2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 4
Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Now that the money bubble has burst, many of these players will be satisfied with nothing less than the final table. There is a wide variety of players still alive in this field, and everyone should have someone to root for tomorrow.
There are top tournament pros like Gus Hansen, Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown, Jason Lester, Lee Watkinson, David Levi, Brandon Adams, and Mimi Tran.
There are top online players like Sorel 'Imper1um' Mizzi, Jared 'Waco Kid' Hamby, Darrell 'Gigabet' Dicken, Hevad 'Rain' Khan, Matt 'Mattster24' Sterling, and Peter 'Nordberg' Feldman.
There are top Europeans like Julian Gardner, Thor Hansen, Donnacha O'Dea, and Willie Tann.
There are former world champions Berry Johnston ('86), Huckleberry Seed ('96), Scott Nguyen ('98), Carlos Mortensen ('01), and Robert Varkonyi ('02).
There are 2007 WSOP bracelet winners Bill Edler and Alex Kravchenko.
There are seasoned veterans like Billy Baxter, Hans 'Tuna' Lund, and Mike Laing.
There are even celebrities -- actor Tobey Maguire ("Spider-Man"), musician Sully Erna (lead singer, Godsmack), and television writer/producer Sam Simon (co-creator of "The Simpsons) have already outlasted nearly 95% of the field.
But wait ... there's more.
There's the blind player, Hal Lubarsky, who uses an assistant to read the cards and whisper them into his ear. He's still in the hunt for the final table.
There's Kenny Tran, who was a surprise at the final table of $50,000 H.O.R.S.E., but has followed it up by becoming the first player to a million chips in the Main Event.
There's the uber-aggressive young Italian, Dario Minieri, who doesn't know the word "slow," and took the chip lead in the last half hour of Day 3. As an online player, he accumulated so many player's bonus points that he used them to buy a new Porsche. He's the big threat heading to Day 4.
The remaining 337 players will play another five levels today, and then play down to the final 27 on Saturday (Day 5). Everyone who survives Saturday will be guaranteed at least $333,490.
Sunday (Day 6), the players will battle for the nine seats at the final table. Everyone who survives Sunday will be guaranteed at least $525,934.
Monday is an off day. Get some sleep.
Tuesday is the big day -- the final table of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event. Nine players, one of whom will go down in poker history as the world champion, earning $8.25 million. The final five will become millionaires.
Regardless of whom you're rooting for, you'll want to return to PokerNews.com at 12:00 noon PDT for complete coverage, with chip counts, hand updates, money finishes, photos, and video interviews.
29 2 Peter Feldman 284,000
29 3 Carlos Mortensen 284,000
29 4 Dave Terry 133,000
29 5 Jim Kasputis 560,000
29 6 Ryan McClean 97,000
29 7 David Wells 388,000
