Jerry Yang after winning the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event.

The 2007 World Series of Poker was the 38th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series featured 55 poker championships in several variants. As a WSOP custom since 1976, each of the event winners receive a championship bracelet in addition to that event's prize money. The series culminates with the $10,000 No-Limit hold'em "Main Event", which has attracted thousands of entrants since 2004. The winner of the WSOP Main Event, who wins a multimillion-dollar prize, is considered to be the World Champion of Poker.[1]

Most of the tournaments played at the WSOP are variants of Texas hold'em, a game where each player may use a combination of the five community cards and two hole cards to make the best hand. Another poker variant with community cards is Omaha, in which each player is dealt four hole cards and must use two of them in conjunction with three of the five community cards to make the best possible five-card hand. In contrast to games with community cards, some variants, such as stud or draw, deal each player separate hands with no common cards. Seven-card stud deals each player two hole cards, followed by four face-up cards one at a time, and then another hidden card, with betting after each round. Other games played at the 2007 tournament included Razz, H.O.R.S.E., and Deuce-to-Seven. Prior to 2000, seven-card stud was the most common game in U.S. casinos, but today hold'em has almost totally eclipsed the once popular game.[2]

Within each of these poker variants, a myriad of options exist. For example, depending on the betting structure, a tournament might be described as no-limit, limit, or pot-limit. Games may include other variations on the rules governing the execution of the specific game such as shootout, eight or better, or heads up.

With 54,288 total entries and a combined prize pool of $159,796,918, the 2007 WSOP was the largest series of poker tournaments ever.[3] For many, winning a share of the prize pool was all that mattered, while others sought the glory associated with winning a bracelet. This dichotomy could not have been illustrated better than a deal negotiated at the Senior Championship event. Tony Korfman wanted the money while Ernest Bennett wanted the glory. Rather than leave their fates to chance, the two of them ensured they got what they wanted. In exchange for splitting the prize money, Korfman agreed to let Bennett win the bracelet.[4] After winning $8.25 million in the Main Event, Jerry Yang and his wife retired.[5] "My winning today also means a lot to me, because I know that I can use this money to do a lot of good for other people out there," Yang said[6] before donating over a million dollars to charity.[7] Upon winning his record eleventh bracelet, Phil Hellmuth said, "the bracelets have always been a really huge deal, to me more than the other guys, because I knew that they represented history."[8]

Age and disability was another story line of the 2007 WSOP. At 21 years and 10 days old, Steve Billirakis became the youngest person to ever win a WSOP bracelet.[9] At the other end of the spectrum, 94-year-old Jack Ury was the oldest person to ever participate in the Main Event.[3] Hal Lubarsky, a blind man, finished in 197th place at the Main Event.[10][11]

Key

* Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame
(#/#) This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in 2007. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament.
Place The place in which the player finished.
Name The player who made it to the final table
Prize ($) The amount of money, in U.S. Dollars ($), awarded for each finish at the event's final table

Results

Event 1: $5,000 World Championship Mixed hold'em Limit/No-Limit

At the time of his victory, Steve Billirakis was the youngest person to have won a WSOP bracelet.

This event kicked off the 2007 WSOP. It was a $5,000 buy-in Mixed (alternating between limit and no-limit) Texas Hold'em tournament.

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Steve Billirakis (1/1) $536,287
2nd Greg Mueller $328,554
3rd Tony George $218,329
4th Steve Paul-Ambrose $146,259
5th Fred Berger $108,105
6th Roger McDow $84,788
7th Kirk Morrison (0/1) $63,591
8th Jon Turner $46,633
9th John Younger $33,915

Event 2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em

This was a $500 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada.

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Frederick Narciso (1/1) $104,701
2nd Charles Fisher $66,392
3rd Gene Lang $42,547
4th Chris Chau $28,053
5th Kevin Kalthoff $19,637
6th David Dietrich $14,962
7th Meaghan Larivee $11,221
8th John Konich $8,182
9th Eric Schutzberg $5,844

Event 3: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Ciarán O'Leary after winning the $1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker
Final table
Place Winner Prize
1st Ciarán O'Leary (1/1) $727,012
2nd Paul Evans $450,150
3rd Alex Jacob $282,367
4th Jeffrey Yoak $184,152
5th Craig Crivello $128,907
6th Andreas Krause $94,122
7th Thad Smith $73,661
8th Bart Hanson $55,246
9th Matthew Vengrin $43,378

