WSOP 2009 Update, Bracelet for Eric Baldwin

20.06.2009, WSOP Pokerevent No. 34 $1500 No-Limit Hold’em

No-Limit Hold’em (Event 34) Tuesday, June 16, 2009 to Thursday, June 18, 2009 Buy-in: $1,500 Prizepool: $2,859,675 Entries: 2,095


Eric Baldwin

Result: 1.Eric Baldwin $521,991 2.Jonas Klausen $322,371 3.James Taylor $213,045 4.Benjamin Scholl $150,132 5.Roland De Wolfe $112,957 6.Andrew Youngblood $89,221 7.Steven Bradbury $74,351 8.Martin Jacobson $65,486 9.Eric DeFontes $60,339 10.Young Phan $42,895

Congratulations to Eric Baldwin, Event No. 34 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Champion ($521,932)

After successfully negotiating his way through a massive field of 2,095 entrants, Eric Baldwin of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin has collected all of the chips to win Event No. 34 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. After two days of play, Baldwin and 20 others returned for the final day of action.

As the short stacks fell early, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier emerged as the clear leader, and for a short while he enjoyed a huge chip lead over the rest of the field. Grospellier lost two key hands in quick succession, however, the second a huge one versus Steven Bradbury when he ran pocket kings into Bradbury's pocket aces, and Elky finished an unlucky 13th.

Two eliminations later and the last ten players assembled around the final table. Young Phan was on the short stack, and left early in 10th. Roland de Wolfe was also short on chips for much of today, including at the final table, though he would last all of the way to fifth place. James Taylor next eliminated Benjamin Scholl in fourth place, leaving Taylor, and Baldwin, and Jonas Klausen.

The trio had nearly even stacks for the first part of three-handed play, though eventually the aggressive Baldwin pushed out into the lead and Taylor became short. Finally Baldwin eliminated Taylor, and when heads up began he had a small chip lead over Klausen. He'd increase that lead, but it only took Klausen a few hands to claim the advantage back. Then came a huge hand in which Baldwin flopped a set of fours while Klausen flopped top two pair, catapulting Baldwin to an 8-to-1 chip lead.

A few hands later -- about forty into their heads-up battle -- Baldwin used pocket tens to take the title. Congratulations to Eric Baldwin, and thanks for following our coverage on PokerNews.

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