After around 16 hours of poker at the final table of the Main Event at the 2007 World Series of Poker the champion was crowned – Jerry Yang. This Laos born Californian is a 39 year-old psychologist that qualified for the Main Event through a $225 buy-in.
The WSOP Main Event hosted 6,350 players and lasted over 6 days. With a buy-in fee of $10,000 the prizes we spectacular. The prize money spots started at around 600 and the winner took home just little over $8.2 million.
Second place finisher was Tuan Lam from Canada and took home over $4 million. Going heads-up against Yang in the finale, he was seriously short-stacked but never the less he put in a good fight.
With the Main Event finished the 2007 World Series of Poker is officially done as well. The whole Series that lasted almost 7 weeks attracted more players then ever before thus suggesting that poker’s popularity is rising with a lightning speed around the globe.
