Congratulations to Jerry Yang, who won the main event at the WSOP. Jerry (whom I have never met) played most of the hands at the final table, and win almost every one he played. He won more than half the dealt at the final table, which started nine-handed. remarkable.

I was rooting for Lee Watkinson, who started in 7th chip position, and left in 8th place. Lee and I did a few seminars together a while back, and he is a wonderful person, a great player, and a caring person as well. His charity, with his fiancee Timmi deRosa, is helping maintain and build a shelter for abandoned chimps from movies and labs which are only used when they are very young (and therefore handle-able), and then killed or released into terrible environments. Lee and Timmi have been working on this for a long time, and his his 8th place money will help the cause. Lee lost in a blind vs blind confrontation, when Jerry Yang open-raised out of the small blind, Lee, who had a short stack, pushed with A-7, and Jerry called with A- 9. Congratulations, Lee, on a great run.