by Nolan Dalla
Special to VegasInsider.com Event #28
Senior’s World Championship (No-Limit Hold’em)
Buy-In: $1,000
Number of Entries: 519
Prize Money: $472,290
OFFICIAL RESULTS:
Placed Name Hometown Amount
1st Gary Gibbs Hot Springs, AR $136,960
2nd Carl McKelvey Houston, TX $72,170
3rd Roland Deslippe Las Vegas, NV $37,780
4th Aki Wellstone Tokyo, Japan $33,060
5th Michael Salem Hope Valley, RI $28,340
Gary Gibbs Wins First Gold Bracelet – Wins Senior’s World Championship of Poker
Gary Gibbs topped a record field of 519 players in the $1,000 buy-in Senior’s World Championship. The number of participants was the largest ever for any senior’s event in history – proving that poker is not just a young man’s (or women’s) game. This may be the “Year of the Young Guns” due to all the youthful poker champions winning gold bracelets. But, Gibbs showed everyone a thing or two about how to play poker.
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| Gary Gibbs captured his first gold braclet at the WSOP. (AP Images) |
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The game played was Texas Hold’em. The event was limited only to seniors – aged 50 or higher – and was held on Sunday and Monday, May 16th-17th in the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Gibbs, from Hot Springs, Arkansas, reigned supreme at the final table, which lasted exactly eight hours.
He won $136,960 and captured his first ever gold bracelet at the World Series.
