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2007 World Series of Poker results

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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.

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.

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. 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. After winning $8.25 million in the Main Event, Jerry Yang and his wife retired. "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 before donating over a million dollars to charity. 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."

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. At the other end of the spectrum, 94-year-old Jack Ury was the oldest person to ever participate in the Main Event. Hal Lubarsky, a blind man, finished in 197th place at the Main Event.

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Results

{{Anchor|Event 1}} 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 $ buy-in Mixed (alternating between limit and no-limit) Texas Hold'em tournament.

3-day event: Friday, June 1, 2007, to Sunday, June 3, 2007
Number of entries: 451
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 45
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Steve Billirakis (1/1)	$
2nd	Greg Mueller	$
3rd	Tony George	$
4th	Steve Paul-Ambrose	$
5th	Fred Berger	$
6th	Roger McDow	$
7th	Kirk Morrison (0/1)	$
8th	Jon Turner	$
9th	John Younger	$

{{Anchor|Event 2}} Event 2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em

This was a $ 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, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,039
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 100
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Frederick Narciso (1/1)	$
2nd	Charles Fisher	$
3rd	Gene Lang	$
4th	Chris Chau	$
5th	Kevin Kalthoff	$
6th	David Dietrich	$
7th	Meaghan Larivee	$
8th	John Konich	$
9th	Eric Schutzberg	$

{{Anchor|Event 3}} 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

3-day event: Saturday, June 2, 2007, to Monday, June 4, 2007
Number of entries: 2,998
Total Prizepool: $
Number of payouts: 270
Winning hand:
Reference:{{cite web|url=http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/tournament-results.asp?tid=3430&grid=309|title=No-Limit Hold'em (Event 3)

Place	Winner	Prize
1st	Ciarán O'Leary (1/1)	$
2nd	Paul Evans	$
3rd	Alex Jacob	$
4th	Jeffrey Yoak	$
5th	Craig Crivello	$
6th	Andreas Krause	$
7th	Thad Smith	$
8th	Bart Hanson	$
9th	Matthew Vengrin	$

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.

{{Anchor|Event 4}} Event 4: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Spegal at the 2007 World Series of Poker

3-day event: Sunday, June 3, 2007, to Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 781
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 72
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Mike Spegal (1/1)	$
2nd	Gavin Smith	$
3rd	Jon Friedberg	$
4th	William Hill	$
5th	Tom Savitsky	$
6th	Bruce Van Horn	$
7th	Eric Lynch	$
8th	Jeff Langdon	$
9th	Marco Traniello	$

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

3-day event: Sunday, June 3, 2007, to Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 327
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 32
Winning hand: See note
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Tom Schneider (1/1)	$
2nd	Ed Tonnellier	$
3rd	Annie Duke (0/1)	$
4th	Chris Ferguson (0/5)	$
5th	Chris Bell	$
6th	David Benyamine	$
7th	Joe Bolnick	$
8th	John Phan	$

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.

{{Anchor|Event 6}} Event 6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Monday, June 4, 2007, to Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 910
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 90
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Gary Styczynski (1/1)	$
2nd	Varouzhan Gumroyan	$
3rd	Hansu Chu	$
4th	Soheil Shamseddin	$
5th	James Gorham	$
6th	James Holland	$
7th	Michael Banks	$
8th	Peter O'Donnell	$
9th	Anthony Imani	$

{{Anchor|Event 7}} Event 7: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys

Boutin after winning the $5,000 Pot big black balls w/rb event

3-day event: Monday, June 4, 2007, to Wednesday, June 7, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 145
Number of rebuys: 450
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 18
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Burt Boutin (1/2)	$
2nd	Erik Cajelais	$
3rd	Dave Ulliott (0/1)	$
4th	Sirous Jamshidi	$
5th	Minh Ly	$
6th	Larry Jonsson	$
7th	John Juanda (0/3)	$
8th	Humberto Brenes (0/2)	$
9th	Robin Keston	$

{{Anchor|Event 8}} Event 8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys

Chu, After winning the $1,000 no-limit Hold'em with rebuys event

3-day event: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, to Thursday, June 7, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 814
**Number of rebuys: ** 1,814
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 81
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Michael Chu (1/1)	$
2nd	Tommy Vu	$
3rd	Barry Cales	$
4th	Dolph Arnold	$
5th	Shane Schleger	$
6th	Michael Gracz (0/1)	$
7th	Amir Vahedi (0/1)	$
8th	Robert Aron	$
9th	Jan Von Halle	$

{{Anchor|Event 9}} Event 9: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

3-day event: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, to Thursday, June 7, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 690
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 63
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Alex Kravchenko (1/1)	$
2nd	Bryan Devonshire	$
3rd	John Varner	$
4th	J.R. Reiss	$
5th	Bryan Andrews	$
6th	Yueqi "Rich" Zhu	$
7th	Jordan Morgan	$
8th	Jeffrey Calkins	$
9th	Richard Ashby	$

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.

