Update #10: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 23 - Pot-Limit Omaha, $1500 buy-in had 576 entries. Dau Ly took 3rd and $78,624 for his efforts. [COMPLETE]

Event 24 - World Championship Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $3000 buy-in had a small field of 236 players. Scotty Nguyen almost took another bracelet home to build his total to 4, but could only take 2nd and $110,731 home instead. He was beaten by fellow pro Eli Elezra. Micheal Kim took 11th. [COMPLETE]

Event 25 - No-Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in, had one short of 1620 entrants. Unfortunately, we couldn't get a single Asian in the top 10, but Kazuki Ikeuchi took close to $21k and 16th place. [COMPLETE]

Event 26 - H.O.R.S.E, $5000 buy-in totaled only 192 entrants, but 3rd place was worth $99,264 for Yuebin Gou playing the likes of Phil Ivey who finished right behind him, Robert Mizrachi and Bill Gazes. Alex Jung took 6th taking home $37,901. The final two are battling it out for the bracelet. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 27 - No-Limit Hold'em, $1500 buy-in had 2315 players at the start and four Asians made the final table battling it out for the bracelet and a $600k+ first place prize. David Woo is 2nd in chips, Young Cho is 4th, Micheal Ium in 6th and Thai Ton in 8th. Can we say "2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?!" OK, that was stupid. [IN PROGRESS]

Since Event took up most of the players, event 28 - No-Limit Hold'em, $3000 buy-in only had 827 entrants...which isn't bad compared to past numbers in past years, but the over 1 thousand or over 2 thousand numbers limited first place to only be a little over $525k. The final table is set though and Phil Hellmuth is trying to set himself up for a 12th WSOP bracelet and the 2nd one this year. Against him are Feng Chen (1st in chips!) and Tsai Chen who's tied in 5th for chips right behind Hellmuth. Young Phan busted out 11th right before the final 10 were set. [IN PROGRESS]

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]