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05/09/2010		Online Casino Style: News Baldwin Takes WPT Championship
Home History Games News Dictionary		The final days of the World Poker Tour Championship were quite a bit of excitement, riling up not only the tourney railbirds, but providing enough excitement to get the online gambling community animated as well. Six players remained at the final table, narrowed down from an impressive field of 195 players, including a slew of well liked names from both the live tournament circuit and the internet casino community. The Tournament was held in the grand Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, the gambling mecca of the United States. Compared to last year’s entry pool, which was recorded as 338 competitors, the much smaller turnout for this year’s event was mildly disappointing for the organizers, though the buy-in’s managed to generate a healthy prize pool summing to $4,728,750. The final 18 players managed to walk away with cash wins, with the last eight of them taking home at least six figures. At the conclusion of the Day 5 of play, last Thursday, the ten players remaining, in order of chip count were as follows: John O’Shea, Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine, David Williams, Billy Baxter, Eric Baldwin, Cliff Josephy, Shawn Buchanan, Nikolay Evdakov, and Phil Hellmuth pulling in the rear. By Day 6, Nguyen, Josephy, Evdakov, and Hellmuth had all been eliminated, leaving just the six to battle it out on national television. The favorite to win was clearly Shawn Buchanan, who would have become the first player to win both the World Poker Tour World Championship and the World Poker Tour Player of the Year in the same season, a disappointing loss as Williams held out for the final prize and title. Unfortunately for the popular pro, the online gambling news presses were quick to report on his elimination in third place, setting up the heads up face off between David Williams and Eric Baldwin. Buchanan walked with a consolation prize worth $587,906. The corresponding heads up lasted only 40 minutes, consisting of 115 hands of poker. With Williams’ mega-lead of more than 10 million in chips, it didn’t take long for him to put the final nail in the coffin. Baldwin was awarded a prize of more than a million for his efforts, while Williams celebrated in his jackpot of $1.5 million, as well as a $25K seat at the next WSOP, and a trophy to boot.

05/09/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Baldwin Takes WPT Championship

The final days of the World Poker Tour Championship were quite a bit of excitement, riling up not only the tourney railbirds, but providing enough excitement to get the online gambling community animated as well. Six players remained at the final table, narrowed down from an impressive field of 195 players, including a slew of well liked names from both the live tournament circuit and the internet casino community.

The Tournament was held in the grand Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, the gambling mecca of the United States. Compared to last year’s entry pool, which was recorded as 338 competitors, the much smaller turnout for this year’s event was mildly disappointing for the organizers, though the buy-in’s managed to generate a healthy prize pool summing to $4,728,750. The final 18 players managed to walk away with cash wins, with the last eight of them taking home at least six figures.
At the conclusion of the Day 5 of play, last Thursday, the ten players remaining, in order of chip count were as follows: John O’Shea, Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine, David Williams, Billy Baxter, Eric Baldwin, Cliff Josephy, Shawn Buchanan, Nikolay Evdakov, and Phil Hellmuth pulling in the rear. By Day 6, Nguyen, Josephy, Evdakov, and Hellmuth had all been eliminated, leaving just the six to battle it out on national television. The favorite to win was clearly Shawn Buchanan, who would have become the first player to win both the World Poker Tour World Championship and the World Poker Tour Player of the Year in the same season, a disappointing loss as Williams held out for the final prize and title.

Unfortunately for the popular pro, the online gambling news presses were quick to report on his elimination in third place, setting up the heads up face off between David Williams and Eric Baldwin. Buchanan walked with a consolation prize worth $587,906. The corresponding heads up lasted only 40 minutes, consisting of 115 hands of poker. With Williams’ mega-lead of more than 10 million in chips, it didn’t take long for him to put the final nail in the coffin. Baldwin was awarded a prize of more than a million for his efforts, while Williams celebrated in his jackpot of $1.5 million, as well as a $25K seat at the next WSOP, and a trophy to boot.