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Event #55 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day Results & Report

38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #55 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Championship
Final Day
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
3700 West Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV, 89103, US
Full Schedule
Jerry Yang AKA "The Shadow" The Final Table:
Seat 1: Jon Kalmar Hometown: Chorly, Lancashire, England, UK Chip Count: 20,320,000 Jon Kalmar is a 34-year-old...
Profile: Jerry Yang AKA "The Shadow"
Date: July 17, 2007 Time: 12:00 PM

Buy-In: $10,000
Prizepool: $59,784,954
Entries: 6,358
Game Type: No Limit Hold'em

Place Country Name Prize
1 USA Jerry Yang AKA "The Shadow" $8,250,000
2 Canada Tuan Lam $4,840,981
3 South Africa Raymond Rahme $3,048,025
4 Russia Alex Kravchenko $1,852,721
5 UK John Kalmar $1,255,069
6 USA Hevad "Rainbow" Khan $956,243
7 USA William Lee Childs $705,229
8 USA Lee Watkinson $585,699
9 UK Phillip Hilm $525,934
10 USA Steven Garfinkle $476,926
11 USA Scotty Nguyen $476,926
12 USA Ray Henson $476,926
13 USA William Spadea AKA "Dragon8432" $429,114
14 USA David Tran $429,114
15 USA Bob Slezak $429,114
16 USA Kenny Tran AKA "sick call" $381,302
17 USA Kevin Farry $381,302
18 USA John Armbrust $381,302
19 USA Scott Freeman $333,490
20 Denmark Mikkel Madsen $333,490
21 USA Jason Welch $333,490
22 Sweden Stefan Mattsson AKA "Matadoren" $333,490
23 USA William Edler AKA "Bill" $333,490
24 USA Ryan Elson $333,490
25 USA Daniel Alaei AKA "daniel" $333,490
26 USA Roy Winston $333,490
27 USA Jeff Bryan AKA "the beast" $333,490
28 USA Paulo Loureiro $285,678
29 Korea Ron Kluber AKA "The Colonel" $285,678
30 USA Jason Koshi $285,678
31 Canada Peter Darvill $285,678
32 USA Kevin Kim $285,678
33 Denmark Christian Togsverd $285,678
34 USA Hoa Nguyen $285,678
35 USA Allen King $285,678
36 Canada Robin Bergren $285,678
37 USA Ayaz Mahmood $237,865
38 USA Maria Ho $237,865
39 USA Ralph E Porter AKA "Rep" $237,865
40 Sweden Philip Yeh $237,865
41 USA Jeff Banghart $237,865
42 Norway Dag Martin Mikkelsen AKA "dmmikkel" $237,865
43 USA Avi Cohen $237,865
44 USA Senovio Ramirez $237,865
45 Denmark Stig Top Rasmussen $237,865
46 USA Reagan Silber $190,053
47 France Nicolas Atlan $190,053
48 USA Markus Gonsalves $190,053
49 USA Adam White $190,053
50 USA Kenneth Smith $190,053
51 USA Lamar Wilkinson $190,053
52 USA Tom Peterson $190,053
53 USA Mickey Seagle $190,053
54 UK Richard Harris $190,053
55 UK Paul Kershaw $154,194
56 USA Kirk Morrison $154,194
57 USA Hyon Kim $154,194
58 USA Naseem Salem $154,194
59 USA Floyd Clark $154,194
60 USA John Spadavecchia $154,194
61 Denmark Gus Hansen AKA "The Great Dane" $154,194
62 USA Jeffrey Tunkel $154,194
63 USA Matt Keikoan $154,194
64 UK Julian Gardner $130,288
65 Norway Bjorn-Erik Glenne AKA "Hikkespett" $130,288
66 Canada Ryan Lawrence $130,288
67 USA Diego Cordovez $130,288
68 USA Dennis Perry AKA "Ironman" $130,288
69 USA Brandon Adams $130,288
70 USA Warren Karp $130,288
71 Netherlands Ed De Haas $130,288
72 USA Billy Willis AKA "Full Tilt" $130,288
73 USA Huck Seed $106,382
74 USA Richard Murnick $106,382
75 USA Leonard Pruzansky $106,382
76 USA Josh Evans $106,382
77 UK Willie Tann $106,382
78 USA David Names $106,382
79 USA Tommy Le $106,382
80 Germany Niklas Heinecker $106,382
81 Netherlands Thierry Van den Berg $106,382
82 USA Francis Cagney $82,476
