2006 WSOP Event 2 - No-Limit Hold 'em

Place  WinnerPrize1Brandon Cantu (BC, Canada)  $757,8392Phong Ly (CA, USA)$416,8163Drew Rubin (FL, USA)$226,5974Lee Padilla (CA, USA)$176,5795Brent Roberts (NY, USA)$151,5706Don Zewin (NV, USA)$126,9407Ron Stanley (NV, USA)$107,6148Mark Swartz (AZ, USA)$88,6689Carlos Mortensen (NV, USA)$71,61710Tom Nguyen (NV, USA)$56,08111Jennifer Harman (NV, USA)$51,15512Jack Rosenfeldt (CA, USA)$46,98713Ali Eslami (CA, USA)$43,19714Chad Burum (CA, USA)$39,40815David Baker (TX, USA)$35,61916Adam Smith (TX, USA)$31,83017Steve Hohn (KS, USA)$28,04018Stuart Krasney (CA, USA)$24,25119Jorge Walker (CA, USA)$20,46220Paul Smith (CA, USA)$20,462  It was approaching one o'clock in the morning in Las Vegas, and the first open event of the 2006 World Series of Poker was drawing to a close. A final table with three named players and six who had never cashed in a WSOP event proved hard on the pros as the chip leader coming into the event, 2001 WSOP Main Event champ Carlos Mortensen, was the first casualty. Following behind him were Ron Stanley in eighth and Don Zewin in sixth, leaving five newcomers to battle it out for the lion's share of the $4,164,000 prize pool.  In the end it was Brandon Cantu from Canada who emerged the victory, taking home a prize that was nearly double that of second place finisher Phong Ly from California. While the final hand of Ly: ... against Cantu: ... and a board of: ... finished the event, it was a previous hand that made Cantu's victory a foregone conclusion. When Cantu bet drew Ly in with:... against:... the board favored the Canadian with: ... causing Cantu to double up and Ly with only $10,000 chips remaining.