Level: 22
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 4,000
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
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90 - Francois Safieddine
89 - John Bird
88 - Jared Hamby
87 - Jeffrey Weiss
86 - Justin Sadauskas
85 - David Wells
84 - Mark Ellerbe
83 - Humberto Brenes
82 - Francis Cagney
. Everyone checked over to Nguyen, who bet 120,000. Names moved all in for 535,000, Kim folded, Rasmussen folded, and Nguyen called. Names showed
for two pair while Nguyen turned over 
for top pair and a gutshot straight draw. The 
spiked on the turn, making Nguyen a higher two pair and the crowd went wild. The river was the 
and Names was eliminated. Interestingly enough, Rasmussen claimed to have folded pocket eights and would have made a straight on the turn. He thought about calling "just to gamble" but decided to fold since Nguyen had to act behind him.
"If I call do you fold?" Rasmussen asked of Nguyen. Nguyen said he would have.
When everyone finished cheering the news, Sommerfeld added, "Unless you'd like to chop it 81 ways."
Well, we've run the numbers here at PokerNews, and with $38,823,477 left in the prizepool, an 81-player chop would give everyone $479,302.19. Almost half a million dollars each for 81 people.
Before you laugh off this idea, keep in mind that 72 of these players will make less than that. To earn more, they'll need to reach the final table.
If it were me, I'd seriously consider it.
Board:
Le failed to improve and was eliminated. After the hand, Mahmood is up to 1,600,000.
He thought it over a bit more and said, "This is a big chunk of my money..I won a big pot with this hand...I call." His pocket Tens trailed badly and the
board gave the 1.2 million pot to King, while Gus was left with just 420,000.
and was in bad shape against Rasmussen's 
. The flop was 
. Rasmussen couldn't bear to watch and started pacing away from the table. As the
fell on the turn, Scotty Nguyen exclaimed "Oh my God, a three!" and Rasmussen whirled around to see the bad news, only to find that Nguyen was just messing with him. The river was the , making Rasmussen a set of sevens and eliminating Heinecker. After the hand, Rasmussen was up to 1,550,000.
. Board:
Thierry failed to improve against the pocket tens and was eliminated.