83 USA Humberto Brenes $82,476
84 USA Mark Ellerbe $82,476
85 UK Dave Wells $82,476
86 USA Justin Sadauskas $82,476
87 USA Jeffrey Weiss $82,476
88 USA Jared Hamby AKA "TheWacoKidd" $82,476
89 USA John Bird $82,476
90 USA Francois Safieddine $82,476
91 Canada Cory Carroll $67,535
92 Cyprus Charis Anastasiou $67,535
93 USA Mike Zinna $67,535
94 USA Isaac Haxton $67,535
95 USA Kelly Jo Mcglothlin AKA "kj" $67,535
96 Italy Dario Minieri $67,535
97 USA Chad Brown AKA "Downtown" $67,535
98 USA Alan Levin $67,535
99 USA Joe Shield $67,535
100 USA Cody Slaubaugh AKA "Thugmoneymkr" $58,570
101 USA Peter DeBest $58,570
102 USA Alan Keating $58,570
103 USA Brian Tracy $58,570
104 USA Richard Crowell $58,570
105 USA Zhoang Han $58,570
106 USA Travis Belles $58,570
107 USA Jimmy Blevins AKA "re-buy" $58,570
108 USA Paul Spitzberg $58,570
109 USA Chris Lovelace $58,570
110 Germany Andreas Krause $58,570
111 USA Andrew Gunderson $58,570
112 Costa Rica Tomas Koo $58,570
113 USA Berry Johnston $58,570
114 USA Edward Betlow $58,570
115 USA Bart Hanson AKA "deduce bag" $58,570
116 USA Zachary Clark $58,570
117 USA Justin King $58,570
118 USA Matthew Stout AKA "All In At 420" $58,570
119 USA John Moonves $58,570
120 Singapore Ang Pang Leng $58,570
121 USA David Levi $58,570
122 Ireland Sylvester Geoghegan $58,570
123 UK Rajesh Verma $58,570
124 USA Andrew "Ace" Barnes $58,570
125 USA James Williams $58,570
126 USA Ken Evanowski $58,570
127 USA James Kasputis Jr AKA "JIMMY ROCKFORD" $58,570
128 USA Patrick Huse $58,570
129 USA Tim Begley $58,570
130 France Claude Cohen $58,570
131 UK Neil Channing AKA "Bad Beat" $58,570
132 USA Vadim Trincher $58,570
133 USA Peter Feldman $58,570
134 USA Thor Hansen $58,570
135 USA Bryan Swanson $58,570
136 USA Billy Baxter $58,570
137 USA Robert Lauria AKA "scsuhockey10" $58,570
138 Netherlands Wolfbert Bartlema $58,570
139 USA Greg Huffman $58,570
140 USA Jay Franklin Benjamin $58,570
141 USA Mickey "Mouse" Mills $58,570
142 USA Samuel Padgett $58,570
143 USA Phillip Liou $58,570
144 USA Martin Miller $58,570
145 USA Adam Weiss $58,570
146 USA Robert Nehorayan $58,570
147 USA Mark Muchnik $58,570
148 UK Al Kapoport $58,570
149 USA Justin Rollo $58,570
150 USA Imran Ahmad $58,570
151 USA Karim Vegas $58,570
152 USA Mark Weitzman $58,570
153 Canada Marco Mills $58,570
154 USA Brent Catalano $58,570
155 Sweden Bo Sehlstedt AKA "Legato" $58,570
156 USA Ben Lamb $58,570
157 Mexico Daniel Elizondo $58,570
158 USA Sean Boles $58,570
159 USA Matt Brady $58,570
160 USA John Dutchak $58,570
161 USA Mans Montgomery AKA "Mans The Man" $58,570
162 USA Mark Kim $58,570
163 USA Tristan Wade AKA "Cre8ive" $51,398
164 Chile Gonzalo Flores $51,398
165 USA Nick Binger $51,398
166 USA Clint Schafer $51,398
167 USA Jim McCrink $51,398
168 USA Joe Brandenburg $51,398
169 Sweden Kenny Rundh $51,398
170 USA Fernando Reyes $51,398
171 Ireland Donnacha O'Dea $51,398
172 USA Cliff Pappas $51,398
173 Israel Yuval Friedman $51,398
174 USA Brett Kimes $51,398
175 USA Gerald Kane $51,398
176 USA Deb Blair $51,398
177 USA Robert Varkonyi $51,398
178 USA John "Brock" Parker $51,398
179 USA Donna Blevins $51,398
180 USA Alexander Michaels $51,398
181 USA Joe Pharco $51,398
182 USA Henry Ma $51,398
183 UK Priyan Demel $51,398
184 USA Randall McLoughlin $51,398
185 Sweden Sven Abelsson $51,398
186 UK Jonathan Campbell $51,398
187 USA James Lucas $51,398
188 USA Michael Souza $51,398
189 USA Mike Laing $51,398
