World Series of Poker 2007

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

In 2007 there were bracelets to be won alongside the prize money

The World Series of Poker 2007 was the 38th edition of the Poker World Championship and took place on June 1, 2007 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . It ended with the final table of the Main Event on July 17, 2007.

Tournaments

structure

A total of 55 poker tournaments in the variants Texas Hold'em , Omaha Hold'em , Seven Card Stud , Razz and the mixed variants HORSE and HOSE were on the tournament schedule. The tournaments include the Tournament of Champions and the most expensive tournament at 50,000 US dollars in the HORSE variant . A heads-up tournament based on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship was held for the first time . Furthermore, a so-called World Championship Event (WCE) took place for each variant . The winner received a special bracelet and was allowed to call himself the world champion in each variant. A charity tournament organized by Annie Duke was played the day before the main event . The tournament, called Ante Up for Africa , had a buy-in of $ 5,000 and was won by Dan Shak . No bracelet was awarded and half of the prize pool was donated and the other half paid out to the players.

All tournaments were once again hosted by Harrah's Entertainment at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , Nevada . The official sponsor of the tournament series was PartyPoker .

Changes to previous years

The new cards caused a stir

Compared to previous years, the structure of the tournaments was changed. For the first time, each player received chips worth twice the buy-in of the respective tournament. The blinds also increased, but the minimum stakes in relation to the buy-in were lower than in previous years. Harrah’s announced in advance that the distribution of the prize money would change. This meant that the top placed got less and the players at the end of the rush to get more money.

In addition, there was a small change that meant a change for the players. The official card supplier Bicycle presented its new deck of cards before the tournament . The symbols of the cards were now arranged in such a way that the players only had to lift the cards slightly at the corners to see the hand. However, there have been numerous complaints from players because the symbols on the cards were difficult to match. It even went so far that some players asked for their buy-in back. So it happened that after three days , Harrah’s decided to play with the usual cards again.

