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2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 7
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
Raymond Rahme's railbirds are draped in South African flags.
Alex Kravchenko's fans are holding a Russian flag.
Lee Watkinson's fiancee and Ted Lawson's wife are waving an American flag.
Tuan Lam's supporters are holding up a Canadian flag.
Philip Hilm's friends have a flag representing Denmark.
Lee Childs' family and railibirds don't have any American flags, but they are the loudest group in the crowd. Rain Khan's college friends are also on the rail cheering him on. They also don't have a flag but are definitely a rowdy group of guys.
The vibe in the Amazon Ballroom is more like a soccer match than a poker tournament. This should make it for an interesting night.
, Yang bets 2.5 million, and Kalmar folds. Jerry Yang takes the first pot worth 3.43 million.Note: The opening raise sounds suspiciously high, but that's the number that Tournament Director Jack Effel announced. On the second hand, he misannounced the opening raise as 1.5 million, before correcting himself down to 750,000. It's possible he made the same mistake on Hand #1, meaning the actual raise might have been closer to 700,000. We may never know until we see it on ESPN.
Level: 31
Blinds: 120,000/240,000
Ante: 30,000
When will it end? Stay tuned. The over-under is 3:00 am PDT.
Chip Count: 9.205 million
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY
Rain Khan is a 22-year-old online poker pro from NY, who is mostly known as "RaiNKahN" on PokerStars. He listed that he was homeless on his bio sheet. He attended SUNY-Albany and wrote that his hobbies are "eating Subway and bulldozing."
This is his second WSOP and has two previous cashes in the $1,500 NL events. Khan won his seat to the main event via an satellite online. He's the guy who was accused of being a bot for playing 40 SNGs at once. His personal record is 43 and after PokerStars froze his account, he sent them video proof that he was not a "robot." He's claimed to have played over 35,000 SNGs on PokerStars.
Rain Khan is quiet most of the time with outbursts of feral energy. He jumps up and down after he wins big bots. He shakes his head back and forth and screams out random things. He's been seen running around with a chair on his head. But ask his friends and he'll tell you that he's one of the nicest guys you would ever meet.
Rain Khan completely shifted gears on Day 6. He played with less crazed aggression and picked his spots to go nuts.
Chip Count: 20.32 million
Hometown: Chorley, UK
Kalmar is a 33-year-old from England who is married with one kid. He's a professional poker player who had a stint as the lead singer in a punk band. He listed "drinking" as a hobby and his railbirds were definitely partaking in his favorite hobby over the last couple of days. His contingency is definitely a rowdy bunch.
He learned poker by playing online, which he started to do to curtail his other gambling (sports and casino). He's been playing for four years and this is his third WSOP. He flew to Vegas to play several preliminary events. He didn't cash in any of them and had blown through his bankroll. Due to his catastrophic loses he was ready to give up poker for good. He tried to book an earlier flight back home. The cost to England was too high so he decided to stick around and play the last mega-satellite at the Rio. He won his seat to the main event at the last minute. Not only did he cash, he made the final table and is trying to return to England a millionaire.
When asked about the one thing he wanted the audience to know about him, he wrote, "I'm not really a Britney fan."
Kalmar has a sense of humor and is second in chips.
Chip Count: 22.07 million
Hometown: Cambridge, UK
Philip Hilm is originally from Denmark and currently resides in Cambridge, UK. He's an online poker pro and went deep at the EPT Grand Finale Championships in Monte Carlo. He's played in the WSOP during the last three years and bought in directly. He has one previous WSOP cash. Fellow Danish pro Lars Bonding was on the rail sweating him on Day 6.
He's the current chipleader. Hilm is hard to read, aggressive, and could play any two cards. With a chiplead, he's even more dangerous.