My friend Mike Paulle has given me permission to post his daily reports for each event of the World Series of Poker this year to the ChipBoard! Below is his report on Event #28. Andy - Las Vegas

WORLD SERIES OF POKER 2002

EVENT #28 LIMIT HOLD'EM
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
$1,500 BUY-IN
$1,500 in chips

EXPLETIVES DELETED

If a man had talked like this, he would have been thrown out. From a tiny
little woman, it was funny.

There were 366 entrants in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em for a total prize pool of
$516,060. Three tables were paid, a total of 27 players.

To setup the Final Table Tuesday night, Paul Ladanyi's pocket 8's held up
against Philong Nguyen's all-in A 10. The 'blue' show was about to begin.

THE FINAL TABLE 42 mins left of 75. The blinds were $1,000/$2,000

Player Hometown Chip Count

Seat 1 Patty Gallagher San Diego CA $54,500
Seat 2 Cy Jassanowsky Johannesburg, So. Africa $35,000
Seat 3 Paul Ladanyi Budapest, Hungary $92,500
Seat 4 Jesse Daniel Ventura CA $76,000
Seat 5 Meng La Torrance CA $84,000
Seat 6 Steve Kaufman Cincinnati OH $76,000
Seat 7 An Tran Las Vegas NV $24,500
Seat 8 Gary Jones London, UK $77,000
Seat 9 Diego Cordovez Palo Alto CA $20,000
Seat 10 Daniel Barnett Edmonds WA $15,500

Every year, at the WSOP, new players emerge from obscurity to become household
names. A player with the potential to become a certified character that we will
watch for years is Patty "Machine Gun' Gallagher. She can play. And she IS a
character. Oh, and she is also by her own insistence a foul-mouthed b***h.
"I've got the biggest b***s in the place. I'm Patty G." She likes to say at the
top of her voice. It's like Mae West was channeling through a petite
Filipino-American woman who loves to laugh and who especially loves to taunt
men. She breaks the unwritten rule of poker etiquette by talking to her
opponents when they are trying to decide to call her bets. "Why are you
talking to me when I have a hand," Meng La finally said to her. He said she
gave him a "headache" and he asked her to quit speaking to him altogether.
Patty proved over the course of the day that she could bet the river with
absolutely nothing. "Don't flirt with me," she said to Steve Kaufman as he
stared at her looking for a bluff tell. She is a piece of work, there can be no
doubt.

As Daniel Barnett found out to his chagrin in 10th, Patty actually picked up a
real hand once in a while. Daniel was the shortest stack and he went all-in
from the button with A 6. Patty was on an early rush that took her to the chip
lead. 'Machine Gun' Gallagher had pocket Aces in the small blind.

'The Boss,' An Tran was the next to be gunned down by Gallagher. Tran reraised
Patty from the button with pocket 3's. She'd raised with the K Q of Spades
under the gun. It's likely that in the thirty plus cashes Tran has had at the
WSOP, he's never crossed anyone like Patty Gallagher. She wasn't missing any
hands at the time and made K's and Q's.

The next short stack that had to gamble was Diego Cordovez. Meng La raised from
middle position with A 3. Cordovez went all-in from the big blind with K 6. One
3 was enough, but Meng got two to give the talented Diego 8th.

'Johannesburg' was in the 1 post at the recent Kentucky Derby and lost to 'War
Emblem' by several lengths. Cy Jassanowsky, from Johannesburg, was in the 2
post at this Final Table and lost to Meng La in a photo finish. Cy had a K 9.
When a King flopped, he reraised Meng La's raise all-in. La had K 10 and the 10
played. Cy couldn't anymore.

Intensity, thy name is Paul Ladanyi. One notch east of Phil Hellmuth is a
hungry Paul Ladanyi. His desire to win burns right on the surface of his face.
When he gets a beat, he's capable of throwing, kicking or screaming things.
Passed early by the red-hot Patty Gallagher for the chip lead, Ladanyi had
plenty to be upset about when his stack was decimated. He lost most of the
remainder of his chips when Meng La made a higher flush on Paul with a fourth
Spade on the river. Paul was there on the turn. Still fuming, Landanyi finished
a disastrous 6th when he and Patty got into a raising duel. After five bets
they were obliged to quit to see the flop. To no one's surprise, except maybe
Ladanyi's, Gallagher had pocket Aces that held up against Paul's pocket 10's.

