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Event # 25 and # 26: Brian Meinders and Austin Scotts join the ranks of WSOP winners
Many players are present in Las Vegas in order to inscribe his or her name in the most legendary poker tournament of the planet and why not win a bracelet of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Brian Meinders and Austin Scotts have just thus joined the ranks of great lucky ones who have been entitled to gold jewelry. For Meinders, he triumphed over 364 other players registered for the Limit Hold'em Shootout tournament of $ 1,500 to win this reward. The American had also however compete during this event to formidable competitors likeVictor Ramdim and Brock Parker but this has not prevented him to win. Both were part of the final table but unfortunately surrendered respectively in the 4 th and 5 th place. After having ousted his compatriot Darin Thomas during the final duel, Meinders won his first bracelet and a prize of $ 116,118.
Regarding Austin Scotts, he was the winner of the Event # 26 ,Pot Limit Omaha of $ 3,000, which brought together a field of 589 participants. John Racener, Paul Taylor, Isaac Haxton, Robert Williamson III, Sam Stein, Erik Seidel, Shawn Buchanan and Padraig Parkinson were among the participants in the running but didn't do better than him. They all managed to access the money list but left to Scott the privilege of climbing on the top of the podium of the poker room to receive the gold bracelet. For this victory, Austin Scotts also received $ 361,797. As for French players, Christophe Lachave managed to finish in the money by ending at the 40th place.
Source: Jack SMITH
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
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