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 6th Don Grove Dallas, Oregon $23,620 7th Phil Warner Sacramento, CA $18,900 8th Fisherman Greg Duros Long Beach, CA $14,160 9th Samuel "Doug" Hazer Farmington, MO $9,440 10th Mike Sica No. Brunswick, NJ $5,200 11th Nani Dollison Hernando, MS $5,200 12th Vince Calvino Las Vegas, NV $5,200 13th Robert Sweedler Portland, OR $4,260 14th Dewey Weum Monona, WI $4,260 15th Bill Mullins Columbia, MO $4,260 16th Robert Cochran San Diego, CA $3,300 17th Charles Vartti Wetmore, MI $3,300 18th Mike Svobodny Las Vegas, NV $3,300 19th Douglas Romstad Missoula, MT $2,360 20th Mario Zeledon San Jose, Costa Rica $2,360 21st Patrick Castelluccio Phoenix, AZ $2,360 22nd Peter Haugan Florence, SD $2,360 23rd Dave Templeton Anchorage, AK $2,360 24th Alan Fidellow Yorktown Heights, NY $2,360 25th Greg Violette Henderson, NV $2,360 26th Michael Mills San Diego, CA $2,360 27th Douglas Farmer Corrales, NM $2,360 28th Marvin Rosenthal Las Vegas, NV $1,660 29th Renato Disilvestro Las Vegas, NV $1,660 30th William Fain Virginia City, NV $1,660 31st Cameron Klinck Columbiana, OH $1,660 32nd James Hopperstead Reno, NV $1,660 33rd Jerry Buss Carlsbad, CA $1,660 34th Edward Newton Las Vegas, NV $1,660 35th Ian McDonald Lincoln, UK $1,660 36th Randy McKay Chicago, IL $1,660 37th Don Fagan Dublin, Ireland $1,420 38th Patricia Pfeil Henderson, NV $1,420 39th Ernest Ostreicher Las Vegas, NV $1,420 40th Harold Fitzpatrick Surrey, BC $1,420 41st Nicola Salameh Houston, TX $1,420 42nd Alan Brodsky Rochester, NY $1,420 43rd An Tran Las Vegas, NV $1,420 44th Berry Johnston Las Vegas, NV $1,420 45th Donald Vines Las Vegas, NV $1,420 46th Len Miller Santa Barbara, CA $1,180 47th Keith Greystoke Bell Canyon, CA $1,180 48th Patrick Heneghan Chicago, IL $1,180 49th David Moriarty Los Angeles, CA $1,180 50th Ronald Preston Toms River, NJ $1,180 51st Brad Daugherty Las Vegas, NV $1,180 52nd Skip Wilson West Chester, OH $1,180 53rd Dale Hanke Ankeny, IA $1,180 T54th Jaime Ligator Miami, FL $590 T54th Edward Scharf Germany $590

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.

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.

-- Official Report by Nolan Dalla, Media Director -- 2004 World Series of Poker

2004 World Series of Poker