Update #12: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 33 - Pot-Limit Omaha, $1500 buy-in, Chau Giang in 5th earning $96,005 and 435 Player of the Year points [COMPLETE]

In Event 34 - Limit Hold'em, $3000 buy-in, Brandon Wong gets his 4th cash in this year's WSOP earning him $135,615 and 900 points in the Player of the Year race. In the The Milwaukee's Best Light Player of the Year Standings, he brings his total to 120 points and total winnings of $163,738. Only less than a handful of players have more cashes than him thus far (albeit many have 4 cashes as well). David Pham finished 4th with $62,906 in winnings. [COMPLETE]

Name Le took down $239,230 and 3rd place in Event 35 - No-Limit Hold'em, $1500 buy-in. Two thousand five hundred and fourty one players entered. Paul Cheung took 6th and a little less than $80k home with him. Edward Im placed just outside the top 10 in 11th. [COMPLETE]

Unfortunately, not a single Asian placed in the top 20 in Event 36 - World Championship Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $5000 buy. It's only the 2nd or 3rd event we couldn't get someone in the top 10. [COMPLETE]

Gioi Luong placed 7th in Event 37 - Pot-Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in, earning him $31,070 and 240 Player of the Year points. [COMPLETE]

Robert Cheung takes down another bracelet for the Asian diaspora in Event 38 - No-Limit Hold'em, $1500 buy-in. He takes home $673,628 for one of the bigger 1st place pots this year on top of 1,200 Player of the year points in the 2778 player strong field. Cheung is 3rd in total cash winnings only behind Burt Boutin and Phill Hellmuth. Andrew Lee took 5th and Suey Wong placed 7th cashing in $119,447 and $68,255 respectively. [COMPLETE]

Event 40 - Mixed Hold'em (Limit / No-Limit), $1500 buy-in, had 620 enter, but not a single Asian made the final table. J.C. Tran took 14th and $7,320 home. This was literally pocket change compared the $5,156,284 he's made so far in tournament winnings. [COMPLETE]

IN PROGRESS: In the $50,000 buy-in Event 39 - World Championship H.O.R.S.E. event, Kenny Tran sits on top of the 3rd largest pile of chips going into the final round. First place is set to be $2,276,832, the largest prize thus far in the tournament.

Event 41 - World Championship Seniors No-Limit Hold'em, $1000 buy-in - We like 'em young and use our older age for retirement it seems not many Asians even took part in this. As a result, no one really to note.

Unfortunately, another event and no Asians to speak of in the top 20. Event 42 - Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $1500 buy-in had a few cashes in the 21st through 30th finishes, but nothing towards the top.

Either the Asians are getting weaker or they're taking a break because another event and not a signle Asian made the final table.

Event 43 - Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in Philip Nguyen finish in 18th though. 543 players entered Event 44 - Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $2000 buy-in and 79 players remain.

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]

Update #3: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan placed 8th earning him $14,422 more than his $2500 buy-in. It was an incredibly tough field to beat out...so making the final table was an accomplishment in itself. He competed on the final table with the infamous Annie Duke, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell and David Benyamine. Scotty Nguyen finished in 10th place. [COMPLETE]

In a huge turn of events, Brandon Wong was eliminated before the final table of 9. Brandon was the chip leader with 16 players to go in Event #6, the $1500 Limit Hold-em event. In the initial stages, Wong was in 2nd place, then ended the 2nd day in 7th with 90 players. Hansu Chu though is keeping our hopes alive for the first Asian WSOP bracelet being in 3rd place in chips. Dariush Imani is also on the final table, 8th in chips. Tommy Hang failed to keep his 1st place in chips moving into the final day and placed 42nd (not bad) earning him $5714. In the same position, Nhu Muynh earned the same amount. Micheal Sun (#14 in chips after day #2) and David Chiu (#17 in chips after day #2) unfortunately didn't cash despite their great efforts. [IN PROGRESS]

The above event was updated, but the following will be updated in #4 later today.
In Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, John Juanda (900,000 chips) was overtaken by David "Devil Fish" Ulliot barely (only 47,000 chips) to hold onto a 2nd place standing with 11 people to go. Minh Ly is also on the final table in 9th with 235,000 chips. Chau Giang finished 18th earning him $31,801. Johnny Chan placed 36th failing to cash. Joining these Poker Pros are David "Chip" Reese (7th) and Andrew Black (10th). [IN PROGRESS]