World Series of Poker Event #20, Limit Hold'em, 10-12 June 2008

Entrants: 480

Buy in: ,000

Prize pool: 3,600

Final results:
1. Daniel Negreanu, 4,863
2. Ugur Marangoz, 6,672
3. David Baker, ,624
4. Richard Li, ,336
5. Fu Wong, ,542
6. Jeremy Kottler, ,622
7. Greg Wohletz, ,886
8. Derek Lerner, ,334
9. Hien Tran, ,782

The ,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em championship attracted 480 entrants. The total prize pool amounted to 3,600. The top 45 finishers collected prize money.

The ,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em champion for 2008 is Daniel Negreanu, from Las Vegas, NV. He is a professional poker player and bona fide poker celebrity. Few players command public attention or crowd adulation like the Canadian-born superstar.

Negreanu started playing poker seriously as a teenager in and around the Toronto area.