The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was the venue for the 49th leg of the 2007 World Series of Poker and the final $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event on this year's schedule. With a turnout of 3,151 players & women poker players, the occasion became the largest, non-main event, tournament in World Series of Poker history.

TNews Imagehe tournament, which ran from June 30th to July 2nd, ranked as the third largest live poker tournament of all time with only the WSOP main events of 2005 and 2006 attracting more players. This was also the busiest day in WSOP history in terms of total number of tournament entries within a 24-hour period. Women poker.

As a consequence, many new names registered themselves on the final leader board. In fact, of the top 324 finishers who made it into the money, only two players had previously won a WSOP gold bracelet and neither of these made it onto the final table. Play $500 match poker bonus.

One of these new names was CelebPoker player Cort Kibler-Melby. After battling through qualifying, he took his seat on the final table ... an outstanding achievement considering the level of competition and quality of poker being played. Kibler-Melby eventually finished in sixth place behind eventual winner Ghandrasekhar Billavara from California, who took home a cheque for a cool $722,914 after five hours of intense play. Download poker wallpapers. Kibler-Melby was delighted with his work, and his cheque for $96,755, and is now aiming to take Europe by storm and continue to fly the flag for CelebPoker.

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