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Event 28: Seniors stand tall
 

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.

 Gary Gibbs captured his first gold braclet at the WSOP.  
Gary Gibbs captured his first gold braclet at the WSOP. (AP Images)  

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.

  
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