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7/18/07posted by Poker Queen @ 6:10 PM The 2007 World Series of Poker has come to an end. Early this morning, 39-year old psychologist Jerry Yan was crowned WSOP Champion after a heads-up match against Tuan Lam. His win earned him the top prize of $8.25 million and the title of being the world's poker champion.Yang ranked only eighth out of nine players when play started at the final table. With only 8.45 million chips, he was way behind the top three players at the table, who all had over 20 million chips each. But he played aggressively and eliminated them all, one by one. "The only way I would win this tournament is to be aggressive from the very beginning and that's exactly what I did," Yang said. He went into the final hand with $107 million in chips, making him the first player in WSOP history to have more than $100 million in chips. Lam, on the other hand, only had $20.5 million, which gave Yang a nearly 5-to-1 advantage. At 3:48 a.m. local time this morning, after nearly 16 hours of play, Yang was crowned WSOP Champion, winning the top prize of $8.25 million and the WSOP Champion bracelet. These are the results and payouts for the final table: 1st Place - Jerry Yang - $8,250,000 2nd Place - Tuan Lam - $4,840,981 3rd Place - Raymond Rahme - $3,048,025 4th Place - Alex Kravchenko - $1,852,721 5th Place - Jon Kalmar, UK - $1,255,069 6th Place - Hevad Khan - $956,243 7th Place - Lee Childs - $705,229 8th Place - Lee Watkinson - $585,699 9th Place - Philip Hilm - $525,934 Winning the WSOP Main Event by personally eliminating the whole the final table is quite an achievement for someone who has only been playing poker for two years! And what does the winner has to say about it? "I've seen the miracles of God with my own eyes. I did a lot of bluffing, also." Sources: www.worldseriesofpoker.com www.newsday.com www.usatoday.com Labels: Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
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