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The final table of poker’s richest tournament, the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, gets underway in Las Vegas on Tuesday, July 17, at noon PST, and the Bodog.com Sportsbook is letting you in on the action with betting odds on who will take down the event’s life changing $8,250,000 first place prize and coveted World Champion’s bracelet.
While all of the final nine players remain in the hunt for poker’s top prize, oddsmakers have picked Denmark’s Philip Hilm as the favorite at 14/5, followed closely by Tuan Lam and Lee Watkinson, both at 7/2.
Hilm, who has just over $150,000 in career tournament earnings, including cashes at the 2005 WSOP, enters the final table as the chipleader with 22,070,000 in chips. Hilms’ advantage is slight though with relative newcomer Lam close behind with 21,315,000 in chips. Experienced poker pro Lee Watkinson has only 9,925,000 in chips, less than half the amount of the chipleaders, but oddsmakers are obviously giving weight to Watkinson’s past tournament success in which he has netted more than $2.6 million in cashes and a WSOP bracelet.
Listed just behind the top three at 4/1 odds is Jon Kalmar, who is the only other player currently over the 20 million mark with 20,320,000 in chips. Rounding out the remaining finalists are Raymond Rahme (16,320,000) at 7/1 odds, Hevad “Rain” Khan (9,205,000) at 7/1, Lee Childs (13,240,000) at 8/1, Jerry Yang (8,450,000) at 9/1 and Alex Kravchenko (6,570,000) at 9/1.
Check out the odds on who will win the 2007 WSOP Main Event at http://www.bodoglife.com/sports-betting/poker.jsp