2010 WSOP: Matt Keiokan Wins Event 29 Limt Hold'em Championship

171 top poker players each put $10,000 to compete for the 2010 World Series Of Poker Limit Hold'em Championship to create a prize pool of $1,607,400. Only the top 18 would get a piece of the prize pool with the first placer winning a WSOP gold bracelet and $425,969 to go along with it.

With a lot of top poker pros and big poker names playing the 2010 WSOP Limit Hold'em Championship, it was 42 year old poker pro Matt Keikoan of San Rafael, Califronia, who emerged as the winner after over 12 hours at the final table. Matt Keiokan won his second WSOP gold braceletwas the winner of the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his second career WSOP gold bracelet, winning previously in 2008 for a $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event. Matt Keikoan now has in excess of $3.2 million in overall career tournament winnings.

The runner up was 27 year old poker pro Dan Idema from Vancouver, Canada, who won $263,243 for his efforts.

In third place was 24 year old poker pro Kyle Ray from Athens, Georgia, who is also a Limit Hold’em coach for Cardrunners.com. This was Kyle Ray's fourth time to cash at the WSOP, and marked his second time at a final table, earning $190,701 for this effort.

Placing in fourth was 27 year old Illinois poker pro Jason Painter, who has now made four WSOP final tables, including three appearances this year. This time he was paid $140,760.

The fifth-place finisher was two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Brock Parker from Silver Spring, Maryland. This marked his third time to cash so far, in 2010, and has made six-figure scores at the WSOP four times, collecting $105,782 for this effort.

The sixth-place finisher was Zvi Groysman from Thornhill, Ontario who got paid $80,884.

The seventh-place finisher was Simon Morris from Melbourne, Australia, who won an event at the Aussie Millions earlier this year, and marked his first time to cash at the WSOP, earning $62,897.

The eighth-place finisher was Michael “the Grinder” Mizrachi, who sits at the top of the leaderboard for 2010 WSOP “Player of the Year” leader board with his third final table appearance. Michael Mizrachi leads all money winners this year, with $1,677,727 , including the eighth-place prize money of $49,732 from this event.

The ninth-place finisher was four-time WSOP gold bracelet winner David Chui, who has cashed at least once every year at the WSOP since 1998, and this time taking down $39,959.

With his ninth-place finish, David Chiu now has 50 career cashes. This currently ranks 11th on the all-time WSOP cashes list.