For a long time now, David Beyamine has been a familiar site at the very highest stakes tables online at Full Tilt, affectionately known by many as 'Degenyamine', the former French tennis player plays the very highest stakes possible, regularly sitting at the $2000/$4000 limit game, as well as the $200/$400 PLO game.
Finally though, Beyamine has captured a bracelet of his own when he picked up the $10,000 Omaha Eight or Better title beating a top quality field that included multiple bracelet winners on the final table. Ram Vaswani went out in seventh place, with WPT Winner David Chiu in sixth and Mike Matusow in fifth.
After this Benyamine simply dominated the play eventually getting heads-up against Greg Jamison with a 3:1 chip lead in a battle that didn't last too long before the Frenchman cleaned the floor with him to claim the bracelet and the $535,678 first place prize money.
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
In the $2,000 Pot-Limit event, Michael 'Don't Call Me Beppe' Greco and Ben Roberts both made the final but were out first and second with Greco picking up kings against aces at the most inopportune moment. The bracelet was eventually won by Belgium's Davidi Kitai, the first ever Belgian to do so.
John Shipley made the final of event 36, another $1,500 no limit event, but was first out. The Danes secured their first bracelet of the series with former table tennis player Jesper Hougaard picking up the gold ahead of Cody Slaubaugh, a crucial dinner break came during the heads-up where Slaubaugh had overturned a 2:1 deficit to take the chip lead. When the players restarted, Hougaard had regrouped and regained his composure and increased his aggressiveness to seal victory after another half hour of play.
John Phan won his second bracelet in a matter of a couple of weeks when he took the deuce to seven triple draw event ahead players such as David Sklansky and Robert Mizrachi, the astonishing thing is that he will not receive player of the year despite this feat due to the points system which does not give points in such a top heavy manner, but also due to the incredible year that many other players, like Erick Lindgren are having.
1. John Phan -- $151,896
2. Shunjiro Uchida -- $95,795
3. Gioi Luong -- $61,583
4. Robert Mizrachi -- $41,055
5. Ben Ponzio -- $28,739
6. David Sklansky -- $20,528
David Woo, Frank Gary and Dan LaCourse took home the $1,500 NL, $1,500 mixed limit/no-limit and seniors' bracelets respectively, all receiving their first ever bracelets. While in the $1,500 PLO8 event, young German Martin Klaser took the spoils ahead of Erik Seidel who finished fourth, and who also did not play the $50,000 HORSE because of this event. It's been a good year for the Germans, this was their third bracelet this year, none of which have been in Hold'em events which surely highlights the depth of their mixed game (especially stud) players.
1. Martin Klaser -- $216,211
2. Casey Kastle -- $137,985
3. Michael Fetter -- $83,538
4. Erik Seidel -- $68,305
5. Jon Maren -- $56,019
6. Chad Burum -- $44,226
7. Joseph Haddad -- $34,389
8. Larry Wright -- $27,027
9. Tom Chambers -- $19,656