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Johnny Chan playing in Event #54
Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Johnny Chan is also in the crowd today checking out the final table. Johnny Chan is also the last player to ever win back-to-back WSOP main event championships. That is a feat that may never get replicated ever again due to the gigantic fields. When Chan won in 1987, he outlasted a field of 152 players. The next year in 1988 there were 167 entrants.
Chan lost heads-up to Phil Hellmuth in 1989. Had he won that main event he would have run off three-consecutive world championships. No one has ever won three in a row and only Chan, Stu Ungar, Doyle Brunson, and Johnny Moss have won consecutive championships.
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Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 15.605 million
Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 3.39 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 59.51 million
Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 19.955 million
Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 19.61 million
Seat 9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan - 9.415 million
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Hand #42 - Jerry Yang has the button in seat 4, Hevad 'Rain' Khan raises under the gun to 800,000, Jon Kalmar reraises from the big blind to 2.8 million, and Khan folds. Kalmar takes the pot.
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With six players remaining, Jon Kalmar started playing more hands. He won three during the last ten hands. Jerry Yang won three consecutive pots and has won 15 out of the first 40 hands. Rain Khan also won three uncontested pots ater preflop raises.
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Hand #40 - Raymond Rahme has the button in seat 1, Jon Kalmar raises from middle position to 1 million, and Jerry Yang calls from the big blind. The flop comes , and both players check. The turn card pairs the board with the , and they check again.
The river card is the , Yang bets 1.5 million, and Kalmar calls.
Yang says, "Good call," and shows 9-x for nine high. Jon Kalmar shows A-x to win the pot with ace high.
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PokerNews grabbed 8th place finisher Lee Watkinson, probably the most well-known player going into the final table today, just after he busted from the Main Event.
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Billy Baxter playing on Day 4 of the main event
In 1982, instead of bracelets given to event winners at the WSOP, champions were awarded watches to commemorate their victory. Billy Baxter and David Sklansky won two events that year. They both won two watches.
At the 2007 WSOP main event, all of the final table players will be given watches by Corum, thier official sponsor.
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, and both players check. The turn card pairs the board with the 
, and they check again. 
, Yang bets 1.5 million, and Kalmar calls. 
