2007 WSOP Event 13 - World Championship Pot Limit Holdem $5,000

  We are sure Doyle Brunson and his wife would disagree about which was more difficult between Doyle winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet and Mrs. Brunson giving birth to an oversized Todd Brunson. They would agree that both events were physically and mentally taxing, but trying to decide who had a harder time of it is the sort of emotionally charged subject that would result in an appearance on the show "Cops" from a less reasonable couple.  When Doyle was awarded his first bracelet, maybe it was not that far off the mark to compare the act to the difficulties associated with birth. Even so, winning was actually easier back in those days. Instead of having to beat a roster of players big enough to fill a medium sized stadium, the path to the bracelet only had a few hundred people standing in the way.  Considering how monumentally difficult it is to win one WSOP bracelet in the modern era (and it is getting more difficult every year) winning five really says something about a player.  After beating Jeffrey Lisandro and winning Event 13 at the WSOP, Allen Cunningham is now half way matching the ten pieces of jewelry that are sported by Brunson and Hellmuth.  Despite how quiet Cunningham is, and humble he appears to be in public, beneath the surface is raging lion of two-fisted competitive fire. When ESPN asked him about how he felt being half way to 10 bracelets, he smiled in a way that would have made General Patton nervous and announced that he was actually only a quarter of the way to his ultimate goal. Twenty bracelets is an ambitious, if not impossible goal, but it is nice to see a guy who is not simply happy to finish in the money, and makes his bracelet count part of his evaluation of his place in poker history.PlacePlayerPrize1Allen Cunningham$487,2872Jeffrey Lisandro$294,6203Humberto Brenes$197,3484Jason Lester$132,8135Joe Patrick$99,1426Raymond Rice$78,5657Gavin Griffin$58,9248Keith Lehr$43,9599Alan Jaffray$31,800