2007 World Series of Poker results


The 2007 World Series of Poker was the 38th annual World Series of Poker. 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

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

This event kicked off the 2007 WSOP. It was a $ buy-in Mixed Texas Hold'em tournament.
PlaceNamePrize
1stSteve Billirakis $536287
2ndGreg Mueller$328554
3rdTony George$218329
4thSteve Paul-Ambrose$146259
5thFred Berger$108105
6thRoger McDow$84788
7thKirk Morrison $63591
8thJon Turner$46633
9thJohn Younger$33915

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.
PlaceNamePrize
1stFrederick Narciso $104701
2ndCharles Fisher$66392
3rdGene Lang$42547
4thChris Chau$28053
5thKevin Kalthoff$19637
6thDavid Dietrich$14962
7thMeaghan Larivee$11221
8thJohn Konich$8182
9thEric Schutzberg$5844

Event 3: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

PlaceWinnerPrize
1stCiarán O'Leary $727012
2ndPaul Evans$450150
3rdAlex Jacob$282367
4thJeffrey Yoak$184152
5thCraig Crivello$128907
6thAndreas Krause$94122
7thThad Smith$73661
8thBart Hanson$55246
9thMatthew Vengrin$43378

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.

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stMike Spegal $252290
2ndGavin Smith$155645
3rdJon Friedberg$101276
4thWilliam Hill$67162
5thTom Savitsky$47973
6thBruce Van Horn$36779
7thEric Lynch$27718
8thJeff Langdon$20255
9thMarco Traniello$14925

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stTom Schneider $214347
2ndEd Tonnellier$118456
3rdAnnie Duke $75210
4thChris Ferguson $50391
5thChris Bell$39109
6thDavid Benyamine$29708
7thJoe Bolnick$22939
8thJohn Phan$16922

PlaceNamePrize
1stGary Styczynski $280715
2ndVarouzhan Gumroyan$177627
3rdHansu Chu$114278
4thSoheil Shamseddin$75771
5thJames Gorham$53412
6thJames Holland$40991
7thMichael Banks$30433
8thPeter O'Donnell$22359
9thAnthony Imani$16148

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stBurt Boutin $868745
2ndErik Cajelais$508816
3rdDave Ulliott $349811
4thSirous Jamshidi$242844
5thMinh Ly$183579
6thLarry Jonsson$141659
7thJohn Juanda $112749
8thHumberto Brenes $83839
9thRobin Keston$60711

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stMichael Chu $585774
2ndTommy Vu$364761
3rdBarry Cales$235575
4thDolph Arnold$157050
5thShane Schleger$111455
6thMichael Gracz $84858
7thAmir Vahedi $63327
8thRobert Aron$46862
9thJan Von Halle$34196

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stAlex Kravchenko $228446
2ndBryan Devonshire$140336
3rdJohn Varner$92301
4thJ.R. Reiss$60749
5thBryan Andrews$43796
6thYueqi "Rich" Zhu$33907
7thJordan Morgan$25430
8thJeffrey Calkins$18837
9thRichard Ashby$13657

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

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stWill Durkee $566916
2ndTodd Terry$353875
3rdHunter Frey$231273
4thJustin Bonomo$156040
5thMichael Banducci$105884
6thStanley Weiss$78020
7thWalter Browne$58515
8thGil George$43190
9thRonnie Hofman$32880

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stChris Reslock $258453
2ndPhil Ivey $143820
3rdDavid Oppenheim$93060
4thPat Pezzin$61335
5thTheo Jørgensen$46350
6thTed Lawson $35532
7thOriane Teysseire$27072
8thMarco Traniello$19458

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.
PlaceNamePrize
1stJason Warner $481698
2ndDavid Zeitlin$269778
3rdSteve Olek$186020
4thDavid Mitchell-Lolis$123689
5thMatt Brady$92523
6thBrian Miller$61357

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stAllen Cunningham $487287
2ndJeffrey Lisandro$294260
3rdHumberto Brenes $197348
4thJason Lester $132813
5thJoe Patrick$99142
6thTravis Rice$78565
7thGavin Griffin $58924
8thKeith Lehr $43959
9thAlan Jaffray$31800