29 8 Darrell Dicken 215,000
29 9 Jeff Bryan 156,000
30 1 Matthew Hilger 310,000
30 2 Raj Verma 363,000
30 3 Michael Yoshino 129,000
30 4 Cody Slaubaugh 211,000
30 5 Mark Muchnik 143,000
30 6 Martin Miller 453,000
30 7 Zachary "Carter" King 153,000
30 8 Hoa Nguyen 599,000
30 9 Mark Sanchez 380,000
32 1 Ryan Elson 183,000
32 2 David Names 259,000
32 3 Richard Weisman 696,000
32 4 Jeff Tunkel 467,000
32 5 Chris Lovelace 627,000
32 6 Nicolas Atlan 1,057,000
32 7 Chris Overgard 386,000
32 8 Willie Tann 475,000
32 9 Craig Edwards 142,000
33 1 Tobey Maguire 131,000
33 2 Greg Huffman 362,000
33 4 Jerouios Dabul 121,000
33 5 Donnacha O'Dea 95,000
33 6 Voidim Triucher did not report
33 7 Derek Thorpe 144,000
33 8 Sylvester Geoghegan 127,000
33 9 Robert Damiano 582,000
35 1 Jim Geary 131,000
35 2 Sorel Mizzi 603,000
35 3 Richard Klein 104,000
35 4 Justin King 714,000
35 5 Zachary Clark 599,000
35 6 Markus Gongalves 373,000
35 7 David O'Neal 321,000
35 8 Salvatore 'Sully' Erna 135,000
36 1 Priyan De Mel 285,000
36 2 Sam Simon 172,000
36 3 Robert Starkey 313,000
36 4 Bob Poole 229,000
36 5 Randy Jacobson 108,000
36 6 Floyd Clark 130,000
36 7 Hevad Khan 1,319,000
36 8 Dapo Fedeyi 153,000
38 1 John Eckerd 176,000
38 2 Petri Pollanen 106,000
38 3 James Williams 517,000
38 4 Elie Said 677,000
38 5 Diego Cordovez 284,000
38 6 Phillip Liou 975,000
38 7 Gus Hansen 1,044,000
38 8 Adam Noone 255,000
38 9 Jonathan Campbell 118,000
39 1 Mickey Seagle 539,000
39 2 William Wood 303,000
39 3 Ryan Lawrence 671,000
39 4 Tor Helness 188,000
39 5 Sven Abelsson Runing 703,000
39 6 Takeshi Takii 267,000
39 7 Brent Catalane 250,000
39 8 Doug Gehring 161,000
39 9 Dennis Perry 231,000
41 1 Tinten Oliver 115,000
41 2 Nicholas Botta 261,000
41 3 Robert Neitrayan 1,058,000
41 4 Nasser Hamedani 31,000
41 5 Steven Garfinkle 457,000
41 6 Jason Peed 262,000
41 7 Kevin Farry 449,000
41 8 Danny Smith 347,000
41 9 Robin Bergren 550,200
42 1 Amanda Baker 188,000
42 2 Chris Vox 174,000
42 3 Allen Patatenyam 301,000
42 4 Ayaz Mahmood 472,000
42 5 Antonio Arie 91,000
42 6 Christian Togsverd 666,000
42 7 Kenneth Siead 257,000
42 8 Scott Mayfield 234,000
42 9 Troy O'Brien 248,000
44 1 Christoph Stiehler 108,000
44 2 Jeff Diambrosia Allen 93,000
44 3 Humberto Brenes 210,000
44 4 Tim Begley 441,000
44 5 Jason Koshi 346,000
44 6 Justin Sadauskas 618,000
44 7 Sean Walter 133,000
44 8 Alan Keating 566,000
44 9 William Spadea 1,057,000
45 1 Warren Karp 309,000
45 2 Ovenson Benoit 346,000
45 3 Matt Brady 114,000
45 4 Senovio Ramirez, III 947,000
45 5 Ut Nguyen 314,000
45 6 Kenneth Smith 584,000
45 7 Tristan Wade 179,000
45 8 Sven Heinecker 194,000
45 9 Kenny Tran 1,175,000
47 1 Raymond Rahme 463,000
47 2 Mario Ho 481,000
47 3 Steve Crockett 156,000
47 4 Jeff Weiss 1,533,000
47 5 Jason Welch 415,000
47 6 Roy Thung 170,000
47 7 Bo "Legato" Sehlstedt 122,000
47 8 Keith Ogren 107,000
47 9 Alex Kravchenko 371,000
48 1 Roy Vanderswis 127,000
48 2 Ken Evanowski 493,000
