Once again, these counts have been triple-checked to provide you with 100% absolute accuracy, and once again, they match the chip counts as they are being tracked by our own Garry Gates after each and every hand.
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 36.1 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 67.3 million
Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 24.075 million
Hand #167 - Raymond Rahme has the button in seat 1, Alex Kravchenko raises from the small blind to 2.1 million, Jerry Yang pushes from the big blind, and Kravchenko quickly calls all in for 19.825 million.
Yang shows , and Kravchenko shows . It's a race situation, and Kravchenko needs to improve to stay alive.
The flop comes , and Yang's fans go crazy as he flops a set of eights. Kravchenko needs a runner-runner straight to stay alive here.
The turn card is the , and Kravchenko is drawing dead. The meaningless river card is the , and Jerry Yang wins the pot with a set of eights.
Alex Kravchenko is eliminated in fourth place, earning $1,852,721. The next player eliminated will receive $3,048,025 for third place.
Here's the WSOP main event final table money winners from 1980:
1st - Stu Ungar - $365,000
2nd - Doyle Brunson - $146,000
3rd - Jay Heimowitz - $109,500
4th - Johnny Moss - $73,000
5th - Charles Dunwoody - $36,500
There were 73 players in the 1980 WSOP main event. The top 5 players won prize money. At the time, actor Gabe Kaplan from Welcome Back, Kotter fame was the bubble boy finishing in 6th place. Stu Ungar won his first ever WSOP world championship beating Doyle Brunson heads up.
Hand #166 - Tuan Lam has the button in seat 6, he raises to 2 million, Alex Kravchenko stands up and moves all in from the big blind for 17.3 million, and Tuan Lam folds. Kravchenko takes the pot.