$1,530,537 Prize Pool at World Poker Tour at the WPT World Championship | Part 1

way out in front with over 9 million in chips well there you see the stakes these guys are playing for the winner taking home over a million half dollars the runner up also getting over a million dollars so a lot on the line for these guys besides a covered WPT title sure is all right to this hand we go Billy getting out of the way in this one Eric also folding now Williams not going to play an 87 round to the battle of the blinds the battle of the WPT Champions David Benjamin with just a three look at this Vince he's raising this time he limped in last time when he had King Jack and the cannon with a queen nine of Spades say all in goes right over the top just like he knows David benyan doesn't have a hand and he takes it down what a nice play by Shan Buchanan and V I'll tell you this guy has just terrific poker instincts he's a WPT champ if he wins tonight he'll be the WPT player of the year for season 8 really a terrific play to move all in there to take down that PO all right action back on Benjamin this time he's got a silly little 4-3 quickly folds Shan Buchanan also going out over to Billy Baxter he's got an ace Jack of spade on the short stack and he's going to move all in here yeah he's going to push with it I don't blame him Eric Baldwin FS his hand but David Williams now with the king T of heart seems interested well V's interested because he got nine million in chips he can well afford to make this call of just over a million more this could be a great double up for Billy he'd be out in front well you always want to take a Hall of Famer out of a tournament V if you're at a final table but you'd hate to double him up all right all right I'll call David with momentum is going to make the call well he's gambling here and right now Billy Baxter out in front a good shot to double up right here he's got the ace Jack of spade David Williams with the kingtan of Hearts which way with the poker Destiny flop let's take a look at the Flop oh my god oh it's come Ace Queen Jack David Williams has flopped the best hand possible the AI straight but Billy Baxter has flopped top and bottom pair he's got two pair with a back door flush draw Billy Baxter needs help otherwise he'll be out in fifth place what a flop let's go the Billy Baxter looking for an ace or a Jack not there six of clubs comes off we are down to the river card the poker Hall of Famer must catch an ace or a Jack or he'll be our fifth place finisher here comes the River card can Billy hit here nope three of clubs comes off well Vance so many times in poker when you make a bad play Bad Luck follows that's what happened to Billy Baxter here yes but always a southern gentleman Billy Baxter out and right now he's going over to talk to Caris Scott waiting forting position to take down his first WPT title let's see if he can do it all right going to the felt action going to Eric Baldwin 27y old poker Pro out of Wisconsin maed in Psychology and this time he's got an attractive looking ace1 yeah pretty good hand in a four-handed poker game so he's going to raise it to 275,000 David Williams right behind with a queen Jack he's capped his cards an indication the guy's going to play a pot look at this Vin he's not getting out calling chips he's getting out raisin chips he's going to make it 900,000 to go the Parisian out the cannon also back into Baldwin event when the chipleader comes over the top of you and you're just looking down at an ace 10 you're not liking it and he does lay it down so right there David Williams playing tarz and king of the jungle he's letting them all know I'm the chip leader I'm in charge here don't mess with me and he was playing pretty tight solid in the beginning and now he's opening up his game he's got over 11 million in chips nicely done by David Williams going after his first WPT title and look at this very next hand he lays down a AI now Benjamin also not going to play so it's a battle of the blinds here WPT champ sha Buchanan's got the queen four Club he's going to limp in and make the call and Eric Baldwin with a simple Jack five of diamonds they be content to see the Flop Eric from B Dam Wisconsin moving all in here with the Jack five he is pushing it with a mediocrity here well V this is a position play he knows when a guy limps in unless he's specifically trapping you he's never going to be able to call an all in B that's exactly the case right there so really a nice play by Eric Balwin recognizing the situation and taking advantage of it all right and the blinds are going up to 80 and 160 as four-handed poker at the Fontana Lounge continues action going to the cannon who's squirming in his chair a little bit there he didn't like getting pushed around but this time he's got an A7 and he's going to raise with it makes it 375,000 to go Baldwin this time with just an 87 he's also got two players to act behind him but he's gone all in here what is this about unbelievable David Williams with a queen9 releases Benjamin out back around to sha Buchanan now remember he just left in At Last Hand Eric went over the top of him for all his chips now he's raised and again Eric's gone all and over the