Full Tilt Pro David Benyamine Wins First WSOP Bracelet

Full Tilt Pro David Benyamine took down his first World Series of Poker event last weekend, capturing the coveted WSOP Bracelet along with $535,687 in prize money. The astounding victory came in Event #37, $10k World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo, wiping out a field of 235 for the largest cut of a $2,209,000 purse.

As the remaining nine converged on the final table, a host of big name poker pros took their seats at the championship event. Along with David Benyamine were Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Ram Vaswani, Greg Jamison and Tony Ma, among others.

Ma was the first to go, taking $55,225 for the 9th place finish. David Chui and Ram Vaswani were soon to follow, earning 8th ($71,792) and 7th ($88,360) respectively. Next to depart was Eugene Katchalov in 6th, earning the first 6-digit paycheck of the event at $110,450. By the time Matusow was sent to the rails in 5th position for $138,062, Banyamine held an insurmountable chip lead.

Toto Leonidas could not overcome the deficit, leaving the table in 4th (171,197), followed by Jason Gray in 3rd ($209,855). David Benyamine, with an enormous chip lead at this point, would find himself going heads-up against Greg Jamison.

It only took a few hands before David was able to oust Jamison from the table. Greg earned an impressive $331,350 for his 2nd place finish, but it was Benyamine who cheered the praises of Las Vegas as he was awarded his first World Series of Poker gold Bracelet. Adding $535,687 to his bank account didn’t hurt either.

Benyamine’s outstanding victory was only the latest in a train of significant finishes in the 1008 WSOP. David earned $59k for finishing 7th in the $5k NL 2-7 Lowball event, $316k for a third place finish in $5k PL Omaha and another $31k for a 10th spot in the $5k Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo Championship. Adding to his phenomenal run at the WSOP this year is another $816k won playing cash games on Full Tilt Poker.

David Benyamine’s illustrious professional poker career has thus far earned him over $2 million dollars in live poker tournaments, two WPT titles and now, the most prestigious award of all, a WSOP Bracelet.