WPT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

April 18-24 | Bellagio | Las Vegas, Nevada
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Faraz Jaka Survives A Record Number of Challengers to Win WPT Player of the Year

11:33 AM, 04/26/10

David Williams Finds a Way to Win at the WPT Championship

08:42 AM, 04/25/10

David Williams is the Season VIII WPT World Champion!

02:25 AM, 04/25/10

Hand #136: David Williams Wins!

10:13 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #114: Shawn Buchanan Eliminated in 3rd Place ($587,906)

09:07 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #104: David Benyamine Eliminated in 4th Place ($329,228)

08:42 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #92: Eric Baldwin Doubles Through David Williams

07:57 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #82: David Benyamine Doubles Through Shawn Buchanan

07:42 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #79: Eric Baldwin Doubles Through David Williams

07:36 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #77: Shawn Buchanan Doubles Through Eric Baldwin

07:31 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #46: Billy Baxter Eliminated in 5th Place ($246,921)

06:23 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #39: David Williams Wins a 4.4 Million Pot Against Billy Baxter

05:58 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #14: John O'Shea Eliminated in 6th Place ($199,888)

04:56 PM, 04/24/10

Hellmuth's Antics Headline Long and Crazy Playdown Day

03:22 AM, 04/24/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player of the Day

02:55 AM, 04/24/10

David Williams - 4,700,000

02:48 AM, 04/24/10

Eric Baldwin - 4,490,000

02:47 AM, 04/24/10

Billy Baxter - 2,440,000

02:42 AM, 04/24/10

Shawn Buchanan - 1,965,000

02:39 AM, 04/24/10

John O'Shea - 1,200,000

02:36 AM, 04/24/10

Hands #196-197: Phil Hellmuth TV Bubbles in 7th Place ($152,856)

09:40 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #157: Phil Hellmuth Folds A-K Preflop to Eric Baldwin

08:04 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #145: Scotty Nguyen Eliminated in 8th Place ($105,823)

07:37 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #94: Phil Hellmuth's Epic Banter With David Benyamine

05:12 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #87: Shawn Buchanan Verbally Scares Phil Hellmuth Out of a Pot

04:45 PM, 04/23/10

Hands #43-44: Nikolay Evdakov Eliminated in 9th Place ($75,252)

02:45 PM, 04/23/10

Hands #40-42: Phil Hellmuth Doubles Through and Cripples Nikolay Evdakov

02:39 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #37: Scotty Nguyen vs. John O'Shea in a Huge Pot

02:13 PM, 04/23/10

Hand #16: Phil Hellmuth Gets the Most Out of Folding His Small Blind

01:11 PM, 04/23/10

Hands #10-11: Cliff Josephy Eliminated in 10th Place ($56,439)

12:57 PM, 04/23/10

Jaka's Surprise Exit Highlights Day 5 Action

05:50 PM, 04/22/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player - David Williams

04:57 PM, 04/22/10

Eric Baldwin Doubles Through (& Tilts) Phil Hellmuth

04:17 PM, 04/22/10

Cliff Josephy Moves In Against Phil Hellmuth And Gets Him Talking

03:43 PM, 04/22/10

2009 Card Player POY Eric Baldwin

02:37 PM, 04/22/10

WPT Player of the Year Race: Update

02:09 PM, 04/22/10

POY Leader Faraz Jaka Eliminated in 14th Place ($51,736)

02:01 PM, 04/22/10

POY Contender Josh Arieh Eliminated in 16th Place ($47,033)

12:59 PM, 04/22/10

POY Contender Matt Stout Eliminated in 17th Place ($47,033)

12:48 PM, 04/22/10

Billy Baxter Wins a Pot Worth 1.7 Million Against Faraz Jaka

12:38 PM, 04/22/10

Tony Cousineau Talks About Laying Down Kings on Day 4

12:28 PM, 04/22/10

Faraz Jaka Leads the Field and the POY Race

07:00 AM, 04/22/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player - Faraz Jaka

08:05 PM, 04/21/10

Heather Sue Mercer Eliminated by Faraz Jaka

06:10 PM, 04/21/10

Faraz Jaka Controlling His Own Destiny

06:09 PM, 04/21/10

Phil Hellmuth Wants a Second Chance Against Eric Baldwin -- Reversing the Cards

05:09 PM, 04/21/10

Schedule Update: Play Down to 18 Today

04:28 PM, 04/21/10

David Williams Gunning For Almonds

04:08 PM, 04/21/10

Unbelievable! 40% of the Field is Battling for WPT Player of the Year

03:25 PM, 04/21/10

Josh Arieh Gaining Confidence

02:09 PM, 04/21/10

As Seen on TV

01:08 PM, 04/21/10

WPT Player of the Year Race: 11 Players in the Running

08:32 AM, 04/21/10

Players Who Started on Day 2: How Are They Doing?