top of him and he's going to lay it down amazing bold all in BS by Eric Balwin and Vin there's no doubt in my mind he's factoring into the equation the difference in prize money between fourth and first place which is 1.2 million it's 700,000 difference between fourth and second place so by moving all in that's the seed that's planting these guys heads that they better not fool with him but they allow to go out in fourth place well he is looser than a gymnast in a steam room right now but it is paying off go back down to the felt action's going to be on David Benjamin and this time David has a king eight he's been sitting out a while now picks up a king a of Diamond's going to raise it makes it 355,000 to go Shan Buchanon goes away now Eric baldman with just a five and 10 let's see if it comes back to reality with this horrible hand man he and David benan have about exactly the same amount of chips 3.1 million all in oh no he can't do this unbelievable he's going for the hattick folks three all in bets in a row with three garbage hands it's going to work that's why this guy was the 2009 card player player of the year for making bold plays like that and this is the final table of the WPT world championship against phenomenal players we're coming back to the WPC World Championship in just a moment here on the World Poker Tour I have an absolute blast I can't believe some of the people that think that doing this for a living is a grind I enjoy myself there's always eight or nine interesting characters at your table you always see something that's hilarious you guys can laugh I don't mind I'm just thoroughly entertained welcome back to the World Poker Tour we're at the Bellagio and right now we are down to four players and Mike it is time guys are pushing all in at every moment well Vance I've been entertained by Eric's play he has moved all in three times in a row with dunk hands and won every pot by coming over the top of these guys folks let me tell you when you're playing for $1.5 million and a WP world championship title it's not easy to pull the trigger in battle against world class players yet this guy has done it V very impressive well pretty amazing and as you can see the chip cat David Williams out in front with over 11 million he's a leader well indeed he is but Eric bow has certainly earned about the last 1.4 million of his stack by moving in with junk all right he slows down right here as he folds his hand and now it's on David Williams with a jack eight a little surprised he lay that down on the Button he's got a big chip lead and just going to sit back a while all right Battle of the blinds the Parisian with a six dece of diamonds and he'll just be content to call it and sea with a 74 happy to see a flop so again these two WPT Champions going at it flop comes Jack 7 Deuce David benjaman flop bottom pair Che he checks Johan Buchanon flop middle pair and he also checks there turn card coming up oh beautiful card for David Benyamin he now has two pair in the best hand it's a kind of card that looks very unsuspecting so he's going to lead out and bit 190,000 you Canon with the sevens is going to tag along makes the call you can't blame him for calling with two sevens and now he's hit sevens and four so Sean Buchanon is outd drawn Benjamin on the river let's give sha Buchanan two pair both players have two pair they both started with junk they both made two pair and let the fireworks begin five and a half a million David Benjamin putting in now if you're sitting in sha Buchanan seat you're saying hm I thought I made the best hand yet this guy's still betting 500,000 could he possibly made a straight on me did he make Jax up Sean's going to just call Benjamin says two pair but they're not good enough and the Frenchman looks like he just choked on a bagette right there well Vance what he's choking on is he's saying geez finally made a junk hand of two pair the guy never took a raise in the spot yet I lost that hand things just not going well for David Benjamin so far tonight but the cannon takes down a good one shie Canada going for a second WPT title tonight in addition he's going for the WPT player of the year for season 8 if he could win this tournament tonight he'll capture that honor as well but he's got to beat some of the great ones and one of them is Eric Baldwin from Wisconsin he folds his hand Eric Bluff all in three times in a row with nothing he finally picks up an a high and folds David Williams this time going out well again it's a battle of the blinds between David benjam and Shan Buchan we've seen this act over and over tonight check it they both got awful hands again we're going to see a flop 86 up against Jack nine here we go and flop comes Ace A6 so Benjamin's out flopped Sean here he's got two pair Aces and sixes he's reaching for chip going to bet 200,000 now what's the cannon thinking wait a second David had an Ace and he's going to raise it here Vince makes it 565,000 to go but Benjamin is not going to buy the fact he's got an ace because he didn't raise it before the Flop I'm in WoW Benjamin going back over the top all in well just great poker knowledge and instincts and knowing where you're at and the situation think it was was