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.
Tags: chipleader, Damien Luis, Joël Benzinou, main event, WSOP
