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Matt Keikoan Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 29
Jun 18 2010 06:42 AM EST
NEWS FLASH: Matt Keikoan Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 29
Matt Keikoan was the winner of the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his second career WSOP gold bracelet victory. He previously won the $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event in 2008.
Keikoan, from San Rafael, CA is a 42-year-old professional poker player. Keikoan started out working as a poker prop for about eight years before phasing gradually into the life of a working poker pro. Keikoan played at Casino San Pablo in the San Francisco Bay area. While working as a poker prop, some of Keikoan's regular co-workers included fellow highly-accomplished pros Bill Edler, Erick Lindgren, Bill Gazes, Matt Lefkowitz, and others.
This victory paid $425,969, which was his second-biggest poker payday ever. Keikoan collected $550,529 when he won his first gold bracelet. Keikoan also finished 63rd-place in the 2007 Main Event, worth $154,194. With his hefty cash place in this event, Keikoan now has in excess of $3.2 million in overall career tournament winnings.
The runner up, Dan Idema, is a 27-year-old poker pro from Vancouver, BC (Canada). Prior to playing poker for a living, Idema played ice hockey in the Western Hockey League. Idema nearly became the fourth Canadian to win a gold bracelet this year, after fellow countrymen Aadam Daya, Pascal Lefrancois and Miguel Proulx (today) won their WSOP victories. Second place paid a nice consolation prize amounting to $195,147.
The top 54 finishers collected prize money. Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Matt Keikoan (1st) , Michael Mizrachi (8th), and David Chiu (9th).
Michael “the Grinder” Mizrachi is having a phenomenal WSOP, thus far. He won the Poker Players Championship (Event #2) and made his third final table this year. Mizrachi now has a 1st, 6th, and 8th place finish at this year’s series.
With his ninth-place finish, David Chiu now has 50 career cashes. This currently ranks 11th on the all-time WSOP cashes list.
A full report of this event will be posted shortly.
For official tournament results and additional details, please CLICK HERE.
Northern California Poker Pro Gets Second WSOP Victory
Matt Keikoan was the winner of the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his second career WSOP gold bracelet victory. He previously won the $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event in 2008.
Keikoan, from San Rafael, CA is a 42-year-old professional poker player. Keikoan started out working as a poker prop for about eight years before phasing gradually into the life of a working poker pro. Keikoan played at Casino San Pablo in the San Francisco Bay area. While working as a poker prop, some of Keikoan's regular co-workers included fellow highly-accomplished pros Bill Edler, Erick Lindgren, Bill Gazes, Matt Lefkowitz, and others.
This victory paid $425,969, which was his second-biggest poker payday ever. Keikoan collected $550,529 when he won his first gold bracelet. Keikoan also finished 63rd-place in the 2007 Main Event, worth $154,194. With his hefty cash place in this event, Keikoan now has in excess of $3.2 million in overall career tournament winnings.
The runner up, Dan Idema, is a 27-year-old poker pro from Vancouver, BC (Canada). Prior to playing poker for a living, Idema played ice hockey in the Western Hockey League. Idema nearly became the fourth Canadian to win a gold bracelet this year, after fellow countrymen Aadam Daya, Pascal Lefrancois and Miguel Proulx (today) won their WSOP victories. Second place paid a nice consolation prize amounting to $195,147.
The top 54 finishers collected prize money. Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Matt Keikoan (1st) , Michael Mizrachi (8th), and David Chiu (9th).
Michael “the Grinder” Mizrachi is having a phenomenal WSOP, thus far. He won the Poker Players Championship (Event #2) and made his third final table this year. Mizrachi now has a 1st, 6th, and 8th place finish at this year’s series.
With his ninth-place finish, David Chiu now has 50 career cashes. This currently ranks 11th on the all-time WSOP cashes list.
A full report of this event will be posted shortly.
For official tournament results and additional details, please CLICK HERE.
