 Yet again we start with 18 players on the final day, with Ram Vaswani (1 bracelet) as chipleader in the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better. Amongst the field are Mike Matusow (3 bracelets), Chau Giang (3 bracelets), David Chiu (4 bracelets), Tony Ma (2 bracelets), Brent Carter (2 bracelets) and Berry Johnston (5 bracelets, including '86 Main Event). The best known player on the final table without a bracelet was without a doubt David Benyamine. Of these braceletwinners, Brent Carter, Chau Giang and Berry Johnston don't make it to the final table, leaving these 9 to battle for the bracelet:
Seat 1: Hieu 'Tony' Ma (South El Monte, CA) - 310,000 Chips
Seat 2: Jason Gray (Sydney, Austrailia) - 590,000 Chips
Seat 3: Ram Vaswani (London, England) - 175,000 Chips
Seat 4: Toto Leonidas (Glendale, CA) 720,000 Chips
Seat 5: David Chiu (Roland Heights, CA) - 730,000 Chips
Seat 6: Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow (Las Vegas, NV) - 195,000 Chips
Seat 7: David Benyamine (Paris, NV) - 1,200,000 Chips
Seat 8: Greg Jamison (Cedar Falls, IA) - 450,000 Chips
Seat 9: Eugene Katchalov (Brooklyn, NY) - 300,000 Chips
During the first few hours of the final table, it was Mike "The Mouth" Matusow dominating the tabletalk as usual. While he started with a shortstack, he doubled up a few times, he played most pots and when he got knocked out at 5th place, the other players must have been relieved, and enjoying the silence. From that moment on, it was all David Benyamine dominating the action. He's playing aggressive, catching cards and accumulating chips on the way, with 4 players left he had more than half the chips on the table. Toto Leonidas was the first victim, and 10 minutes after that Jason Gray was the 2nd.
That left Benyamine and Greg Jamison heads-up, David with a 3.6:1 chiplead to Greg. A comparison to David and Goliath wouldnt be of much use here, as the David in this story is far from the underdog, and it was not much of a suprise to see him win the event in the end. Benyamine was dominating the heads-up play and when both players got all-in preflop, Jamison flopped the nut straight, but Benyamine had a set. When the board paired on the turn, Benyamine had a full house to make him win his first bracelet and $535,687 ! Benyamine is on a roll this WSOP, making 4 cashes, all top 10 positions. He's had the 7th, 3rd, 10th and now first place during the 2008 WSOP and is now only 2 points behind Jacobo Fernandez for the Player of the Year ranking.
1. David Benyamine $535,678
2. Greg Jamison $331,350
3. Jason Gray $209,855
4. Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas $171,198
5. Mike Matusow $138,063
6. Ram Vaswani $110,450
7. Eugene Katchalov $88,360
8. David Chiu $71,793
9. Hieu "Tony" Ma $55,225
By: Pindarots
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