Bodog Poker’s David Williams Wins 2010 WPT World Championship
David Williams, Team Bodog Poker Pro and runner-up to Fossilman Greg Raymer at the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event, has won the 2010 WPT World Championship.
The famed World Poker Tour event held each year at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is widely considered to be the flagship event of each year’s tour and always attracts the best and brightest of poker, but this year it was Bodog Poker’s own David Williams that shined above them all.
Interestingly it was a rather small playing field Williams had to beat, with only 195 players paying the $25,000 buy-in and braving the volcanic ash to fly to the event. Never the less, the likes of David Benyamine (4th for $329,228), Phil Hellmuth (who finished 7th for $152,856), Scotty Nguyen (who finished 8th for $105,823), and Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliot (who didn’t finish in the top 8) were all there in force. Runner-up was another young up-and-coming poker pro Eric Baldwin, who may be familiar to many as last year’s Card Player Magazine Card Player of the Year Award winner. His prize, $1,034,715.
But it was Dallas, Texas native David Williams of Bodog Poker, who was outlasted by his own mother in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, who took this year’s WPT World Championship top prize of $1,530,537.
David Williams is joined on Team Bodog Poker by Evelyn Ng, Daniel Negreanu’s prodigy. And speaking of Williams, Ng, and Negreanu, they all appear in the poker video game Stacked.
