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7.05.2010

2010 WSOP: Brendan Taylor Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet In Event 53


548 poker players signed up for Event 53 of the 2010 World Series of Poker, a $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Shootout tournament that netted a prize pool of $739,800. 64 places were to take a piece of the pie with the biggest piece being awarded to the champion 30 year old poker pro Brendan Taylor, who marked his first WSOP gold bracelet win and a first place prize of $184,950.

The runner up was poker pro Ben Yu  from Henderson, Nevada, who happens to be a good fiend of Brendan Taylor. They actually share the same house in Las Vegas with four other pro poker players.
Ben Yu won $114,484 for his second place finish, and perhaps a lifetime of trash talk from Brendan Taylor at their  house.

According to Brendan Taylor and his thoughts on winning the much coveted WSOP gold bracelet, he said, “When I came out here in 2005, I told myself ‘I am going to win a gold bracelet this year.’ My goal was to win a limit event. Of course, I didn’t do it that year. I didn’t do it the next, and the next, and the next (laughing). Two years ago, we got down to four-handed and I had an average chip stack and I think I was the best player at the table. And, sure enough I was the next player out within 10 hands. So, this is a great feeling.”

The third-place finisher was Jonathan Little from Las Vegas, Nevada, who marked his fifth time to cash at this year’s WSOP to win $73,218. Jonathan Little has accumulated more than $4 million in overall tournament winnings but has yet to achieve a breakthrough win at the WSOP even though he has 11 WSOP cashes.


The fourth-place finisher was Joseph McGowan who made his 13th career WSOP in-the-money finish in this event to win $48,546.

The fifth-place finisher was Brian Tate from Tempe, Arizona, who marked his first time to cash at the WSOP, worth $33,276 in prize money.

The sixth-place finisher was Michael “Car Wash” Schneider from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who has more than $400,000 in overall career tournament earnings, winning $23,563 for this effort, on his fifth WSOP ITM finish.

The seventh-place finisher was Sijbrand Maal from Amsterdam, Holland, who won the Belgium Poker Championship in 2008, and marked his first time to cash at the WSOP to win $17,215.

The eighth-place finisher was Terrence Chan from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who marked his 15th time to cash at the WSOP worth $12,961 in prize money.

Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Chau Giang, Jeff Ahmadi, Jimmy Shultz, and Tomas Alenius.
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