Congratulations to Jamie Gold! First place in the WSOP Main Event. Word is he lucked up quite a bit towards the end, but more or less played solid position poker at the final table and happened to win all of his races. I'm sure the $11M+ prize is worth any criticism he'll receive :)

Allen Cunningham, the only "known" pro to make the final table (although it's amazing that out of the what - 50 - known pros, one has made the final table even in these massive fields), crashed out in 4th for a prize of $3.6M.

Bizzare factoid: more people made the money in this tournament (876) than were ENTERED in the tournament in 2003 (839).