Greg Mueller Becomes Fourth 2009 WSOP Double Bracelet Winner
Posted on July 2, 2009
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Greg Mueller has become the fourth player to win two bracelets at the 2009 WSOP, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that prior to this years World Series Mueller had 13 career WSOP cashes but no bracelets. His first bracelet this year came in the $10,000 world championship limit hold’em event, where he topped a field of 185 and pocketed $460,836.
His second victory came on Monday in the $1,500 limit hold’em shootout, where he outlasted a much larger field (572 players) in a shootout format. Mueller ended up facing Marc Naalden heads-up for the championship, where after building a 5-1 chip lead he eliminated Naalden and earned $194,854 in the process.
Here are the final table results:
1. Greg Mueller — $194,854
2. Marc Naalden — $120,614
3. Mille Phung Shiu — $77,138
4. David Williams — $51,145
5. Matthew Sterling — $35,058
6. Flaminio Malaguti — $24,824
7. Joep van den Bijgaart — $18,136
8. Jose Barbero — $13,655