Event 3 was the largest non-Main Event live tournament in history. This record, however, would be short lived as event 49 would break that record.[15]

Event 4: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Spegal at the 2007 World Series of Poker
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Mike Spegal (1/1) $252,290
2nd Gavin Smith $155,645
3rd Jon Friedberg $101,276
4th William Hill $67,162
5th Tom Savitsky $47,973
6th Bruce Van Horn $36,779
7th Eric Lynch $27,718
8th Jeff Langdon $20,255
9th Marco Traniello $14,925

Event 5: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better

Schneider at the 2006 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Tom Schneider (1/1) $214,347
2nd Ed Tonnellier $118,456
3rd Annie Duke (0/1) $75,210
4th Chris Ferguson (0/5) $50,391
5th Chris Bell $39,109
6th David Benyamine $29,708
7th Joe Bolnick $22,939
8th John Phan $16,922

Event 6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Gary Styczynski (1/1) $280,715
2nd Varouzhan Gumroyan $177,627
3rd Hansu Chu $114,278
4th Soheil Shamseddin $75,771
5th James Gorham $53,412
6th James Holland $40,991
7th Michael Banks $30,433
8th Peter O'Donnell $22,359
9th Anthony Imani $16,148

Event 7: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys

Boutin after winning the $5,000 Pot big black balls w/rb event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Burt Boutin (1/2) $868,745
2nd Erik Cajelais $508,816
3rd Dave Ulliott (0/1) $349,811
4th Sirous Jamshidi $242,844
5th Minh Ly $183,579
6th Larry Jonsson $141,659
7th John Juanda (0/3) $112,749
8th Humberto Brenes (0/2) $83,839
9th Robin Keston $60,711

Event 8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys

Chu, After winning the $1,000 no-limit Hold'em with rebuys event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Michael Chu (1/1) $585,774
2nd Tommy Vu $364,761
3rd Barry Cales $235,575
4th Dolph Arnold $157,050
5th Shane Schleger $111,455
6th Michael Gracz (0/1) $84,858
7th Amir Vahedi (0/1) $63,327
8th Robert Aron $46,862
9th Jan Von Halle $34,196

Event 9: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Kravchenko at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Alex Kravchenko (1/1) $228,446
2nd Bryan Devonshire $140,336
3rd John Varner $92,301
4th J.R. Reiss $60,749
5th Bryan Andrews $43,796
6th Yueqi "Rich" Zhu $33,907
7th Jordan Morgan $25,430
8th Jeffrey Calkins $18,837
9th Richard Ashby $13,657

Ninth-place finisher Richard Ashby was eliminated simultaneously along with Ron Ware (10th place) on the final hand of day, 2 by Jordan Morgan. Therefore, he never appeared at the official final table.[22]

Event 10: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Durkee after winning the $2,000 no-limit Hold'em event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Will Durkee (1/1) $566,916
2nd Todd Terry $353,875
3rd Hunter Frey $231,273
4th Justin Bonomo $156,040
5th Michael Banducci $105,884
6th Stanley Weiss $78,020
7th Walter Browne $58,515
8th Gil George $43,190
9th Ronnie Hofman $32,880

Event 11: $5,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud

Reslock at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Chris Reslock (1/1) $258,453
2nd Phil Ivey (0/5) $143,820
3rd David Oppenheim $93,060
4th Pat Pezzin $61,335
5th Theo Jørgensen $46,350
6th Ted Lawson (0/1) $35,532
7th Oriane Teysseire $27,072
8th Marco Traniello $19,458

Event 12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)

This event was played in a shorthanded format, no more than six players per table, with no more than six players occupying a table at any time during the tournament.

