WSOP Events champions : A title for Buchman, Baker, Ashby and Boyd
Two Events of the World Series of Poker indicated their champions. First of all, the Event #18 saw finally the victory of the runner-up of a $ 1,500 Limit Hold' em in 2006 and 10th of the world championship of the same variant in 2008, Eric Buchman, in front of Brent Courson at the final table. He collected after this coronation $ 203.607 as well as his first WSOP bracelet. In the Event # 19, David Baker, one from the pretenders to the " WSOP Player of the year " gained easily the Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball, a tournament of $10.000 buy-in face to 101 participants, with Eric Cloutier as opponent during the final heads'up. The prizepool amounted to $ 949.400. The American collected $ 294.314 making him an earnings in live tournament of more than one million dollars.
The titleholders of 2 other events, the Event # 21 and #23 of the WSOP 2010 are also known. There are Richard Ashby who won the victory at the Seven Card Stud $ 1,500 buy-in, the finalist of the Main Event of Aussie Millions 2009 and 3rd of H.O.R.S.E. of the same tournament with $550.800 prizepool, at this year, he dominated his 408 competitors and his final competitor Christine Pietsch. By gaining $140,467, Great Britain counts henceforth three bracelet of the WSOP with Praz Bansi, James Dempsey and naturally Richard Ashby. Secondly, as regards the Limit Hold'em-six Handed of $ 2,500 buy with the participation of 384 players for a $883,200 prizepool, the other American Dutch Boyd got the upper hand over Brian Meinders in the final confrontation after 2 hours and a half of game and leave the tournament with the sum of $234,065 and a second bracelet after that of 2007 in a $ 2,500 No. Limit Hold'em played in short handed.
Source: Poker 777
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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