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Jason DeWitt won the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #17) for $818,959 at the World Series of Poker on Friday morning. It is his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory for DeWitt, an Indiana native now living in the Atlanta area.

Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, bested eight top poker players to win the final seat into the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.

Carter Phillips won the $1,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em tournament at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday night, claiming $482,774 and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

Steve Gee won the second $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker to collect $472,479 in prize money on Wednesday night.

Frank Kassela won the $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split World Championship for $447,446 at the World Series of Poker in the early-morning hours on Wednesday, defeating an all-star final table lineup that included four former WSOP gold bracelet winners, including John Juanda, Steve Zolotow, Jennifer Harman, and Dario Minieri.

Yan R.Chen, a professional poker player from Irvine, Calif., won the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball title at the World Series of Poker on Monday night to collect $92,817.

Matthew Matros won the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold’em Championship at the World Series of Poker early on Monday morning to claim $189,870 and a WSOP gold bracelet.

Simon Watt beat noted professional poker player Tom “Durr” Dwan heads up to claim the third $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Championship (Event #11) at this year’s World Series of Poker to win $614,248 and a WSOP gold bracelet early Monday morning.

Men "the Master" Nguyen won the Seven-Card Stud World Championship at the World Series of Poker, his first bracelet since 2003.

James Dempsey, one of England’s top online poker pros, topped a field of 650 players to win the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship (Event #9) at the World Series of Poker on Saturday night to take home $197,470 and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

Men “the Master” Nguyen topped a field of 150 of the world’s best poker players to claim the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship (Event #10) at the World Series of Poker for his seventh career WSOP gold bracelet and $394,807 in the early-morning hours on Sunday.

Pascal Lefrancois, a 23-year-old college student from Montreal, Quebec, won $568,974 and the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #8) at the World Series of Poker in the early morning hours on Saturday, then promptly removed his shirt in celebration.

Peter Gelencser, a 22-year-old professional poker player from Budapest, Hungary, won $180,730 and the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball Championship (Event #7) at the World Series of Poker in the early-morning hours on Friday.

Joshua Tieman won $441,692 and poker’s most coveted prize — a WSOP gold bracelet — with a win in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (Event #6) on Thursday.

Aadam Daya, a 31-year-old business analyst from Mississauga, Ontario, won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #3) at the World Series of Poker to collect a whopping $625,872 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Daya topped a huge field of 4,345 players in the tournament, played over Memorial Day weekend.

Praz Bansi, a 32-year-old professional poker player from London, England, won $515,501 by claiming the title in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #5) at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday.

Michael Chow, a poker pro from Honolulu, Hawaii, won $237,463 and his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split tournament (Event #4) on the day of his 33rd birthday early on Wednesday morning.

Just three weeks after the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel wrote a story about Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi’s tax troubles, the well-known professional poker player captured one of the most coveted titles in poker and claimed a prize of more than $1.5 million.

The first gold bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker was won by Hoai D. Pham. Pham, a 43-year-old poker dealer who lives in San Diego, Calif., won the 2010 Casino Employees Championship.

The World Series of Poker is encouraging players to donate one percent of their winnings to the Nevada Cancer Institute.