2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 7
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,844
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$900,670
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Who Wants Fifth-Place Money?

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In this, the final installment of If They Chopped It, we can tell you that if the remaining prize pool was split evenly right now, each player would walk away with $3,322,531. This is slightly better than fifth-place money and is almost $300,000 more than Raymond Rahme picked up for his third-place finish just a year ago. Not that you needed more perspective, but this amount is also more than any champion prior to Greg Raymer received for a first-place finish.

As we reported a few days ago, the prize distribution is very "top heavy" in this year's Main Event with a total of 50.7 percent of the total prize money awarded to the final nine players.