William Romaine It took just under eleven hours for William “SlaweelRyam” Romaine to overcome a 153-player field and claim his second World Series of Poker gold bracelet in Online Event #10: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout . Romaine defeated Matthew “booyastink” Wantman heads-up and took home $79,753 for his efforts.
Romaine is a regular WSOP.com grinder and has already cashed in four events this series for just over $9,000. Today’s victory marks a top-five biggest online score for Romaine, who will add to his $237,563 in previous tournament earnings.
Many notables joined the field throughout the day. Some who participated but could not find the run good magic included Eric “powwow” Ethans , Jeff “NedrudRelyt” Madsen , and unfortunate bubble-boy Jared “jstrizza” Strauss . A few big names who made a deep run but could not find the final table included Ben “WhyIsGamora” Yu (30th – $4,055), 2012 Main Event Champion Greg “DustedYou” Merson (25th – $4,055), and Katie “katelin” Lindsay (14th – $4,161). WSOP Online Bracelet Event #10 Final Table Results
Place Name Country Prize 1 William “SlaweelRyam” Romaine United States $79,753 2 Matthew “booyastink” Wantman United States $56,916 3 Minh “Bow2Me” Nguyen Australia $40,659 4 Stanley “stanman420” Lee United States $29,240 5 Michael “BrockLesnar” Holtz United States $21,201 6 Jason “Jaybangs” Obinger United States $15,367 7 Jeremiah “freestylerr” Williams United States $11,205 8 Tony “Panoramic” Dunst United States $8,181 It took just over nine hours to get to an eight-handed final table and with the average stack being over 25 big blinds it started off fairly slow. The first elimination came roughly 45 minutes after the final table was set. Tony “Panoramic” Dunst moved all in from the small blind with queen-six and was called by Minh “Bow2Me” Nguyen with king-seven. Dunst couldn’t find any help and was eliminated in eighth place.
With the stacks becoming shorter, Jeremiah “freestylerr” Williams found himself with less than one big blind after losing with pocket aces against ace-queen and was forced all in with seven-four against the ten-nine of Nguyen and sent to the rail in seventh place.
One hand later Jason “Jaybangs” Obinger […]
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