2009 LA Poker Classic

Andrew Cimpan outlasted Binh Nguyen in an epic heads-up battle.

Baby-faced Binh kept on getting the chips in good, but the cards really werent running for him.  

In the final hand the players were all in pre-flop with Cimpan on Kc 5c and Nguyen on Ad 9d, but the board played out 5h 3s Tc Td 4s, to give Cimpan the win.

Buy-in $9,600 + $400.  696 Entrants

1 $ 1,686,260 Cornel Andrew Cimpan  
2 $ 935,424 Binh Nguyen  
3 $ 654,797 Mike Sowers  
4 $ 430,963 Chris Karagulleyan  
5 $ 310,694 Pat Walsh  
6 $ 240,538 Chris Ferguson  
7 $ 180,403 Blake Cahail  
8 $ 133,632 Payman Arjang  
9 $ 96,883 Mark Bryan  
10 $ 64,477 Tam Ly  
11 $ 64,477 Donald D’Auria  
12 $ 64,477 Zach Hyman  
13 $ 57,796 Jeremy Kottler  
14 $ 57,796 Peter Feldman  
15 $ 57,796 Dan Lu  
16 $ 51,114 Teddy Monroe  
17 $ 51,114 Nick Schulman  
18 $ 51,114 Xuan Nguyen