{{Anchor|Event 10}} Event 10: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Durkee after winning the $2,000 no-limit Hold'em event

3-day event: Wednesday, June 6, 2007, to Friday, June 8, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,531
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 153
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Will Durkee (1/1)	$
2nd	Todd Terry	$
3rd	Hunter Frey	$
4th	Justin Bonomo	$
5th	Michael Banducci	$
6th	Stanley Weiss	$
7th	Walter Browne	$
8th	Gil George	$
9th	Ronnie Hofman	$

{{Anchor|Event 11}} Event 11: $5,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud

3-day event: Wednesday, June 6, 2007, to Friday, June 8, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 180
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 24
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Chris Reslock (1/1)	$
2nd	Phil Ivey (0/5)	$
3rd	David Oppenheim	$
4th	Pat Pezzin	$
5th	Theo Jørgensen	$
6th	Ted Lawson (0/1)	$
7th	Oriane Teysseire	$
8th	Marco Traniello	$

{{Anchor|Event 12}} 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.

3-day event: Thursday, June 7, 2007, to Saturday, June 9, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,427
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 120
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Jason Warner (1/1)	$
2nd	David Zeitlin	$
3rd	Steve Olek	$
4th	David Mitchell-Lolis	$
5th	Matt Brady	$
6th	Brian Miller	$

{{Anchor|Event 13}} Event 13: $5,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em

Cunningham at the 2008 NBC [[National Heads-Up Poker Championship

3-day event: Friday, June 8, 2007, to Sunday, June 10, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 398
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 36
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Allen Cunningham (1/5)	$
2nd	Jeffrey Lisandro	$
3rd	Humberto Brenes (0/2)	$
4th	Jason Lester (0/1)	$
5th	Joe Patrick	$
6th	Travis Rice	$
7th	Gavin Griffin (0/1)	$
8th	Keith Lehr (0/1)	$
9th	Alan Jaffray	$

{{Anchor|Event 14}} Event 14: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

Keiner after winning the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event

2-day event: Friday, June 8, 2007, to Saturday, June 9, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 395
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 40
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Michael Keiner (1/1)	$
2nd	Nesbitt Coburn	$
3rd	Steve Sung	$
4th	Barry Greenstein (0/2)	$
5th	Dale Phillips	$
6th	Greg Raymer (0/1)	$
7th	John Robertson	$
8th	Larry Eubanks	$

{{Anchor|Event 15}} Event 15: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Hellmuth at the [[2006 World Series of Poker

3-day event: Saturday, June 9, 2007, to Monday, June 11, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 2,628
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 270
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Phil Hellmuth* (1/11)	$
2nd	Andy Philachack	$
3rd	Rick Fuller	$
4th	Morgan Machina	$
5th	Scott Clements (0/1)	$
6th	David Simon	$
7th	Fabrice Soulier	$
8th	Ut Nguyen	$
9th	Taylor Douglas	$

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.

{{Anchor|Event 16}} Event 16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E.

3-day event: Saturday, June 9, 2007, to Monday, June 11, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 382
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 40
Winning hand: 6-4-3-2-A-(4–3) (Razz) (card suits do not matter in Razz)
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	James Richburg (1/2)	$
2nd	Walter Browne	$
3rd	Chris Björin (0/2)	$
4th	Tom Schneider (1/1)	$
5th	Ali Eslami	$
6th	Robert Mizrachi	$
7th	Herb Van Dyke	$
8th	Harry Kazazian	$

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.