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Jason Warner (1/1) $481,698
2nd David Zeitlin $269,778
3rd Steve Olek $186,020
4th David Mitchell-Lolis $123,689
5th Matt Brady $92,523
6th Brian Miller $61,357

Event 13: $5,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em

Cunningham at the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Allen Cunningham (1/5) $487,287
2nd Jeffrey Lisandro $294,260
3rd Humberto Brenes (0/2) $197,348
4th Jason Lester (0/1) $132,813
5th Joe Patrick $99,142
6th Travis Rice $78,565
7th Gavin Griffin (0/1) $58,924
8th Keith Lehr (0/1) $43,959
9th Alan Jaffray $31,800

Event 14: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

Keiner after winning the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Michael Keiner (1/1) $146,987
2nd Nesbitt Coburn $80,876
3rd Steve Sung $51,222
4th Barry Greenstein (0/2) $33,698
5th Dale Phillips $26,150
6th Greg Raymer (0/1) $19,680
7th John Robertson $15,097
8th Larry Eubanks $11,053

Event 15: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Hellmuth at the 2006 World Series of Poker
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Phil Hellmuth* (1/11) $637,254
2nd Andy Philachack $394,594
3rd Rick Fuller $247,518
4th Morgan Machina $161,425
5th Scott Clements (0/1) $112,997
6th David Simon $82,506
7th Fabrice Soulier $64,570
8th Ut Nguyen $48,427
9th Taylor Douglas $38,025

Phil Hellmuth won his eleventh WSOP bracelet, the most of any player. He was previously one of three players with ten bracelets the others being Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson.

Event 16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Richburg at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st James Richburg (1/2) $239,503
2nd Walter Browne $131,790
3rd Chris Björin (0/2) $83,467
4th Tom Schneider (1/1) $54,913
5th Ali Eslami $42,612
6th Robert Mizrachi $32,069
7th Herb Van Dyke $24,601
8th Harry Kazazian $18,011

Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace always plays low. The best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as "the wheel" or "the bicycle". Deuce-to-seven Razz is also sometimes played.

Event 17: $1,000 World Championship Ladies No-Limit Hold'em

Boyer after winning the Ladies World Championship event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Sally Boyer (1/1) $262,077
2nd Anne Heft $166,177
3rd Randi Calabro $106,494
4th Kathleen Gliva $70,216
5th Katja Thater $49,151
6th Frauke Sporschill $37,448
7th Mindy Trinidad $28,086
8th Vanessa Selbst $20,480
9th Julie Dang $14,628

The 1,286 entrants made this the largest ladies only tournament ever.[15]

Event 18: $5,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em

Getzoyan at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Saro Getzoyan (1/1) $333,379
2nd Geoff Sanford $200,511
3rd William Thorson $136,493
4th Thor Hansen (0/2) $93,008
5th David Gee $68,850
6th Tom Koral $54,356
7th Ray Dehkharghani $41,069
8th Don Todd $30,198
9th Gabriel Nassif $21,742

Like David Williams, Gabriel Nassif was first known for competing Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour.[32]

Event 19: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Safieddine at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Francois Safieddine (1/1) $521,785
2nd John Phan $330,846
3rd Marcus Obser $212,021
4th Devin Porter $139,794
5th Shawn Hattem $97,856
6th Lars Bonding $74,557
7th Humberto Brenes (0/2) $55,918
8th Alex Bolotin $40,773
9th Bertrand Grospellier $29,124

Event 20: $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Hughes won a second bracelet in 2008.
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ryan Hughes (1/1) $176,358
2nd Min Lee $97,461
3rd Douglas Carli $61,880
4th Greg Raymer (0/1) $41,460
5th Steve Graboski $32,178
6th Jim Weir $24,443
7th Ron Ware $18,873
8th Adam Spiegelberg $13,923

Event 21: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Baruch at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Don Baruch (1/1) $264,106
2nd Jared Davis $149,263
3rd Daniel Negreanu (0/3) $101,351
4th Thomas Fuller $68,796
5th Michael Wehner $36,855
6th Brendan Lee $22,113
7th Doug Baughman $15,971
8th Erick Lindgren $12,899
9th Fred Goldberg $9,828

Event 22: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Mackey at the $15,000 buy-in National Poker League's Vegas Open Championship in 2007
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st James Mackey (1/1) $730,740
2nd Stuart Fox $448,892
3rd Michael Binger $295,245
4th William McMahon $194,319
5th Karga Holt $140,091
6th Nick Schulman $108,457
7th Jan Sørensen (0/2) $81,343
8th Tex Barch $60,254
9th Michael Gracz $43,684

Event 23: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Clements at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Scott Clements (1/2) $194,206
2nd Eric Lynch $119,508
3rd Dau "Tommy" Ly $78,624
4th Will Durkee (1/1) $52,285
5th Jason Newburger $38,133
6th Mark Davis $29,877
7th Andrew Black $22,408
8th Anthony MacCanello $16,511
9th K.U. Davis $11,794