48 3 Mikkel Madsen 226,000
48 4 Patrice McLean 71,000
48 5 Carl Olson 101,000
48 6 J. Franklin Benjamin 291,000
48 7 Jerry Yang 738,000
48 8 Noah Schwartz 171,000
48 9 Daniel Elozonto 262,000
50 1 Paulo Loureiro 440,000
50 2 Tom Peterson 601,000
50 3 Al Rapoport 130,000
50 4 Conor Tate 800,000
50 5 Ed De Haas 220,000
50 6 Kelly Jo McGlothlin 563,000
50 7 Clint Schafer 940,000
50 8 William Childs 373,000
50 9 Erian Miller 239,000
53 1 Steven Prentky 52,000
53 2 Dave Smart 68,000
53 3 Andrew Barnes 932,000
53 4 Travis Belles 179,000
53 5 Mike Souza 187,000
53 6 Imran Ahmad 431,000
53 7 Charis Anastasiou 575,000
53 8 Cliff Pappas 535,000
53 9 Hasan Habib 127,000
54 1 Leonard Pruzanosky 63,000
54 2 Rick Munro 143,000
54 3 Roger Tichenon 213,000
54 4 Jon Kalmar 1,410,000
54 5 Thomas Koo 589,000
54 6 Bob Preston 141,000
54 7 Zhuang Han 372,000
54 8 Joe Brandenburg 270,000
54 9 Terry Kane 600,000
56 1 Pat Atehison 189,000
56 2 Ken Lawrence 119,000
56 3 Avi Cohen 390,000
56 4 Rami Boukai 203,000
56 5 Bob Slezak 130,000
56 6 Adam Weiss 446,000
56 7 David G. Conway 248,000
56 8 Steven Jacobs 1,127,000
56 9 Samnuel Padgett 467,000
59 1 Jeff Banghart 789,000
59 2 Marco Mills 294,000
59 3 Matt Cohen 374,000
59 4 Daniel Alaei 299,000
59 5 Daniel Melan 263,000
59 6 Bryan Swanson 216,000
59 7 Paul Spitzberg 629,000
59 8 Esfandiar Dara 520,000
59 9 Scotty Nguyen 321,000
60 1 Ronald Kluber 292,000
60 2 David Flusfeder 282,000
60 3 Naseem Salem 589,000
60 4 Mike Laing 155,000
60 5 Steve Miranda 42,000
60 6 Rodney Knight 458,000
60 7 Bob Lauria 336,000
60 8 Guang Pu Lu 236,000
60 9 Josh Evans 400,000
61 1 Eddie Ray Stutts 115,000
61 2 Brian Tracy 301,000
61 3 Alex Michaels 409,000
61 4 Cory Carroll 554,000
61 5 Bryan Curtis 277,000
61 6 Mao Qiu 675,000
61 7 Ang Pang Leng 459,000
61 8 Mark Kim 140,000
61 9 Jason Mellross 288,000
62 1 Philip Yeh 224,000
62 2 Sebastian Zink 397,000
62 3 Brett W. Kimes 591,000
62 4 Jim McCrink 265,000
62 5 Reagan Silber 514,000
62 6 Bill Edler 673,000
62 7 Robert Varkonyi 424,000
62 8 Hyon Kim 145,000
62 9 Jared Hamby 379,000
63 1 Laurence Hughes 285,000
63 2 Justin Rollo 661,000
63 3 Alexander Dietrich 205,000
63 4 Ken Gacek 157,000
63 5 Ken Weiner 87,000
63 6 Kit Manoel 219,000
63 7 Ed Betlow 501,000
63 8 Vinod Jadav 154,000
63 9 Joe Shield 291,000
64 1 Kristian Obbarius 704,000
64 2 Henry Ma 603,000
64 3 John Armbrust 544,000
64 4 Phi Tran 300,000
64 5 Matt Keikoan 442,000
64 6 Nick Binger 226,000
64 7 Jason Glass 120,000
64 8 John Matwey 153,000
64 9 Richard Harris 374,000
65 1 Theodore Park 408,000
65 2 Steven D'Argenio 111,000
65 3 Berry Johnston 203,000
65 4 Richard Sun 83,000
65 5 Fernando Reyes 358,000
65 6 Hans "Tuna" Lund 68,000
65 7 Randal McLoughlin 405,000
65 8 Billy Baxter 105,000
65 9 Bart Hanson 738,000
66 1 Kevin Kim 620,000
66 2 Art Cole 249,000
66 3 Kirk Morrison 772,000
66 4 Alex Melnikow 401,000
66 5 Neil "Bad Beat" Channing 371,000
66 6 Evan Marshall 742,000