190 USA Alen Patatanyan $51,398
191 USA Robert Damiano $51,398
192 USA Richard Klein AKA "NINJA" $51,398
193 USA David Cowan $51,398
194 USA Robert Starkey AKA "THEROBBOB20" $51,398
195 USA Lauchlin McKinnon $51,398
196 UK Conor Tate $51,398
197 USA Hal Lubarsky $51,398
198 USA Trey O'Brien $51,398
199 USA Chris Overgard $51,398
200 USA Randy Holland $51,398
201 Puerto Rico Karlo Lopez $51,398
202 USA Phi Tran $51,398
203 USA Jason Sell $51,398
204 USA Kenneth Lawrence $51,398
205 USA Esfandiar Dara $51,398
206 USA Karga Holt $51,398
207 USA Matthew Olim $51,398
208 Canada Sorel Mizzi $51,398
209 UK Adam Noone $51,398
210 USA Ovenson Benoit $51,398
211 USA Gary Friedlander $51,398
212 UK Tristan McDonald $51,398
213 USA Bob Poole $51,398
214 USA Evan Marshall AKA "The Sniper" $51,398
215 Germany Alexander Dietrich $51,398
216 USA Justin Sellers $51,398
217 USA Carlos Mortensen AKA "El Matador" $51,398
218 USA Steve Austin AKA "THE NATURAL" $51,398
219 USA Richard Weisman $51,398
220 USA Stephen Ma $51,398
221 USA Matthew Hilger $51,398
222 Philippines Antonio Arce $51,398
223 France Tinten Oliver $51,398
224 USA Frank Schram $51,398
225 USA Kenneth Stead $51,398
226 USA Jason Heidema $45,422
227 USA Emidio Padillo $45,422
228 Ireland Stephen Lynch AKA "VinylDutch" $45,422
229 USA Stephen Jacobs $45,422
230 USA Jason Lester $45,422
231 Germany Sebastian Zink $45,422
232 USA Theodore Park $45,422
233 USA Matthew Cohen $45,422
234 USA Jeff D Ambrosia $45,422
235 USA Seymour Guiberson $45,422
236 Canada Terris Preston $45,422
237 USA Salvatore Erna AKA "Sully" $45,422
238 USA Matt Sterling AKA "Indiana" $45,422
239 USA Richard Munro AKA "Munny" $45,422
240 USA Mao Qiu $45,422
241 USA Cyrus Farzad $45,422
242 UK Roy Vandersluis $45,422
243 USA Tim Debenport $45,422
244 Germany Moritz Hopfner $45,422
245 USA Takash Takii $45,422
246 USA Rami Boukai $45,422
247 Canada Guang Lu $45,422
248 USA Daniel Quach $45,422
249 USA Buford Mills $45,422
250 USA Michael Yoshino $45,422
251 Sweden Kristian Obbarius AKA "OBBESLASK, MADAMEROCK" $45,422
252 USA Noah Schwartz $45,422
253 USA Amanda Baker AKA "Mandy" $45,422
254 Tor Helness $45,422
255 USA Elie Said $45,422
256 USA Brian Miller $45,422
257 USA Keith Ogren $45,422
258 USA Roger Tichenor $45,422
259 USA Thomas Barnard $45,422
260 UK Christopher Lines $45,422
261 USA Sang Shin Kim $45,422
262 USA Rodney Knight $45,422
263 USA Bryan Curtis $45,422
264 USA Zachary King AKA "Carter" $45,422
265 USA Pat Atchison $45,422
266 USA Randy Jacobson $45,422
267 USA Al Riccobono $45,422
268 USA John Matwey $45,422
269 UK Ketul Nathwani $45,422
270 USA Qing Sun $45,422
271 Australia Kit Mandel $45,422
272 UK Jac Arama $45,422
273 Sweden Gustav Ludholm $45,422
274 USA Douglas Gehring $45,422
275 USA David O'Neil $45,422
276 USA Steve Crockett $45,422
277 USA Ut Nguyen $45,422
278 USA Gregory Owen $45,422
279 USA Ken Gacek $45,422
280 Australia Jason Mellross $45,422
281 USA Daniel Melan $45,422
282 UK Craig Edwards AKA "eddy147" $45,422
283 Australia Gary Benson $45,422
284 USA Wayne Johnson $45,422
285 USA Laurence Hughes $45,422
286 USA Danny Smith AKA "cpfactor" $45,422
287 USA Jason Peed $45,422
288 USA Mark Sanchez $45,422
289 USA Alex Melnikow $39,445
290 USA Mitch Garshofsky $39,445
291 USA Steve Sung AKA "MuGGyLiCiOuS" $39,445
292 USA Tobey Maguire $39,445
293 Canada Kevin Howart $39,445
294 Canada Petri Pollanen $39,445
295 USA Steve O'Dwyer AKA "MrTimCaum" $39,445
