Update #6: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 8 - OUR FIRST ASIAN BRACELET OF 2007 IS CLAIMED BY Micheal Chu in the No-Limit Hold'em, $1000 buy-in, Multiple rebuys with 814 Players Entered earning him $585,774 for First Place. Tommy Vu also got our first 2nd placing challenging Micheal Chu heads up. Congrats Micheal! Job well done!!! [COMPLETE]

Event 9 - Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $1500 buy-in (690 entrants) with a first place prize of $228,446. Yueqi "Rich" Zhu takes 6th place and $33,907 for his efforts. [COMPLETE]

Event 10 - No-Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in (1531 players entered) has $566,916 up for grabs for first place, but unfortunately, all the Asians who were "in the hunt" for the bracelet failed to make it to the final table. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 11 - World Championship Seven Card Stud, $5000 buy-in (180 players) failed to produce an Asian in the final table. Johnny Chan took home $8460 for his 18th place finish, but the 2nd event without an Asian. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 12 - No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed, $1500 buy-in is underway. 1427 players entered this event for a first place prize $481,698.

Update #4: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

Event #6, the $1500 Limit Hold-em was graced with 910 players & only one appears to be
Asian decent: Hansu Chu, 3rd in chips. [IN PROGRESS]


The final table is set in Event #7, the $5000 buy-in with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha which had 145 people enter. Minh Ly took the highest placing for an Asian taking down 5th place and $183,579 while John Juanda cashed $112,749 in 7th place. [COMPLETED]

In the 814 player deep Event #8 - No-Limit Hold'em, $1000 buy-in, Multiple rebuys, we couldn't get one Asian into the final 10 in standings in the early stages, but when the final table was finally set, we have 2 Asians Micheal Chu and Tommy Vu with 4th and 6th in chips going up against the likes of Amir Vahedi and "Micheal" Gracz. [IN PROGRESS]


For Event 9 - Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $1500 buy-in Event, we have temporarily an Asian at the top of the chip standings with Yueqi "Rich" Zu and a stack of 205,000 chips in front of him. Thirty-six players are remaining at this point. [IN PROGRESS]



The No-Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in, Event #10 is under way with 250 players remaining out of the original 1531 players who entered. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 11 - World Championship Seven Card Stud, with a $5000 buy-in had only 180 players entered in it, but famous players like Cyndy Violette, Sam Grizzle, Jen Harman, Barry Greenstein, Josh Arieh, and Darrell Dicken entered and are still hanging in there. [IN PROGRESS]