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WSOP Event 29 - $3000 NL Holdem  - 716 entrants
1 $ 434,789 John Phan  
2 $ 277,452 Johnny Neckar  
3 $ 167,973 Matt Vengrin  
4 $ 137,343 Alex Bolotin  
5 $ 112,641 David Singer
6 $ 88,927 Stewart Newman  
7 $ 69,165 Thuyen Doan  
8 $ 54,344 Tony Dunst  
9 $ 39,523 Sebastian Segovia  
10 $ 24,702 Alex Zaslavsky  
11 $ 24,702 Linda Lee  
12 $ 24,702 Lee Childs  
13 $ 19,761 Matt Stout  
14 $ 19,761 Dustin Pattinson  
15 $ 19,761 Vincent Peraino  
16 $ 14,821 Don Mullis  
17 $ 14,821 Ryan Young  
18 $ 14,821 Richard Tatalovich

David Singer, following his bracelet in Event 3, went close again in this one.  In the end he finsihed a very commendable 5th.

WSOP Event 3 - $1500 PL Holdem
1 $ 214,131 David Singer  
2 $ 136,643 Jacobo Fernandez  
3 $ 82,725 Gregory Alston  
4 $ 67,640 Robert Lipkin  
5 $ 55,474 Russ Harriman  
6 $ 43,796 Joe Tehan  
7 $ 34,063 Zachary King  
8 $ 26,764 Al Barbieri  
9 $ 19,464 Glen Bean  
10 $ 12,165 Ryan Fair  
11 $ 12,165 Brandon Schaefer  
12 $ 12,165 Doug Carli  
13 $ 9,732 Scott Seiver  
14 $ 9,732 Philip Yeh  
15 $ 9,732 Eric Shanks  
16 $ 7,299 Robert Fishman  
17 $ 7,299 Justin Young  
18 $ 7,299 Bobby Law

David Singer picking up his first WSOP bracelet, following many years as a pro

David Singer beat whitelime (real name Emil Patel) in the final of the $25K buy-in Heads-up championship on Full Tilt.   A very impressive 64 players took part, with Singer winning $560,000

The last hand saw a shortstacked whitelime pushing his 10-3, and getting a call from Singers pocket 8’s, with the snowmen holding up.

Singer’s full list of victims on the way to victory were OMGClayAiken , Brandon Adams, Buck99, Mastrblastr, Brian Hastings and whitelime

whitelime took-out the following players on the way to his $320,000 for 2nd place: Phil Ivey, Taylor Caby, Nordberg, Ansky451, and Andy Bloch