The buy-in for the Omaha High-Low Split Championship in the 2010 World Series of Poker was $10,000 and 212 players made the buy-in to come up with a total prize pool of $1,992,800. 27 top finishers would cash in with the first place prize going up to as much as $488,241 plus a much coveted WSOP gold bracelet. The winner was eventually, high-stakes poker pro Sammy Farha , who burst into the poker scene when he won his first gold bracelet at the 1996 World Series of Poker, and has since then been a staple in the poker scene. Sammy Farha eventually became a household name when he was the runner-up in the 2003 WSOP Main Event, losing out to champion Chris Moneymaker . For the 2010 WSOP Omaha High-Low Split Championship , the 212 players may have been the toughest field ever assembled despite its seemingly low attendance. The final table that came out after two days of play was some of the best in the competition, including WSOP gold bracelet winners James Dempsey, Michael Chow and Abe...

James Dempsey , one of England's top online poker pros from Brighton, UK, was the big winner of Event #9 $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Hold'em tournament . James Dempsey outlasted 650 players to win a first place cash prize of $197K amd his first WSOP bracelet. James Dempsey became the second Englishman to win a WSOP bracelet, following the win by the Hendon Mob's Praz Bansi in an earlier No Limit Hold'em event. Several English supporters cheered on the win for James Dempsey throughout the eight hours of final table action, making the final table scene look more like a soccer match rather than a poker event. Things were so loud that ironically Mike "The Mouth" Matusow complained that the boisterous fans were too noisy. Well, you're loud that way too, Matusow! The runner-up was Steve Chanthabouasy of Portland, Oregon, who collected a $121K prize. Third place went to Joanne "JJ" Liu of Las Vegas, Nevada, who cashed $86K, making her 14th ITM ...