Event 14: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

PlaceNamePrize
1stMichael Keiner $146987
2ndNesbitt Coburn$80876
3rdSteve Sung$51222
4thBarry Greenstein $33698
5thDale Phillips$26150
6thGreg Raymer $19680
7thJohn Robertson$15097
8thLarry Eubanks$11053

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stPhil Hellmuth* $637254
2ndAndy Philachack$394594
3rdRick Fuller$247518
4thMorgan Machina$161425
5thScott Clements $112997
6thDavid Simon$82506
7thFabrice Soulier$64570
8thUt Nguyen$48427
9thTaylor Douglas$38025

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.

PlaceNamePrize
1stJames Richburg $239503
2ndWalter Browne$131790
3rdChris Björin $83467
4thTom Schneider $54913
5thAli Eslami$42612
6thRobert Mizrachi$32069
7thHerb Van Dyke$24601
8thHarry Kazazian$18011

Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low. 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

PlaceNamePrize
1stSally Boyer $262077
2ndAnne Heft$166177
3rdRandi Calabro$106494
4thKathleen Gliva$70216
5thKatja Thater$49151
6thFrauke Sporschill$37448
7thMindy Trinidad$28086
8thVanessa Selbst$20480
9thJulie Dang$14628

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

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stSaro Getzoyan $333379
2ndGeoff Sanford$200511
3rdWilliam Thorson$136493
4thThor Hansen $93008
5thDavid Gee$68850
6thTom Koral$54356
7thRay Dehkharghani$41069
8thDon Todd$30198
9thGabriel Nassif$21742

Like David Williams, Gabriel Nassif was first known for competing Pro Tour |Pro Tour.

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stFrancois Safieddine $521785
2ndJohn Phan$330846
3rdMarcus Obser$212021
4thDevin Porter$139794
5thShawn Hattem$97856
6thLars Bonding$74557
7thHumberto Brenes $55918
8thAlex Bolotin$40773
9thBertrand Grospellier$29124

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRyan Hughes $176358
2ndMin Lee$97461
3rdDouglas Carli$61880
4thGreg Raymer $41460
5thSteve Graboski$32178
6thJim Weir$24443
7thRon Ware$18873
8thAdam Spiegelberg$13923

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stDon Baruch $264106
2ndJared Davis$149263
3rdDaniel Negreanu $101351
4thThomas Fuller$68796
5thMichael Wehner$36855
6thBrendan Lee$22113
7thDoug Baughman$15971
8thErick Lindgren$12899
9thFred Goldberg$9828

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stJames Mackey $730740
2ndStuart Fox$448892
3rdMichael Binger$295245
4thWilliam McMahon$194319
5thKarga Holt$140091
6thNick Schulman$108457
7thJan Sørensen $81343
8thTex Barch$60254
9thMichael Gracz$43684

Event 23: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

PlaceNamePrize
1stScott Clements $194206
2ndEric Lynch$119508
3rdDau "Tommy" Ly$78624
4thWill Durkee $52285
5thJason Newburger$38133
6thMark Davis$29877
7thAndrew Black$22408
8thAnthony MacCanello$16511
9thK.U. Davis$11794

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stEli Elezra $198984
2ndScotty Nguyen $110731
3rdDutch Boyd $71650
4thJohn Harkness$47224
5thDavid Sklansky $35825
6thThor Hansen $27357
7thGeorge Hardie$20844
8thMarshall Ragir$14981

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stBen Ponzio $599467
2ndDavid Hewitt$374216
3rdJustin Rollo$244566
4thEvan Schwartz$165008
5thTravis Rice$111970
6thDanny Noam$82504
7thAdam Ross$61878
8thKen Einiger$45672
9thDarryl Ronconi$34770

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRalph Schwartz $275683
2ndBill Gazes$153408
3rdYuebin Guo$99264
4thPhil Ivey $65424
5thRobert Mizrachi$49632
6thAlexander Jung$37901
7thThom Schultz$28877
8thJeff Campbell$20755

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stDavid Stucke $603069
2ndYoung Cho$382357
3rdSeth Weinger$246478
4thMichael Ium$164319
5thDavid Woo$115339
6thNoam Freedman$83739
7thTom Dobrilovic$63200
8thLuis Sanchez$47400
9thThai Ton$36340