Event 24: $3,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better

Elezra at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Eli Elezra (1/1) $198,984
2nd Scotty Nguyen (0/4) $110,731
3rd Dutch Boyd (0/1) $71,650
4th John Harkness $47,224
5th David Sklansky (0/3) $35,825
6th Thor Hansen (0/2) $27,357
7th George Hardie $20,844
8th Marshall Ragir $14,981

Event 25: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Ponzio at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ben Ponzio (1/1) $599,467
2nd David Hewitt $374,216
3rd Justin Rollo $244,566
4th Evan Schwartz $165,008
5th Travis Rice $111,970
6th Danny Noam $82,504
7th Adam Ross $61,878
8th Ken Einiger $45,672
9th Darryl Ronconi $34,770

Event 26: $5,000 H.O.R.S.E.

Schwartz at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ralph Schwartz (1/1) $275,683
2nd Bill Gazes $153,408
3rd Yuebin Guo $99,264
4th Phil Ivey (0/5) $65,424
5th Robert Mizrachi $49,632
6th Alexander Jung $37,901
7th Thom Schultz $28,877
8th Jeff Campbell $20,755

Event 27: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Stucke at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st David Stucke (1/1) $603,069
2nd Young Cho $382,357
3rd Seth Weinger $246,478
4th Michael Ium $164,319
5th David Woo $115,339
6th Noam Freedman $83,739
7th Tom Dobrilovic $63,200
8th Luis Sanchez $47,400
9th Thai Ton $36,340

Event 28: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Pillai at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Shankar Pillai (1/1) $527,829
2nd Beth Shak $328,683
3rd Jason Song $212,274
4th Dustin Holmes $141,516
5th Ben Fineman $100,431
6th Phil Hellmuth* (1/11) $76,464
7th Perry Friedman (0/1) $57,063
8th Brett Richey $42,227
9th Daniel Corbin $30,814

Event 29: $1,500 Razz

Thater at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Katja Thater (1/1) $132,653
2nd Larry St. Jean $73,311
3rd O'Neil Longson (0/3) $46,547
4th Paul Clark (0/3) $31,186
5th Denny Axel $24,204
6th Mark Vos (0/1) $18,836
7th Men Nguyen (0/6) $14,197
8th Thomas Daubert $10,473

Event 30: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)

Corkins at the 2006 World Series of Poker
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Hoyt Corkins (1/2) $515,065
2nd Terrence Chan $287,345
3rd William Lin $196,758
4th Alan Sass $132,471
5th Kelly Vande-Mheen $96,431
6th James Pittman $63,118

Event 31: $5,000 World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

Schreiber after winning the $5,000 Heads-Up championship
Top finishers
Place Name Prize
1st Dan Schreiber (1/1) $425,594
2nd Mark Muchnik $230,300
SF Keith Block $128,968
SF Vanessa Selbst $128,968
QF Steve Sarrafzadeh $46,060
QF Jared Davis $46,060
QF Shannon Shorr $46,060
QF Toto Leonidas (0/1) $46,060

"SF" denotes players who lost in the semifinal round of the tournament and "QF" denotes players who lost in the quarterfinal round.

Event 32: $2,000 Seven-Card Stud

Lisandro after winning the $2,000 seven-card stud event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Jeffrey Lisandro (1/1) $118,426
2nd Nick Frangos $65,902
3rd Nesbitt Coburn $42,643
4th Severin Walser $28,105
5th Daniel Negreanu (0/3) $21,321
6th Greg Pappas $16,282
7th David Brody $12,405
8th Farshad "Ben" Cohen $8,916

Event 33: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys

Smurfit at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Alan Smurfit (1/1) $464,867
2nd Qushqar Morad $279,595
3rd Van Marcus $190,326
4th Chris Bjorin $129,691
5th Chau Giang (0/3) $96,005
6th Brandon Adams $75,794
7th Robert Fellner $57,266
8th Sunny Nijran $42,108
9th Hilbert Shirey (0/3) $30,317

Event 34: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Alexander Borteh (1/1) $225,483
2nd Brandon Wong $135,615
3rd Shawn Keller $92,316
4th David Pham (0/2) $62,906
5th Matthew Kelly $46,567
6th Vivek Rajkumar $36,763
7th Michael Byrne $27,777
8th Marco Johnson $20,424
9th Petri Pollanen $14,705