a bad time for sea to come over the top there Frank's been s through him like a pain of glass David benman saying M you can only push me so far I'm tappy I'm I SP on that hand we coming fer David Williams over 11 million in chip the only player that has above average chips the winner tonight going to take home 1.5 million the runner up taking home over a million as well so big prize money on the line for these guys all right to the table we go David Williams 29 years old our big chip leader this time with an ace five's gun to muuk Benin also going away so we got the battle of the blind Shan Buchanan got a pair of eights here but look at this V he just limps in and I think he's limping in in hopes that Eric bowan goes all in one more time like he's done before the last time he limed in with the queen four Eric went all in with a jack five against him will he do it here with the ace deuce Eric has been plunging away this time he does have a pretty good ace deuce he's looking at his man staring the cannon down will he plunge again yes he does well he's plunging quickly called by Shan and Vin that was a setup play by Sha Buchanan he had full intention of calling with those two eights if the guy moved all in didn't hesitate to do so has the best hand but still his hand has to hold up V otherwise he'll be our fourth place finisher Eric's got close to a million dollars more than him so if Eric should get lucky and hit an ace he will knock the cannon out well Vince this is the Battle of the card player poker player of the year and Eric bwin and the potential WPT Player of the Year and Shan Buchanan dorard here comes a flop 10 six Deuce so Eric Gets a part of that flop As He Flops two deuces but Shan still out in front with the 28 so right now was the bo Eric has paired his Deuces but needs an AC or Deuce to take the lead the cards right by the board when it came out speaking of those poker games Vin one of them is AC duy that's what Eric Balwin needs right now but an eight comes on the turn it is over Shan Buchanan is going to win this pot with three snowmen doesn't matter the River card nothing will help Eric Balwin here Sean bu Cannon he's going to double up he certainly is and he's going to absolutely [ __ ] Eric so WPT champ Shan Banning doubling up there putting a hit on the baseball player Eric Balwin and Vin right now Eric's got to feel like it's about 10 to nothing going to the bottom of the ninth can he come back well he's only 27 years old Psychology major great baseball player a lot of heart from this young poker player let's see if he can back to the table we go actually on the Cannon as he quickly folds now Eric Baldwin going to peek down at an ace five of Hearts he's certainly going to be moving all in with this hand yes he does indeed he does we all in with the A5 much is it David Williams with a queen Jack that's a hand he usually likes okay I'm all in wow he goes all in I'm very surprised that he would go all in here with this hand to call [Music] [Applause] if Eric bowan wins this PO he will have close to two million in chips again and be right back in this thing here we go for the first three out of the five an ace right on the Flop it's come Ace 98 but it's not over David Williams can catch a 10 to make a straight for two running diamonds to make a flush and the way he's running so far this Final Table you can't put that past him EV we'll see here comes the fourth of diamonds that means if a diamond comes up David Williams will win this pot as he'll make a flush so David Williams looking for a diamond or a 10 either one of those who win it for him Eric Balwin holding his breath right [Music] now oh boy the chanting chicks on the rail praying for David Williams well the Jack of spade comes off so Eric Bowman doubles up and Vin the baseball player hits a nice triple right there he's still in the game not without a sweat though four players remain at Theo and Sean Buchanan with 5.6 million David benan in third place with about 2 million and Eric Bal in fourth place with 1.5 million this is the mother of all WPT poker tournaments the WPT World Champ and like that David with an A7 goes all in you counton says I need count as he looks down at a pair of T be surprised if he doesn't play this hand he's got a big hand how much the Parisian plunging 1.8 1.9 telling the cannon how much he has left Sean I'm certain is going to play this hand the question is you just call raised well you're just going to call the only way you're going to get reraised here is if you know someone's got a better hand than 210 Eric bald went out and David Williams folding a king queen folds the king queen and Spade just wants to get out of their way he's going to sit back and pull for sha Buchanan to win this pot where they'll be down to [Music] three-and so David benjaman seemingly not having any luck yet so far at this Final Table going to have to have some here to stay alive flop comes 986 so David benjam flopped an open in straight draw he would love to see sha Buchanan make three1 right now cuz that' give him a straight have a shot I'm watching your reaction Baldi I can't see it I'll take the 10 on the seven on the turn the 10 on the David Benjamin looking for a five a 