It is not easy to predict the winner of the World Series of Poker. With an expected 8,000 runners it will take a really good poker player to win this tournament and he would need a lot more than pure luck to win the estimated $10 million first prize.
Last year's champion, Joe Hachem, is on offer at 1000-1, even though he has two final tables to his name in the course of this year's World Series. Many bracelet holders are on offer at odds of up to 2000-1, meaning that for a very small outlay you can have a huge payday if you are lucky enough to pick the winner.
Phil Ivey is the 150-1 favorite, followed by Daniel Negreanu at 225-1, Phil Hellmuth and Howard The Professor Lederer at 250-1 and Gus Hansen, Chris Jesus Ferguson and John Juanda at 300-1.
What odds will you give Phil Ivey this year?
Here are the announced odds of some of the big names:
Phil Ivey 150-1, Daniel Negreanu 225-1, Phil Hellmuth 250-1, Howard (The Professor) Lederer 250-1, Gus Hansen 300-1, Chris (Jesus) Ferguson 300-1, John Juanda 300-1, Layne Flack 400-1, Marcel Luske 400-1, Barry Greenstein 400-1, Carlos Mortenson 400-1, Scotty Nguyen 400-1, Sam Farha 400-1, Greg (Fossilman) Raymer 400-1, Mike (The Mouth) Matusow 400-1, Michael Mizrachi 400-1, Dave (Devilfish) Ulliott 500-1, Phil (Unabomber) Laak 500-1, Erik Seidel 500-1, Huckleberry Seed 500-1, Johnny Chan 500-1, John (World), Hennigan 500-1, Men (The Master) Nguyen 500-1, Paul Phillips 500-1, Ram (Crazy Horse) Vaswani 500-1, TJ Cloutier 500-1, Dan Harrington 500-1, Annie Duke 500-1, Antonio Esfandiari 500-1, Doyle (Texas Dolly) Brunson 500-1, John DAgostino 750-1, Brian Wilson 750-1, Lee Watkinson 750-1, Michael Gracz 750-1, Alan Goehring 750-1, Allen Cunningham 750-1, Alex Brenes 750-1, Amir Vahedi 750-1, Asher Derei 750-1, Chris Bigler 750-1, Chip Jett 750-1, Chris Grigorian 750-1, David Chui 750-1, Dave (El Blondie), Colclough 750-1, David Singer 750-1, David (The Dragon) Pham 750-1, Erick Lindgren 750-1, Freddy Deeb 750-1, Gary (The Choirboy) Jones 750-1, Gabe Thaler 750-1, Gavin Griffin 750-1, Hassan Habib 750-1, Humberto Brenes 750-1, Jennifer Harman 750-1, John Shipley 750-1, Julian Gardner 750-1, Josh Arieh 750-1, Jean-Robert Bellande 750-1,(Minneapolis) Jim Meehan 750-1, Kathy Liebert 750-1, Lucy Rokach 750-1, Todd Brunson 750-1, Mel Judah 750-1, Minh Ly 750-1, Prahlad Friedman 750-1, Paul Darden 750-1, Paul Maxfield 750-1, Phil Gordon 750-1, Scott Fischman 750-1, Surindar Sunar 750-1, Tony Cosineau 750-1, Tony Ma 750-1, Ted Forrest 750-1, Dutch Boyd 750-1, Toto Leonides 750-1, Young Phan 750-1, David (Chip) Reese 750-1, John Spadevechia 750-1, Chris Moneymaker 750-1 Bill Gazes 1000-1. |