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

Boyer after winning the Ladies World Championship event

3-day event: Sunday, June 10, 2007, to Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,286
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 99
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Sally Boyer (1/1)	$
2nd	Anne Heft	$
3rd	Randi Calabro	$
4th	Kathleen Gliva	$
5th	Katja Thater	$
6th	Frauke Sporschill	$
7th	Mindy Trinidad	$
8th	Vanessa Selbst	$
9th	Julie Dang	$

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

{{Anchor|Event 18}} Event 18: $5,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Sunday, June 10, 2007, to Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 257
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 27
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Saro Getzoyan (1/1)	$
2nd	Geoff Sanford	$
3rd	William Thorson	$
4th	Thor Hansen (0/2)	$
5th	David Gee	$
6th	Tom Koral	$
7th	Ray Dehkharghani	$
8th	Don Todd	$
9th	Gabriel Nassif	$

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

{{Anchor|Event 19}} Event 19: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Monday, June 11, 2007, to Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,013
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 99
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Francois Safieddine (1/1)	$
2nd	John Phan	$
3rd	Marcus Obser	$
4th	Devin Porter	$
5th	Shawn Hattem	$
6th	Lars Bonding	$
7th	Humberto Brenes (0/2)	$
8th	Alex Bolotin	$
9th	Bertrand Grospellier	$

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

3-day event: Monday, June 11, 2007, to Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 340
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 32
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ryan Hughes (1/1)	$
2nd	Min Lee	$
3rd	Douglas Carli	$
4th	Greg Raymer (0/1)	$
5th	Steve Graboski	$
6th	Jim Weir	$
7th	Ron Ware	$
8th	Adam Spiegelberg	$

{{Anchor|Event 21}} Event 21: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

2-day event: Tuesday, June 12, 2007, to Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 900
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 90
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Don Baruch (1/1)	$
2nd	Jared Davis	$
3rd	Daniel Negreanu (0/3)	$
4th	Thomas Fuller	$
5th	Michael Wehner	$
6th	Brendan Lee	$
7th	Doug Baughman	$
8th	Erick Lindgren	$
9th	Fred Goldberg	$

{{Anchor|Event 22}} Event 22: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em

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, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 640
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 63
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	James Mackey (1/1)	$
2nd	Stuart Fox	$
3rd	Michael Binger	$
4th	William McMahon	$
5th	Karga Holt	$
6th	Nick Schulman	$
7th	Jan Sørensen (0/2)	$
8th	Tex Barch	$
9th	Michael Gracz	$

{{Anchor|Event 23}} Event 23: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

2-day event: Thursday, June 14, 2007, to Friday, June 15, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 576
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 54
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Scott Clements (1/2)	$
2nd	Eric Lynch	$
3rd	Dau "Tommy" Ly	$
4th	Will Durkee (1/1)	$
5th	Jason Newburger	$
6th	Mark Davis	$
7th	Andrew Black	$
8th	Anthony MacCanello	$
9th	K.U. Davis	$

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

3-day event: Thursday, June 14, 2007, to Saturday, June 16, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 236
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 24
Winning hand: K-Q-10-7-3-J-A
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Eli Elezra (1/1)	$
2nd	Scotty Nguyen (0/4)	$
3rd	Dutch Boyd (0/1)	$
4th	John Harkness	$
5th	David Sklansky (0/3)	$
6th	Thor Hansen (0/2)	$
7th	George Hardie	$
8th	Marshall Ragir	$

{{Anchor|Event 25}} Event 25: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Friday, June 15, 2007, to Sunday, June 17, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,619
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 153
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ben Ponzio (1/1)	$
2nd	David Hewitt	$
3rd	Justin Rollo	$
4th	Evan Schwartz	$
5th	Travis Rice	$
6th	Danny Noam	$
7th	Adam Ross	$
8th	Ken Einiger	$
9th	Darryl Ronconi	$

{{Anchor|Event 26}} Event 26: $5,000 H.O.R.S.E.

