Jerry Yang won the World Series of Poker | IXGAMES
6,358 poker players that began to play down in stages July 6. Everyone paid or won $10,000 to enter the main event, the biggest poker tournament of the year. Finally we have a Winner: Jerry Yang - a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional training in his card-playing arsenal, won the top prize of $8.25 million at the World Series of Poker. Jerry Yang - who came to the United States as a 13-year-old refugee from war-torn Laos and knows what it means to beat tough odds. Yang was born into a family of Hmong mountain dwellers in Laos. The communists invaded my country back in the ’70s,” he said. “My family immigrated to Thailand. In fact, we escaped. We got caught by the communists once. It was either be killed or try to escape again. We managed to escape to Thailand and I spent the next four years in a refugee camp. Then he came to the USA with his family. Yang has pledged to donate 10% of his winnings to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Feed the Children and Ronald McDonald House. 
The Final World Series of Poker Table 2007:
- 1. Jerry Yang, USA $ 8,250,000
- 2. Tuan Lam, Vietnam (Canada) $ 4,840,981
- 3. Raymond Rahme, South Africa $ 3,048,025
- 4. Alexander Kravchenko, Russia $ 1,852,721
- 5. Jon Kalmar, UK $ 1,255,069
- 6. Hevad Khan, USA $ 956,243
- 7. Lee Childs, USA $ 705,229
- 8. Lee Watkinson, USA $ 585,699
- 9. Philip Hilm, Denmark $ 525,934
Jerry Yang Is now a rich man and champion of poker’s ultimate event.