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]
Jerry Yang after winning the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event.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] 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] Jerry Yang and his wife retired.[5] [6] [7] 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] [3] Hal Lubarsky , a blind man, finished in 197th place at the Main Event.[10] [11]
Contents Key Results Event 1: $5,000 World Championship Mixed hold'em Limit/No-Limit Event 2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em Event 3: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Event 4: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em Event 5: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better Event 6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Event 7: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys Event 8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys Event 9: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 10: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 11: $5,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Event 12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed) Event 13: $5,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em Event 14: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Event 15: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E. Event 17: $1,000 World Championship Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Event 18: $5,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em Event 19: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 20: $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 21: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Event 22: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 23: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Event 24: $3,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better Event 25: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 26: $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event 27: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 28: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 29: $1,500 Razz Event 30: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed) Event 31: $5,000 World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Event 32: $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Event 33: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys Event 34: $3,000 Limit Hold'em Event 35: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 36: $5,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 37: $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 39: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. Event 40: $1,500 Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit Event 41: $1,000 World Championship Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Event 42: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 43: $2,000 Limit Hold'em Event 44: $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 45: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed) Event 46: $1,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event 47: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 48: $1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball with rebuys Event 49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event 50: $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha Event 51: $1,000 S.H.O.E. Event 52: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys Event 53: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Event 54: $5,000 World Championship No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball with rebuys Event 55: $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold'em References Key * Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame (#/#) This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in 2007. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament. Place The place in which the player finished. Name The player who made it to the final table Prize ($) The amount of money, in U.S. Dollars ($), awarded for each finish at the event's final table
Results 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.
3-day event: Friday, June 1, 2007 to Sunday, June 3, 2007Number of entries: 451Total prize pool: $2,119,700 Number of payouts: 45Winning hand: K ♠ 2 ♦ Reference: [12] This was a $500 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada .
2-day event: Friday, June 1, 2007 to Saturday, June 2, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,039Total prize pool: $467,500 Number of payouts: 100Winning hand: 10 ♦ 4 ♠ Reference: [13] 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
Ciarán O'Leary after winning the $1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker 3-day event: Saturday, June 2, 2007 to Monday, June 4, 2007Number of entries: 2,998Total Prizepool: $4,497,000 Number of payouts: 270Winning hand: K ♣ 10 ♦ Reference: [14] 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]
Spegal at the 2007 World Series of Poker 3-day event: Sunday, June 3, 2007 to Tuesday, June 5, 2007Number of buy-ins: 781Total prize pool: $1,066,065 Number of payouts: 72Winning hand: A ♠ 10 ♠ Reference: [16] Schneider at the 2006 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout 3-day event: Sunday, June 3, 2007 to Tuesday, June 5, 2007Number of buy-ins: 327Total prize pool: $752,100 Number of payouts: 32Winning hand: A ♠ Q ♥ 4 ♠ A ♣ X A ♦ 4 ♣ See note Reference: [17] Note: While seven cards were dealt, only five cards are used to determine the Winning hand. The five cards used to determine the Winning hand were the three aces and two fours, one of the cards not used was not recorded. 3-day event: Monday, June 4, 2007 to Wednesday, June 6, 2007Number of buy-ins: 910Total prize pool: $1,365,000 Number of payouts: 90Winning hand: J ♣ 8 ♦ Reference: [18] 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
Boutin after winning the $5,000 Pot big black balls w/rb event 3-day event: Monday, June 4, 2007 to Wednesday, June 7, 2007Number of buy-ins: 145Number of rebuys: 450Total prize pool: $2,891,000 Number of payouts: 18Winning hand: A ♦ Q ♠ 8 ♠ 7 ♣ Reference: [19] Chu, After winning the $1,000 no-limit Hold'em with rebuys event 3-day event: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 to Thursday, June 7, 2007Number of buy-ins: 814Number of rebuys: 1,814Total prize pool: $2,533,062 Number of payouts: 81Winning hand: A ♣ 3 ♥ Reference: [20] Kravchenko at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 to Thursday, June 7, 2007Number of buy-ins: 690Total prize pool: $941,850 Number of payouts: 63Winning hand: A ♦ 10 ♠ 9 ♦ 4 ♥ Reference: [21] 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]
Durkee after winning the $2,000 no-limit Hold'em event 3-day event: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 to Friday, June 8, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,531Total prize pool: $2,786,420 Number of payouts: 153Winning hand: J ♠ 4 ♠ Reference: [23] Reslock at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 to Friday, June 8, 2007Number of buy-ins: 180Total prize pool: $846,000 Number of payouts: 24Winning hand: 10 ♣ 10 ♠ 4 ♦ 10 ♦ K ♦ 2 ♠ J ♥ Reference: [24] 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.