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stShankar Pillai $527829
2ndBeth Shak$328683
3rdJason Song$212274
4thDustin Holmes$141516
5thBen Fineman$100431
6thPhil Hellmuth* $76464
7thPerry Friedman $57063
8thBrett Richey$42227
9thDaniel Corbin$30814

Event 29: $1,500 Razz

PlaceNamePrize
1stKatja Thater $132653
2ndLarry St. Jean$73311
3rdO'Neil Longson $46547
4thPaul Clark $31186
5thDenny Axel$24204
6thMark Vos $18836
7thMen Nguyen $14197
8thThomas Daubert$10473

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stHoyt Corkins $515065
2ndTerrence Chan$287345
3rdWilliam Lin$196758
4thAlan Sass$132471
5thKelly Vande-Mheen$96431
6thJames Pittman$63118

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stDan Schreiber $425594
2ndMark Muchnik$230300
SFKeith Block$128968
SFVanessa Selbst$128968
QFSteve Sarrafzadeh$46060
QFJared Davis$46060
QFShannon Shorr$46060
QFToto Leonidas $46060

"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

PlaceNamePrize
1stJeffrey Lisandro $118426
2ndNick Frangos$65902
3rdNesbitt Coburn$42643
4thSeverin Walser$28105
5thDaniel Negreanu $21321
6thGreg Pappas$16282
7thDavid Brody$12405
8thFarshad "Ben" Cohen$8916

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stAlan Smurfit $464867
2ndQushqar Morad$279595
3rdVan Marcus$190326
4thChris Bjorin$129691
5thChau Giang $96005
6thBrandon Adams$75794
7thRobert Fellner$57266
8thSunny Nijran$42108
9thHilbert Shirey $30317

Event 34: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

PlaceNamePrize
1stAlexander Borteh $225483
2ndBrandon Wong$135615
3rdShawn Keller$92316
4thDavid Pham $62906
5thMatthew Kelly$46567
6thVivek Rajkumar$36763
7thMichael Byrne$27777
8thMarco Johnson$20424
9thPetri Pollanen$14705

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRyan Young $615955
2ndDustin Dirksen$381381
3rdNam Le$239230
4thJohn Esposito$156020
5thMichael Trimby$109214
6thPaul Cheung$79743
7thRaj Jain$62048
8thDarren Glenn$46806
9thJoe Holmes$36751

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stJohn Guth $363216
2ndRobert Stevanovski$218456
3rdDavid Flores$148708
4thMax Reynard$101332
5thGreg Jameson$75012
6thRandy Jensen$59220
7thMichael Pollowitz$44744
8thBart Hanson$32900
9thJim Grove$23688

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stGreg Hopkins$269274
2ndJason Newburger$165707
3rdYuval Bronshtein$109018
4thPete Lawson$72497
5thDavid Zarrin$52874
6thRobert Collison$41427
7thGioi Luong$31070
8thRay Coburn$22894
9thBryan O'Connell$16353

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRobert Cheung $673628
2ndRichard Murnick$417117
3rdErica Schoenberg$261646
4thJohn Kranyak$170639
5thAndrew Lee$119447
6thChris Bjorin$87215
7thSuey Wong$68255
8thAnthony Espo$51192
9thNick Goodall$40195

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stFreddy Deeb $2276832
2ndBruno Fitoussi$1278720
3rdJohn Hanson$852480
4thAmnon Filippi$586080
5thKenny Tran$444000
6thDavid Singer$337440
7thBarry Greenstein $259296
8thThor Hansen $188256

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

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stFred Goldberg $204935
2ndRene Mouritsen$125895
3rdChristoph Niesert$82804
4thScott Bohlman$54498
5thKevin Marcotte$39289
6thJoe Brandenburg$30418
7thMichael Craig$22813
8thReza Zand$16899
9thKarlo López$12252

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stErnest Bennett $348423
2ndTony Korfman$217503
3rdRod Clarida$142147
4thEd Smith$95907
5thThomas Catanzaro$65080
6thLeon Lewis$47953
7thJack Deutsch$35965
8thRay Abels$26546
9thCharles Anderson$20209

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.