296 Germany Christoph Stiehler AKA "stiesn" $39,445
297 USA William Wood $39,445
298 USA Bob Preston $39,445
299 USA Ira Mazie $39,445
300 USA Dave Terry $39,445
301 USA Jim Geary $39,445
302 USA Sean Walter $39,445
303 USA Roy Thung $39,445
304 USA Carl Olson $39,445
305 Canada Ryan McCLean $39,445
306 USA Chris Viox $39,445
307 USA Alfred Megrabyan $39,445
308 Ireland Derek Thorpe $39,445
309 USA Ken Weiner $39,445
310 USA Scott Mayfield $39,445
311 USA David Smart $39,445
312 Nasser Hamedani $39,445
313 UK Lewis Pilkington $39,445
314 Argentina Veronica Dabul $39,445
315 UK Vinod Jadav $39,445
316 USA Sverre Sundho $39,445
317 USA Thithi Tran $39,445
318 USA Jason Glass $39,445
319 USA Hans J "Tuna" Lund $39,445
320 USA Steven Miranda $39,445
321 UK David Flusfeder $39,445
322 USA Nicholas Botta $39,445
323 USA Darrell Dicken AKA "Gigabet" $39,445
324 USA Abdul Fadeyi AKA "Dapo" $39,445
325 USA Matthew Shepsky $39,445
326 Canada Patrice McLean $39,445
327 USA Arthur Cole $39,445
328 USA Hasan Habib $39,445
329 USA Sam Simon $39,445
330 USA Steven D'Argenio $39,445
331 USA Ken Dickenson AKA "shadow" $39,445
332 USA John Eckerd $39,445
333 USA Salvatore (Ronnie) Passariello AKA "PokerrWiz" $39,445
334 Pete Hill $39,445
335 USA Eddie Stutts $39,445
336 USA Daniel Schleben $39,445
337 USA Steve Prentky $39,445
338 Spain Santiago Terrazas $39,445
339 Italy Simone Rossi AKA "TheRossi" $39,445
340 USA Camillo Calabrese $39,445
341 Thomas Brandt $39,445
342 USA Brian Hearn $39,445
343 USA Dolph Arnold $39,445
344 USA Steven Kuhn $39,445
345 Panama Jose Severino AKA "head2782" $39,445
346 USA Jared Okun AKA "Smokinokun" $39,445
347 USA Dennis Marcum $39,445
348 USA Wing Tso $39,445
349 USA John Doucette $39,445
350 USA Alexander Jahnoff $39,445
351 USA Kevin Chan AKA "The Man" $39,445
352 Brazil Christian Toth $34,664
353 USA George Ramsey $34,664
354 USA Demetrios Arvanetes $34,664
355 Sweden Niles Erixon $34,664
356 Denmark Jesper Hougaard $34,664
357 USA Robert Mizrachi $34,664
358 USA George Vazanellis $34,664
359 USA Tommy Vinas $34,664
360 USA Rob Roseman $34,664
361 USA Andrew Brokos $34,664
362 UK Sam Ditson $34,664
363 Canada James Dawick $34,664
364 USA Pamela Brunson $34,664
365 Chris Hamman $34,664
366 USA Darin Haddock $34,664
367 Canada Michael Ium $34,664
368 USA Kyu Cho $34,664
369 USA Weldon Johnson $34,664
370 Jonathan Goldberg $34,664
371 USA Kathy Jamison $34,664
372 USA Brian Darmanin AKA "ObeyTheDog" $34,664
373 USA Keith Gipson $34,664
374 USA Brian Collins $34,664
375 UK Lee Biddulph $34,664
376 USA Franklin Welch $34,664
377 USA David Wilson AKA "Large" $34,664
378 Ronald Philpott $34,664
379 USA John Strzemp $34,664
380 USA Todd Phillips $34,664
381 USA Andrew Barton $34,664
382 USA William Davidson $34,664
383 USA Gregg Jaffy $34,664
384 USA Charles Anderson $34,664
385 USA Stuart Spear $34,664
386 USA Dennis Lane AKA "THE SILVER BULLITT" $34,664
387 Canada Pat Datillo $34,664
388 USA Mike Cooper $34,664
389 UK Daniel Goldstein $34,664
390 Germany Andre Wagner $34,664
391 USA Brent Sheirbon $34,664
392 USA Leif Force $34,664
393 USA Chris Collins $34,664
394 USA Jong O $34,664
395 USA Greg Hobson $34,664
396 USA Casey Childress $34,664
397 UK Oliver Maingay $34,664
398 USA Steven Ettenger $34,664
399 USA Jay Perkins $34,664
400 USA Wenlong Jin $34,664
401 USA Ed Fernandez $34,664
402 Belize Pierre Bounahara $34,664
403 USA Dan Heimiller $34,664
404 Belgium Davidi Kitai $34,664