08:29 AM, 04/21/10

Shawn Buchanan Keeps Dominating on Day 3

02:42 AM, 04/21/10

Official Chip Counts & Seating For Day 4

09:25 PM, 04/20/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player - Heather Sue Mercer

09:09 PM, 04/20/10

Scotty Nguyen Doubles Through Maroun Jazzar

08:19 PM, 04/20/10

Shawn Buchanan Continues to Crush the Field

07:18 PM, 04/20/10

WPT Player of the Year Race: 15 Players in the Running

05:53 PM, 04/20/10

The Bellagio Tsunami, or, The First Annual Bellagio Wet T-Shirt Contest

04:01 PM, 04/20/10

Justin Young Looking to Improve on Last Year's 8th Place Finish

04:00 PM, 04/20/10

Phil Hellmuth Has Been Waiting For This Moment Against Dan Smith

02:53 PM, 04/20/10

Cody Slaubaugh Eliminated By Shawn Buchanan

02:14 PM, 04/20/10

Phil Don't Preach?

02:08 PM, 04/20/10

Players Who Started on Day 2: How Are They Doing?

01:51 PM, 04/20/10

WPT Player of the Year: 22 Players in the Hunt

12:12 PM, 04/20/10

Official Chip Counts & Seating For Day 3

12:24 AM, 04/20/10

Faraz Jaka Takes POY Matters Into His Own Hands

12:22 AM, 04/20/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player - Shawn Buchanan

08:48 PM, 04/19/10

Soheil Being Soheil

07:44 PM, 04/19/10

Tom "Durrrr" Dwan Eliminated by Faraz Jaka

06:54 PM, 04/19/10

Official Prizepool Information

05:59 PM, 04/19/10

The Life and Times of Devilfish

05:34 PM, 04/19/10

Justin Bonomo Wins a Big Pot Against Brian Lemke To Contend For the Chip Lead

05:29 PM, 04/19/10

Table #49: Daniel Negreanu Eliminated by James Mackey

05:13 PM, 04/19/10

Table #49: Daniel Negreanu Crippled by James Mackey

05:04 PM, 04/19/10

Faraz Jaka Is Chipleader But What's New

05:03 PM, 04/19/10

Jacque Catches Up With ClubWPT.com's Leron Washington

02:07 PM, 04/19/10

Daniel Negreanu Doubles Through Phil Ivey

12:47 PM, 04/19/10

Day 2 Seating Assignments

08:45 AM, 04/19/10

Shawn Buchanan Leads Day 1 of the WPT World Championship

12:20 AM, 04/19/10

Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player - Brian Lemke

09:27 PM, 04/18/10

ClubWPT's Leron Washington Survives Day 1

09:05 PM, 04/18/10

Reigning WPT World Champion Yevgeniy Timoshenko

07:57 PM, 04/18/10

Preflop: Justin Bonomo Folds K-K, Keith Lehr Folds Q-Q

07:56 PM, 04/18/10

WPT Player of the Year Race

06:41 PM, 04/18/10

The Worst Hand Mark Newhouse Has Ever Played

05:58 PM, 04/18/10

Brian Lemke Busts Two Players To Take the Chip Lead

05:38 PM, 04/18/10

Return of the Dan Update?

03:56 PM, 04/18/10

7 Former WPT World Champions

03:39 PM, 04/18/10

Leron Washington Doubles Through McLean Karr

02:45 PM, 04/18/10

Antonio Esfandiari Eliminated by Soheil Shamseddin

02:41 PM, 04/18/10

Free Throw Champ Prahlad Friedman

02:40 PM, 04/18/10

Winner's Circle

01:06 PM, 04/18/10

Daniel Negreanu & Carlos Mortensen Make a Deal

12:38 PM, 04/18/10

Mark Newhouse -- Lone Wolf

12:20 PM, 04/18/10

Shuffle Up & Deal!

12:17 PM, 04/18/10

Season VIII WPT World Championship

12:08 PM, 04/18/10

Live Tournament Updates

Hand #68: Shawn Buchanan

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

David Benyamine completes the small blind to 160,000, and Shawn Buchanan checks his option in the big blind. Both players check to the turn on a board of Jdiamond7heart2heart6spade, Benyamine bets 190,000, and Buchanan calls.

