While he may be a professional poker player, David Woo will remember yesterday as a major point in his professional life, the day he took home his first WSOP gold bracelet. Woo also pocketed a hefty $631,550 in prize money for Event number 39 at the 2008 WSOP. But it seems as though it was not all plain sailing for the bracelet winner.
Interestingly this $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament attracted the second largest field of WSOP 2008 so far. The 2,720 entrants created a prize pool of some $3,712,800 and allowed the organisers to make prize payments to 270 players, but Woo was the man who took the headlines.
It was actually Thom Werthmann who came to the table in the lead on the final day of this 3 day event, with 1,600,000 in chips against Woo’s 1,090,000. While Werthmann is actually a past WSOP bracelet winner he could not follow through on his good work and ended up a disappointing fifth at the end of the event. These 3 day events take a mixture of skill, focus and the ability to concentrate on the table at all times. But then again, you would not expect WSOP to give away their bracelets!
While he may be a professional poker player, David Woo will remember yesterday as a major point in his professional life, the day he took home his first WSOP gold bracelet. Woo also pocketed a hefty $631,550 in prize money for Event number 39 at the 2008 WSOP. But it seems as though it was not all plain sailing for the bracelet winner.