Besides being the nicest guy left in the main event, Lee Watkinson has 4.6m chips and a crazy chimpanzee. It’s a toss-up for which story-line carries more significance in the poker world:
1) Lee going for an extra $10,000,000 if he wins the main event as an online qualifier for Full Tilt Poker, or
2) Lee’s chimpanzee punching David Sklansky in the stomach
Since there’s dozens of online qualifiers playing the main event and only one Sklansky-punching monkey in existence, I guess #2 wins by default. Lee brought one of his two rescued chimpanzees to Steve Z’s annual WSOP party (hurting for a date, anyone?). In the middle of showing off for a crowd of ladies, Buddy decided he didn’t like Sklanksy putting a cramp in his style, so he socked him in the gut.1 Awesome.
Some more chimp counts:
The Top 10:
- Lee Watkinson - 4.6m
- Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 4.5m
- Avi Cohen - 3.9m
- Richard Harris 3.2m
- Regan Silber 3m
- William Spadea 3m
- Jeff Tunkel 2.9m
- Scotty Nguyen 2.9m
- Markus Gonsalves 2.8m
- Philip Hilm 2.7m
Other notables:
- Rep Porter 2.3m
- Kenny Tran 2.1m
- Alex Kravenchko 2m
- Huck Seed 2m
- Humberto Brenes 1.4m
- Matt Keikoan 1.3m
- Kirk Morrison 1.3m
- Bill Edler 1.2m
- Ray Henson 1.1m
1. No Sklanskys were harmed in the writing of this post.
