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James Bord bested a field of 346 players to take down this year’s WSOPE Main Event. He joins an illustrious list of Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, and Jeff Shulman to take down the highly attractive deep stacked event. Bord has previously only cropped up with some smaller cashes in the last few years of the WSOP, but now he definitely has the bankroll to continue to make more of a mark on the poker world. He is the final result:

1 James Bord £830,401
2 Fabrizio Baldassari £513,049
3 Ronald Lee £376,829
4 Roland “Last Big Name” De Wolfe £278,945
5 Nicolas Levi £208,119
6 Daniel Steinberg £156,530
7 Dan Fleyshman £118,643
8 Brian Powell £90,617
9 Marc Inizan £69,754
10 David Peters £54,114
11 Andrew Pantling £54,114
12 Arnaud Mattern £54,114
13 Barny “Hendon Mob” Boatman £42,454
14 Clint Coffee £42,454
15 Hoyt “Doyles Room” Corkins £42,454
16 Viktor “I wont confirm I’m Isildur1″ Blom £33,285
17 Bojan Gledovic £33,285
18 Anthony Newman £33,285
19 Phil “Probably the Best Player since Sliced Bread” Ivey £26,400
20 Thomas Bichon £26,400
21 Jani Sointula £26,400
22 Greg “FBT” Mueller £26,400
23 Barry “The Bear” Greenstein £26,400
24 Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko £26,400
25 Hoi Cheung £26,400
26 Alex Keating £26,400
27 John Eames £26,400
28 Michael Benvenuti £21,106
29 Bryn “I go deep in everything this week” Kenney £21,106
30 Freddy Deeb £21,106
31 James Mitchell £21,106
32 Jean Paul Seatelli £21,106
33 Matthew Waxman £21,106
34 Magnus Persson £21,106
35 Darren Woods £21,106
36 Mark Thurgood £21,106

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Gus Hansen has just won his first WSOP bracelet, in the $10K Heads-up Highroller event at the WSOP Europe in London. Hansen triumphed in an epic 3-part heads-up batttle to secure the long awaited wrist bling.

1 Gus Hansen £288,409
2 Jim Collopy £178,211
3 Ram Vaswani £96,212
4 Andrew Feldman £96,212
5 Daniel Negreanu £47,045
6 Kevin Eyster £47,045
7 Huck Seed £47,045
8 Neil Channing £47,045
9 Howard Lederer £22,847
10 Martin Kabrhel £22,847
11 McLean Karr £22,847
12 Saar Wilf £22,847
13 Andrew Robl £22,847
14 Phil Ivey £22,847
15 Marius Skoglund Torbergsen £22,847
16 Sondre Svanevik £22,847

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Swedish pro Viktor Blom (highly suspected to be the infamous Isidur1) is leading the WSOPE Main Event in London. Here are the latest chip counts:

1 Viktor Blom 132,000
2 Antonio Esfandiari 130,000
3 Yann Dion 110,000
4 Phil Laak 103,000
5 Sam Trickett 97,000
6 JP Kelly 96,000
7 Carlos Mortensen 93,000
8 Brian Powell 90,000
9 John Dolan 85,000
10 Ludovic Lacay 80,000

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WSOPE Main Event - £10,350 NLHE - 362 entrants

 John Juanda outlasted a very classy field in the WSOPE Main Event in London.    Here is the full list of players who cashed

1 £ 868,800 John Juanda 
2 £ 533,950 Stanislav Alekhin  
3 £ 334,850 Ivan Demidov  
4 £ 271,500 Bengt Sonnert  
5 £ 217,200 Daniel Negreanu  
6 £ 171,950 Scott Fischman
7 £ 135,750 Robin Keston  
8 £ 108,600 Toni Hiltunen  
9 £ 81,450 Chris Elliott  
10 £ 54,300 Peter Neff  
11 £ 54,300 Johnny Lodden  
12 £ 54,300 Soren Kongsgaard  
13 £ 45,250 Talal Shakerchi  
14 £ 45,250 Philippe Rouas  
15 £ 45,250 Brian Townsend  
16 £ 36,200 Justin Smith  
17 £ 36,200 Brandon Adams
18 £ 36,200 Mike Matusow
19 £ 28,960 Erik Seidel 
20 £ 28,960 Kim-Andre Torsvik  
21 £ 28,960 Mel Judah  
22 £ 28,960 Perttu Bergius  
23 £ 28,960 Andy Bloch 
24 £ 28,960 Tim West  
25 £ 28,960 Panicos Panaxi  
26 £ 28,960 William Haughey  
27 £ 28,960 Harri Pehkonen  
28 £ 25,340 Roberto Machado  
29 £ 25,340 Brian Johnson  
30 £ 25,340 Tomi Moreira  
31 £ 25,340 Peter Turmezey  
32 £ 25,340 Alexis Guimbal  
33 £ 25,340 Josh Arieh  
34 £ 25,340 Christofer Williamsson  
35 £ 25,340 Jani Sointula  
36 £ 25,340 James Keys

