Below is some information of the 9 players that reached the final table of the World Series of Poker * 2007.
Chair 1: Jon Kalmar
Lives: Chorly, England
Chips: 20.320.000
Jon is 34 years of age and professional poker player which is most known from various brick and mortars in England. He is married and has one child. Of all the tournaments before Main Event he was unlucky and didn’t place in the money in one of them. He planned to rebook his ticket for an earlier flight home but found out that this would cost additional $600. He then decided to enter a Mega satellite one day before Main Event and successfully won his buy-in this way. Now, 10 days later he is sitting at the final table 3rd in chips.
He has an overall 10 Cash winnings with a total of $170,211 earned poker winnings before.
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Chair 2: Lee Childs
Lives: Reston, USA
Chips: 13.240.000
Lee Childs is 35 and is born close to Washington DC. He is married and has a graduate in computer-based information system. Two months ago he started to work with “The Jason Project” which is a foundation in order to help students with research and scientific expeditions founded by the same man that found Titanic. To play the World Series has always been a dream and he says the would never had reached this far if it wasn’t for his wife and father and all the support from family and friends.
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Chair 3: Philip Hilm
Lives: Cambridge, England
Chips: 22.070.000
Philip Hilm is chip leader before today’s game. He is 35 years of age and plays poker for a living. Philip comes originally from Denmark but lives temporarily in England. Family is very important in his life and he lived in Polen for two years in order to get to know his mothers side of the family better.
For 10 years ago Philip graduated in economics in Copenhagen. He started a company and had 12 employees but eventually his company was brought to an end. Instead he had to, four years ago; sell coffee makers in a mall. He now came across net poker and it didn’t take long for him to completely make a living just by playing poker.
He has 3 cash winnings before World Series, one being a 15th place in EPT Grand Final 2007.
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Chair 4: Jerry Yang
Lives: Temecula, USA
Chips: 8.459.000
Jerry Yang is a 39-year old psychologist which lives in California. He originates from Laos. Jerry is married has 6 children and he began to play poker as late as for two years ago. He won his buy in ticket via a live satellite for $225 and he has earlier said that he will donate 10% of his winnings for charity.
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Chair 5: Raymond Rahme
Lives: Johannesburg, South Africa
Chips: 16.320.000
Raymond is the first player ever based in Africa to sit at a final table in poker world championship. He is 62 years old married with Teresa and has 6 children. Before his pension he was running a motel. Despite he has been playing stud poker for many years it was only for two years ago he found Texas Holdem. He has several first and second places already in big tournaments in South Africa and recently he finished 4 in the Africa Championship. With some of his winnings at that event he bought a ticket into the World Series.
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Chair 6: Tuan Lam
Lives: Mississauga, Canada
Chips: 21.315.000
Tuan Lam was born 1966 in Vietnam. He emigrated when he was 19 to Canada and now lives in Toronto where he also plays professional poker. Before he became a poker pro he was working at a steel factory. This is his third poker championship in a row and he placed himself at 46th place last year and 78th the year before. He is married and has two children.
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Chair 7: Alex Kravchenko
Lives: Moscow, Russia
Chips: 6.570.000
Alex Kravchenko is 36 years old and a business man. He originates from Arkhangelsk, Russia. He has played poker for 8 years. Alex is married and has two children.
Alex is the first Russian citizen ever won a WSOP bracelet. He won this bracelet in the Omaha Limit Hi/Lo 2007 event in June this year. Alex tournament history is impressive. He won Austrian Master PL and Russian PL Championship 2001 including the Helsinki Freezeout Limit Holdem in 2002. Totally he has placed himself in over 55 tournaments in the money. This is Alex 5 placement during the wsop 2007 that he is in the money.
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Chair 8: Lee Watkinson
Lives: Cheney, USA
Chips: 9.925.000
Lee Watkinson, 49 years old, is a poker pro businessman and animal rights activist. He is one of the two at the table that already has a WSOP * bracelet. This he won in the 2006 Omaha Pot limit event. He owns several businesses one music studio and one clothing brand which he completely financed with his poker winnings.
Together with his wife Timmi DeRosa he also helps captured chimpanzees which have been used in either moviemaking or animal testing. This has today gone so far that he has built an own free place for chimpanzees.
Lee Watkinson is player at Full Tilt Poker and they have an exclusive promotion. If he were to win this event he would receive an additional $10.000.000 from Fulltiltpoker.com since he qualified from them.
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Chair 9: Hevad Khan
Lives: Poughkeepsie, USA
Chips: 9.205.000
Hevad “Rain” Khan is a 22-year old professional poker player. He has during the last year moved around in the US and lived both in San Francisco and Las Vegas. Hevad is mostly famous for his ability of playing several poker tables at the same time on the Internet, as most he has played 48 tables in one session.
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