Jeremy Gaubert Wins World Poker Open
The World Poker Open may no longer be one of the stops on the World Poker Tour annual circuit, but that doesn’t make it any less popular, contentious, and newsworthy. In fact, it remains one of the largest live poker tournaments in the U.S. south.
This year’s WPO, hosted like all those before it in Tunica, Mississippi, and when the last deal was done, another young champion was crowned in an increasingly youth-centered field: 25-year-old Jeremy Gaubert (aka “thechemist83” online) of Thibodaux, Louisiana, beating a playing field of 126 players.
Bouncing back from the 3rd shortest chip stack at the start of the final table, Gaubert earned himself $192,953 for his efforts, along with a free seat in the $10,000 WPT event taking place next January, 2010 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
It was made even more of a particularly exciting accomplishment in that the chip leader at the start of the final table was none other than former World Series of Poker Main Event champ, and the first ever to have won his seat there via online poker satellite (PokerStars, to be precise), Chris Moneymaker (with poker pro Chad Brown holding the second biggest stack). Gaubert, meanwhile, came to the WPO representing Full Tilt Poker. And he was the player who knocked Moneymaker out of the running and into the 3rd place spot.
This isn’t the first big win for Gaubert, as he recently chopped the PokerStars Sunday Million pot, for a $233,000 take, although this is Gaubert’s first live poker win.