3-day event: Friday, June 15, 2007, to Sunday, June 17, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 192
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 24
Winning hand: (Omaha Hi/Lo)
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ralph Schwartz (1/1)	$
2nd	Bill Gazes	$
3rd	Yuebin Guo	$
4th	Phil Ivey (0/5)	$
5th	Robert Mizrachi	$
6th	Alexander Jung	$
7th	Thom Schultz	$
8th	Jeff Campbell	$

{{Anchor|Event 27}} Event 27: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Saturday, June 16, 2007, to Monday, June 18, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 2,315
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 198
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	David Stucke (1/1)	$
2nd	Young Cho	$
3rd	Seth Weinger	$
4th	Michael Ium	$
5th	David Woo	$
6th	Noam Freedman	$
7th	Tom Dobrilovic	$
8th	Luis Sanchez	$
9th	Thai Ton	$

{{Anchor|Event 28}} Event 28: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Sunday, June 17, 2007, to Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 827
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 81
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Shankar Pillai (1/1)	$
2nd	Beth Shak	$
3rd	Jason Song	$
4th	Dustin Holmes	$
5th	Ben Fineman	$
6th	Phil Hellmuth* (1/11)	$
7th	Perry Friedman (0/1)	$
8th	Brett Richey	$
9th	Daniel Corbin	$

{{Anchor|Event 29}} Event 29: $1,500 Razz

3-day event: Sunday, June 17, 2007, to Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 341
**Total prize pool: ** $
**Number of payouts: ** 32
Winning hand: 8-2-9-3-5-3-4 (card suits do not matter in Razz)
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Katja Thater (1/1)	$
2nd	Larry St. Jean	$
3rd	O'Neil Longson (0/3)	$
4th	Paul Clark (0/3)	$
5th	Denny Axel	$
6th	Mark Vos (0/1)	$
7th	Men Nguyen (0/6)	$
8th	Thomas Daubert	$

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

Corkins at the 2006 World Series of Poker

3-day event: Monday, June 18, 2007, to Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 847
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 78
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Hoyt Corkins (1/2)	$
2nd	Terrence Chan	$
3rd	William Lin	$
4th	Alan Sass	$
5th	Kelly Vande-Mheen	$
6th	James Pittman	$

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

Schreiber after winning the $5,000 Heads-Up championship

3-day event: Tuesday, June 19, 2007, to Thursday, June 21, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 392
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 64
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Dan Schreiber (1/1)	$
2nd	Mark Muchnik	$
SF	Keith Block	$
SF	Vanessa Selbst	$
QF	Steve Sarrafzadeh	$
QF	Jared Davis	$
QF	Shannon Shorr	$
QF	Toto Leonidas (0/1)	$

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

{{Anchor|Event 32}} Event 32: $2,000 Seven-Card Stud

Lisandro after winning the $2,000 seven-card stud event

3-day event: Tuesday, June 19, 2007, to Thursday, June 21, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 213
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 24
Winning hand: A-A-
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Jeffrey Lisandro (1/1)	$
2nd	Nick Frangos	$
3rd	Nesbitt Coburn	$
4th	Severin Walser	$
5th	Daniel Negreanu (0/3)	$
6th	Greg Pappas	$
7th	David Brody	$
8th	Farshad "Ben" Cohen	$

{{Anchor|Event 33}} Event 33: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys

3-day event: Wednesday, June 20, 2007, to Friday, June 22, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 293
Number of rebuys/addons: 880
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 27
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Alan Smurfit (1/1)	$
2nd	Qushqar Morad	$
3rd	Van Marcus	$
4th	Chris Bjorin	$
5th	Chau Giang (0/3)	$
6th	Brandon Adams	$
7th	Robert Fellner	$
8th	Sunny Nijran	$
9th	Hilbert Shirey (0/3)	$

{{Anchor|Event 34}} Event 34: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Wednesday, June 20, 2007, to Friday, June 22, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 296
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 27
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Alexander Borteh (1/1)	$
2nd	Brandon Wong	$
3rd	Shawn Keller	$
4th	David Pham (0/2)	$
5th	Matthew Kelly	$
6th	Vivek Rajkumar	$
7th	Michael Byrne	$
8th	Marco Johnson	$
9th	Petri Pollanen	$

{{Anchor|Event 35}} Event 35: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Thursday, June 21, 2007, to Saturday, June 23, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 2,541
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 271
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ryan Young (1/1)	$
2nd	Dustin Dirksen	$
3rd	Nam Le	$
4th	John Esposito	$
5th	Michael Trimby	$
6th	Paul Cheung	$
7th	Raj Jain	$
8th	Darren Glenn	$
9th	Joe Holmes	$

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

3-day event: Thursday, June 21, 2007, to Saturday, June 23, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 280
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 27
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	John Guth (1/1)	$
2nd	Robert Stevanovski	$
3rd	David Flores	$
4th	Max Reynard	$
5th	Greg Jameson	$
6th	Randy Jensen	$
7th	Michael Pollowitz	$
8th	Bart Hanson	$
9th	Jim Grove	$

