Matt Graham Latest WSOP World Champion
Posted on June 23, 2009
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Matt Graham Wins 2009 WSOP Event #40 $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha
Matt Graham can now brag about being a World Champion poker player after a marathon heads-up match with Russian, Vitaly Lunkin. While both players continued their agfgressive style of play to the end it was Graham that finally walked away with the $679,379 for the winner plus the World Champion WSOP bracelet. Matt Graham was severly short stacked before logging three double-ups in a row to get back in contention and then divine the cards he needed to engineer the win.
Vitaly Lunkin collected $ 419,832 for second place that he can add to the $1,891,012 he collected for winning the $40,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'Em 40th Anniversary Event #2. Van Marcus was the third place finisher for a cash haul of $278,409. The $10,000 Buy-In World Championship event attracted 295 poker players.
photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com
Vitaly Lunkin when he had most of the chips
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