WSOP 2010

Damien Luis, the young player from Feyzin, France qualified for the WSOP Main Event just one month ago, playing at the Titan Poker tables.

He came to Las Vegas without any particular expectations.  In the end he is going home with $206,395. Certainly not bad for a man  playing in his second live tournament.

After 7 days of high level competition, Damien Luis was finally eliminated by the famous Swedish player William Thorson.

The hand:

Hasan Habib pushed all his chips in the middle for 460,000 chips in early position. Thorson called and Damien Luis moved all-in as well, for a total of more than 1 million chips. The Swede called again.

The three players then revealed their hands:

Habib:  A♣K♥
Luis:  4♠4♥
Thorson: A♥Q♣

The flop came : A♦9♦3♥

Turn: 6♥

River: 5♦

Hasan Habib tripled up, while Thorson eliminated Damien Luis and won the side-pot.

Congratulations to Damien Luis for an excellent run!

Joel Benzinou

The Belgian player Joël Benzinou  from Team Titan  and Michael Maitre (a Titan Poker Qualifier) finished respectively in 151st and 137th place at the WSOP Main Event 2010,  for a gain of $57,102. Congratulations!

7,319 players registered for the biggest live poker event in the world. While it is always a disappointment to be eliminated from the Main Event,  the two players performed well.

Joël Benzinou was short stacked at the beginning of Day 6 and after a few hours, was eliminated. Michael Maitre hit the rail a few minutes later.

Their last hands:

Benzinou went all-in for his last 30 blinds with A♦Q♥ against a pocket 10 from his opponent for a 427,000 pot.
Board: K♣ A♠ 10♥ 3♥ 9♠

Michael Maitre pushed his last 150,000 with A♥J♠.  His opponent, Michiel Sijpkens, was the clear favorite with A♦K♦.

Flop: 7♣ 8♠ 8♣
Turn: 10♠
River: 2♥

The big good news for the Titan Team, however, is the presence of Damien Luis (Titan Poker Qualifier) at the beginning of  Day 7 with a stack of 1,850,000 chips, a little bit under the average of 2,744,000 chips.

He is in 45th position out of 78 players left. Everything is possible now for this player who qualified on June  20th for his second live tournament.

What can they expect ?

PAYOUT STRUCTURE:
Earnings:

1st – $8,944,138
2nd – $5,545,855
3rd – $4,129,979
4th – $3,092,497
5th – $2,332,960
6th – $1,772,939
7th – $1,356,708
8th – $1,045,738
9th – $811,823
10th-12th – $635,011
13th-15th – $500,165
16th-18th – $396,967
19th-27th – $317,161
28th-36th – $255,242
37th-45th – $206,395
46th-54th – $168,556
55th-63rd – $138,285
64th-72nd – $114,205
73rd-81st – $94,942

Currently, the Dane Theo Jorgensen is the chipleader with 9,300,000 chips. Michael Mizrachi is hunting him with more than 7 millions chips.