3-day event: Thursday, June 7, 2007 to Saturday, June 9, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,427Total prize pool: $1,947,855 Number of payouts: 120Winning hand: A ♦ 6 ♦ Reference: [25] 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
Cunningham at the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship 3-day event: Friday, June 8, 2007 to Sunday, June 10, 2007Number of buy-ins: 398Total prize pool: $1,870,600 Number of payouts: 36Winning hand: K ♣ 9 ♦ Reference: [26] Keiner after winning the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event 2-day event: Friday, June 8, 2007 to Saturday, June 9, 2007Number of buy-ins: 395Total prize pool: $539,175 Number of payouts: 40Winning hand: K ♠ K ♣ 2 ♥ 4 ♠ 3 ♥ 2 ♠ Q ♦ Reference: [27] Hellmuth at the 2006 World Series of Poker 3-day event: Saturday, June 9, 2007 to Monday, June 11, 2007Number of buy-ins: 2,628Total prize pool: $3,587,220 Number of payouts: 270Winning hand: A ♠ 3 ♥ Reference: [28] 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 .
Richburg at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Saturday, June 9, 2007 to Monday, June 11, 2007Number of buy-ins: 382Total prize pool: $878,600 Number of payouts: 40Winning hand: 6-4-3-2-A-(4-3) (Razz) (card suits do not matter in Razz)Reference: [29] 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.
Boyer after winning the Ladies World Championship event 3-day event: Sunday, June 10, 2007 to Tuesday, June 12, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,286Total prize pool: $1,755,000 Number of payouts: 99Winning hand: K ♠ 10 ♠ Reference: [30] 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]
Getzoyan at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Sunday, June 10, 2007 to Tuesday, June 12, 2007Number of buy-ins: 257Total prize pool: $1,207,900 Number of payouts: 27Winning hand: Q ♥ J ♥ Reference: [31] Like David Williams , Gabriel Nassif was first known for competing Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour .[32]
Safieddine at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Monday, June 11, 2007 to Wednesday, June 13, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,013Total prize pool: $2,329,900 Number of payouts: 99Winning hand: 4 ♥ 4 ♦ Reference: [33] 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
Hughes won a second bracelet in 2008. 3-day event: Monday, June 11, 2007 to Wednesday, June 13, 2007Number of buy-ins: 340Total prize pool: $618,000 Number of payouts: 32Winning hand: J ♥ 5 ♥ 10 ♥ 10 ♦ 10 ♣ 6 ♠ 10 ♠ Reference: [34] 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
Baruch at the 2007 WSOP 2-day event: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 to Wednesday, June 13, 2007Number of buy-ins: 900Total prize pool: $1,228,500 Number of payouts: 90Winning hand: K ♣ Q ♠ Reference: [35] 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
Mackey at the $15,000 buy-in National Poker League's Vegas Open Championship in 2007 3-day event: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 to Friday, June 15, 2007Number of buy-ins: 640Total prize pool: $3,012,700 Number of payouts: 63Winning hand: 10 ♦ 2 ♥ Reference: [36] Clements at the 2007 WSOP 2-day event: Thursday, June 14, 2007 to Friday, June 15, 2007Number of buy-ins: 576Total prize pool: $786,240 Number of payouts: 54Winning hand: K ♥ 9 ♥ 9 ♣ 8 ♣ Reference: [37] 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
Elezra at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Thursday, June 14, 2007 to Saturday, June 16, 2007Number of buy-ins: 236Total prize pool: $651,360 Number of payouts: 24Winning hand: K-Q-10-7-3-J-A[38] Reference: [39] 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
Ponzio at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Friday, June 15, 2007 to Sunday, June 17, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,619Total prize pool: $2,946,580 Number of payouts: 153Winning hand: K ♥ Q ♥ Reference: [40] 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
