Update #8: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Lots and lots of action since the last update for the World Series of Poker!!! Many great Asians have placed in many of the events while also making several of the recent final tables!!!

Event 13 - World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em, $5000 buy-in - Allen Cunningham won his 5th bracelet beating out Jeffrey Lisanro and Humberto Brenes in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the 398 player event. His share of the $1,870,600 prize pool was a bit over $485k. No Asians in the top 35. [COMPLETE]

Event 14 - Seven Card Stud, $1500 buy-in - as identified earlier, Steve Sung took a bit over $51k & 3rd place in this 385 player event. [COMPLETE]

Event 15, the No-Limit Hold'em, $1500 buy-in event had a prize pool of over $3.5 million due to the 2628 entries. Phil Hellmuth Jr. took his record breaking 11th World Series bracelet in the event, but Ut Nguyen and Kiet Tran also beat out over 2500 competitors to take 8th and 10th respectively earning them $48k+ and $31k+ each. [COMPLETE]

Only 382 people entered Event 16 - the H.O.R.S.E, $2500 buy-in event. However, Alexandra "Alex" Vuong took 9th and a little over $12k home, while Tim Fu took 11th and John Hoang took 14th. [COMLETE]

Julie Dang showed the ladies in Event 17 - the Ladies World Championship No-Limit Hold'em, $1000 buy-in event that she was a serious player taking home 9th and a bit over $14.5k. There were 1286 entries in this ladies only event. [COMPLETE]

A measly 257 (these days this is a low number due to the HUGE numbers for all the other events) people entered Event 18 - the World Championship Limit Hold'em, $5000 buy-in event. It shows a slight lack of interest in the limit version of the game or maybe just some exhaustion in all the events that are being played in this year's World Series of Poker. David Gee though took 5th place and a little short of $69k. Brandon Wong finished in the money again taking 16th and Liz Lieu finished 19th. [COMPLETE]

However, Event 19 - the No-Limit Hold'em, $2500 buy-in had a resurgence in the number of players showing up at 1013. John Pham made the final table, 5th in chips. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 20 - Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $2000 buy-in, 340 player field, down to 19 players. Notable pros still in: Greg Raymer [IN PROGRESS]

In Event 21 - the No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, $1500 buy-in had 900 players enter. The final table is now set with Brendon Lee respresenting the Asian diaspora. Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu and Thomas Fuller join him at this table. [IN PROGRESS]