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WSOPE - Event 3 - £5000 PL Omaha

165 entrants.   Final table finishes for Full Tilt Pros Max Pescatori and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson.   Betfair sponsored pro, and legend of online Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, was pipped to the bracelet by Theo Jorgensen

1 £ 218,626 Theo Jorgensen  
2 £ 132,000 Sorel Mizzi  
3 £ 84,562 Eric Dalby  
4 £ 66,000 Erik Friberg  
5 £ 51,562 Max Pescatori
6 £ 41,250 David Penly  
7 £ 33,000 Chris Ferguson 
8 £ 26,812 Jason Mercier  
9 £ 22,688 Tomi Nyback  
10 £ 18,562 llkka Koskinen  
11 £ 18,562 Neil Channing  
12 £ 18,562 Joe Beevers
13 £ 16,500 Padraig Parkinson  
14 £ 16,500 Justin Smith  
15 £ 16,500 Chris Bjorin  
16 £ 14,438 Allen Cunningham
17 £ 14,438 Stephen Kjaerstad  
18 £ 14,438 Jolyne Thompson

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WSOPE - Event 2 - £2500 HORSE

110 runners in this event.  A very high class field of predominantly big name pros.  Final table finishes for Full Tilt pros Howard Lederer and Phil Ivey

1 £ 76,999 Sherkhan Farnood  
2 £ 48,125 Ivo Donev  
3 £ 30,250 Howard Lederer
4 £ 22,000 Jeff Duvall  
5 £ 17,188 Mark Gregorich  
6 £ 13,750 Phil Ivey 
7 £ 11,000 Jeff Lisandro  
8 £ 8,938 Spencer Lawrence  
9 £ 6,875 Erik Albinsson  
10 £ 6,875 Yuval Bronshtein  
11 £ 6,188 Raul Paez  
12 £ 6,188 Phil Hellmuth  
13 £ 5,500 Isaac Haxton  
14 £ 5,500 Daniel Negreanu  
15 £ 4,812 Marc Goodwin  
16 £ 4,812 David Williams

Notable finishes also for Haxton, Hellmuth and Negreanu, all making the money

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Jesper Hougaard won his 2nd WSOP bracelet of his career in Event 1 in London.  He won the first bracelet only a few months ago in Las Vegas in a $1500 NLHE event

WSOPE Event 1 - £1500 NLHE - 410 entrants

1 £ 144,218 Jesper Hougaard  
2 £ 89,175 Fuad Serhan  
3 £ 55,350 Yevgeniy Timoshenko  
4 £ 44,588 Neil Channing  
5 £ 36,285 John Dwyer  
6 £ 28,598 Adam Junglen  
7 £ 22,448 Linda Lee  
8 £ 17,835 Ian Woodley  
9 £ 13,222 Daniel Nutt  
10 £ 8,610 Christoph Bommes  
11 £ 8,610 Costas Artemi  
12 £ 8,610 Joseph El-Shater  
13 £ 7,072 Tim Pennington  
14 £ 7,072 John Kabbaj  
15 £ 7,072 Andy Bloch  
16 £ 5,535 Warren Woodall  
17 £ 5,535 Matt Novak  
18 £ 5,535 Willie Tann  
19 £ 4,305 Michael Bepper  
20 £ 4,305 Soheil Zamanian  
21 £ 4,305 Amir Englund  
22 £ 4,305 Nathan Lee  
23 £ 4,305 Jason Gray  
24 £ 4,305 Daniel Negreanu  
25 £ 4,305 Arkadi Kilman  
26 £ 4,305 Demis Hassabis  
27 £ 4,305 Brandon Cantu  
28 £ 3,075 John Buttifant  
29 £ 3,075 Salim Ghozali  
30 £ 3,075 Terry Cook  
31 £ 3,075 Xavier Laszcz  
32 £ 3,075 William Martin  
33 £ 3,075 Ken Corkery  
34 £ 3,075 Carlos Tejado  
35 £ 3,075 Sid Harris  
36 £ 3,075 Dahe Liu  
37 £ 3,075 Gary Pearce  
38 £ 3,075 Ilkka Koskinen  
39 £ 3,075 James Akenhead  
40 £ 3,075 David La Ronde  
41 £ 3,075 Oystein Stai  
42 £ 3,075 Darren Fuller  
43 £ 3,075 Thomas Marchese  
44 £ 3,075 Surinder Sunar  
45 £ 3,075 Ben Grundy

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