David Williams Wins WPT Championship

David Williams led a somewhat charmed life on his way to scooping the WPT Championship on Saturday night at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. After a gruelling heads-up battle with Eric Baldwin Williams’ pair of deuces pre-flop was able to improve on the turn to bottom set and ship the title to the Vegas pro.
The final table was a veritable who’s who of 2010 rakeback poker tournaments as David Benyamine, Billy Baxter, Shawn Buchanan and John O’Shea made up the final six. It was the Irishman O’Shea who was out first on the final table as his aggressive do-or-die attitude from the outset proved to be his undoing. After pushing all in first hand he eventually found somebody willing to call after a few more hands and was left hoping his 63 offsuit would improve against Billy baxter’s A-T. The board hit nobody and left O’shea going home with a shade under $200k in his pocket.
Baxter was next to go after Williams flopped the broadway straight but the veteran pro was rewarded with a quarter of a million dollars to soothe the pain. After these two left early on the stacks ensured there was plenty of play before David Benyamine was sent to the rail as his QJ was unable to improve against Buchanan’s A5.
Once again the winner of the confrontation was knocked out by Williams as Buchanan committed pre-flop with a pair of Queens but ran into Williams pocket 9s which binked a set on the flop and left Buchanan ruing his luck. After this hand Williams was left with a 3:1 chip lead going in to heads up with Eric Baldwin.
Bladwin was the 2009 rake back Card Player of the Year but he was never able to get to grips with Williams and found himself out of the tournament in the cruellest of fashions. Baldwin moved all in pre-flop with A5 and found an optimistic call from Williams holding 2-2. When the ace fell on the flop Williams needed one of the remaining twos to take home the title. The turn showed a 2 and for the second time on the final table Williams had his set and with it the title.
Williams takes home $1.5m with Eric Baldwin collecting just over a million for his efforts.
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