Cashes

With only the Main Event cash to be handed out, the almost winner of the "Most Cashes" prize at the 2007 World Series of Poker is Michael Binger. Eight times, so far, Michael has waiting in the "Winner's Lounge" after an event.

The reason I have to say "almost winner" is that late last night Chad Brown made his 7th appearance in the winner's lounge to pick up his prize for 2nd place in Event #54: NL Deuce-to-Seven. So should Michael have a rough Main Event and Chad make the money, we could have a tie.

In all 30 players have cashed five or more times. Take a look at the list and tell me that skill is not a factor in poker.

Michael Binger 8
Chad Brown 7
Arnold Spee 6
Gene Todd 6
Jeff Lisandro 6
Phil Hellmuth Jr 6
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson 5
Scotty Nguyen 5
Robert Mizrachi 5
Thor Hansen 5
John Juanda 5
Doug Carli 5
Roland de Wolfe 5
Scott Clements 5
Eric Lynch 5
Steve Billirakis 5
Greg 'FBT' Mueller 5
Fred Goldberg 5
Joe Sebok 5
Roger McDow 5
Alex Bolotin 5
Andreas Krause 5
James Gorham 5
Marco Johnson 5
Michael Watson 5
Alexander Kravchenko 5
Jordan Smith 5
David Chiu 5
Stephen Ladowsky 5
Vivek Rajkumar 5

Here are the top 105 money winners to date in this year's WSOP. This includes all event winners. I have put noted all the Final Table participants in the$50,000 HORSE event #39, as they all easily make it onto this list.

1. Freddy Deeb $ 2,276,832 Winner $50K HORSE Event #39
2. Bruno Fitoussi $ 1,278,720 2nd place $50K HORSE Event #39
3. Burt Boutin $ 858,667 Winner Event #7
4. John Hanson $ 852,480 3rd place $50K HORSE Event #39
5. James Mackey $ 730,740 Winner Event #22
6. Ciaran O'Leary $ 727,012 Winner Event #3
7. Phil Hellmuth Jr $ 725,380 Winner Event #15
8. Robert Cheung $ 694,544 Winner Event #38
9. Ryan Young $ 621,215 Winner Event #35
10.William Durkee $ 619,201 Winner Event #10

11. David Stucke $ 603,069 Winner Event #27
12. Ben Ponzio $ 599,109 Winner Event #25
13. Amnon Filippi $ 586,080 4th place $50K HORSE
14. Michael Chu $ 585,774 Winner Event #8
15. Steve Billirakis $ 577,612 Winner Event #1
16. Hoyt Corkins $ 545,300 Winner Event #30
17. Shankar Pillai $ 527,829 Winner Event #28
18. Francois Safieddine $ 527,747 Winner Event #19
19. Allen Cunningham $ 517,625 Winner Event #13
20. Erik Cajelais $ 483,755 2nd place Event #7

21. Jason Warner $ 481,698 Winner Event #12
22. Alan Smurfit $ 464,867 Winner Event #33
23. Jeff Lisandro $ 455,242 Winner Event #32
24. Paul Evans $ 450,150
25. Stuart Fox $ 448,892
26. Kenny Tran $ 444,000 5th in $50K HORSE
27. Daniel Schreiber $ 425,594 Winner Event #31
28. Richard Murnick $ 420,064
29. Dustin Dirksen $ 401,415
30. Dr. Andy Philachack $ 394,594

31. Young Cho $ 382,357
32. Mike Binger $ 378,602 Six 'in the money' finishes
33. David Hewitt $ 373,985
34. Tuan 'Tommy' Vu $ 368,169
35. John Guth $ 363,216 Winner Event #36
36. Greg Mueller $ 361,488
37. Todd Terry $ 353,875
38. Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott $ 352,522
39. Ernest Bennett $ 348,423
40. Bon Phan $ 347,768