Tournament schedule

#	Buy-in (in $ )	competition	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in $)	Second
1	0.5000	(WCE) Mixed Hold'em	0451	Steve Billirakis		0.536.287	Greg Mueller
2	00.500	No Limit Hold'em (for Nevada croupiers )	1039	Frederick Narciso		0.104,701	Charles Fisher
3	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	2998	Ciaran O'Leary		0.727.012	Paul Evans
4th	0.1500	Pot Limit Hold'em	0781	Michael Spegal		0.252.290	Gavin Smith
5	0.2500	Omaha / Stud High / Low	0327	Tom Schneider		0.214,347	Ed Tonnellier
6th	0.1500	Limit Hold'em	0910	Gary Styczynski		0.280.715	Gumroyan Varouzhan
7th	0.5000	Pot Limit Omaha (+ rebuys)	0145	Burt Boutin		0.825.956	Erik Cajelais
8th	0.1000	No Limit Hold'em (+ rebuys)	0844	Michael Chu		0.585,774	Tuan Vu
9	0.1500	Omaha high / low	0690	Alexander Kravchenko		0.228,446	Bryan Devonshire
10	0.2000	No Limit Hold'em	1531	Will Durkee		0.566.913	Todd Terry
11	0.5000	(WCE) Seven Card Stud	0180	Chris Reslock		0.258.453	Phil Ivey
12	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em (6 players)	1427	Jason Warner		0.481,698	David Zeitlin
13	0.5000	(WCE) Pot Limit Hold'em	0398	Allen Cunningham		0.487.287	Jeff Lisandro
14th	0.1500	Seven Card Stud	0395	Michael None		0.146.987	Nesbitt Coburn
15th	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	2628	Phil Hellmuth		0.637.254	Andy Philachack
16	0.2500	HORSE	0382	James Richburg		0.239.503	Walter Browne
17th	0.1000	(WCE) No Limit Hold'em (Ladies)	1286	Sally Boyer		0.262,077	Anne booklet
18th	0.5000	(WCE) Limit Hold'em	0257	Saro Getzoyan		0.333.379	Geoff Sanford
19th	0.2500	No Limit Hold'em	1013	Francois Safieddine		0.521.785	John Phan
20th	0.2000	Seven Card Stud High / Low	0340	Ryan Hughes		0.176.358	Min Lee
21st	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em (Shootout)	0900	Don Baruch		0.264.107	Jared Davis
22nd	0.5000	No Limit Hold'em	0640	James Mackey		0.730.740	Stuart Fox
23	0.1500	Pot Limit Omaha	0576	Scott Clements		0.194.206	Eric Lynch
24	0.3000	(WCE) Seven Card Stud High / Low	0236	Eli Elezra		0.198.984	Scotty Nguyen
25th	0.2000	No Limit Hold'em	1619	Ben Ponzio		0.599,467	David Hewitt
26th	0.5000	HORSE	0192	Ralph Schwartz		0.275,683	Bill Gazes
27	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	2315	Dave Stucke		0.603.069	Young Cho
28	0.3000	No Limit Hold'em	0827	Shankar Pillai		0.527.829	Beth Shak
29	0.1500	Razz	0341	Katja Thater		0.132,653	Larry St. Jean
30th	0.2500	No Limit Hold'em (6 players)	0847	Hoyt Corkins		0.515.065	Terrence Chan
31	0.5000	(WCE) No Limit Hold'em (Heads-Up)	0392	Dan Schreiber		0.425,594	Mark Muchnik
32	0.2000	Seven Card Stud	0213	Jeff Lisandro		0.118.426	Nick Frangos
33	0.1500	Pot Limit Omaha (+ rebuys)	0293	Alan Smurfit		0.464,867	Qushqar Morad
34	0.3000	Limit Hold'em	0296	Alexander Borteh		0.225,483	Brandon Wong
35	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	2541	Ryan Young		0.616.154	Dustin Dirkson
36	0.5000	(WCE) Omaha High / Low	0280	John Guth		0.363.216	Robert Stevanovski
37	0.2000	Pot Limit Hold'em	0599	Greg Hopkins		0.269.274	Jason Newburger
38	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	2778	Robert Cheung		0.673,628	Richard Murnick
39	50,000	(WCE) HORSE	0148	Freddy Deeb		2,276,832	Bruno Fitoussi
40	0.1500	Mixed hold'em	0620	Fred Goldberg		0.205.271	Rene Mouritsen
41	0.1000	(WCE) No Limit Hold'em (Seniors)	1882	Ernest Bennett		0.348.423	Tony Korfman
42	0.1500	Pot Limit Omaha High / Low	0687	Łukasz Dumanski		0.227.454	David Bach
43	0.2000	Limit Hold'em	0472	Saifuddin Ahmad		0.217,329	William Jensen
44	0.2000	Omaha high / low	0534	Frankie O'Dell		0.240.057	Thang Luu
45	0.5000	No Limit Hold'em (6 players)	0728	William Edler		0.904.672	Alex Bolotin
46	0.1000	Seven Card Stud High / Low	0668	Tom Schneider		0.147.713	Hoyt Verner
47	0.2000	No Limit Hold'em	2038	Blair Rodman		0.707.898	Amato Galasso
48	0.1000	Limit Deuce to Seven Triple Draw (+ Rebuys)	0209	Rafi Amit		0.227.005	Lenny Martin
49	0.1500	No Limit Hold'em	3151	Chandrasekhar Billavara		0.722.914	Taylor Douglas
50	10,000	(WCE) Pot Limit Omaha	0314	Robert Mizrachi		0.768,889	Rene Mouritsen
51	0.1000	SHOE	0730	Dao Bac		0.157.975	Adam Geyer
52	0.1000	No Limit Hold'em (+ rebuys)	1048	Michael Graves		0.742.121	Theo Tran
53	0.1500	Limit Hold'em (Shootout)	0720	Ram Vaswani		0.217,438	Andrew Ward
54	0.5000	(WCE) No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw (+ Rebuys)	0078	Erik Seidel		0.538.835	Chad Brown
55	10,000	(WCE) No Limit Hold'em ( Main Event )	6358	Jerry Yang		8,250,000	Tuan Lam

