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Brendan Taylor was the winner of the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold’em Shootout championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory. Taylor collected $184,950 in prize money in what was his sixth time to cash at the WSOP. Taylor’s most notable previous achievement was a fifth-place finish in an event here two years ago.

 

The runner up was Ben Yu, from Henderson, NV. He received $114,484.

 

The top 64 finishers collected prize money. Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Chau Giang, Jeff Ahmadi, Jimmy Shultz, and Tomas Alenius.

 

Pat Pezzin cashed for the seventh time this year, which is one cash behind the 2010 leader – Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler.

 

A full report of this event will be posted shortly.

 

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