2,998 players showed up for Event 3, the, $1,500 no-limit hold 'em event which started on Saturday, June 2. Cairan O'Leary patiently became the last man standing as he was able to wait out a cold deck to overcome Alex Jacob's chip lead and earn his first WSOP bracelet and $727,012. O'Leary had previously cashed once in a preliminary event at last year's World Poker Challenge.
Below are the complete results of Event 3 of the 2007 WSOP:
Buy In: $1,500
Prize Pool: $4,497,000
Entries: 2998
Places paid: 270
1. Cairan O'Leary, $727,012
2. Paul Evans, $450,150
3. Alex Jacob, $282,367
4. Jeffrey Yoak, $184,152
5. Craig Crivello, $128,907
6. Andreas Krause, $94,122
7. Thad Smith, $73,661
8. Bart Hanson, $55,246
9. Matthew Vengrin, $43,378
10. Eric Baldwin, $36,012
11. Miguel Londono, $36,012
12. Artin Panossian, $36,012
13. Chad Davis, $31,920
14. Jason Potter, $31,920
15. Scott Takeshita, $31,920
16. Ryan Fair, $27,827
17. Richard DiNunzio, $27,827
18. Kenneth Sigel, $27,827
19. Edward Lee, $23,735
20. Mitch Garshofsky, $23,735
21. Leon Kunkel, $23,735
22. Jess Kaufman, $23,735
23. David Fischer, $23,735
24. Christopher Grillo, $23,735
25. Tristan Wade, $23,735
26. Derrick Molnar, $23,735
27. Abdul Fadeyi, $23,735
28. Doug (Rico) Carli, $20,052
29. Michael Binger, $20,052
30. Robert Samano, $20,052
31. Colin Pentan, $20,052
32. Erik Haakenson, $20,052
33. Sanjeer (Bobby) Bais, $20,052
34. Santo Messina, $20,052
35. Benjamin Santoli, $20,052
36. Sergeit Veytser, $20,052
37. Patrick Blye, $16,778
38. John Christy, $16,778
39. Joseph Pintavalle, $16,778
40. John Pearman, $16,778
41. Joseph Skluzacek, $16,778
42. Scott Ya, $16,778
43. Jose Padilla, $16,778
44. Ryan Pitell, $16,778
45. Long Nguyen, $16,778
46. Benjamin Logan, $13,914
47. Timothy Jaxon, $13,914
48. Jean-Pierre Angelil, $13,914
49. Chad Wagner, $13,914
50. Shawn Reed, $13,914
51. Todd Lundwall, $13,914
52. Nigel Vonas, $13,914
53. Marc Naalden, $13,914
54. Robert Addison, $13,914
55. Goriac Yousif, $11,458
56. Jon Matthew, $11,458
57. Gevin Trung Diep, $11,458
58. Christopher East, $11,458
59. Steve Kolb, $11,458
60. Don Hoeland, $11,458
61. Igor Golovin, $11,458
62. Stephen Cook, $11,458
63. Jose Rosenkrantz, $11,458
64. David (Dragon) Pham, $9,412
65. Jeff Rodriguez, $9,412
66. Gorden Hodkins, $9,412
67. Benny Cho, $9,412
68. Nan Wang, $9,412
69. Robert Marshall, $9,412
70. Frederick Brenner, $9,412
71. Michael Banducci, $9,412
72. Ron Tourony, $9,412
73. Christopher Bonita, $7,775
74. Erle Mankin, $7,775
75. Richard Weisman, $7,775
76. Robert Aron, $7,775
77. Richie Wong, $7,775
78. Michael Stewart, $7,775
79. Ron Lane, $7,775
80. Manish Parekit, $7,775
81. Michael Akkashian, $7,775
82. Robert Mariano, $6,548
83. Marvin Guss, $6,548
84. Darren Sprengers, $6,548
85. Blaine McGowan, $6,548
86. Scott Lidji, $6,548
87. Brian Ichikawa, $6,548
88. Jesse Berger, $6,548
89. Chris Ladner, $6,548
90. Christopher Collins, $6,548
91. Paul Pulcher, $5,729
92. Ryan Bulthaup, $5,729
93. Alan Sass, $5,729
94. Stephen Hastings, $5,729
95. Joseph Burgess, $5,729
96. Lynn Franklin, $5,729
97. Maria Ho, $5,729
98. Chad Burum, $5,729
99. Mark Howell, $5,729
100. John Strzemp, $5,115
101. Brian Saxe, $5,115
102. Mike Shearer, $5,115
103. Unknown Player, $5,115
104. Siagzar (Reza) Payvar, $5,115
105. Franco Brunetti, $5,115
106. Young Phan, $5,115
107. Roland De Wolfe, $5,115
108. Stephen Schoonover, $5,115
109. Erick Lindgren, $5,115
110. Trung Ly, $5,115
111. Robert Searfoss, $5,115
112. Steve Wise, $5,115
113. David Cohen, $5,115
114. Donovan Cox, $5,115
115. Arnold Spee, $5,115
116. Christopher DeMaci, $5,115
117. Ryan Kogan, $5,115
118. Tony Palermo, $5,115
119. Brian Kneier, $5,115
120. Brian McPeek, $5,115
121. Benjamin Bono, $5,115
122. Jared Anderson, $5,115
123. Anthony Maggio, $5,115
124. Jeff Cabanillas, $5,115
125. Alex Melnikow, $5,115
126. Tri Nguyen, $5,115