10 or an ace if it doesn't what he's going to have to have Fourth Street coming up the five comes off David benam has made it straight it is not over though if sea catches the seven he'll have a higher straight so Shawn Buchanan must catch a seven to win this pot otherwise David Benjamin will double up incredible down to the river well a king comes off so David benjaman getting lucky there to stay alive in this tournament so there you have it we've got four players left here a Canadian a Frenchman and two in second place David benan with 4 million third place Shawn Buchanan with about 3.5 million and in fourth place right now Eric Balvin with 1.5 million the winner tonight will take home $1.5 million and he's 15,000 blind still 8060 to the table of pain we go action on David Benjamin so it cost you 300,000 a round to play Four hands of poker right now David quickly folding Shan the cannon also out but look look at this Eric Baldwin picking up Ace Jack and he's going to shove it well you can't blame him for that I do the same thing right now with this chip count when a man moves all in there's no defense against it unless you pick up a hand David Williams doesn't Eric takes down the P Eric Baldwin was very impressive because he didn't necessarily get hands at this Final Table he made things happen plunging ahead with absolute nothing hands going all in and made it work a lot of talent from this young man V we got a lot of talent left in this final table I can tell you that all four of these guys are Pros all of them forked out 25,000 in cash to play in this tournament so you know they can play here Eric's got Queen Jack of Hearts and moves all in again he's doing it again but it may not work this time because look at this David Williams picking up a monster Ace King goes over the top ball in yep he's gone all in as well Benjamin squeezing to 53 won't play that and sha he's got one ace and it do can't play those guys getting out of the way but I can tell you they're pulling for David Williams to win this pot so they can move up in prize money and take one step closer to taking down this title as there'll be three players left shouldn't be a problem family at the poker table rooting their boys on who will get lucky Ace King versus queen Jack it's Eric he picks up queens on the Flop wow he has taking the lead with two queens so David Williams maintaining his composure but now looking for an ace or a king or two running cars to make a straight here comes the turn no with the seven of diamonds not to be for David Williams so Eric Balwin holding his breath must Dodge an Acer a king on the river to double up and stay alive and he does it as the four Hearts comes off so basebal as we call him doubles up to stay alive man that's what it takes you got to get lucky in certain situations one of those situations and obviously when you're all in four players remain at bagio we're coming back with more action in just a moment here on the World Poker Tour I don't think the cameras affect me at all it's like before a ball game you're you're nervous before but like once you step in the Batters box all that matters is like you and the Pitcher once I get to the table it's just going to be me and the chips and the numbers and the players and their Tendencies and I'm going to be real focused no one likes to be on the wrong end of the luck six clubs everybody likes to have their Aces hold up and crack everybody else's Aces David Williams makes a straight wins the point of the game is there is luck and ball your hands are going to get beat and you're going to beat better hands I mean that's what keeps us coming back if not we just play chess I don't necessarily agree with that but welcome back to the World Poker Tour we got four players remaining here at the WPT World Championship we're now joined by WPT Champion luron Washington now luron your stories become legendary in the poker world you defeated 2400 players online to win your seat into the WPT Invitational then you defeated 567 players to take down that title now you come to the WPT world championship and play against all these top Pros tell us about that experience oh this experience here at the world championship was great just to get down here and mix it up with the guys that you watch on TV so much just to go head to-head with them and win a few Poots was really great now luron you're a boxer you got knocked out by a former boxer the devilfish now would you take an absolute Sucker Punch from the Devil fish to turn that result around every day any time okay we throw to have you out here in the world Poker Tour and we hope to see you a lot more often in the future playing a WPT event hey I hope to see you guys soon all right let's go to the felt winner going to take home a little over 1.5 million here tonight action on David Williams Williams has a queen8 off suit now he's going to make the call and David Benjamin with an 87 says let's see the Flop as it comes 764 oh a nice flop for David benjaman he's flopped top pair and a straight throw David Williams checks the gut shot straight draw David Benjamin not only has the same gut shot straight draw he's also got top pair to go with it and he's going to fire out 350,000 daveid