World Poker Tour World Championship 2010 Results

The 2010 WPT World Champion of Poker is David Williams. The runner-up of the 2004 World Series of Poker main event has finally managed to add to his WSOP bracelet and re-emerged onto the world scene as a force once again. The buy-in for this event was certainly not for players used to playing free poker tournaments. A hefty $25,000 buy-in meant only the wealthiest or heavily backed players could think about participating and it guaranteed a field full of the most well-known professional players.

195 players played in this large poker tournament and the final table was full of some of the most well-known and supported players including Billy Baxter, John O’Shea from Ireland, cash game pro David Benyamine and, of course, David Williams, the eventual winner.

John O’Shea received plenty of coverage from the UK poker scene and they had high hopes for a big result for him. Although 6th is a great finish his elimination by Billy Baxter will be seen as a “what might have been” story for John. He won $199,888 and he will undoubtedly receive much coverage in the UK for another great performance. Well done to him.

Baxter was unlucky when his A-J of spades lost out to Williams K-10. The flop of A-Q-J gave him two pair but also gave Williams a better Ace high straight. Needing any of the remaining two Aces or Jacks to improve to a full house Baxter was not fortunate enough to be dealt them and exited the tournament after a great run in 5th place. He won $246,921 and it was good to see a great player like him return to the world scene. It shows online poker players that the oldies can still mix it!

David Benyamine exited next for $329,228 which he must consider a good cash game session profit these days! He will have been disappointed with his seven days work as he would have been shooting for the big win, but 4th is a good result for him. Shawn Buchanan, who won a WPT event in 2007 for $700,000 added another great score to his Poker CV taking home $587,906 for third place.

The heads up battle between Eric Baldwin and David Williams started with Williams holding a three to one chip lead against Baldwin, a well-known poker professional who has 100 career cashes in large poker tournaments. Unfortunately for Baldwin he never got into the match and Williams would have been keen to finalise things before he gave this talented player the chance to get back into the tournament. When Williams caught a set on the turn with 2-2 Baldwin’s hand could not catch up and Williams, known as the best dressed poker player due to his flamboyant and expensive fashion tastes, had another title and $1.5 million to spend on new designer gear! Baldwin won just over $1 million for his runners-up finish.

The final placings of the final table and payouts for the WPT World Championship is as follows,

1. David Williams – $1,530,537
2. Eric Baldwin – $1,034,715
3. Shawn Buchanan – $587,906
4. David Benyamine – $329,228
5. Billy Baxter – $246,921
6. John O’Shea – $199,888

Stay tuned to this website for more tournament reports as many other large poker tournaments take place both live and online. I will be railing some of the big online poker tournaments at bwin.com to keep you up to date with the latest big online poker winners. You can follow the action at the bwinpokerblog.com.

By Malcolm Clarke

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