127. Wai Kei Liy, $4,706
128. Sean LeFort, $4,706
129. Heidi Tomich, $4,706
130. Matthew Walter, $4,706
131. Greg Raymer, $4,706
132. Aaron Fleischner, $4,706
133. Eric Mizrachi, $4,706
134. Gary Germann, $4,706
135. Justin Zomarra, $4,706
136. Mark Vail, $4,706
137. Vince Lepore, $4,706
138. Dennis Smith, $4,706
139. James Libretti, $4,706
140. Nghia Tran, $4,706
141. John Galbraith, $4,706
142. Justin Blumenthal, $4,706
143. Joon Kim, $4,706
144. Ronald Dorval, $4,706
145. Jeremy Clements, $4,706
146. Frankie Havard, $4,706
147. Thomas Magnetta, $4,706
148. William Mietz, $4,706
149. Robert Gianquitti, $4,706
150. Matt Ricciardi, $4,706
151. Robert Jakoby, $4,706
152. Jimmy Holland, $4,706
153. Ali Pabarja, $4,706
154. Scott Murphy, $4,706
155. Mike Karasoulis, $4,706
156. Mark Swartz, $4,706
157. Neil Blatnee, $4,706
158. Ken Knight, $4,706
159. Ryan Daut, $4,706
160. Jose Alfor, $4,706
161. David Leighton, $4,706
162. Ralph Porter, $4,706
163. Matt Ramsey, $4,297
164. Mike McStott, $4,297
165. John Hausler, $4,297
166. William Argie, $4,297
167. Forest Bronzman, $4,297
168. Andrew Ashbey, $4,297
169. Matthew Vahimian, $4,297
170. Dominik Cantore, $4,297
171. Craig Handelsman, $4,297
172. Jared Pickering, $4,297
173. Lucio Procopio, $4,297
174. Kevin Ho, $4,297
175. Vernon Harness Jr., $4,297
176. Adam Spiegelberg, $4,297
177. Michael Hirschensohn, $4,297
178. Roger Ly, $4,297
179. Michael Craig, $4,297
180. Joseph Ogden, $4,297
181. Michael Price, $4,297
182. Graham Andrews, $4,297
183. Samuel Paolini, $4,297
184. Kiran Patel, $4,297
185. Tom Lee, $4,297
186. Warren Karp, $4,297
187. Matt Lefkowitz, $4,297
188. Dan McGuire, $4,297
189. Thomas Sanduski, $4,297
190. Christian Bates, $4,297
191. Charles Zanatian, $4,297
192. James Tutino, $4,297
193. Steven Yeager, $4,297
194. Matthew Ross, $4,297
195. Richard E. Park, $4,297
196. Melvin Denham, $4,297
197. Keith Rodgers, $4,297
198. Patrick Omalley, $4,297
199. Brandon Patin, $3,888
200. Minh Nguyen, $3,888
201. Ian Keiser, $3,888
202. Edward Salazar, $3,888
203. David Pena, $3,888
204. Roberto Macatangay, $3,888
205. Andrew Schaffer, $3,888
206. Brandon Wong, $3,888
207. Griffen Abel, $3,888
208. Chad Mulheron, $3,888
209. Kevin McBride, $3,888
210. Luis Bedowitz, $3,888
211. Lance Rallis, $3,888
212. Trey Rubinson, $3,888
213. Raed Abualdilat, $3,888
214. Neil O'brien, $3,888
215. Daniel Tamura, $3,888
216. William Wanke, $3,888
217. Kevin Reive, $3,888
218. Scott Jensen, $3,888
219. Kenny McMahan, $3,888
220. Barbara Garrett, $3,888
221. Jason Dacunha, $3,888
222. Mark Rafn, $3,888
223. John Tzortzis, $3,888
224. Evan Dollinger, $3,888
225. Brian Poms, $3,888
226. Chad Bradbury, $3,888
227. Kevin Song, $3,888
228. Dennis Reed, $3,888
229. Leroy Polittle, $3,888
230. Michael Dobrich, $3,888
231. Matthew Davis, $3,888
232. John Thompson, $3,888
233. Chris Moneymaker, $3,888
234. William Sheffey, $3,888
235. Eugene Todd, $3,478
236. Dorothy VonSachsen, $3,478
237. Antonie Bass, $3,478
238. Lisa Brumbeloe, $3,478
239. John Young, $3,478
240. K.U. Davis, $3,478
241. Ernest Shepherd, $3,478
242. Greg Oleson, $3,478
243. Charlie Sewell, $3,478
244. Mark Popkin, $3,478
245. Mark Peterson, $3,478
246. Tony Collier, $3,478
247. Phillip Schechter, $3,478
248. Thomas Walroos, $3,478
249. Dan Schmiech, $3,478
250. Ruben Carter, $3,478
251. Keith Greer, $3,478
252. Joel Ming, $3,478
253. Tim Bucynski, $3,478
254. Ken Hampton, $3,478
255. Richard Higgins, $3,478
256. Scott Lychwick, $3,478
257. Joseph Sidoryk, $3,478
258. Mark Reiser, $3,478
259. Huy Pham, $3,478
260. Yarom Limor, $3,478
261. James Chiddy, $3,478
262. Harold Cromwell, $3,478
263. Jeffrey Wyckoff, $3,478
264. James Christopher, $3,478
265. Donna Varlotto, $3,478
266. Michael Horowitz, $3,478
267. Arthur Castner, $3,478
268. Jon Bordy, $3,478
269. Christopher Riley, $3,478
270. Karl Mahrenholz, $3,478