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Updated: June 2, 2008, 2:15 PM ET

Medic wins first bracelet at 2008 WSOP

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By Andrew Feldman
ESPN Poker Club

A star-studded 352-player field kicked off the 2008 World Series of Poker with the $10,000 pot-limit hold 'em event. The final table was filled with some very familiar names including Andy Bloch, Kathy Liebert, Mike Sexton, Phil Laak, Patrik Antonius, Nenad Medic and Chris Bell. Each hoped to take down the first event of the series, but in the end, it was Medic taking home his first bracelet.

IMPDI for the 2008 WSOPNenad Medic celebrates his first WSOP bracelet on Sunday night.

"It's amazing," Medic noted after the victory. "I came in here with big goals. But I didn't think it would all happen this quickly."

Medic had many previous notable cashes, but perhaps the most impressive was his 2006 victory at the World Poker Finals, a $10,000 World Poker Tour event. With this victory, Medic has eclipsed the $3.6 million mark in career earnings.

Below are the complete results of Event 1 of the 2008 WSOP:

Buy In: $10,000
Prize Pool: $3,308,800
Entries: 352
Places paid: 36

1 -- Nenad Medic -- $794,112
2 -- Andrew Bloch -- $488,048
3 -- Kathy Liebert -- $306,064
4 -- Mike Sexton -- $248,160
5 -- Amit Makhija -- $198,528
6 -- Chris Bell -- $157,168
7 -- Patrik Antonius -- $124,080
8 -- Mike Sowers -- $99,264
9 -- Phil Laak -- $74,448
10 -- John Kabbaj -- $49,632
11 -- Ryan Young -- $49,632
12 -- Nikolay Evdakov -- $49,632
13 -- David Benefield -- $41,360
14 -- Chris Gildone -- $41,360
15 -- Justin Newton -- $41,360
16 -- Andreas Krause -- $33,088
17 -- Alexander Kostritsyn -- $33,088
18 -- Michael Pesek -- $33,088
19 -- Eli Elezra -- $26,470
20 -- Rolf Slotboom -- $26,470
21 -- Anthony Licastro -- $26,470
22 -- Dustin Woolf -- $26,470
23 -- David Stroj -- $26,470
24 -- Vivek Rajkumar -- $26,470
25 -- Ted Lawson -- $26,470
26 -- Joseph Sanders -- $26,470
27 -- Jerri Thomas -- $26,470
28 -- Ben Sprengers -- $23,162
29 -- Raphael Zimmerman -- $23,162
30 -- Mark Newhouse -- $23,162
31 -- Matthew Graham -- $23,162
32 -- Charles Pacheco -- $23,162
33 -- David Bach -- $23,162
34 -- Marco Johnson -- $23,162
35 -- Thomas Vinas -- $23,162
36 -- Kanzuki Ikeuchi -- $23,162