2007 World Series of Poker#Main Event

Phil Hellmuth won his 11th career bracelet, breaking a tie with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan for the career bracelet lead.

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• Steve Billirakis became the youngest person to ever win a WSOP bracelet at 21 years and 11 days. This record was broken three months later at the World Series of Poker Europe by Annette Obrestad, aged 18 years, 364 days.
• Phil Hellmuth became the first player to win 11 bracelets.
• Phil Hellmuth set a record of 63 all-time WSOP cashes.
• June 9 was the busiest WSOP day ever, with 3,009 participants starting in two events on the same day.[http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/news/article.asp?newsID=935 2007 World Series of Poker Continues to Smash Records!] Accessed 7/14/07
• The largest non-WSOP Main Event tournament record was broken. The $1500 Buy In No Limit Hold'em Event #49 attracted a record 3151 players for the noon start. This event broke the single busiest start date set on June 9.
• Annie Duke set the women's record with 33 WSOP cashes.
• 1,286 women set a new record for number of participants in an all women's poker tournament.
• The 2007 WSOP also boasted the largest number of total registrants in history, with 54,288 registrations for all of the events.
• Michael Binger and Chad Brown tied Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth and Humberto Brenes for most ITM finishes in a single World Series of Poker with eight.

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 6 with the first of four separate starting days. 6,358 players entered, 2,415 fewer than in 2006.{{cite web | last=Garcia | first=Tony | title=REMEMBER WHEN: Unlikely champion emerges at 2007 WSOP | website=Las Vegas Review-Journal | date=2022-07-18 | url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/poker/remember-when-unlikely-champion-emerges-at-2007-wsop-2609348/ | access-date=2024-11-12}} This is the first time since 1992 that the Main Event experienced a reduction in participants. As the total number of registrants for the 2007 WSOP set a record at 54,288 with a total prize pool of $159,796,918 ($59,784,954 for the Main Event),[http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/news/varchive.asp?aid=1518 2007 World Series of Poker Draws More Than 54,000 Entrants Field is Largest in WSOP History] 7/9/07 Accessed 7/10/07 the decrease in the number of participants in the Main Event has been attributed to a recent law that limits Internet gambling.{{Cite web |date=2007-07-06 |title=Fewer entrants mean smaller top prize in WSOP |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=2928413 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=ESPN.com|agency=Associated Press |language=en}} As a result of this law, Harrah's did not allow online poker websites to directly purchase Main Event seats and offer them as prizes, if the sites conducted business with US citizens.[http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/docs/doc_591_58.pdf 2007 World Series of Poker Tournament Rules] Online entries to the Main Event that were won as prizes on Internet poker sites were a substantial contributor to the dramatic growth the Main Event seen in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.{{Cite web |date=2007-07-09 |title=World Series of Poker top prize is set at $8.25M |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=2930924 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=ESPN.com|agency=Associated Press |language=en}} The reduced field also meant a nearly one-third reduction in the Main Event's grand prize, from the record $12 million (US) in 2006 to $8.25 million.

A flatter payout structure was introduced in 2007 further reducing the prize money awarded to the final table finishers. Players who busted early in the money received a larger share than they would have in 2006. The lowest payouts in 2007 were $20,320 (just over double the buyin), as compared to $14,597 in 2006. Every player who made the final table in 2006 won over 1.5 million dollars.

A minor controversy arose during the main event. The colors of the chips made it very difficult to differentiate between the chip values. Pokernews.com posted the following note on its live reporting log, "It has literally been impossible for us to count these players' stacks due to the positioning of the cameras and the incredibly similar colors of the various chip denominations."{{Cite web |url=http://poker.bodogbeat.com/the-trouble-with-chip-colors-at-the-2007-wsop-main-event-87150.html |title=The Trouble With Chip Colors at the 2007 WSOP Main Event |access-date=July 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070503055006/http://poker.bodogbeat.com/the-trouble-with-chip-colors-at-the-2007-wsop-main-event-87150.html |archive-date=May 3, 2007 |url-status=dead }} Pokernews also reported that the chip color has affected play, "Because of the similarly-colored chips it took the dealer some time to count down Kluber's stack, and not long after Rahme began thinking about his response Kluber called the clock on him." Other players have complained that they can't count their opponents stacks and fear asking for a chip count as speaking may reveal the strength of their hand.

*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2007 Main Event.

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

• Out in Day 1: Kirk Acevedo, Hank Azaria, José Canseco, Steve Davis, Shannon Elizabeth, Janet Gretzky, Norm Macdonald, AJ McLean, Nelly, Ray Romano, Teddy Sheringham, Maxime Talbot, Antonio Tarver, Jennifer Tilly
• Out in Day 2: Jason Alexander, Rene Angelil, Tomas Brolin, Brad Garrett, Rick Salomon, Rick Tocchet, Montel Williams
• Out in Day 3: Todd Phillips (380th place, $34,644)
• Out in Day 4: Sam Simon (329th place, $39,445), Tobey Maguire (292nd place, $39,445), Sully Erna (237th place, $45,422)

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Under the leadership of WSOP commissioner, Jeffrey Pollack, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion of the World Series of Poker. In September 2007, the first WSOP championship events outside of Las Vegas took place in London. It was the first time that WSOP bracelets were awarded outside of Las Vegas.[http://www.igamingbusiness.com/article-detail.php?articleID=12961 Harrah's Set to Launch World Series of Poker Europe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930055513/http://www.igamingbusiness.com/article-detail.php?articleID=12961 |date=September 30, 2007 }} February 27, 2007. Gaming Business Accessed 7/25/07 Three tournaments were held, with the main event being a £10,000 buy-in no-limit hold 'em tournament. The main event was won by Norwegian online prodigy Annette Obrestad, who won on the day before her 19th birthday and became the youngest person ever to win a WSOP bracelet.

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