WSOP Update #10

Benyamine wins first bracelet!

Congratulations to David Benyamine, who won the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, beating 234 other players, and snatching a purse of over $535,000. This is David's 4th top 10 finish this year, which has him in contention for Player of the Year for 2008. The final table included Mike 'the Mouth' Matusow (5th) and EPT star Ram Vaswani (7th) as well as Spartan favorite Toto Leonidas.

Greg Raymer is in 2nd place for the $2500 2008 WSOP - 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball . 238 players started the tournament, and only 30 remain, and the top 24 get paid. This will likely be Greg's first cash performance of 2008, although he's been near the bubble a few other times. Of course, Greg made his name famous in the 2004 WSOP Main Event, winning the biggest pot in poker history (at that time) of $5,000,000, and has cashed in 9 other times since then.

In my opinion, Greg is one of the few truly good players to emerge from the WSOP Main Event since it's massive increase in poularity in 2003, plus, you gotta love a guy with a gimmick, Right Fossil-Man? Other notables include John Phan and Robert 'My Brother's the Grinder" Mizrachi.