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When the 2007 World Series of Poker main event sets off in the beginning of July, a never ending line of entering players each have the firm conviction that they are going to win. Several thousands of players are bound to be wrong. On the other hand, one of them is equally bound to win the whole caboodle, the question is just: who will it be.
If old merits matter, the players in the ten bracelets club should be our favorites: Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth. Their tournament records are like a blueprint of poker history - but none of them has figured on a main event final table since 2001 when Phil Hellmuth finished in fifth place.
Then there are the players who have done the best results in the last months. Here we find players like Gus Hansen, Ted Forrest, and Paul Wasicka who are in the top ten on the 2007 money list, so far. Hansen recently won the AS$ 10,000 main event of the 2007 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Forrest won the $9,600 WPT Championship Event of the Bay 101 Shooting Stars festival in San Jose, and Paul Wasicka won the $25,000 National Heads-Up Championship in Las Vegas.
Most WSOP players are still Americans, but the cohorts from other continents have been growing rapidly lately, lead by the Europeans. Looking at the latest European Poker Tour events, players such as Ram Vaswani, Noah Boeken, Luca Pagano, Bertrand Grospellier and Patrik Antonius have done consistently well and must be given full respect in the upcoming WSOP. Of course, a player like Carlos Mortensen with four final tables in WSOP 2006 is also not a bad tip.
The list of players for whose chances to win you might argue with a certain weight can be made much longer. Add to it all unknown players who know how to play poker and may find a good run at the right time, and predicting the 2007 WSOP winner with any kind of precision gets all but impossible.
Latest WSOP News
Katja Thater Wins $1,500 Razz in WSOP 2007
Thater beat a starting field of 341 players in the $1,500 Razz event to take home $132,600.
Read more... Jun 20, 2007
David Stucke Wins $1,500 No-Limit Holdem
Stucke beat a starting field with 2,315 players in the $1,500 No-Limit Holdem event to take home $603,000.
Read more... Jun 19, 2007
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WSOP 2007 Schedule
Full schedule for the 2007 World Series of Poker
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2006 WSOP Final Standings
| Rank | Name | Prize Money |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Gold | $12,000,000 |
| 2 | Paul Wasicka | $6,102,499 |
| 3 | Michael Binger | $4,123,310 |
| 4 | Allen Cunningham | $3,628,513 |
| 5 | Rhett Butler | $3,216,182 |
| 6 | Richard Lee | $2,803,851 |
| 7 | Doug Kim | $2,391,520 |
| 8 | Erik Friberg | $1,979,189 |
| 9 | Dan Nassif | $1,566,858 |
| 10 | Fred Goldberg | $1,154,527 |
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Best World Series Of Poker 2007 Satellites
WSOP 2007, the most anticipated poker event of the year, draws closer. As usual, almost every poker site runs a series of 2007 WSOP satellites so that basically anyone has the opportunity of going to Vegas and winning the big one. The list shows some of our favorite satellites.
| Poker Room | Satellite Info | Review |
|---|---|---|
| Bodog Poker | Eleven $270 WSOP Semifinals awarding $12,000 Main Event packages, satellites starting at $1 | Read |
| Party Poker |
$220 WSOP Super Satellite, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday - Two $11,000 WSOP Main Event Packages Guaranteed, satellites from $3 Weekly $600 WSOP Satellite, Friday at 18:00 ET, Four $11,000 WSOP Main Event Packages Guaranteed, satellites from $3 WSOP Steps with entry cost from $10 |
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| Pacific Poker | $125 + $10 WSOP Qualifier, last Sunday of the month Satellites starting at $2 | Read |
History of WSOP
The first World Series of Poker was held in 1970 in Las Vegas, and was organized by a man named Benny Binion, owner of the famous Horseshoe Casino. It was a small tournament that only featured a small handful of Poker professionals. In the end, the legendary Johnny Moss won, and a tournament that would eventually become the biggest gaming draw in the world was born.
Since that time, there has been a steady increase in the amount of players who compete. In 1973, the winner went on several famous talk shows to promote his World Series of Poker win, and gained national attention for the still-small tournament. Nearly a decade later in the early 1980s, the first satellite tournaments came into existence, ensuring that good Poker players who did not have the resources to be professionals could still earn the title of "World Champion' by winning the World Series of Poker Main Event.
By the 1990s, the World Series of Poker had 12 events and over 3,000 participants. The total prize pool tripled since the inception of the satellite tourneys. The World Series of Poker was beginning to grow to proportions that even Benny Binion, who died in 1989, could never have envisioned.
WSOP 2005
The 2005 World Series of Poker set records left and right for a variety of things- television ratings, national exposure, total number of events, prize pool and other things. In fact, 2005 marked the first time that the World Series of Poker had gotten too big for its britches- it had to be moved from the Horseshoe, its home of over 30 years to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The Main Event did move over to the Binion for the last few days, though as a nod to tradition.
Due to the higher-than-expected enrollment, the tourney increased the total prize pool to nearly $53 million dollars with a total of 5,619 entrants. An Australian man named Joseph Hachem won the Main Event and took home a record $7,500,000.
2005 also marked the first year that Harrah's was in charge of the World Series of Poker. They bought the WSOP in 2004 and now run all of the events.
Did You Know?
- The first WSOP was in 1970, but the seeds were planted back in 1949 when a Greek tycoon by the name of Nicholas Dandolos, known as "Nick the Greek" asked Benny Binion to hold a tournament for all to see. Binion asked the legend Johnny Moss to come and compete, and five months later the match finally ended, with Dandolos uttering the famous phrase "Mr. Moss, I have to let you go" before retiring to his room. It is estimated that Moss took home a then-unprecedented $2 million prize.
- The first WSOP in 1970 was also won by Moss, but not by elimination. It was an election based on play that awarded Moss the first-ever title.
- In 1971 came the first elimination-style tournament that is still used today.
- Amateurs who had either started on the internet or never won a major tournament seem to have lady luck on their side in the Main Event- Chris Moneymaker became the poster boy for such players in 2003, who continue to find success on the circuit today.