Event 35: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Nam Le in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ryan Young (1/1) $615,955
2nd Dustin Dirksen $381,381
3rd Nam Le $239,230
4th John Esposito $156,020
5th Michael Trimby $109,214
6th Paul Cheung $79,743
7th Raj Jain $62,048
8th Darren Glenn $46,806
9th Joe Holmes $36,751

Event 36: $5,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Guth at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st John Guth (1/1) $363,216
2nd Robert Stevanovski $218,456
3rd David Flores $148,708
4th Max Reynard $101,332
5th Greg Jameson $75,012
6th Randy Jensen $59,220
7th Michael Pollowitz $44,744
8th Bart Hanson $32,900
9th Jim Grove $23,688

Event 37: $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Greg Hopkins $269,274
2nd Jason Newburger $165,707
3rd Yuval Bronshtein $109,018
4th Pete Lawson $72,497
5th David Zarrin $52,874
6th Robert Collison $41,427
7th Gioi Luong $31,070
8th Ray Coburn $22,894
9th Bryan O'Connell $16,353

Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Cheung at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Robert Cheung (1/1) $673,628
2nd Richard Murnick $417,117
3rd Erica Schoenberg $261,646
4th John Kranyak $170,639
5th Andrew Lee $119,447
6th Chris Bjorin $87,215
7th Suey Wong $68,255
8th Anthony Espo $51,192
9th Nick Goodall $40,195

Event 39: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.

Deeb after winning the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Event
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Freddy Deeb (1/2) $2,276,832
2nd Bruno Fitoussi $1,278,720
3rd John Hanson $852,480
4th Amnon Filippi $586,080
5th Kenny Tran $444,000
6th David Singer $337,440
7th Barry Greenstein (0/2) $259,296
8th Thor Hansen (0/2) $188,256

The $7.1 million prize pool and $2.2 million prize were the largest prizes in poker history for a non-Main WSOP event.[3]

Event 40: $1,500 Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit

Goldberg at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Fred Goldberg (1/1) $204,935
2nd Rene Mouritsen $125,895
3rd Christoph Niesert $82,804
4th Scott Bohlman $54,498
5th Kevin Marcotte $39,289
6th Joe Brandenburg $30,418
7th Michael Craig $22,813
8th Reza Zand $16,899
9th Karlo López $12,252

Event 41: $1,000 World Championship Seniors No-Limit Hold'em

Bennett at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ernest Bennett (1/1) $348,423
2nd Tony Korfman $217,503
3rd Rod Clarida $142,147
4th Ed Smith $95,907
5th Thomas Catanzaro $65,080
6th Leon Lewis $47,953
7th Jack Deutsch $35,965
8th Ray Abels $26,546
9th Charles Anderson $20,209

Bennett and Korfman made a deal before heads-up play began. Korfman agreed to let Bennett win the title uncontested if Bennett agreed to split the prize money. They split the cash evenly with each taking home roughly $293,000.[4] With 1,882 entrants over the age of 55, this was the largest Senior's event ever.[15]

Event 42: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Lukasz Dumanski (1/1) $227,454
2nd David Bach $139,725
3rd James Tolley $91,900
4th Gene Timberlake $60,485
5th Chad Brown $43,606
6th Dario Alioto $33,759
7th Thomas Hant $25,319
8th Mark Wilds $18,755
9th George Danzer $13,597

Event 43: $2,000 Limit Hold'em

Ahmad at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Saif Ahmad (1/1) $217,329
2nd William Jensen $133,151
3rd Michael Graffeo $88,481
4th Justin Pechie $59,274
5th Tommy Rounds $43,811
6th Hal Havlisch $34,362
7th Robert Pacleb $25,771
8th Joe Mandia $18,899
9th Gerald Kane $13,745

Event 44: $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

O'Dell at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Frankie O'Dell (1/2) $240,057
2nd Thang Luu $147,726
3rd Martin "Dick" Corpuz $97,188
4th Marcel Lüske $64,630
5th Marvin Ryan $47,136
6th Jess Robinson $36,931
7th Ming Lee $27,699
8th Stuart Paterson $20,409
9th Mitch Maples $14,578

Event 45: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed)

Edler at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Bill Edler (1/1) $904,672
2nd Alex Bolotin $504,686
3rd Erik Friberg $345,582
4th Greg Pohler $232,669
5th Dutch Boyd (0/1) $169,369
6th Gioi Luong $110,860