41. David Singer $ 337,440 6th in $50K HORSE
42. Saro Getzoyan $ 333,379 Winner Event #18
43. Humberto Brenes $ 332,976
44. Beth Shak $ 328,683
45. Thor Hansen $ 321,979 8th in $50K HORSE
46. Scott Clements $ 313,960 Winner Event #23
47. Chris Bjorin $ 305,415
48. Barry Greenstein $ 305,011 7th in $50K HORSE
49. Alex Jacob $ 298,070
50. Terrence Chan $ 287,345

...and the rest.
Gary Styczynski $ 280,715 Winner Event #6
Qushqar Morad $ 279,595
Ralph Schwartz $ 275,683 Winner Event #26
David Zeitlin $ 274,518
Chris Reslock $ 270,955 Winner Event #11
Greg Hopkins $ 269,274 Winner Event #37
Tom Schneider $ 269,116 Winner Event #5
Erica Schoenberg $ 265,268
Alexander Kravchenko $ 264,663 Winner Event #9
Donald Baruch $ 264,107 Winner Event #21
Sally Anne Boyer $ 262,077 Winner Event #17
Michael Spegal $ 251,957 Winner Event #4
Sirous Jamshidi $ 250,917
Nam Le $ 248,013
Rick Fuller $ 247,518
Seth Weinger $ 246,478
Justin Rollo $ 244,415
James Richburg $ 238,881 Winner Event #16
Barry Cales $ 235,575
Mark Muchnik $ 235,144
Hunter Frey $ 231,273
Fred Goldberg $ 230,524 Winner Event #40
Lukasz Dumanski $ 227,454 Winner Event #42
Robert Stevanovski $ 225,535
Alexander Borteh $ 225,483 Winner Event #34
Tony George $ 218,329
Tony Korfman $ 217,503
Jason Song $ 212,274
Marcus Obser $ 212,021
Phil Ivey $ 209,244
Jason Newburger $ 203,840
Jared Davis $ 202,528
Geoff Sanford $ 200,511
Eli Elezra $ 198,984 Winner Event #24
Billy McMahan $ 198,427
William Lin $ 196,758
Eric Lynch $ 191,590
Van Marcus $ 190,326
Walter Brown $ 189,960
Steve Olek $ 186,020
Katja Thater $ 185,371 Winner Event #29
Jeff Yoak $ 184,152
Morgan Machina $ 183,418
Michael Ium $ 178,534
Gumroyan Varouzhan $ 177,627
Ryan Hughes $ 176,358 Winner Event #20
Minh Ly $ 174,537
John Kranyak $ 170,639
John Esposito $ 167,902
Anne Heft $ 166,177
Evan Schwartz $ 164,907
Gavin Smith $ 164,470
Brandon Wong $ 163,738
Steve Paul-Ambrose $ 162,626
David Mitchell-Lolis $ 159,987
Michael Keiner $ 159,233 Winner Event #14

With Event #42 in the books, Michael Binger continues to lead the 2007 World Series of Poker "In the Money" list with six cashes.

Last night Joe Sebok joined the list of 5 cashes and today Thor Hansen joined that elite list at the Final Table of the $50K HORSE.

Michael Binger 6
Gene Todd 5
Eric Lynch 5
Joe Sebok 5
Thor Hansen 5
Fred Goldberg 5

Cyndy Violette continues to be the top cashing woman at the Series.

Cyndy Violette 4
Phil Hellmuth Jr 4
Erick Lindgren 4
Robert Mizrachi 4
Jeff Lisandro 4
Chad Brown 4
Burt Boutin 4
John Juanda 4
Mike Sexton 4
Barry Greenstein 4
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson 4
Steve Billirakis 4
Greg Mueller 4
Roger McDow 4
Jonathan Turner 4
Jorge Arias 4
Michael Banducci 4
David Mitchell-Lolis 4
Arnold Spee 4
Minh Nguyen 4
Brandon Wong 4
Andrew Webking 4
Jan von Halle 4
John Monnette 4
James Gorham 4
Michael Watson 4
Alexander Kravchenko 4
Rob Hollink 4
Chris Bjorin 4
Vivek Rajkumar 4

Exactly 100 players have 3 cashes so far this year at the Series.