In 2004, Carlos Mortensen took down the $1 million dollar first place prize, with Kido Pham finishing second for $496,400. In 2005, the event was a $10k buy-in event and was won by Minh Ly, with Dan Harrington finishing as the runner-up. Joe Hachem took down the event, as mentioned, in 2006. On Friday, the two fields combine, and then we have four more days of poker until we play down to a final table that will take place on December 18th. Last year's final table featured the likes of Joe Hachem and Daniel Negreanu, and casual poker fans can only hope for a similarly stacked final table at this year's event.ĭay 1A gets underway at 12 pm on Wednesday, and Day 1B gets underway at 12 pm on Thursday. This should be a very entertaining tournament, as there will be a fantastic mix of up-and-coming young poker superstars that made their names online and well-established "live" pros. It is widely expected that the tournament will have roughly the same turnout as last year. First place prize money last year was over $2.2 million dollars, and it ended up being won by 2005 World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem. ![]() ![]() Last year, there were a total of 584 entrants for a total prize pool of almost $8.5 million dollars. The last major poker tournament of 2007 is set to kick off at 12 pm on Wednesday as the main event of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic gets underway. Published on December 11th, 2007 11:58 pm EST
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