David Williams wins WPT Championship

BoDog Poker Pro David Williams has won the 2010 WPT Championship . Play action lasted this year for seven days and Williams outlasted 195 other poker players. The final two players came down to Eric Baldwin and Williams.

The final hand saw Baldwin push with A-5 and Williams instantly called him with the ducks. An ace came on the flop, but Williams deuces held when a two came on the turn giving him trips and a cool $1,530,537 !

“When I saw that deuce come, it was amazing,” Williams added. “It was weird, as soon I saw it my mind was like, I just won. I couldn’t speak for a while. It was awesome.”

Williams is a self taught poker player and become known when he won a seat to the 2004 WSOP by playing online and went on to finish second to Poker Pro Greg Raymer. That second place finish awarded him an astounding $3.5 million. He went on to win a bracelet in the 7 card stud WSOP Event in 2006. With this latest win, his total poker earning now exceed $7.8 million. Not bad at all for someone that got there start at an online poker room.

It was after the second place finish in 2004 that BoDog Poker signed him on as a team member . You can challenge David Williams online by clicking here to download the BoDog poker site.

2010 WPT World Championship
1. David Williams- $1,530,537
2. Eric Baldwin- $1,034,715
3. Shawn Buchanan- $587,906
4. David Benyamine- $329,228
5. Billy Baxter- $246,921
6. John O’Shea- $199,888

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