Event 12 | Event 14
For the sixth time in 14 final tables, the seats at Event 13's final table ($2,500 no-limit hold 'em) were filled with players looking for their first bracelet and their chance to be engraved into the WSOP record books. On Sunday, six-time WSOP casher Keven Stammen made his seventh one to remember with a victory on poker's biggest stage and earned that honor.
Stammen, a 23-year-old professional poker player from Celina, Ohio, is more experienced than his age would indicate. Playing since he was a teenager in the clubs in Ohio and then, as he got older, in the casinos in Windsor, Canada, he's been playing in cash games and tournaments to build the experience needed to succeed on a larger scale. In addition to his seven WSOP cashes, Stammen has three WSOP Circuit cashes, including an 18th-place finish in the Circuit main event in October, 2007. It seems as if he's always at the tables and now, his dedication has paid off.
"It's good to have a bracelet," Stammen said to the WSOP. "Last year I came out here and cashed four times. I got close a few times. But I took a few beats. This [win] sure makes up for it."
The final table was an all-North American event with six Americans, two Canadians and one Mexican in the running. The action was extremely quick as Stammen held all the chips after only 70 hands, with five players eliminated during the first 33.
Stammen earned $506,786 for the victory over 1,088 players.
Other notable finishers include Roland de Wolfe (15th), Kirill Gerasimov (17th) and Phil Ivey (18th).
Below are the complete results of Event 13 at the 2009 World Series of Poker:
Event 13: no-limit hold 'em
Buy-in: $2,500
Entries: 1,088
Prize pool: $2,502,400
Players in the money: 117
1. Keven Stammen ($506,786)
2. Angel Guillen ($312,800)
3. Shawn Glines ($202,694)
4. Bahador Ahmadi ($139,934)
5. Torrey Reily ($100,446)
6. Antoine Berube ($75,547)
7. Oktay Altinbas ($59,356)
8. Matthew Lynn ($48,621)
9. Gregg Merkow ($41,439)
10. Garrett Beckman ($35,584)
11. Romeo Piro ($35,584)
12. Jeffrey Tunkel ($35,584)
13. Qinghai Pan ($25,824)
14. Brett Switzer ($25,824)
15. Roland De Wolfe ($25,824)
16. Philip Sousa ($18,467)
17. Kirill Gerasimov ($18,467)
18. Phil Ivey ($18,467)
19. Alan Keating ($14,413)
20. Jochen Dickinger ($14,413)
21. Motoyuki Mabuchi ($14,413)
22. Matthew Schulte ($14,413)
23. John Hoang ($14,413)
24. Scott Freeman ($14,413)
25. Andrew Lichtenberger ($14,413)
26. Michael Holm ($14,413)
27. Alex Triner ($14,413)
28. Roland Isra ($11,886)
29. Kristina Holst ($11,886)
30. Matthew LaGarde ($11,886)
31. Ian Kim ($11,886)
32. Sean Gildea ($11,886)
33. Matt Vance ($11,886)
34. Andrew Weinstein ($11,886)
35. Michael Schneider ($11,886)
36. Man Montgomery ($11,886)
37. Logan Trindade ($9,834)
38. Ronald Crabtree ($9,834)
39. Svetlana Gromenkova ($9,834)
40. Vladimir Kochelaevskiy ($9,834)
41. Joshua Tieman ($9,834)
42. Matthew Reed ($9,834)
43. Ron Kirk ($9,834)
44. Justin Rollo ($9,834)
45. Justin Pechie ($9,834)
46. Javier Etayo ($8,458)
47. Matt Brady ($8,458)
48. Jonathan Plens ($8,458)
49. An Tran ($8,458)
50. Kenneth Jones ($8,458)
51. Todd Terry ($8,458)
52. Eric Mutrie ($8,458)
53. Robert McLaughlin ($8,458)
54. Ron Linden ($8,458)
55. Samuel Subilia ($7,432)
56. Matt Keikoan ($7,432)
57. Ping Lok Chan ($7,432)
58. Carter King ($7,432)
59. Alex Jacob ($7,432)
60. Thomas Brown ($7,432)
61. J.J. Liu ($7,432)
62. Dustin Pattinson ($7,432)
63. Aaron Weeks ($7,432)
64. Joseph Cada ($6,681)
65. Paul Spitzberg ($6,681)
66. Marcel Janicke ($6,681)
67. Arnaud Mattern ($6,681)
68. Elijah Berg ($6,681)
69. Kevin Lusk ($6,681)
70. Gabriel Vezina ($6,681)
71. Frank Wood ($6,681)
72. Matthew Sampson ($6,681)
73. Charles Lunn ($6,381)
74. Zeph Baer ($6,381)
75. Spencer Tep ($6,381)
76. Luis Sanchez ($6,381)
77. Dan McGuire ($6,381)
78. Rob Sterken ($6,381)
79. Louis Cohen ($6,381)
80. Christopher Godfrey ($6,381)
81. Bobby Poe ($6,381)
82. Joseph Healy ($5,780)
83. Adam Shuman ($5,780)
84. Kenneth Terrell ($5,780)
85. Alexandre Gauron ($5,780)
86. Michael Schwartz ($5,780)
87. Adam Murphy ($5,780)
88. Stephen Sion ($5,780)
89. John Carey ($5,780)
90. Mark Yamamoto ($5,780)
91. Daniel Obrien ($5,405)
92. Loren Klein ($5,405)
93. Mike Ellis ($5,405)
94. Nikolay Evdakov ($5,405)
95. Dag Palovic ($5,405)
96. Nicholas Zoretic ($5,405)
97. Shane Vanloon ($5,405)
98. Steven Vanzadelhoff ($5,405)
99. Pinkesh Mehta ($5,405)
100. Manley Freid ($4,929)
101. Domenico Antonio ($4,929)
102. Mike Allis ($4,929)
103. David Sun ($4,929)
104. Tanya Murphy ($4,929)
105. Douglas Hartman ($4,929)
106. Anthony Parrish ($4,929)
107. Robert Starkey ($4,929)
108. Scott Eskenazi ($4,929)
109. David Dube ($4,929)
110. David Margolis ($4,929)
111. Alex Keating ($4,929)
112. Juan Martinez Jalil ($4,929)
113. Leonid Yanovski ($4,929)
114. Steven Dolezel ($4,929)
115. Peter Robinson ($4,929)
116. Eduardo Gil ($4,929)