Schwartz at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Friday, June 15, 2007 to Sunday, June 17, 2007Number of buy-ins: 192Total prize pool: $902,400 Number of payouts: 24Winning hand: 8 ♥ 5 ♦ 3 ♠ 2 ♣ Reference: [41] 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
Stucke at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Saturday, June 16, 2007 to Monday, June 18, 2007Number of buy-ins: 2,315Total prize pool: $3,159,975 Number of payouts: 198Winning hand: 7 ♦ 7 ♠ Reference: [42] 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
Pillai at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Sunday, June 17, 2007 to Tuesday, June 19, 2007Number of buy-ins: 827Total prize pool: $2,282,520 Number of payouts: 81Winning hand: A ♦ 8 ♦ Reference: [43] 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
Thater at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Sunday, June 17, 2007 to Tuesday, June 19, 2007Number of buy-ins: 341Total prize pool: $465,465 Number of payouts: 32Winning hand: 8-2-9-3-5-3-4 (card suits do not matter in Razz)Reference: [44] 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
Corkins at the 2006 World Series of Poker 3-day event: Monday, June 18, 2007 to Wednesday, June 20, 2007Number of buy-ins: 847Total prize pool: $1,948,100 Number of payouts: 78Winning hand: K ♦ 10 ♠ Reference: [45] 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
Schreiber after winning the $5,000 Heads-Up championship 3-day event: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 to Thursday, June 21, 2007Number of buy-ins: 392Total prize pool: $1,842,400 Number of payouts: 64Winning hand: K ♣ 2 ♠ Reference: [46] "SF" denotes players who lost in the semifinal round of the tournament and "QF" denotes players who lost in the quarterfinal round.
Lisandro after winning the $2,000 seven-card stud event 3-day event: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 to Thursday, June 21, 2007Number of buy-ins: 213Total prize pool: $387,660 Number of payouts: 24Winning hand: A-A-9 ♦ 8 ♠ A ♠ 5 ♠ X Reference: [47] 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
Smurfit at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 to Friday, June 22, 2007Number of buy-ins: 293Number of rebuys /addons : 880Total prize pool: $1,684,305 Number of payouts: 27Winning hand: Q ♣ J ♣ 8 ♦ 2 ♦ Reference: [48] 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
3-day event: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 to Friday, June 22, 2007Number of buy-ins: 296Total prize pool: $816,960 Number of payouts: 27Winning hand: K ♣ 6 ♦ Reference: [49] 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
Nam Le in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic event 3-day event: Thursday, June 21, 2007 to Saturday, June 23, 2007Number of buy-ins: 2,541Total prize pool: $3,468,465 Number of payouts: 271Winning hand: A ♥ 7 ♦ Reference: [50] 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
Guth at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Thursday, June 21, 2007 to Saturday, June 23, 2007Number of buy-ins: 280Total prize pool: $1,316,000 Number of payouts: 27Winning hand: 10 ♦ 9 ♦ 9 ♥ 3 ♥ Reference: [51] 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
3-day event: Friday, June 22, 2007 to Sunday, June 24, 2007Number of buy-ins: 599Total prize pool: $1,090,180 Number of payouts: 54Winning hand: J ♥ J ♦ Reference: [52] 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
Cheung at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Saturday, June 23, 2007 to Monday, June 25, 2007Number of buy-ins: 2,778Total prize pool: $3,791,970 Number of payouts: 270Winning hand: A ♣ K ♦ Reference: [53] 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
Deeb after winning the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Event 5-day event: Sunday, June 24, 2007 to Thursday, June 28, 2007Number of buy-ins: 148Total prize pool: $7,104,000 Number of payouts: 16Winning hand: A ♥ 7 ♠ 4 ♥ 5 ♦ 5 ♥ 9 ♣ 8 ♠ Reference: [54] 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]
