28th Annual World Series of Poker

$5000 Limit Hold'em
$5,000 Buy-In
Friday, May 9, 1997
Casino: Binion's Horseshoe
Players: 112
Prize Pool: $560,000

Place	Player	From	Prize Money
1st	Bob Veltri	USA	$224,000
2nd	Ed Stevens		$112,000
3rd	Erik Seidel	Las Vegas, NV, USA	$56,000
4th	John Spadavecchia	Lighthouse Point, FL, USA	$36,400
5th	Luis Santoni	Pembroke Pines, FL, USA	$28,000
6th	Noli Francisco	West New York, NJ, USA	$19,600
7th	Brad Daugherty	Las Vegas, NV, USA	$14,000
8th	Jeff Pierce	Las Vegas, NV, USA	$11,200
9th	Andre Boyer	Las Vegas, NV, USA	$8,400
10th	Dorothy Purgason		$6,720
11th	Steve Pestal	Costa Mesa, CA, USA	$6,720
12th	Danny Dang	Los Angeles, CA, USA	$6,720
13th	Tony "The Animal" Ma	South El Monte, CA, USA	$5,600
14th	Don Barton	Pahrump, NV, USA	$5,600
15th	Joanne "J.J." Liu	Palo Alto, CA, USA	$5,600
16th	Mel Weiner	Los Angeles, CA, USA	$4,480
17th	Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott	Hull, UK	$4,480
18th	Dan Heimiller	Plymouth, MI, USA	$4,480

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