WSOP 2009 Update Event 10, Ramie Boukai gewinnt 1. Bracelet, Stockinger guter 10.

06.06.2009, Pot-Limit Holdem/Omaha (Event 10)

Pot-Limit Holdem/Omaha (Event 10)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 to Friday, June 05, 2009 Buy-in: $2,500 Prizepool: $1,041,900 Entries: 453


Ramie Boukai

Najib Bennani Eliminated in 2nd Place ($151,335)

Hold'em Najib Bennani opened from the button with a pot-sized raise. In the big blind, Rami Boukai reraised the pot, enough to cover his opponent. Bennani quickly called, his tournament life now squarely in the hands of the poker gods.

Showdown Bennani: Jd, Qh Boukai: 9c, 9s The first three cards were brilliant news for the at-risk player, as he paired up on the Ac, Kh, Qs flop. Unfortunately for him though, the 9d spiked the turn like a thunderclap from the heavens. Bennani was left drawing only to a ten for the straight, and the Ad that filled out the board was indeed not a ten. With his two pair finishing as the second-best hand, Najib Bennani becomes our 2nd-place finisher, taking home more than $150,000 but falling just short of the top prize.

Result Rami 'arbianight' Boukai Najib Bennani Benjamin Grundy Cornel Cimpan Daniel 'amichaiKK' Makowsky Paul Parker Pawel Andrzejewski John Kabbaj Gary Do Sigi Stockinger

Congratulations to Rami Boukai, Winner of Event No. 10, the $2,500 PLH/PLO event ($244,862) The third day of the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha event was supposed to be for the final table, but when Day 2 concluded there were still two tables' worth of players still remaining. After a long, 13-hour final day, Rami Boukai emerged as the last man standing of the 18, claiming his first World Series of Poker bracelet.

It took less than four hours for the final 18 to be whittled down to nine, at which point Daniel Makowsky and Cornel Cimpan were battling for the chip lead. Within the next hour, the table's short stacks -- Sigi Stockinger and John Kabbaj -- were eliminated, followed shortly afterwards by Pawel Andrzejewski in seventh. The final half-dozen battled gamely for the next couple of hours, with Cornel Cimpan overtaking the leaders and eventually building a stack of over a million chips before falling back to the pack.

When Paul Parker was eliminated in 6th, the remaining five would compete for nearly four more hours before Makowsky finally was ousted after losing a hold'em race with A-J versus Najib Bennani's pocket eights. Cimpan was eliminated a half-hour later in a PLO hand when his single-suited aces got cracked by Bennani's rivered straight. Ben Grundy was the short stack for most of three-handed play, finally falling to Bennani in another PLO hand in which aces couldn't hold up.

When heads up play began, Boukai held only a slight chip advantage over Bennani, but immediately began increasing his lead via aggressive play. The end finally came in the 29th level of play in a hold'em hand when Bennani, down to less than 800,000 chips versus Boukai's 2.6 million, decided to race with jack-queen versus Boukai's pocket nines. A queen flopped, but a nine came on the turn, and Boukai's set gave him the bracelet. The PLO/PLH event is a supreme test of players' abilities not just to excel in two different poker games, but to demonstrate their post-flop skills as well.

Those lasting to our final table were not necessarily the most familiar names listed among those who entered this "name pro"-heavy event. But all ably demonstrated their significant poker skills in Event No. 10. Congratulations to all who went deep, and especially to Rami Boukai, winner of the gold bracelet. Thanks for following our coverage on PokerNews. Come back to find out who else will be claiming the still 40-plus more bracelets to be awarded.

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