WSOP Event No. 37 Winner David Benyamine

Event No. 37 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Omaha High-Low Split World Championship tournament that started on June 19th and finished on June 21st with a new champion.  There were 235 people in the event that generated a $2,209,000 dollar prize pool.

At the event the top 27 players would cash at the tournament.  This event was the largest ever Omaha High-Low Split prize pool in poker history.  There was only one other event that surpassed the one million dollar mark, the $5,000 buyin championship that was held at the 2006 WSOP.

Omaha High Low Split was first introduced in 1990 at the World Series of Poker.  Seven years before that in 1983 Omaha High made it's debut.  In the 1980's the WSOP schedule included both Omaha-High and Pot-Limit Omaha events.  But Omaha High lost interest over the years and was finally removed from the WSOP schedule in 2003.

The winner of Event No. 37 is David Benyamine, a 35 year old professional poker player from both Paris, France and Las Vegas, Nevada.  He won $535,678 dollars and his first WSOP gold bracelet for the win.

The final results for Event No. 37 are below.

1    David Benyamine    $535,687    Las Vegas    Nevada
2    Greg Jamison    $331,350    Las Vegas    Nevada
3    Jason Gray    $209,855    London     England
4    Toto Leonidas    $171,197    Los Angeles    California
5    Mike Matusow    $138,062    Henderson    Nevada
6    Eugene Katchalov    $110,450    New York    New York
7    Ram Vaswani    $88,360    London    England
8    David Chiu    $71,792    Rowland Heights    California
9    Hieu “Tony” Ma    $55,225    S. El Monte    California
10    Berry Johnston    $38,657    Bethany    Oklahoma
11    Shun Uchida    $38,657    Las Vegas    Nevada
12    Chau Giang    $38,657    Las Vegas    Nevada
13    Danny Dang    $33,135    Whittier    California
14    Pat Pezzin    $33,135    Toronto    Ontario, Canada
15    Stuart Paterson    $33,135    Boca Raton    Florida
16    Brent Carter    $27,612    Oak Park     Illinois
17    William McMahan    $27,612    Newport    Tennessee
18    Ray Dehkharghani    $27,612    Huntington Beach    California
19    Rao Pasqual    $22,090    Huntington Beach    California
20    James Groves    $22,090    Las Vegas    Nevada
21    James Van Alstyne    $22,090    Las Vegas    Nevada
22    Daniel Smith    $22,090    Folsom    California
23    Bradley Booth    $22,090    Richmond    British Columbia, Canada
24    Bruno Fitoussi    $22,090    Paris     France
25    Dustin Sitar    $22,090    Las Vegas    Nevada
26    Yueqi Zhu    $22,090    Rowland Heights    California
27    Alexander Kostritsyn    $22,090    Moscow     Russia