What Nick didn't tell you....


The results are in and the winner is....

As you already know, if you read Nick's blog, the WSOP ME is over. Jerry Yang takes down a pretty monster prize at 8.25 Million. And like Nick, I'm more excited to see someone with a bit of humility take the championship because we all know there are far better players out there (like, for instance, all of my 5 original fantasy picks) who got sucked out on by some two-outer or other bad beat.

But the real story here is what Nick seemingly forgot to mention in his posts - the final standings and prize payouts. So without further ado, here's how the final table ended up:


Place Player Prize
1. Jerry Yang $8,250,000
2. Tuan Lam $4,840,981
3. Raymond Rahme $3,048,025
4. Alexander Kravchenko $1,852,721
5. Jon Kalmar $1,255,069
6. Hevad (RainKhan) Khan $956,243
7. Lee Childs $705,229
8. Lee Watkinson $585,699
9. Phillip Hilm $525,934

Tallying those cashes, we have Nick's two guys:

5. Jon Kalmar $1,255,069
8. Lee Watkinson $ 585,699
Total $1,840,768

And we have my two guys:
3. Raymond Rahme $3,048,025
6. Hevad (RainKhan) Khan $956,243
Total $4,004,268

Seeing as I just commended the new champ on his humility, I'll try not to rub it in Nick's face too bad... but this was a blog bragging rights competition. But Nick did make two solid picks (Lee Watkinson, in particular, I would have expected to go deeper) and it was a lot of fun.

As Paul Harvey would say - now you know the rest of the story.

Posted: Thu - July 19, 2007 at 05:42 PM | | | | | | |

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