British player and HitSquad member Praz Bansi has won his second WSOP Bracelet by winning Event #5 the $1,5000 NLHE for $515,501 ahead of 2091 other runners, following his first bracelet win in 2006.
Many congratulations to him. Praz had two thirds of the chips three handed and then took on Vincent Jacques of Canada heads up after Jacques had knocked out Calvin Kordus in third
After Jacques had hit runner runner flush to double up in the heads up battle Banzi eventually prevailed with A-J versus A-8 and a Q-Q-J flop.
Full final table result:
- 1
Praz Bansi $515,501London United Kingdom - 2
Vincent Jacques $320,913 Quebec Canada - 3
Calvin Kordus $223,069 Anchorage United States - 4 David Tuthill $160,650 St Petersburg United States
- 5 Tomer Berda $117,416 Menlo Park United States
- 6 Donald Offord $86,858 Broomfield United States
- 7
Hugh Bell $65,097 Puerto Plata dominican Republic - 8 David Sands $67,221 Las Vegas United States
- 9 Kyle Knecht $37,943 Westchester United States
In more good WSOP news for the Brits Stuart Rutter and Neil Channing tonight contest the final of Event #6 the $5,000 NLH Shooutout. Good luck to both of them