Williams going going to make the call here four spades on the turn again Williams going to check and again Benjamin beton this time a half a million yep and he's going to be successful David Williams can't take the heat David Benjamin taking the PT there's a Frenchman WPT champ David Benjamin looking for a second WPT title tonight happy to pick up the pot right now kis Scott talking to Sam chahan the mindset coach talk to me about some of the poker players that you've worked with well I worked with Antonio sendori Gavin Smith Paul Wasa Josh arier Phil helmuth and uh of course I'm working with David Williams who's on the final table today what are some of the techniques that you've used with David to bring him to this place I kind of combined uh neural linguistic programming and clinical hypnosis to one but but the main thing if you notice with David is he has more patience in poker you could play your best in lose as everyone knows but he has more patience he's more in a state of Zen like you know just waiting for opportunities to come instead of pushing all the time so I think I'm very proud of him for a lot of the changes that he's made well I would agree with that assessment Vance David Williams a much more patient player today than he was a few years ago all right back the felt a quick raise by Sha Buchanan with it A7 makes it 485,000 and look at this Eric Baldwin with an A9 going all in again going over the top of sha Buchanan all in Williams out Benjamin out they're going to sit back and watch the the battle here and right now Shan Buchanan being put to the test with the A7 offit he just passed the test a minute ago with an ace5 EV I'll tell you it just seems like every pot cha Buchanan plays he's got a tough decision to make last time he made the right decision what will he do this time again he makes the right decision by folding and Eric Balwin picks up some more chips well Vince when we were marking this guy up for almost dead and gone we're talking about the baseball player Eric Balwin he is now moved into second chip position with four players left I'll tell you he is one tough cookie no doubt about it well he fights back beautifully blinds have gone up now now playing with a one and $200,000 blinds $20,000 anti so it's now 380,000 to play Four hands of poker I say play that means if you fold that's what it cost you action on David come all in well here Benjamin's going all in with Queen Jack of hars I saw Eric bowan move all in a minute ago with Queen Jack of hars he was up against the Ace King of David Williams he won that pot so David Benjamin going to try his luck here and sha Buchanan with a very tough decision as to what to do now with the ace5 I hate doing this Des sea only has four million in chips so this would take most of his chips about 75% of them if he were to play this pot folks this is what Championship poker is all about making these tough decisions right here if you were sitting in sha buchanon's seat right now believe me you would be very nervous as to what to do remember Sean not only playing for this title he's also playing for the distinguished honor of being the WPT player of the year for season 8 so this a tremendously tough decision for sha Buchanan with so much on the line for him is it possible to I don't want to call the clock on anyone cuz that's rude but can we request to pause the clock or level clock at least has it been that long sorry in my own little world David Williams saying I don't want to call the clock but I think I want to call the clock it's the best hand but he actually doesn't want to call a clock and put pressure on a player but he wants a tournament director to stop the clock so he'll have more time to play at these various levels but that's not going to happen I'm going to call it wow and he's made the call Vince what a call it is as the cards lie he is the favorite to win this pot and eliminate David benan from this tournament but I'll tell you folks that is not an easy call to make now let's see if the Frenchman can get lucky and stay alive in this tournament I know it's the best hand but it's so marginal not so bad it's like the worst case that's sick I can't stand not seeing the board I got to sweat one they would a rabbit Hunter for you a big pot over $5.7 million in it whoever wins it's going to be in second chip position still can't see it well the Flop is 97 dece that was a smiling flop for sha Buchanan David benjaman is going to have to catch a queen or a Jack or two running cards to make it straight otherwise at this phenomenal poker player will be our fourth place finisher tonight going to the turn the cannon looking Happy Well a five of Hearts comes off so we are down to the river David benyan must catch a queen or a Jack otherwise he's going to have to wait to capture a second WPT title well the seven Spade comes off so that's going to do it David Benyamin is going to be our fourth place finisher tonight well V I'll tell you one thing Benyamin put him to the test Shan Buchanan passed the test by making that call with the 85 right there well the croad finally goes stale for the Frenchman David Benjamin but Shan the canopy Cannon getting closer to becoming the WPT Player of the Year St