We are already a week into the 41st World Series of Poker and six players are proud new owners of bracelets. Joining Hoai Pham, Michael Mizrachi and Michael Chow as WSOP 2010 winners are Canadian Aadam Daya, Praz Bansi, Josh Tieman and Hungarian Peter Gelencser.
Daya took down the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em, turning his original buy-in into $625,872 after beating Deepak Bhatti in a lengthy heads up battle. The Canadian held the chip lead overnight and managed to hold on, coming out best of the 4,345 entries. He said of his victory, “You’ve got to get lucky. I was fortunate to get here”, admitting that his first WSOP title was something that he had been “trying to achieve for a while”.
Praz Bansi from London won the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament, for first prize money of $515,501. Beating 2,091 other players, including overnight chip leader Vincent Jacques at the heads up stage, Bansi took his career earnings to over $2.3 million with this latest tournament triumph. The Full Tilt Poker Pro already has a WSOP bracelet in No Limit Hold’em and notably finished third in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, earlier this year.
Although Bansi is the only British poker player to win a WSOP bracelet so far this series, there has been plenty of UK presence felt at the Las Vegas tables so far, no more so than in the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, which featured Neil Channing, Stuart Rutter and Nicolas Levi at the final table, with a decent 16th place showing by John Duthie.
It was American Josh Tieman who took down the event however, beating Channing heads up to win the WSOP bracelet and $441,692. Channing’s second place earned him $273,153, whilst Rutter had to settle for $179,617.
Liv Boeree, the British winner of the European Poker Tour event at San Remo, put the success of the UK contingent down to hard work, before offering a prediction that there will be at least as many bracelet winners from Britain as at last year’s WSOP. She warned, “You’re going to be seeing more and more of us!”
Peter Gelencser of Budapest netted a $180,730 windfall after landing the Deuce to Seven Triple Draw bracelet, beating Raphael Zimmerman heads up. Although lacking the star names of the No Limit Hold’em events, the Triple Draw tournament still attracted 291 players, including the likes of Ted Forrest and Eli Elezra, making for a healthy $669,300 prize pool.
WSOP event number eight is well underway, another $1,500 No Limit Hold’em. The event sees the Las Vegas debut of Annette Obrestad, winner of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in 2007.
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