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stLukasz Dumanski $227454
2ndDavid Bach$139725
3rdJames Tolley$91900
4thGene Timberlake$60485
5thChad Brown$43606
6thDario Alioto$33759
7thThomas Hant$25319
8thMark Wilds$18755
9thGeorge Danzer$13597

Event 43: $2,000 Limit Hold'em

PlaceNamePrize
1stSaif Ahmad $217329
2ndWilliam Jensen$133151
3rdMichael Graffeo$88481
4thJustin Pechie$59274
5thTommy Rounds$43811
6thHal Havlisch$34362
7thRobert Pacleb$25771
8thJoe Mandia$18899
9thGerald Kane$13745

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stFrankie O'Dell $240057
2ndThang Luu$147726
3rdMartin "Dick" Corpuz$97188
4thMarcel Lüske$64630
5thMarvin Ryan$47136
6thJess Robinson$36931
7thMing Lee$27699
8thStuart Paterson$20409
9thMitch Maples$14578

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stBill Edler $904672
2ndAlex Bolotin$504686
3rdErik Friberg$345582
4thGreg Pohler$232669
5thDutch Boyd $169369
6thGioi Luong$110860

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stTom Schneider $147713
2ndHoyt Verner$82064
3rdMiguel de la Cruz$51670
4thScotty Nguyen $31610
5thSaundra Taylor$24619
6thTony Ma $19270
7thTommy Hang$14711
8thWoody Deck$11063

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stBlair Rodman $707898
2ndAmato Galasso$448808
3rdKlein Kim Bach$289314
4thAnna Wroblewski$192876
5thSteve Crawford$135384
6thRoland De Wolfe$98293
7thJoe Pelton$74183
8thDavid Schnettler$55637
9thMark McKibben$42655

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRafi Amit $227005
2ndLenny Martin$128120
3rdAnthony Lellouche$84812
4thJon Shoreman$57383
5thEugene Ji$41504
6thMark Bartlog$27068

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stChandrasekhar Billavara $722914
2ndTaylor Douglas$467101
3rdJohn Hunt$292476
4thLeandro Pimentel$189249
5thDuane Felix$131184
6thCort Kibler-Melby$96775
7thRay Spencer$75270
8thGreg Mueller$55914
9thLewis Titterton$45162

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.

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRobert Mizrachi $768889
2ndRene Mouritsen$464877
3rdPatrik Antonius$311394
4thDau "Tommy" Ly$209564
5thMarco Traniello$156435
6thDoyle Brunson* $123967
7thStephen Ladowsky$92975
8thJonas Flug-Entin$69363
9thSteve Sung$50177

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stDao Bac $157975
2ndAdam Geyer$86691
3rdChip Jett$55801
4thRaymond Davis$34012
5thImre Leibold$26572
6thVladimir Shchemelev$20793
7thMichael Craig$15943
8thPat Poels $11957

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stMichael Graves $742121
2ndTheo Tran$387193
3rdShawn Luman$224249
4thShawn Hattem$161330
5thChad Batista$129064
6thKris Tate$112931
7thIsaac Haxton$96798
8thArnold Spee$80665
9thThierry Cazals$72599

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stRam Vaswani $217438
2ndAndy Ward$124816
3rdAnh Van Nguyen$83538
4thDavid Mosca$58968
5thIshak Noyan$31450
6thSondre Sagstuen$19656
7thDavid Baker$12776
8thRayvenia Puckett$9582

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

PlaceNamePrize
1stErik Seidel $538835
2ndChad Brown$324777
3rdShawn Sheikhan$206676
4thLamar Wilkinson$162389
5thAndrew Black$118101
6thFreddy Deeb $73813
7thTodd Brunson $51669

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".
PlaceNamePrize
1stJerry Yang $8250000
2ndTuan Lam$4840981
3rdRaymond Rahme$3048025
4thAlex Kravchenko $1852721
5thJon Kalmar$1255069
6thHevad Khan$956243
7thLee Childs$705229
8thLee Watkinson $585699
9thPhilip Hilm$525934