{{Anchor|Event 37}} Event 37: $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Friday, June 22, 2007, to Sunday, June 24, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 599
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 54
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Greg Hopkins	$
2nd	Jason Newburger	$
3rd	Yuval Bronshtein	$
4th	Pete Lawson	$
5th	David Zarrin	$
6th	Robert Collison	$
7th	Gioi Luong	$
8th	Ray Coburn	$
9th	Bryan O'Connell	$

{{Anchor|Event 38}} Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Saturday, June 23, 2007, to Monday, June 25, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 2,778
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 270
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Robert Cheung (1/1)	$
2nd	Richard Murnick	$
3rd	Erica Schoenberg	$
4th	John Kranyak	$
5th	Andrew Lee	$
6th	Chris Bjorin	$
7th	Suey Wong	$
8th	Anthony Espo	$
9th	Nick Goodall	$

{{Anchor|Event 39}} Event 39: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.

Deeb after winning the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Event

5-day event: Sunday, June 24, 2007, to Thursday, June 28, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 148
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 16
Winning hand: (Seven Card Stud 8 or better)
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Freddy Deeb (1/2)	$
2nd	Bruno Fitoussi	$
3rd	John Hanson	$
4th	Amnon Filippi	$
5th	Kenny Tran	$
6th	David Singer	$
7th	Barry Greenstein (0/2)	$
8th	Thor Hansen (0/2)	$

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

{{Anchor|Event 40}} Event 40: $1,500 Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit

3-day event: Sunday, June 24, 2007, to Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 620
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 63
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Fred Goldberg (1/1)	$
2nd	Rene Mouritsen	$
3rd	Christoph Niesert	$
4th	Scott Bohlman	$
5th	Kevin Marcotte	$
6th	Joe Brandenburg	$
7th	Michael Craig	$
8th	Reza Zand	$
9th	Karlo López	$

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

3-day event: Monday, June 25, 2007, to Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,882
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 153
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ernest Bennett (1/1)	$
2nd	Tony Korfman	$
3rd	Rod Clarida	$
4th	Ed Smith	$
5th	Thomas Catanzaro	$
6th	Leon Lewis	$
7th	Jack Deutsch	$
8th	Ray Abels	$
9th	Charles Anderson	$

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. With 1,882 entrants over the age of 55, this was the largest Senior's event ever.

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

3-day event: Monday, June 25, 2007, to Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 687
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 63
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Lukasz Dumanski (1/1)	$
2nd	David Bach	$
3rd	James Tolley	$
4th	Gene Timberlake	$
5th	Chad Brown	$
6th	Dario Alioto	$
7th	Thomas Hant	$
8th	Mark Wilds	$
9th	George Danzer	$

{{Anchor|Event 43}} Event 43: $2,000 Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Tuesday, June 26, 2007, to Thursday, June 28, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 472
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 45
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Saif Ahmad (1/1)	$
2nd	William Jensen	$
3rd	Michael Graffeo	$
4th	Justin Pechie	$
5th	Tommy Rounds	$
6th	Hal Havlisch	$
7th	Robert Pacleb	$
8th	Joe Mandia	$
9th	Gerald Kane	$

{{Anchor|Event 44}} Event 44: $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

3-day event: Wednesday, June 27, 2007, to Friday, June 29, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 534
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 54
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Frankie O'Dell (1/2)	$
2nd	Thang Luu	$
3rd	Martin "Dick" Corpuz	$
4th	Marcel Lüske	$
5th	Marvin Ryan	$
6th	Jess Robinson	$
7th	Ming Lee	$
8th	Stuart Paterson	$
9th	Mitch Maples	$

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

3-day event: Thursday, June 28, 2007, to Saturday, June 30, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 728
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 78
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Bill Edler (1/1)	$
2nd	Alex Bolotin	$
3rd	Erik Friberg	$
4th	Greg Pohler	$
5th	Dutch Boyd (0/1)	$
6th	Gioi Luong	$

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

Schneider at the 2006 World Series of Poker

3-day event: Thursday, June 28, 2007, to Saturday, June 30, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 668
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 64
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Tom Schneider (2/2)	$
2nd	Hoyt Verner	$
3rd	Miguel de la Cruz	$
4th	Scotty Nguyen (0/4)	$
5th	Saundra Taylor	$
6th	Tony Ma (0/2)	$
7th	Tommy Hang	$
8th	Woody Deck	$

