2006 Tournament of Champions

[Sinochick]

Hi, don't know if this has been posted yet (I checked but couldn't find anything)

The Tournament of Champions field has been announced and there are more exemptions this year. I thought last year the players (especially Negreanu) were upset with exemptions?

Here are the players and how they qualified:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/...amp;name=poker

1-Joseph Hachem (Main Event Final Table)
2-Steve Dannenmann (Main Event Final Table)
3-Tex Barch (Main Event Final Table)
4-Aaron Kanter (Main Event Final Table)
5-Andrew Black (Main Event Final Table)
6-Scott Lazar (Main Event Final Table)
7-Daniel Bergsdorf (Main Event Final Table)
8-Brad Kondracki (Main Event Final Table)
9-Mike Matusow (Main Event Final Table)
10-Gregg Merkow (Circuit Event Winner)
11-Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (Circuit Event Winner)
12-Vinnie Vinh (Circuit Event Winner)
13-Kido Pham (Circuit Event Winner)
14-Chris Reslock (Circuit Event Winner)
15-Daniel Negreanu (Circuit Event Winner)
16-Abraham Korotki (Circuit Event Winner)
17-Darrell Dicken (Circuit Event Winner)
18-Jeffrey King (Circuit Event Winner)
19-John Spadavecchia (Circuit Event Winner)
20-Peter Feldman (Circuit Event Winner)
21-Clint Baskin (Circuit Event Winner)
22 - Sarah Strom (Exemption)
23 - Doyle Brunson (Exemption)
24 - Phil Hellmuth (Exemption)
25 - Mixe Sexton (Exemption)
26 - Gus Hansen(Exemption)
27- Mike O'Malley (Exemption)

Okay I'm the biggest Gus Hansen fan but has he ever played any WSOP events besides the Main Event??? Who are Sarah Strom and Mike O'Malley?