 |
95 | Zamani, Kambiz | $4 113 |
96 | NEWHOUSE, MARK | $4 113 |
97 | Neu, Matthias | $4 113 |
98 | Calhoun, Matthew | $4 113 |
99 | Iversen, Albert | $4 113 |
100 | Rusnak, Francis | $3 631 |
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