{{Anchor|Event 47}} Event 47: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Friday, June 29, 2007, to Sunday, July 1, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 2,038
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 198
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Blair Rodman (1/1)	$
2nd	Amato Galasso	$
3rd	Klein Kim Bach	$
4th	Anna Wroblewski	$
5th	Steve Crawford	$
6th	Roland De Wolfe	$
7th	Joe Pelton	$
8th	David Schnettler	$
9th	Mark McKibben	$

{{Anchor|Event 48}} Event 48: $1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball with rebuys

3-day event: Friday, June 29, 2007, to Sunday, July 1, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 209
Number of rebuys/addons: 546
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 24
Winning hand: 7-6-4-3-2
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Rafi Amit (1/2)	$
2nd	Lenny Martin	$
3rd	Anthony Lellouche	$
4th	Jon Shoreman	$
5th	Eugene Ji	$
6th	Mark Bartlog	$

{{Anchor|Event 49}} Event 49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

3-day event: Saturday, June 30, 2007, to Monday, July 2, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 3,151
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 324
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Chandrasekhar Billavara (1/1)	$
2nd	Taylor Douglas	$
3rd	John Hunt	$
4th	Leandro Pimentel	$
5th	Duane Felix	$
6th	Cort Kibler-Melby	$
7th	Ray Spencer	$
8th	Greg Mueller	$
9th	Lewis Titterton	$

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.

{{Anchor|Event 50}} Event 50: $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha

Mizrachi after winning the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha

3-day event: Sunday, July 1, 2007, to Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 314
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 36
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Robert Mizrachi (1/1)	$
2nd	Rene Mouritsen	$
3rd	Patrik Antonius	$
4th	Dau "Tommy" Ly	$
5th	Marco Traniello	$
6th	Doyle Brunson* (0/10)	$
7th	Stephen Ladowsky	$
8th	Jonas Flug-Entin	$
9th	Steve Sung	$

{{Anchor|Event 51}} Event 51: $1,000 S.H.O.E.

3-day event: Sunday, July 1, 2007, to Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 730
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 72
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Dao Bac (1/1)	$
2nd	Adam Geyer	$
3rd	Chip Jett	$
4th	Raymond Davis	$
5th	Imre Leibold	$
6th	Vladimir Shchemelev	$
7th	Michael Craig	$
8th	Pat Poels (0/2)	$

{{Anchor|Event 52}} Event 52: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys

3-day event: Monday, July 2, 2007, to Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 1,048
Number of rebuys/addons: 2,336
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 100
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Michael Graves (1/1)	$
2nd	Theo Tran	$
3rd	Shawn Luman	$
4th	Shawn Hattem	$
5th	Chad Batista	$
6th	Kris Tate	$
7th	Isaac Haxton	$
8th	Arnold Spee	$
9th	Thierry Cazals	$

{{Anchor|Event 53}} Event 53: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

2-day event: Tuesday, July 3, 2007, to Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 720
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 72
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Ram Vaswani (1/1)	$
2nd	Andy Ward	$
3rd	Anh Van Nguyen	$
4th	David Mosca	$
5th	Ishak Noyan	$
6th	Sondre Sagstuen	$
7th	David Baker	$
8th	Rayvenia Puckett	$

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

2-day event: Wednesday, July 4, 2007, to Thursday, July 5, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 78
Number of rebuys/addons: 226
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 7
Winning hand: 8-7-6-5-3
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Erik Seidel (1/8)	$
2nd	Chad Brown	$
3rd	Shawn Sheikhan	$
4th	Lamar Wilkinson	$
5th	Andrew Black	$
6th	Freddy Deeb (1/2)	$
7th	Todd Brunson (0/1)	$

{{Anchor|Event 55}} Event 55: $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold'em

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, 2007
Number of buy-ins: 6,358
Total prize pool: $
Number of payouts: 621
Winning hand:
Reference:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Jerry Yang (1/1)	$
2nd	Tuan Lam	$
3rd	Raymond Rahme	$
4th	Alex Kravchenko (1/1)	$
5th	Jon Kalmar	$
6th	Hevad Khan	$
7th	Lee Childs	$
8th	Lee Watkinson (0/1)	$
9th	Philip Hilm	$

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