Across four starting flights, a total of 6,358 players created a prize pool of nearly $60 million with $8.25 million set aside for first place. The final table was an international affair highlighted by Raymond Rahme, Alex Kravchenko, Jon Kalmar, Tuan Lam, and Phillip Hilm, but it would Californian Jerry Yang emerging victorious to claim the biggest poker prize of the year.