Brazilian Player Wins WSOP Event 48 and more WSOP News

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Brazilian Player Wins WSOP Event 48 $770 540 reward celebrated by festive supporters

A good sized group of festive Brazilians celebrated 25-year-old South American player Alexandre Gomes's win in Event 48, the $2 000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em competition at the World Series of Poker this week. His victory marked the first WSOP win for a South American in the 39 year history of the tournament.

The young Brazilian beat an entry field of 2 317 players registered for the event, and it took two days to reach a final table that included Dan Rome, Ryan D'Angelo, Marco Johnson (chip leader), Kirill Gerasimov, Robert Brewer, Gabe Costner, Alan Cutler, Sverre Sundbo and Gomes, who was in the middle of the pack on chip counts.

Ryan D'Angelo looked to be the likely winner as the game progressed and he eliminated most of the casualties, but he met his match in Gomes and exited in third place with $326 812 to open up a heads up contest between Gomes and Californian Marco Johnson who had started the day as chipleader and was still in contention.

He gave Gomes a good run for his money but in the end the Brazilian prevailed to take the bracelet and the $770 540 main prize, leaving Johnson with a $491 273 consolation check.

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Scotty's Fifth WSOP Bracelet

Nguyen gets a great return on his $50 000 H.O.R.S.E. investment

Five days on in Event 45, the $50 000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa updates) we have a winner. Scotty Nguyen added a fifth World Series of Poker bracelet to his impressive collection this week in winning one of the biggest events in the WSOP series, in the process scoring a healthy return on his investment by picking up a check for almost $2 million and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.

The final table took 14 hours to conclude, and was initially headed by Erick Lindgren with 3 680 000 in chips, followed by Thuan 'Scotty' Nguyen (3 535 000), with a comfortable gap between them and the remaining players: Barry Greenstein, Matt Glanz, Lyle Berman, Huck Seed, Michael DeMichele and Patrick Bueno.

Short stacked Bueno was an early casualty, taken out by Erick Lindgren but perhaps consoled by his $230 880 eighth placing check. He was followed by Huck Seed who collected $284 160 after being busted out in seventh position by DeMichele, and by Greenstein in sixth for $355 200 who fell victim to Nguyen

Lyle Berman lasted a little longer, but was eventually shown the exit door in fifth position for $444 000 by Nguyen, who went on to eliminate Glantz in a hand of Omaha Hi Lo, sending him home with $568 320 for his fourth placing.

Following the departure of Glantz the game settled down to a tough six hours of professional poker play, leading to just short of 200 hands of three handed play before Erick Lindgren saw his hopes dashed by Nguyen and headed for the rail in third place and a reward of $781 440.

Going into the heads up, Nguyen had, at 12 140 000, a massive 4 to 1 chip lead on his opponent, Michael DeMichele. It was a daunting test for DeMichele; only his second WSOP final table, against a highly experienced player, and more money on the table than he had earned in his playing career to date.

After the marathon struggle immediately prior to the start of the heads up, play was relatively quick and the matter was decided in 10 hands. Nguyen had his fifth piece of jewelry, $1 989 120 in cash and the memorial trophy. DeMichele gave his career earnings a massive shot in the arm with his second placing reward of $1 243 200.

The 22-year-old from Connecticut commented: "I never dreamed I would finish this deep. There were so many players more deserving of this victory than me – I was the new kid on the block."

For Nguyen, it was a welcome come-back from a bad streak last year which saw him finishing eleventh in the WSOP Main Event, leading to a temporary loss of both personal confidence and physical mass. The win, Nguyen's 36th cash in WSOP events, brings the veteran's career earnings to nearly $10 million and a hoard of five WSOP bracelets.

Über World Series of Poker (WSOP):

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Darüber hinaus hat die WSOP bahnbrechende Allianzen in den Bereichen Rundfunk, digitale Medien und Unternehmenssponsoring gebildet und die Marke mit der Einführung der WSOP Europe im Jahr 2007 und der WSOP Asia-Pacific im Jahr 2013 sowie der WSOP International Circuit Series im Jahr 2015 erfolgreich international ausgebaut.

Ursprünglich wurden die Tourniere in Las Vegas Downtown im Binion's Horseshoe Casino ausgetragen. Im Jahre 2005 kaufte Caesars den Brand WSOP. Seit diesem Datum werden die Pokermeisterschaften im Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino durchgeführt.

Gewinner der letzten Jahre des WSOP-Championship-Mainevent

2020: Damian Salas 2019: Hossein Ensan 2018: John Cynn 2017: Scott Blumstein 2016: Qui Nguyen 2015: Joe McKeehen 2014: Martin Jacobson 2013: Ryan Riess 2012: Greg Merson 2011: Pius Heinz 2010: Jonathan Duhamel 2009: Joe Cada 2008: Peter Eastgate 2007: Jerry Yang 2006: Jamie Gold 2005: Joe Hachem 2004: Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer 2003: Chris Moneymaker 2002: Robert Varkonyi 2001: Carlos Mortensen 2000: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 1999: J.J. "Noel" Furlong 1998: Scotty Nguyen 1997: Stu Ungar 1996: Huck Seed 1995: Dan Harrington 1994: Russ Hamilton 1993: Jim Bechtel 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi 1991: Brad Daugherty 1990: Mansour Matloubi 1989: Phil Hellmuth Jr. 1988: Johnny Chan 1987: Johnny Chan 1986: Berry Johnston 1985: Bill Smith 1984: Jack Keller 1983: Tom McEvoy 1982: Jack Strauss 1981: Stu Ungar 1980: Stu Ungar 1979: Hal Fowler 1978: Bobby Baldwin 1977: Doyle Brunson 1976: Doyle Brunson 1975: Sailor Roberts 1974: Johnny Moss 1973: Puggy Pearson 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston 1971: Johnny Moss 1970: Johnny Moss

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