2007 Bellagio Five Star World Poker Open Results

Anna Wroblewski won the 2007 Bellagio Five Star World Poker Open over the weekend, taking home some $337,000 with her. A week ago, Anna was working a $10 an hour job. Ironically, she took the job to offset losses at the poker table.

This was a pretty impressive feat. The Bellagio tournament was a $3,000 buy-in with nearly a million dollars in prize money. The event was held at the Bellagio, for heaven's sake. So there was a solid field with numerous poker stars attending.

Anna didn't take the usual ride of the no-name to the jackpot. Usually, the lesser known players get lucky mid-tournament and have an insurmountable stack at the final table. Anna was a 3-to-1 underdog in the final heads-up. She was able to nickle and dime her opponent, Jonathan Dull, to take the chips lead and eventually knock her opponent out.

Others at the final table were Erick Lindgren and Peter Feldman, a noted online poker professional. Here are the results of the final table at the 2007 Bellagio Five Star World Poker Open.

1st - $337,395 - Anna Wroblewski
2nd - $192,640 - Jonathan Dull
3rd - $96,320 - Abel Meijberg
4th - $55,025 - Peter Feldman
5th - $41,280 - Colin Gordon
6th - $32,105 - Casper Hansen
7th - $22,935 - Tom Koral
8th - $18,345 - Erick Lindgren
9th - $14,677 - Richard Talerico

PEAKS AND VALLEYS

Anna's story is a microcosm of a poker player's life. She moved from Chicago to Las Vegas at the age of 19. It was her goal to play poker for a living. She played underage, but busted out fairly early on. Anna moved back to Chicago until earlier this year, when she was 21.

At the start of her second stay at Vegas, Anna started to build her small bank roll. Then a bad run forced her into poverty. Anna took a $10 an hour job to pay the bills.

But she decided to take that $300 paycheck and enter a winner-take-all one table event. That gave Anna the money to enter the Bellagio Five Star Poker Open, which required 2000 dollars to buy in. A 16th place finish gave her $7,000 dollars. Half of this money staked her entry into this latest event.

So Anna Wroblewski turned her $300 paycheck into a $330,000 jackpot. I'm betting she won't be in that job much longer.

2007 Bellagio Five Star World Poker Open Results