405 USA Daniel Snowden $34,664
406 Netherlands Marcus Naalden $34,664
407 USA Henry McMillan $34,664
408 USA Chip Jett $34,664
409 USA Gregory Liang $34,664
410 Denmark Tobias Christensen $34,664
411 USA Brian Hollywood AKA "Poker366" $34,664
412 Australia Nick Nicolaou AKA "Sea Wasp" $34,664
413 Sweden Michael Tureniec $34,664
414 USA Robert Donnino $34,664
415 Argentina Eduardo Santi $29,883
416 USA James Capone $29,883
417 USA Jeff James $29,883
418 USA Scott Epstein $29,883
419 USA Eugene Fouksman $29,883
420 USA Diana Hakopian $29,883
421 France Fabrice Soulier $29,883
422 Australia Samir Khoues $29,883
423 Germany Christiane Klecz $29,883
424 USA Philip Lowery $29,883
425 USA Ronald Stubing AKA "BeechSquad" $29,883
426 USA Chris "The Armenian Express" Grigorian $29,883
427 USA Bradley Ellis AKA "Brad" $29,883
428 Canada Mathew Ciezki $29,883
429 USA Joseph Fallows $29,883
430 USA Robby Lipkin $29,883
431 USA Curtis VanGilder $29,883
432 USA George Alex $29,883
433 USA Huyen Nguyen $29,883
434 Canada Andre Boyer $29,883
435 USA Tony Lee $29,883
436 China Yuan Hsieh $29,883
437 USA William Kyle Orvis $29,883
438 USA Yueqi "Rich" Zhu $29,883
439 Luis Marolo $29,883
440 Denmark Thomas Nielsen $29,883
441 UK Redmond Lee $29,883
442 USA Robert Ford $29,883
443 USA Le Hung $29,883
444 USA Hien Tran $29,883
445 Canada Daniel Gelowitz $29,883
446 USA Joseph Cliff $29,883
447 Brazil Gaulter Santos $29,883
448 Canada Jonathan Kemsley $29,883
449 USA Minh Ly $29,883
450 India Aditya Agarwal $29,883
451 USA Wade Chow $29,883
452 Ireland Nicholas Cunnane $29,883
453 UK Ian McDonald $29,883
454 USA Lance Allred $29,883
455 USA Jeffrey Weil $29,883
456 USA Anthony Newman $29,883
457 USA Alan Hance $29,883
458 USA Eric Kurtzman $29,883
459 USA Todd Brunson $29,883
460 Mexico Ricardo Martínez Nuño $29,883
461 France Bruno "King" Fitoussi $29,883
462 Denmark Jeppe Nielson $29,883
463 USA Bryan Veach AKA "Rockets" $29,883
464 USA Robby Rose $29,883
465 USA Shirley Williams $29,883
466 Ireland Andrew Grimason $29,883
467 USA Sara Stohler $29,883
468 USA Mark Owens $29,883
469 UK Lloyd Rees $29,883
470 Jeroen Bruijn $29,883
471 USA Paul Nero $29,883
472 USA Phil Lifschitz $29,883
473 USA Jason Tikijian $29,883
474 Vandy Krouch $29,883
475 USA Suleiman Abueid $29,883
476 USA Eric Staton $29,883
477 USA Eugene Ji $29,883
478 USA Nhut Tran $25,101
479 USA Antonio Salorio AKA "vortex" $25,101
480 USA James Campbell $25,101
481 USA Scott Yeates $25,101
482 USA William Stocker $25,101
483 USA Joseph Reichenberger $25,101
484 Canada Peter Valente AKA "Motown" $25,101
485 Brazil Robert Van Hsia $25,101
486 USA Lee Klosty $25,101
487 UK John Duthie $25,101
488 USA William Cheeseman $25,101
489 Sweden Shayan Salehi $25,101
490 USA Geoffrey Herzog $25,101
491 USA David Riley $25,101
492 Canada Irvin Hoffman $25,101
493 USA J.C Tran $25,101
494 Canada Jonathan Kreyla $25,101
495 USA Nikzad Hooman $25,101
496 Argentina Jose Ignacio Barbero $25,101
497 USA Daniel Fischer $25,101
498 USA Amnon Filippi $25,101
499 Vic Rooney $25,101
500 USA Jeff Norman $25,101
501 USA Terry Magill $25,101
502 Brazil David Gurevich $25,101
503 USA Mark Ward $25,101
504 USA Weiyan Chan $25,101
505 USA Andrew Evans $25,101
506 USA Nicholas Carrillo AKA "Rounder63" $25,101
507 USA Mark Bryan $25,101
508 Australia Leo Boxell $25,101
509 USA Joshua Bauer $25,101
510 USA Steven Wilk $25,101
511 USA Rahul Maitra $25,101
512 USA Farrell Hinkle $25,101
