The World Poker Tour crowned it's last champion on American soil for 2011 (WPT Venice will close out 2011 for the WPT) as James Dempsey picked up the win.
It wasn't easy for Dempsey. While he entered final play as one of the chip leader and started heads up play basically even in chip, former November Niner Soi Nguyen took control of heads up play early - in what had the makings of a fast final six.
Nguyen had a 7:1 chip lead at one point heads up. But, Dempsey clawed his way back and picked up his third PTPR Score of 2011 with the victory.
The stage was set for a classic Final Table - with big names Esfandiari, Selbst and Lucky Chewy joining Dempsey and Nguyen.
Antonio was the first to leave, thus squashing any dreams of a back-to-back scenario (Esfandiari won this event last December), Lichtenberger wasn't far behind the magician and while Selbst did make a small run in order to get us to three-handed play, she was out fairly quickly.
Still, a very entertaining final group, for sure.
WPT FIVE DIAMOND FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS:
1-James Dempsey $821,612
2-Soi Nguyen $517,478
3-Vanessa Selbst $338,351
4-Andrew Lichtenberger $218,933
5-Vitor Coelho $159,224
6-Antonio Esfandiari $119,418
PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Five Diamond NLH Main Event
December 6-11, 2011
Bellagio | Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $4,006,100 | Entries: 413
FINAL RESULTS:
JAMES DEMPSEY 129
SOI NGUYEN 79
VANESSA SELBST 49
ANDREW LICHTENBERGER 39
VITOR COELHO 34
ANTONIO ESFANDIARI 29
LARRY WELLS 29
BRADEN HALL 14
ANTHONY YEH 14
DAVID WILLIAMS 14
RUDY MAAREK 14
KYLE JULIUS 12
WILLIAM REYNOLDS 12
BLAKE KELSO 12
MATT MARAFIOTI 12
TOMMY CHEN 9
TY REIMAN 9
TONY DUNST 9
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