Event 46: $1,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Schneider at the 2006 World Series of Poker
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Tom Schneider (2/2) $147,713
2nd Hoyt Verner $82,064
3rd Miguel de la Cruz $51,670
4th Scotty Nguyen (0/4) $31,610
5th Saundra Taylor $24,619
6th Tony Ma (0/2) $19,270
7th Tommy Hang $14,711
8th Woody Deck $11,063

Event 47: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Rodman at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Blair Rodman (1/1) $707,898
2nd Amato Galasso $448,808
3rd Klein Kim Bach $289,314
4th Anna Wroblewski $192,876
5th Steve Crawford $135,384
6th Roland De Wolfe $98,293
7th Joe Pelton $74,183
8th David Schnettler $55,637
9th Mark McKibben $42,655

Event 48: $1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball with rebuys

Amit shows his gold WSOP bracelet after he won it in the 2005 World Series of Poker.
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Rafi Amit (1/2) $227,005
2nd Lenny Martin $128,120
3rd Anthony Lellouche $84,812
4th Jon Shoreman $57,383
5th Eugene Ji $41,504
6th Mark Bartlog $27,068

Event 49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Chandrasekhar Billavara (1/1) $722,914
2nd Taylor Douglas $467,101
3rd John Hunt $292,476
4th Leandro Pimentel $189,249
5th Duane Felix $131,184
6th Cort Kibler-Melby $96,775
7th Ray Spencer $75,270
8th Greg Mueller $55,914
9th Lewis Titterton $45,162

This event set a World Series of Poker non-main event and live poker attendance record with 3,151 entries breaking the previous record of 2,998 set earlier in the third event of the 2007 WSOP. At the time it was also the third-highest entry total in all live Poker events behind just the 2006 and 2005 main events which had 8,773 and 5,619 entrants respectively.[15]

Event 50: $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha

Mizrachi after winning the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Robert Mizrachi (1/1) $768,889
2nd Rene Mouritsen $464,877
3rd Patrik Antonius $311,394
4th Dau "Tommy" Ly $209,564
5th Marco Traniello $156,435
6th Doyle Brunson* (0/10) $123,967
7th Stephen Ladowsky $92,975
8th Jonas Flug-Entin $69,363
9th Steve Sung $50,177

Event 51: $1,000 S.H.O.E.

Bac at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Dao Bac (1/1) $157,975
2nd Adam Geyer $86,691
3rd Chip Jett $55,801
4th Raymond Davis $34,012
5th Imre Leibold $26,572
6th Vladimir Shchemelev $20,793
7th Michael Craig $15,943
8th Pat Poels (0/2) $11,957

Event 52: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys

Graves at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Michael Graves (1/1) $742,121
2nd Theo Tran $387,193
3rd Shawn Luman $224,249
4th Shawn Hattem $161,330
5th Chad Batista $129,064
6th Kris Tate $112,931
7th Isaac Haxton $96,798
8th Arnold Spee $80,665
9th Thierry Cazals $72,599

Event 53: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Ram Vaswani (1/1) $217,438
2nd Andy Ward $124,816
3rd Anh Van Nguyen $83,538
4th David Mosca $58,968
5th Ishak Noyan $31,450
6th Sondre Sagstuen $19,656
7th David Baker $12,776
8th Rayvenia Puckett $9,582

Event 54: $5,000 World Championship No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball with rebuys

Seidel at the 2007 WSOP
Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Erik Seidel (1/8) $538,835
2nd Chad Brown $324,777
3rd Shawn Sheikhan $206,676
4th Lamar Wilkinson $162,389
5th Andrew Black $118,101
6th Freddy Deeb (1/2) $73,813
7th Todd Brunson (0/1) $51,669

Event 55: $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold'em

Yang at the 2008 WSOP

As the final event, in which the "World Champion of Poker" is crowned, this is considered the "Main Event".

Final table
Place Name Prize
1st Jerry Yang (1/1) $8,250,000
2nd Tuan Lam $4,840,981
3rd Raymond Rahme $3,048,025
4th Alex Kravchenko (1/1) $1,852,721
5th Jon Kalmar $1,255,069
6th Hevad Khan $956,243
7th Lee Childs $705,229
8th Lee Watkinson (0/1) $585,699
9th Philip Hilm $525,934

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