useful information

The 15-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth

• Most of the tournaments were scheduled for three days. Exceptions were the five-day $ 50,000 HORSE tournament, the small stud tournaments, which were only spread over two days, and the eleven-day main event.
• The record of the youngest tournament winner was set in the first tournament. At the time of his triumph, Steve Billirakis was only ten days above the minimum age of 21 years.
• In Phoenix living Tom Schneider took victory in the tournaments number 5 and number 46 and thus was the only player who won two bracelets. As a result of these successes, he was also named Player of the Year .
• Phil Hellmuth won his eleventh bracelet in event # 15 and has been the sole leader after tournament victories ever since. He is now a 15-time bracelet winner.
• With Michael Keiner and Katja Thater , two Germans won a bracelet. In addition, Thater was the only woman to triumph in a regular tournament.
• Michael Binger and Chad Brown were the most frequent in the prize ranks with eight money finishes .
• Tom Schneider , Chris Björin , Humberto Brenes , Robert Mizrachi and Thor Hansen sat at a final table three times.
• Due to the huge crowd at the $ 1,500 tournaments in No Limit Hold'em , players were moved to an adjoining tent to play. Overall, the organization of the WSOP by the organizer Harrah's Entertainment was described by many players as miserable.
• The Bellagio Cup as part of the World Poker Tour took place from June 11th to July 15th at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. This overlaying of the dates was seen by many professionals as disrespect for the World Series .

Main Event

Jerry Yang (2008)

→ Main article : 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event

The final table began on July 17, 2007. In the final hand, Yang won with 8 ♣ 8 ♦ against Lam with A ♦ Q ♦ .

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
1		Jerry Yang	8,250,000
2		Tuan Lam	4,840,981
3		Raymond Rahme	3,048,025
4th		Alexander Kravchenko	1,852,721
5		Jon Kalmar	1,255,069
6th		Hevad Khan	0.956.243
7th		Lee Childs	0.705.229
8th		Lee Watkinson	0.585,699
9		Phillip Hilm	0.525.934

WSOP Europe 2007 in London

→ Main article : World Series of Poker Europe 2007

The famous Leicester Square

The World Series of Poker took place in Europe from September 6-16, 2007. There were three tournaments in the London casino The Casino at the Empire held in which regular bracelets could be won. The casino is located in Leicester Square and was only opened in spring 2007. In addition, two more casinos were used for the main tournament to split the field of participants.

The entry fees were significantly higher than at the WSOP in Las Vegas. The organizer calculated with significantly fewer participants and wanted to stabilize the prize pool. In addition, the top stars feel much more attracted by the higher buy-in than if "small" tournaments were held.

The £ 10,000 main tournament was scheduled for seven days. The HORSE tournament should last three days and the Pot Limit Omaha tournament two days.

Thomas “The Buzzer” Bihl won the first bracelet outside of Las Vegas. At the HORSE tournament, he won the final table over Alexander Kravchenko , Chris Ferguson , Kirk Morrison and Jennifer Harman, among others .

The second tournament was won by Italian Dario Alioto and £ 234,390 in prize money.

At the time of WSOP Europe , the Main Event winner was only 18 years old. The Norwegian Annette Obrestad , who has already achieved fame through her Internet success, has won more than two million US dollars and is thus the youngest bracelet winner at the World Series of Poker .

Web links

Commons : World Series of Poker 2007  - Collection of Images

• World Series of Poker 2007 on the World Series of Poker website
• World Series of Poker 2007 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This Week in Poker - Feb. 5-12 , cardplayer.com February 12, 2010, accessed September 9, 2019.
2. ↑ New prize money structure at the WSOP , pokerolymp.de from May 10, 2007, accessed on September 9, 2019.
3. ↑ 2007 WSOP Recap: Event # 1, $ 5000 Mixed Game - Madness Of Cards, Tardy Pros And Action Abounds , pokernews.com, June 2, 2007, accessed September 9, 2019.
4. ↑ 2007 WSOP Success on the World Series of Poker website, accessed September 9, 2019.
5. ↑ Bellagio Cup III starts ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), pokerolymp.de from June 11, 2007, accessed on September 9, 2019.