513 UK Richard Wild $25,101
514 USA Isaac Galazan AKA "the general" $25,101
515 USA Ronald Todd Crosswell $25,101
516 USA Robert DeForge $25,101
517 USA Arthur Rhea $25,101
518 UK Daniel Palmer $25,101
519 Yuri Ten Bokkel $25,101
520 USA Blair Hinkle $25,101
521 USA Alan Davis $25,101
522 Zak Alameddine $25,101
523 USA Randall Brueckner $25,101
524 USA Howard Mann $25,101
525 USA Aaron Eokhart $25,101
526 USA Robert Blaeser $25,101
527 USA Gerald Kim $25,101
528 USA Russell Kamer $25,101
529 USA Wilson Tien $25,101
530 USA Ned Griffis $25,101
531 USA James Tolley $25,101
532 USA Jeffrey Lewis $25,101
533 USA Daniel Attie AKA "bigboss1000" $25,101
534 USA Jeff Nairin $25,101
535 USA Mitch Ivey $25,101
536 Sweden Jules Dreamell $25,101
537 Canada Christian Abele $25,101
538 Sweden Per Johansson $25,101
539 USA Rich Marshall $25,101
540 USA Kyle Morris $25,101
541 USA James Lewis $25,101
542 USA Kevan Casey $25,101
543 USA Shawn Chang $25,101
544 USA Samir Chang $25,101
545 USA Montgomery Cole $25,101
546 Canada Aaron Coulthard $25,101
547 USA Matthew Traudt $25,101
548 USA Randall Ameil $25,101
549 USA Michael Puskarich $25,101
550 Switzerland Marc Friedman $20,320
551 USA Kenneth Webster $20,320
552 Australia Tony Hachem $20,320
553 Josh Van Dyke $20,320
554 USA Thomas Laviano $20,320
555 USA Roger Brooks $20,320
556 USA Randy McKay AKA "Dakota Kid, Roughrider39" $20,320
557 Brazil Edson Esquio $20,320
558 USA Dale Michael $20,320
559 Netherlands Rolf Slotboom $20,320
560 USA Tom McCormick AKA "The Shamrock Kid" $20,320
561 USA Deric Senne AKA "ds2" $20,320
562 Ethan Steinberg $20,320
563 Canada Kizirian Armenak $20,320
564 Sweden Patrick Peterson $20,320
565 Shawn Shaconas $20,320
566 USA Glen Questro $20,320
567 USA Jason Stern $20,320
568 USA Jonathan Tare $20,320
569 UK Nicholas Elridge $20,320
570 UK Paul Kemp $20,320
571 USA Bernard Strauss $20,320
572 USA Desmond Portano $20,320
573 USA Benjamin Gold $20,320
574 Sweden Nikolas Liakos $20,320
575 USA Betty Carswell $20,320
576 USA Kevin Lake $20,320
577 USA Richard Salle $20,320
578 Unknown $20,320
579 UK Darren Woods $20,320
580 Canada Kyle Wilson $20,320
581 USA Jeff Dumas AKA "Doomsday" $20,320
582 USA Calvin Namihira $20,320
583 UK Andrew Shepherd $20,320
584 Sweden Jonas Jerlstrom $20,320
585 Canada Duane VanKeulen $20,320
586 USA Penh Lo $20,320
587 UK Wai Kei Liu $20,320
588 USA Christopher Crilly $20,320
589 USA Robert Daily $20,320
590 USA Jonathan Stanton $20,320
591 USA Eddie D Gravalese $20,320
592 USA Gavin Smith $20,320
593 USA Ryan Osborne $20,320
594 USA Joe Graziano $20,320
595 USA Richard Graziano $20,320
596 USA Frank Holloway $20,320
597 Unknown $20,320
598 Spain Joan Fernandez $20,320
599 USA Dean Hamrick $20,320
600 Sweden Patrick Martensson $20,320
601 Denmark Michael Qvist $20,320
602 Denmark Jan Sorensen $20,320
603 USA Jeremy Joseph $20,320
604 USA Lor Khuon Tran $20,320
605 USA Richard Warburg $20,320
606 Norway Ole Bergan $20,320
607 USA Jeffrey Lowenhar $20,320
608 USA George Dolofan $20,320
609 USA Takeo OIshi AKA "TZ" $20,320
610 USA Joe Cutler $20,320
611 USA John Michael $20,320
612 Canada Christopher Perry $20,320
613 Brazil Artur Szczupak $20,320
614 Norway Anders Solheim AKA "soloraid" $20,320
615 Canada Sheldon Saul $20,320
616 USA Thong Tran $20,320
617 USA Kiarash Hamadani $20,320
618 Denmark Carsten Jacabsen $20,320
619 USA Brian Senie $20,320
620 Spain Jorge Albalat $20,320
621 USA Gregory Treger $20,320

