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Record Number of Players Enter the $10,000 Finals at World Series of Poker

The large number of entries means that the World Champion will get $1.5 million. Second place will be worth nearly $1 million. Five tables - 45 players - will finish in the money.

The game for the four-day finals is no-limit Texas Hold 'Em. About half the contestants were eliminated by the time play stopped early this morning. The field will be culled to only six players for Thursday's final day.

Women's Champion, Nani Dollison.

Sunday, Nani Dollison won the Women's Championship, a tournament that was half Texas Hold 'Em and half Seven-Card Stud. She won $53,200 for beating a record 132 competitors, who paid a $1,000 buy-in.

Dollison is former dealer who is a poker pro making her living at $20-$40 Texas Hold 'Em in Tunica, Mississippi. She was born in Korea.

Jay Heimowitz, a beer distributor from Bethel, New York, took home $284,000 Sunday night for winning the limit Texas Hold 'Em event. This was his fifth World Series gold bracelet.

Heimowitz defeated 141 players, who bought in for $5,000 each.

Saturday night, Howard Lederer, a pro from Montana, won the $5,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split tournament.

He beat 98 players for the $198,000 first-place prize. This was Lederer's 13th time at a World Series final table, and the first time he won.

Chris Bjorin won $334,110 Friday night in the $3,000 buy-in, no-limit Texas Hold 'Em contest. He beat 300 players.

This was Bjorin's second World Series gold bracelet. He's a poker pro who was born in Sweden and lives in London.

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