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Johnny Chan eliminated from WSOP, Phil Hellmuth Most Bracelets

by Thomas Jensen on Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Johnny Chan eliminated from WSOP, Phil Hellmuth All Time leader now Johnny Chan was eliminated on Day 1b of the WSOP making nemesis Phil Hellmuth the poker player with the most bracelets in World Series of Poker. Doyle Brunson was eliminated earlier in Day 1a insuring that Hellmuth's 11 bracelets could not be matched this year.

Johnny Chan was eliminated by trip tens. The player that knocked him out will have a memory to tell his poker buddies back home. Sportsbook.com had made Johnny Chan +150 odds to become the 2007 WSOP Champion. Johnny Chan, also commonly referred to by the nickname Oriental Express, was born in China in 1957. In the early 60’s, his family moved from China to Arizona, and settled in Phoenix.

In the early 70’s the Chan family relocated to Texas and established several restaurants. Johnny Chan went to college to study the restaurant business, but decided to become a professional poker player instead and moved to Las Vegas when he was of age. The decision was monumental as Johnny Chan has proven his worthiness at many poker tables.

Johnny has won a number of World Series of Poker tournaments, he has had over 33 money finishes, has earned himself ten World Series of Poker bracelets, and won the tournament consecutively in ‘87 and in ‘88. His winning streak broke in ’89 when he came in second place at the World Series of Poker Tournament. In fact, Johnny Chan has won more that 5,700,000 million dollars in winnings.

Chan relies on his “lucky” orange to give him luck while at the poker tables. A former smoker, the smell of the orange helps Johnny Chan make it through a game in smoke tournament rooms. Johnny Chan has a total of six children and leads a very busy life – he has established his own restaurant and he writes about poker in his free time. Chan has written for the Trader Monthly, Card Player Magazine, and has co-authored a book with Mark Karowe entitled Play Poker Like Johnny Chan.

Monday through Friday
1:00 PM EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

4:00 PM EST – $6,000.00 guaranteed, $25.00+$2.50 buy-in

6:30 PM EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

9:30 PM EST – $10,000.00 guaranteed, $30.00+$3 buy-in

10:00 PM EST – $1,000 guaranteed, $5+$0.50 buy-in

MIDNIGHT EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

Sportsbook.com has posted the following 2007 WSOP odds on the poker player that will win the Main Event at the World Series of Poker:

Alan Betson 600-1

Alan Goehring 500-1

Allan Cunningham 200-1

Amarillo Slim 600-1

Amir Vahedi 600-1

Andy Black 400-1

Annie Duke 400-1

Antonio Esfandiari 250-1

Ash Derei 600-1

Barny Boatman 400-1

Barry Greenstein 500-1

Barry Shulman 500-1

Ben Affleck 800-1

Ben Roberts 600-1

Bill Gazes 600-1

Bruno Fitoussi 600-1

Chip Jett 600-1

Chip Reese 400-1

Chris Bigler 500-1

Chris Bjorin 500-1

Chris Fergusen 175-1

Chris Moneymaker 400-1

Chris Tsiprailidis 600-1

Dan Harrington 200-1

Daniel Negreanu 75-1

Danny Nguyen 600-1

Dave Colclough 400-1

Dave Ulliott 250-1

David Chiu 600-1

David Pham 400-1

David Singer 600-1

David Sklansky 600-1

David Williams 400-1

Dewey Tomko 600-1

Donnacha ODea 600-1

Doyle Brunson 500-1

Eric Seidel 200-1

Erick Lindgren 300-1

Evelyn Ng 600-1

Freddy Bonyadi 600-1

Freddy Deeb 600-1

Greg Raymer 250-1

Gus Hansen 200-1

Harry Demetriou 400-1

Hasin Habib 500-1

Howard Lederer 200-1

Huck Seed 500-1

Humberto Brenes 500-1

Jamie Gold 400-1

Jeff Lisandro 500-1

Jennifer Harman 600-1

Joe Beevers 600-1

Joe Hachem 500-1

Johan Storakers 400-1

John Cernuto 600-1

John Hennigan 400-1

John Juanda 250-1

John Phan 600-1

Johnny Chan 150-1

Josh Arieh 400-1

Juha Helppi 600-1

Julian Gardner 400-1

Kenna James 600-1

Layne Flack 500-1

Lucy Rokach 600-1

Marcel Luske 300-1

Mark Seif 600-1

Martin De Knijff 400-1

Mattias Andersson 400-1

Max Pescatori 500-1

Mel Judah 500-1

Men Nguyen 400-1

Michael Mizrachi 300-1

Mickey Wernick 600-1

Noah Boeken 600-1

Pascal Perrault 400-1

Paul Maxfield 600-1

Paul Phillips 600-1

Peter Costa 400-1

Peter Hedlund 600-1

Phil Gordon 500-1

Phil Hellmuth 75-1

Phil Ivey 75-1

Phil Laak 300-1

Prahlad Friedman 600-1

Ram Vaswani 300-1

Randy Holland 500-1

Rob Hollink 500-1

Robert Varkonyi 600-1

Ross Boatman 600-1

Sam Farha 400-1

Scotty Nguyen 200-1

Simon Trumper 500-1

Surinder Sunar 500-1

TJ Coultier 300-1

Ted Forrest 400-1

Tobias Persson 600-1

Todd Brunson 500-1

Tony Bloom 600-1

Tony G 500-1

Willie Tann 500-1