2007 World Series of Poker

Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 6
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Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8♣8♦
Prize
$8,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 6,358
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Final Table Info Coming Soon

We are still waiting for the players to sort out their seats and their chip counts at the table. With 12 minutes left in the current level, it's likely that they'll take a break when everything is sorted out, and then play straight into the next level until one more player is busted.

Chip counts will be posted as soon as we get them.

Official Final Table Seating & Chip Counts

Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 12.875 million
Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 2.81 million
Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 18.05 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 6.13 million
Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 11.715 million
Seat 6 - Steven Garfinkle - 4.925 million
Seat 7 - Tuan Lam - 20.1 million
Seat 8 - Philip Hilm - 19.31 million
Seat 9 - Jon Kalmar - 20.2 million
Seat 10 - Hevad "Rain" Khan - 11.035 million

PokerNews Video: Ali Nejad

PokerNews spotted poker commentator Ali Nejad hanging around the Rio and decide to grab him for a chat. Ali will be doing commentary for the ESPN pay-per-view live final table broadcast along with Phil Gordon on Tuesday and talked with us about doing commentary without seeing hole cards.

Click here to check out the interview with Ali, along with all the other videos from the Main Event

Tags: Ali NejadPokerNews Video

One Last Time ... How Much is a 10-Way Chop Worth?

Yesterday, I ran some numbers to show what would happen if the entire field decided to chop the prizepool when they reached the final nine tables, the final eight tables, and so on.

I wasn't suggesting that they should actually do it (the complications would be enormous), but it was an interesting thought experiment to look at the prizepool in a different way. It also illustrated just how top heavy it was.

With ten players left, one of them will *still* leave with less money than he would have made if they had chopped the prizepool 81 ways. Tenth place is worth $476,827, while an 81-player chop would have been worth $479,302 each.

We'll run the chop numbers one more time, just for fun.

The prizepool for the final ten players is worth $22,496,827, and if they decided right now, on this break, to chop it evenly ten ways, they would each take home about $2.25 million. (It's easy math; just move the decimal point one place.)

To receive more than that, the players will need to finish in the top three.

Total Number of Chips in Play

For the first time, we have our first believable confirmation of the official number of chips in play. You couldn't completely trust the end-of-day chip counts released by Harrah's on previous days, because they weren't verified chip counts. The players simply counted their own chips and wrote that number on their bags and their cards. And in the excitement of reaching the next day, a lot of players could care less about a precise chip count.

Now that we have an official count, how many chips are in play? And how many should there be based on 6,358 starting players?

The actual chips in play add up to 127,150,000. If you do the math (6,358 x 20,000 in chips), the theoretical number is 127,160,000. The chips are only off by 10,000 -- two of the smallest denomination chips in play.

Play About to Begin

While we wait for the final word from ESPN to begin play, Hevad "Rain" Khan's friends notice that he is on the monitor, and they tell him to do something funny. He indulges his friends by giving a loud yell and making funny faces. It's all in good fun, and the crowd responds positively.

Play should be starting soon, as they are announcing the players and their chip counts.

Tags: Hevad Khan

Shuffle Up & Deal!

There are 12 minutes left in the level with blinds at 80,000-160,000, with a 20,000 ante. The button will start in seat 5 with Lee Watkinson.

Everyone is seated and ready to go, so it's time to shuffle up and deal!

Play will continue tonight until one more player is eliminated.

Lavender Chips in Play

While prepping for this not-so-final table, new chips have been introduced into play. They are lavender, and they are worth 100,000 each. They stand out slightly better than the three other denominations on the table.
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