Goldberg at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Sunday, June 24, 2007 to Tuesday, June 26, 2007Number of buy-ins: 620Total prize pool: $846,300 Number of payouts: 63Winning hand: 10 ♥ 7 ♥ Reference: [55] 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
Bennett at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Monday, June 25, 2007 to Wednesday, June 27, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,882Total prize pool: $1,721,620 Number of payouts: 153Reference: [56] 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] [15]
3-day event: Monday, June 25, 2007 to Wednesday, June 27, 2007Number of buy-ins: 687Total prize pool: $937,755 Number of payouts: 63Winning hand: A ♣ A ♦ 3 ♠ Q ♣ Reference: [57] Ahmad at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 to Thursday, June 28, 2007Number of buy-ins: 472Total prize pool: $859,040 Number of payouts: 45Winning hand: Q ♥ 4 ♥ Reference: [58] 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
O'Dell at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 to Friday, June 29, 2007Number of buy-ins: 534Total prize pool: $971,880 Number of payouts: 54Winning hand: 2 ♥ 3 ♦ 9 ♣ Q ♦ Reference: [59] 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
Edler at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Thursday, June 28, 2007 to Saturday, June 30, 2007Number of buy-ins: 728Total prize pool: $3,421,600 Number of payouts: 78Winning hand: A ♣ 10 ♠ Reference: [60] 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
Schneider at the 2006 World Series of Poker 3-day event: Thursday, June 28, 2007 to Saturday, June 30, 2007Number of buy-ins: 668Total prize pool: $607,880 Number of payouts: 64Winning hand: Reference: [61] 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
Rodman at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Friday, June 29, 2007 to Sunday, July 1, 2007Number of buy-ins: 2,038Total prize pool: $3,709,160 Number of payouts: 198Winning hand: A ♣ J ♦ Reference: [62] Amit shows his gold WSOP bracelet after he won it in the 2005 World Series of Poker . 3-day event: Friday, June 29, 2007 to Sunday, July 1, 2007Number of buy-ins: 209Number of rebuys/addons: 546Total prize pool: $721,804 Number of payouts: 24Winning hand: 7-6-4-3-2Reference: [63] 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
3-day event: Saturday, June 30, 2007 to Monday, July 2, 2007Number of buy-ins: 3,151Total prize pool: $4,301,115 Number of payouts: 324Winning hand: A ♦ 7 ♠ Reference: [64] 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]
Mizrachi after winning the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha 3-day event: Sunday, July 1, 2007 to Tuesday, July 3, 2007Number of buy-ins: 314Total prize pool: $2,857,400 Number of payouts: 36Winning hand: 10 ♠ 9 ♣ 9 ♥ 5 ♥ Reference: [65] Bac at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Sunday, July 1, 2007 to Tuesday, July 3, 2007Number of buy-ins: 730Total prize pool: $664,300 Number of payouts: 72Winning hand: 4 ♠ 7 ♠ Reference: [66] Graves at the 2007 WSOP 3-day event: Monday, July 2, 2007 to Wednesday, July 4, 2007Number of buy-ins: 1,048Number of rebuys/addons: 2,336Total prize pool: $3,226,609 Number of payouts: 100Winning hand: 6 ♥ 5 ♠ Reference: [67] 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
2-day event: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 to Wednesday, July 4, 2007Number of buy-ins: 720Total prize pool: $982,800 Number of payouts: 72Winning hand: K ♥ Q ♠ Reference: [68] 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
Seidel at the 2007 WSOP 2-day event: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 to Thursday, July 5, 2007Number of buy-ins: 78Number of rebuys/addons: 226Total prize pool: $1,476,000 Number of payouts: 7Winning hand: 8-7-6-5-3Reference: [69] Yang at the 2008 WSOP As the final event, in which the "World Champion of Poker" is crowned, this is considered the "Main Event".
12-day event: Friday, July 6, 2007 to Tuesday, July 17, 2007Number of buy-ins: 6,358Total prize pool: $59,784,954 Number of payouts: 621Winning hand: 8 ♣ 8 ♦ Reference: [70] 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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