The river card is the 4spade, Benyamine carefully counts out a bet of 500,000, and and Buchanan thinks for a minute before he calls. Benyamine shows 6diamond2diamond for two pair, sixes and deuces, but Buchanan shows 7diamond4club to win the pot with a higher two pair (sevens and fours).

Pot Size: 1,760,000

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,625,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,125,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 1,740,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 3,010,000

Sorted In: David Benyamine, Shawn Buchanan, Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
07:19 PM, 04/24/10

10-Minute Break

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

The players take a 10-minute break while the WPT crew changes the tapes in their cameras. Here are the official chip counts from the table, which match up with our running counts:

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,640,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,140,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 2,605,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 2,115,000

5th Place: Billy Baxter - $246,921
6th Place: John O'Shea - $199,888

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:58 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #67: Shawn Buchanan

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

Shawn Buchanan moves all in under the gun for 1,815,000, winning the blinds and antes.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,640,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,140,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 2,605,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 2,115,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:57 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #66: Eric Baldwin

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

David Benyamine raises under the gun to 355,000, Eric Baldwin moves all in from the small blind for 3,080,000, and Benyamine folds. Eric Baldwin takes the pot.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,655,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,235,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 2,780,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 1,830,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:56 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #65: Shawn Buchanan

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

Shawn Buchanan moves all in from the small blind for 1,625,000, winning the blinds and antes.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,095,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,410,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 3,150,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 1,845,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:55 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #64: David Williams

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

David Williams raises from the button to 400,000, winning the blinds and antes.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,270,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,425,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 3,165,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 1,640,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:53 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #63: Eric Baldwin

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

Shawn Buchanan raises under the gun to 375,000, Eric Baldwin moves all in from the button for 2,610,000, and Buchanan thinks for nearly a minute before he folds. Eric Baldwin takes the pot.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 3,285,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,140,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 3,260,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 1,815,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:52 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #62: David Williams

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

Everyone folds to David Williams, giving him a walk in the big blind.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 2,625,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,235,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 3,435,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 2,205,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:51 PM, 04/24/10

Level 29 Begins

Level 29: 80,000-160,000, 15,000 ante

Level 28 comes to an end, and Level 29 begins with increased blinds of 80,000-160,000 and a 15,000 ante. Play continues without a break.

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:50 PM, 04/24/10

Hand #61: Shawn Buchanan

Level 28: 60,000-120,000, 15,000 ante

Shawn Buchanan completes the small blind to 120,000, and Eric Baldwin checks his option in the big blind. Both players check to the turn on a board of AheartJdiamond4club3diamond, Buchanan bets 225,000, and Baldwin folds. Shawn Buchanan takes the pot.

Seat 3. Eric Baldwin - 2,720,000
Seat 4. David Williams - 11,110,000
Seat 5. David Benyamine - 3,450,000
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan - 2,220,000

Sorted In: Tournaments, Bellagio, WPT World Championship, Season 8 on FSN, Season VIII
06:49 PM, 04/24/10

 

RANKING

1
 David Williams
$1,530,537
2
 Eric Baldwin
$1,034,715
3
 Shawn Buchanan
$587,906
4
 David Benyamine
$329,228
5
 Billy Baxter
$246,921
6
 John O'Shea
$199,888

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Payout Structure
Place Prize
1 $1,530,537
2 $1,034,715
3 $587,906
4 $329,228
5 $246,921
6 $199,888
7 $152,856
8 $105,823
9 $75,252
10 - 12 $56,439
13 - 15 $51,736
16 - 18 $47,033

Blind Structure
Level Blinds Ante
1 100-200 0
2 100-200 25
3 150-300 25
4 200-400 50
5 300-600 75
6 400-800 100
7 500-1,000 100
8 600-1,200 200
9 800-1,600 200
10 1,000-2,000 300
11 1,200-2,400 300
12 1,500-3,000 400
13 2,000-4,000 400
14 2,500-5,000 500
15 3,000-6,000 500
16 4,000-8,000 1,000
17 5,000-10,000 1,000
18 6,000-12,000 2,000
19 8,000-16,000 2,000
20 10,000-20,000 3,000
21 12,000-24,000 3,000
22 15,000-30,000 4,000
23 20,000-40,000 4,000
24 25,000-50,000 5,000
25 30,000-60,000 5,000
26 40,000-80,000 10,000
27 50,000-100,000 10,000
28 60,000-120,000 15,000
29 80,000-160,000 15,000
30 100,000-200,000 20,000
31 120,000-240,000 20,000
32 150,000-300,000 25,000
33 200,000-400,000 25,000
34 300,000-600,000 50,000
35 400,000-800,000 75,000
36 500,000-1,000,000 100,000
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