Last Saturday night, David Williams captured the WPT (World Poker Tour) Championship in Las Vegas at the Bellagio, earning himself a cool $1.5 million payday. He went into the final table of the tournament level for the lead. Williams took a full 136 hands to finally win out over the star-studded table, and Williams, a former WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelet winner, bested UB.com professional Eric Baldwin in heads-up.
The final hand of the game saw Baldwin shoving his big blind stack boasting an A-5 of hearts, with Williams tanking before finally calling with a pair of pocket deuces. Then came the flop-A-7-6, which granted Baldwin the top pair and put him very much in the pole position to comfortably double up. It was just at this point that disaster befell Baldwin as a deuce hitting on the turn improved Williams to a set and left Baldwin drawing dead.
Speaking to Poker News Daily after the tournament Williams spoke of his relief at coming out on top in the tournament, stating that the win has been some time in the making. There is a core group of other players, he added, including Nenad Medic, Tuan Le, Michael Mizrachi, Joe Cassidy and himself. Phil Ivey, Nenad, Grinder and Tuan all had won the match previously and he said it felt good to win the match once as well.
Meanwhile John O’Shea, who was the short stack coming into the WPT Championship final table, was knocked out of the tournament in sixth position, pocketing himself a useful £199,000. Billy Baxter, who dropped a $4.4 million stack against Williams, was pushed back into fifth place. Baxter then open-shoved in holding A-Jack of Spades, with Williams calling holding K-10 suited Hearts. To everyone’s surprise, the flop came out A-Q-J, which gave Williams the nuts, whilst giving Baxter pairs. Baxter came away with a decent $246,000 consolation, and Williams suddenly found himself holding half of all chips in play heading into four-handed play. Next to depart was the high-stakes professional David Benyamine, with Shawn Buchanan also falling shortly after.
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