Tournament Report

The Final Table:

Seat 1: Jon Kalmar
Hometown: Chorly, Lancashire, England, UK
Chip Count: 20,320,000

Jon Kalmar is a 34-year-old professional poker player, who plays mostly in clubs located in the north and the Midlands region of England. He is married with one child. Among his prior accomplishments, Kalmar was once the lead singer in a punk rock band. Before entering this year's world championship, Kalmar admitted to enduring a "terrible" run of bad fortune at this year's World Series of Poker. He failed to cash a single time in the preliminary tournaments. But everything changed the night before the main event began. Dejected, Kalmar tried to switch his airline ticket and return home early. But he was told the cost to change his departure from Las Vegas back to England would be about $600. So instead, Kalmar decided to enter the last mega-satellite at the Rio just before the start of the main event. He ended up winning a $10,000 seat. And now, here he is at the final table ten days later – third among the chip leaders.

Seat 2: Lee Childs
Hometown: Reston, Virginia, USA
Chip Count: 13,240,000

Lee Childs is a 35-year-old aspiring poker professional from suburban Washington, DC. He is married with no children. Childs holds a BBA in computer information systems from James Madison University, in Virginia. Just two months ago, he voluntarily took some time off from a high-tech position with a firm affiliated with the National Geographic Society. He worked on "The JASON Project," which is an educational foundation for students dedicated to scientific expeditions and research founded by the person who first located the Titantic. Childs has been on his own for a few months – and is pursuing one of his dreams which is to play in the World Series of Poker. He says that he would not be here without the love of his incredible wife, dad, and all the support of his family and friends. His is currently fifth in the chip count.

Seat 3: Philip Hilm
Hometown: Cambridge, England, UK
Chip Count: 22,070,000

Philip Hilm is the chip leader coming into the final table of the 2007 World Series of Poker. He is a 31-year-old online poker pro. Hilm is a native of Denmark, but currently lives in England. Family is very important to Hilm. He spent two years living in Poland to get to know his mother's side of the family before moving on to England. Ten years ago, Hilm earned a degree in economics from the Copenhagen Business School. He formed a company with 12 employees, but eventually went bankrupt. Just four years ago, Hilm was at his lowest point – selling coffee machines at grocery stores to make Christmas money so he could buy presents for his family. Then, Hilm discovered poker on the Internet. Before long, he was earning enough money to make a decent living. And now, he is the largest stack at the final table of the main event.

Seat 4: Jerry Yang
Hometown: Temecula, California, USA
Chip Count: 8,459,000

Jerry Yang is a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from southern California. He holds a Masters Degree in health psychology. Yang was born in Laos. He is married and has six children. Yang started playing poker only two years ago. He won a seat into the main event via a satellite held at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA. His total investment in this event is $225. The socially-conscious Yang is determined to give something back to charity. He is pledging 10 percent of his winnings from this tournament to three different charities – the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Feed the Children, and the Ronald McDonald House.