Just like Diego Cordovez, Gary Jones was forced to move in search of some
chips. When the flop came A K 7, Jones went all-in from the big blind with his
King. Unfortunately for Gary, England is ruled by a Queen not a King. Steve
Kaufman had Pokerland's ruler, an Ace, to bid the young Englishman 'Tally-ho'
in 5th.

All the males at this table were being baited by Patty Gallagher. Jesse Daniel
from Ventura (or is it Jesse Ventura from Daniel?) got it the worst. He
couldn't figure out what she had, and every time he guessed he seemed to be
wrong. Often he just folded in confusion. Too short now to guess, Jesse went
all-in with that proven failure, K x. Actually Jesse's hand wasn't that bad-K 6
of Hearts. Steve Kaufman had pocket 8's that sent Ventura back to Minnesota (or
was it Daniel back to California?).

Three-handed now, Patty had half the chips on the table. She was cooking with
gas at the time. But her tournament inexperience was about to show. Steve
Kaufman tried to get a deal going that would have given Patty over $100k. She
didn't know deals and didn't trust men bringing them. It was to cost her over
$50,000. Suddenly, the 'Machine Gun' had run out of bullets. The tournament
veterans, Kaufman and La worked her over pretty good. She will learn from this
experience and is a likely candidate to return to a Final Table soon.
Especially in her dominant game, Limit Hold'em. That boisterous voice was
finally struck dumb by the river card Meng La caught to wipe Patty out in 3rd.
Patty had top pair when Meng made a gutshot King high straight on the river
with his K 9.

Steve Kaufman is a backer of tournament players so he had a large crowd of
interested rooters. If Steve wins $190k, we'll get some additional buy-ins,
they probably thought. Meng "The Ninja" La agreed to a partial save when the
chips were even then he ripped Kaufman apart. Meng, who had been so infuriated
by Patty Gallagher, hung on to take the lion's share of the prize pool. It's
the second big win for La this season and vaults him into an elite circle of
players. Professor Kaufman tried a straight draw all-in against the made three
Queens of Meng and was schooled.

Official Money Winners
1. Meng La $190,920
2. Steve Kaufman $ 98,060
3. Patty Gallagher $ 49,020
4. Jesse Daniel $ 30,960
5. Gary Jones $ 23,220
6. Paul Ladanyi $ 18,060
7. Cy Jassanowsky $ 12,900
8. Diego Cordovez $ 10,320
9. An Tran $ 8,260
10. Daniel Barnett $ 6,200

11th-12th received $6,200
Philong Nguyen, Ivan Trepner

13th-15th received $5,160
David Warga, Joel Chaseman, Christopher Bach

16th-18th received $4,120
Susan Millstone, TJ Cloutier, Scott O'Bryan

19th-27th received $3,100
Michael Keohan, Roger Easterday, Ahmad Mubarak, Hunter Zuber, Randy Holland,
Luis Santoni, Thor Hansen, Frank Henderson, Matt Salo

As expected the Super Satellites are heating up. Unless there are a very high
percentage of repeaters, probably over 200 players will get into the 'Big One'
via the Supers by next Monday. As of this writing there are 146 entrants. Early
on, rebuys run about one to a player. As we near the last Supers, however, the
rebuys go up to about one and a half per player. That's where all the extra
seats are generated.

Some of the recent winners were: Alexander Dietrich, Serafim Zaharopaulos,
Peter Roche, Dan Alspach, Barry Shulman (2nd), Keith Davis, Gus Echeverri, Tony
Cousineau (3rd), Randy Hudson (2nd), Eric Holum, Artie Cobb, Pascal Perrault,
Kevin Maurer, Mike McGee, Tom Savitsky, Matt Heintschel (2nd).