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Event 7, Pot-Limit Omaha w/Re-buys
Buy-In: $5,000
Entrants: 145
Final Table: June 5, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Burt Boutin wins $825,956
Burt is a stockbroker from Henderson, Nevada. He won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2001 series, has cashed in seven WSOP events since, and with this win became the 77th WSOP millionaire.
Event 8, No-Limit Hold'em w/Re-Buys
Buy-In: $1,000
Entrants: 844
Final Table: June 7, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Michael Chu wins $585,774
Born in Seoul, South Korea Michael now makes his home in Los Angeles. Although he faces opponents that exercised their option to re-buy as many as eight times Michael scored an impressive win without a single re-buy. This is his first WSOP money finish.
Event 9, Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better
Buy-In: $1,500
Entrants: 690
Final Table: June 7, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Alex Kravchenko wins $228,446
Born in Archangel in the former USSR, Kravchenko now works in business in Moscow. He has been playing poker for eight years during which time he has racked up a string of European final table results. His first WSOP cash finish came in 2006. With this, his first WSOP bracelet, he becomes the first Russian citizen to win a WSOP event.
Event 10, No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2,000
Entrants: 1,531
Final Table: June 8, 2007
Bracelet Winner: Will Durkee wins $566,916
Hardly a full-time poker player 22-year-old Will Durkee is an undergraduate in economics at the University of Virginia. He had his first WSOP money finishes in 2006, 54th place finish in $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em and a 14th place result in $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em. In spite of his bracelet win this year he plans to continue his studies, including a pending Masters degree in liberal arts from Northwestern University in Chicago where he hopes to secure a teaching position.
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