2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 6
Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 6358
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. Jon Kalmar takes the pot.
Philip is from Denmark and lives in England. He has been a poker pro for the last several years and was introduced to the poker world by his high school buddy Jan Bloxham. A professional backgammon player who turned to poker, Jan opened up a whole new world for Philip. They went to Frederiksburg High School together (High School is actually called "Gymnasium" in Denmark).
Philip is single, handsome, and about to become a big star. No player from Denmark has come this far at the Big Dance. His friend Jan is here supporting him from the audience. With only one more elimination to go before we have our final table of nine, Philip is in a great position to make it with 19.3 million in chips currently in his stack. He started the day at 9,950,000 only to drop down to between 3-4 million for most of the afternoon. What a comeback he has made!
, Lam bets 700,000, and Hilm folds. Tuan Lam takes the pot.
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.
Play should be starting soon, as they are announcing the players and their chip counts.
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.
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.
