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Event 31, World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $5,000
Entrants: 500
Final Table: June 21, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Daniel Schreiber wins $425,594

Three weeks short of his 22nd birthday Daniel's win makes him the 5th youngest bracelet winner in WSOP history. He lives in Seoul, Korea where he found a unique training ground for his poker playing skills: StarCraft, a strategy-based computer game of intergalactic war. "You have to figure out what your opponent is doing and use it against them," he said. "If you’re good at StarCraft, you’re going to be good at poker. That’s just a fact.”

Event 32, Seven-Card Stud

Buy-In: $2,000
Entrants: 213
Final Table: June 20, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Jeffrey "The Iceman" Lisandro wins $118,426

Long known as one of the best poker players without a WSOP bracelet Jeffery Lisandro lives in Salerno, Italy. Before focusing on high-stakes tournament play he made his fortune in real estate. Although he beat Howard Lederer and Daniel Negreanu to take this event he is characteristically unfazed by the big names: "For me it’s just the bracelet, he said, "The money’s worth nothing. It was just the bracelet!"

Event 33, Pot-Limit Omaha w/Re-buys

Buy-In: $1,500
Entrants: 293
Final Table: June 21, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Alan Smurfit wins $464,867

Alan Smurfit, a retiree who plays poker for the enjoyment of it, fought hard for this one: the end of play came as an exhausting heads-up round with over 200+ hands against former WSOP bracelet winner Qushqar Morad ($5,000 7 Card Stud, WSOP 2002). "I had him a few times," he said, "then he had me a few times, and you know, went backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards - incredibly, incredibly tough match."

Event 34, Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $3,000
Entrants: 296
Final Table: June 22, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Alex Borteh wins $225,483

Although this is his third year at the WSOP Alex Borteh is no garden variety poker player. He holds a graduate degree in philosophy and was a professional fantasy gamer (Magic: The Gathering) before turning to online poker. His game of choice is Limit Hold'Em which he considers "a more skillful game."

Event 35, No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $1,500
Entrants: 2,541
Final Table: June 23, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Ryan Young wins $615,955

Ryan cut his teeth on the internet poker rooms but is obviously well on his way to becoming the pro player he aspires to be. His first cash finish at the WSOP came in 2005 followed by another early in this years series. Others have complained that the six No-Limit Hold’em bracelet events this year was too many but Ryan, delighted with his win, isn't among them.

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