2007 WSOP down to 17 at Dinner Break.

Scotty Nguyen is still hanging in their, or "Floating along" as he called it in an earlier quote, whilst the WSOP take's a dinner break with just 17 players remaining. Scotty is in about the middle of the field thus far, holding strong in 10th place, with $5,960,000 in WSOP tournament chips remaining.

Lee Childs currently leads the pack, with about 16 and a half million chips, just above Tuan Lam who holds onto second place with $14,945,000 in tournament chips.

In third, Lee Watkinson who we've seen near the top of the chip counts for a few days now has nearly 13 million WSOP tournament chips in his stack. The 41 year old Watkinson is not new to the WSOP, having finished second at the 2004 World Series of Poker 5k Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Event. During that same year, Watkinson made two World Poker Tour final tables in a row, heads up once against The Texas Dolly, and once against Eli Elezra.

Watkinson has also played, and cashed in the WSOP Main event before, finishing in 45th at the 2005 WSOP. Bringing in a decent cash prize of $235,390.

Watkinson's first WSOP bracelet came along with $655,746 in cash prizes at the 2006 10 Pot Limit Omaha event. He's back this year vying for his second, in the third place, and considered to be one of the biggest threats left in the field he has a decent shot of realizing that dream.

Outside of the world of Poker, Watkinson owns a rescue shelter for retired chimpanzee test subjects.

 

Current WSOP chip Standings:

1. Lee Childs $16,535,000
2. Tuan Lam $14,945,000
3. Lee Watkinson $12,975,000
4. Ray Henson $10,375,000
5. Jon Kalmar $9,680,000
6. Kenny Tran $9,130,000
7. Philip Hilm $8,590,000
8. Jerry Yang $8,165,000
9. Raymond Rahme $6,115,000
10. Scotty Nguyen $5,960,000
11. Hevad Khan $4,730,000
12. Steven Garfinkle $4,670,000
13. David Tran $4,475,000
14. William Spadea $3,725,000
15. Bob Slezak $3,560,000
16. Alex Kravchenko $2,130,000
17. Kevin Farry $1,625,000

WSOP play will continue after the half hour dinner break. Players will play until the 17 remaining players have dwindled themselves down to 9 final table WSOP players.