66 7 Wolbert Bautlema 241,000
66 8 Gonzalo Flores 132,000
66 9 Steven Lynch 116,000
67 1 Tommy Le 600,000
67 2 Salvatore Passariello 133,000
67 3 Tuan Lam 642,000
67 4 Gary Friedlander 322,000
67 5 Steve Austin 220,000
67 6 Gregory Owen 117,000
67 7 Cyrus Farzad 335,000
67 8 Justin Sellers 160,000
67 9 Daniel Schleben 81,000
68 1 Mark Weitzman 155,000
68 2 Randy Holland 400,000
68 3 Kevin Howatt 145,000
68 4 Jac Arama 366,000
68 5 David Levi 262,000
68 6 Thomas Barnard 596,000
68 7 Allan W. King 400,290
68 8 Mark Ellerbe 434,000
68 9 Jason Heidema 205,000
69 1 Stephen O'Dwyer 185,000
69 2 Donna Blevins 123,000
69 3 Jimmy Blevins 855,000
69 4 Stefan Mattsson 201,000
69 5 Jason Lester 439,000
69 6 Francois Safieddine 748,000
69 7 Stephen Ma 614,000
69 8 Adam White did not report
69 9 Jason Sell 453,000
70 1 Bjorn-Erik Glenne 679,000
70 2 Matt Shepsky 77,000
70 3 Lewis Pilkington 277,000
70 4 Isaac Haxton 791,000
70 5 Karlo Lopez 263,000
70 6 Seymour Guiberson 261,000
70 7 Francis Cagney 347,000
70 8 Matt Stout 639,000
70 9 Gustav Lundholm 376,600
71 1 Peter Darvill 420,000
71 2 Dagmartin Miikkelsen 734,000
71 3 Mathew Olim 483,000
71 4 Claude Cohen 127,000
71 5 Jim Lucas 836,000
71 6 Mimi Tran 144,000
71 7 Ira Mazie 126,000
71 8 Sean Boles 102,000
71 9 Thierry Vanden Berg 552,000
72 1 Frank Schram 165,000
72 2 Michael Zinna 152,000
72 3 Huckleberry Seed 544,000
72 4 Ken Dickenson 153,000
72 5 Ben Lamb 267,000
72 6 Karim Vegas 393,000
72 7 Gary Benson 256,000
72 8 Terris Preston 328,000
72 9 Luis Velador 173,000
73 1 Richard Murnick 484,000
73 2 Steve Sung 64,000
73 3 Scott Freeman 683,000
73 4 Hal Lubarsky 409,000
73 5 Christopher Lines 130,000
73 6 Peter Hill 208,000
73 7 Paul Kershaw 333,000
73 8 John Bird 686,000
73 9 Andrew Gunderson 381,000
74 1 Jon Moonves 854,000
74 2 Daniel Quach 212,000
74 3 Lee Watkinson 737,000
74 4 Hopfner Moritz 195,000
74 5 Karga Holt 580,000
74 6 Rep Porter 974,000
74 7 Matt Sterling 577,000
74 8 Pete de Best 649,000
75 1 Lamar Wilkinson 521,000
75 2 Lauchlin McKinnon 321,000
75 3 Chad Brown 454,000
75 4 Yuval Friedman 300,000
75 5 Richard Crowell 196,000
75 6 Thor Hansen 342,000
75 7 Andreas Krause 168,000
75 8 Billy Willis 606,000
75 9 Brad Mills 255,700
76 1 Roy Winston 475,000
76 2 Sverre Sundbo 702,000
76 3 Brock Parker 1,089,000
76 4 Kenny Rundh 287,000
76 5 Timothy Debenport 71,000
76 6 John Dutchak 480,000
76 7 Mickey "Mouse" Mills 545,000
76 8 Wayne Johnson 121,000
76 9 Ketul Nathwani 177,000
77 1 Alfred Megrahyan 325,000
77 2 Patrick Huse 234,000
77 3 Brandon Adams 403,000
77 4 Mans Montgomery 143,000
77 5 Sang Kim 217,000
77 6 Stig Tap Rasmussen 323,000
77 7 Joe Pharo 430,000
77 8 Ray Henson 319,000
77 9 Tristan McDonald 257,000
78 1 David Tran 434,000
78 2 John Spaavecchia 402,000
78 3 Julian Gardner 471,000
78 4 Philip Hilm 597,000
78 5 Alan Levin 316,000
78 6 Al Riccobono 204,000
78 7 Dario Minieri 2,398,000
78 8 Deb Blair 371,000
78 9 Mitch Garshofsky 158,000