Seat 5: Raymond Rahme
Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa
Chip Count: 16,320,000

Raymond Rahme is the first person ever to appear at the final table of the main event from the continent of Africa . At age 62, he is also the senior participant at the final table. He is married to his wife Teresa, and together they have six children. Prior to his retirement, Rahme owned and operated a bed and breakfast inn. Although he played stud for three decades, Rahme has only been playing the game of hold'em for about two years. Yet, Rahme has already enjoyed significant tournament success. He's taken first and second place at major events held in South Africa. He also took fourth place in the "All Africa Poker Championship" recently, which was the largest poker tournament ever held in Africa. As part of his prize, he received a travel package to Las Vegas and an entry into the 2007 main event. And now, he is ranked fourth in the chip count at the start of the final table.

Seat 6: Tuan Lam
Hometown: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Chip Count: 21,315,000

Tuan Lam was born in Vietnam on New Years Day in 1966, during the war. He eventually immigrated to Canada at the age of 19. He now lives in the Toronto area where he plays poker professionally. Prior to turning pro, Lam worked as a general laborer for a metal company. Then, he learned how to play poker from friends and has made it all the way to the final table of the 2007 main event. This is his third year to attend the WSOP. His prior cashes were 46th place in an event last year and 78th place in a WSOP tournament held in 2005. He is married with two children. Lam arrives at the final table ranked second in the chip count.

Seat 7: Alex Kravchenko
Hometown: Moscow, Russian Federation
Chip Count: 6,570,000

Alex Kravchenko is a 36-year-old businessman originally from Archangel, USSR. He has been playing poker for about eight years. He is married and has two children. Kravchenko became the first Russian citizen in history to win a WSOP gold bracelet when he was victorious in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low championship at this year's WSOP – in what was the largest Omaha High-Low field in history. Russian immigrants have won previously at the World Series. But Kravchenko's victory was clearly a milestone. Kravechenko has an impressive history of poker tournament wins in Europe. He won the Austrian Masters Pot-Limit Championship in 2001. He also won the Russian Pot-Limit Championship held that same year. His also won a Limit Hold'em title at the Helsinki Frezeout in 2002. He has cashed over 30 times in what is becoming an illustrious poker career.

This is Kravchenko's fifth time to cash at the WSOP in 2007. Kravchnko faces the biggest challenge of any player in the finale, as the lowest stack at the table.

Seat 8: Lee Watkinson
Hometown: Cheney, Washington, USA
Chip Count: 9,925,000

Lee Watkinson is a 40-year-old poker pro, businessman, and animal rights activist from Cheney, WA. He is one of only two players at the final table who currently owns a WSOP gold bracelet. In 2006, Watkinson won the Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. He owns a few businesses as well, including a record company and a clothing line - which were started exclusively with his poker winnings. The Washington State native holds a degree in economics, which perhaps explains why Watkinson is so astute as an investor and poker professional. Yet, often when he is interviewed Watkinson is quick to shift everyone's attention to a greater, more humanitarian purpose. Watkins and his fiancé Timmi DeRosa share a commitment to rescuing and retiring captive chimpanzees, many of which have been used in everything from movies to research laboratories.

Watkinson and DeRosa told about how chimpanzees are not as useful as they become older and are commonly discarded. So a few years ago, the couple made a commitment to rescue as many creatures as possible and eventually build an animal sanctuary. "All the animals need our help," Watkinson says. "But we really try to focus on the chimpanzees." But -- when it comes to poker, Watkinson is not monkeying around. He arrives seventh in the chip count.

Seat 9: Hevad Khan
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, New York State, USA
Chip Count: 9,205,000

Hevad "Rain" Khan is a 22-year-old professional poker originally from Poughkeepsie, NY. He attended college at the State University of New York-Albany. He has since moved around the country, living in both the San Francisco bay area, and Las Vegas. Khan's claim to fame before arriving at this final table was his extraordinary ability to play multiple poker games simultaneously. In what can only be described as a prodigal Bobby Fischer-like capability, Khan has played in as many as 43 poker games all at once on his home computer. Today, he must play in just one poker game – the biggest and most glamorous event in the world for the world championship. Khan arrives eighth in the chip count at the start of the final table.

Payouts

1st $8,250,000
2nd $4,840,981
3rd $3,048,025
4th $1,852,721

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