2007 World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker 2007, which is also called the World Poker Championship, started on 1 June 2007 and ended with the final table (English Final Table ) of the main tournament (English Main Event ) on July 17, 2007.

A total of 55 poker tournaments were in the variants Texas Hold'em and Omaha, Seven Card Stud, Razz and HORSE in the mixed variants and H.O.S.E. on the tournament schedule. The tournaments include the Tournament of Champions and the most expensive with $ 50,000 buy-in ( entry fee ) for the variant of the game HORSE. It was based on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship for the first time a heads up tournament. Also held each variant instead of a so-called World Championship Event (WCE ). The winner received a special bracelet and may be described as a world champion in the respective variant. One day before the Main Event, organized by Annie Duke Charity Tournament was played. The tournament had named Ante Up for Africa a buy in of $ 5,000. It was a bracelet and awarded half of the prize pool was donated, the other half is paid to the players.

After 2006, all tournaments at the Rio All - Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada organized by Harrah 's Entertainment again. The official sponsor of the tournament series was Party Poker.

• 3.1 tournament schedule 3.1.1 Find out the Main Event

• 3.2.1 Find out the Main Event final table

• 4.1 Tournament Results in London

Changes to previous years

Compared to previous years, especially the structure of the tournaments was changed. Each player first got chips in double the value of the buy-ins of the respective tournament. Although the blinds rose also, in relation to the minimum buy-in inserts fell but less than in previous years. Harrah's was known in advance that the distribution of the prize money would change. This meant that the Topplatzierten less, and the players at the end of the prize money ranks received more.

In addition, there was a small change, which meant a move for the player. The official supplier presented its new Bicycle decks of cards before the tournament. The symbols of the cards were now arranged so that the player's cards had to lift slightly only at the corners, to see the hand. However, there were numerous complaints of the players, because the symbols were hardly attributable to the cards. It went so far that some players will receive their buy in reclaimed. So it was that after three days to Harrah's decided to play again with the usual cards.

Tournament Results

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• The tournaments were scheduled in large part to three days. One exception was the $ 50,000 HORSE tournament which lasted five days and the small stud tournaments, which were distributed only in two days. ( The Main Event had 11 game days)
• In the first tournament of the record of the youngest winner of the tournament was discontinued. Steve Bill Iraqis at the time of his triumph only 10 days over the age minimum of 21 years.
• Living in Phoenix Tom Schneider has won the victory in the tournament number 5 and number 46 and is the only player who has won two bracelets this year. Through these successes, he was also awarded the "Player of the Year Award".
• Phil Hellmuth won Event # 15 his eleventh bracelet and became the sole leader after tournament victories. He is now a 13-time bracelet winner.
• With Michael Keiner and Katja Thater two German could win a bracelet. In addition Thater was the only woman who triumphed in a regular tournament.
• Most commonly in the price ranks were eight money finishes Michael Binger and Chad Brown.
• Tom Schneider, Chris Björin, Humberto Brenes, Robert Mizrachi and Thor Hansen sat three times in a final table.
• Due to the large crowds at the 1,500 No Limit Hold'em tournaments, players were moved to an adjoining tent for playing. Overall, the organization of the WSOP by the organizer Harrah 's Entertainment by many players was referred to as miserable.
• The Bellagio Cup at the World Poker Tour was held until July 15 at the Bellagio on June 11. This superposition of the dates was considered by many professionals as disrespect to the World Series.

Main Event

The 55th and last tournament is the Main Event (buy in of $ 10,000 ), which began on July 6 and ended on July 17. The winner of the Main Event last year and so was defending champion Jamie Gold. However, this was eliminated on the very first day of the tournament.

Tournament schedule

The starting field, which consisted of 6358 players was initially distributed to the first four days (Day 1A - 1D). After that, the remaining players from 1A & 1B and 1C & 1D were summarized before the third day played together the rest of the players again. On the 621 the first place prize money was distributed.

Know before you go to the Main Event

• In the run was expected that there would be another increase in the number of participants. There have, however, participated in approximately 25 % fewer players.
• The most prominent player to reach the price ranks, Tobey Maguire was. The U.S. actor was able to prove the 292nd place and win $ 39,445.
• The best-placed German -speaking players in the Main Event was Niklas Sven Heinecker from Hamburg on the 80th place.
• Scotty Nguyen was the best-placed former Main Event winners. He was this year eleventh.

Final table

Know before you go to the Main Event final table

• The come as the chip leader at the final table Dane Philip Hilm had to leave the first of the nine players the table.
• The Russian Alex Kravchenko is a residual bracelet winner of this year.
• The South African Raymond Rahme is the first African ever, has reached the final table of the Main Event of the WSOP.
• The most successful and best-known player at the table is Lee Watkinson.
• This year's final table was to be an extremely fast one in the history of the World Series of Poker. After about five hours, the table was already reduced to 4 players, but it took last year for ten hours.
• The native Laotian Jerry Yang was able to receive the second highest prize money in history after 205 hands at the final table.

WSOP Europe 2007 in London

The World Series of Poker was held from 6 to 16 September 2007 as taking place in Europe. There were three tournaments in the London casino The Casino at the Empire in which organized regular bracelets were won. The casino is located on Leicester Square and was opened in spring 2007. In addition, the main tournament two other casinos were utilized to divide the participants.

The entry fees were significantly higher than at the WSOP in Las Vegas. The organizers calculated with significantly fewer participants and wanted to stabilize the prize pool. In addition, the top stars feel due to the higher buy-in significantly more attracted than if you would have held "small" tournaments.

The £ 10,000 - main event was scheduled for seven days. The HORSE event should be three and the Pot Limit Omaha tournament last two days.

Thomas "The Buzzer" Bihl won the first bracelet outside of Las Vegas. When HORSE tournament he won at the final table, among other things, Alexander Kravchenko, Chris Ferguson, Kirk Morrison and Jennifer Harman.

The second tournament was won by Italian Dario Alioto and £ 234,390 in prize money.

At the time of the winner of the WSOP Europe Main Event was only 18 years old. The Norwegian Annette Obrestad, who already gained through their Internet celebrity successes could win more than two million dollars, making it the youngest bracelet at the World Series of Poker.

Tournament Results in London