Never to Win A WSOP Bracelet? Benyamine Proves the Opposite

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Never to Win A WSOP Bracelet? Benyamine Proves the Opposite

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David Benyamine has long been known as one of the world’s best high-stakes cash games players, at the same time he’s had the reputation of being one of the greatest players never to win a WSOP bracelet.

Everything changed on June 21, when he got the “world champion” title playing in Omaha High-Low Split World Championship. The tournament’s overall prize pool was $2,209,000, while David’s winning totaled to $535,678.

Six players took part in the final table – David Benyamine, Mike Matusow, Ram Vaswani, David Chiu, Tony Ma, Berry Johnston, Toto Leonidas. Benyamine, Greg Jamison and Jason Gray were the final three at the table. The final lasted 10 hours, while the head up match between Benyamine and Jamison was over in 75 minutes.

To let you know, David was one of the top-ranked French tennis players in the world before a back injury ended his career. Benyamine turned to billiard and became one of the top players in France. Then, he moved on to professional poker. His biggest win, prior to this weekend, came in 2003 when he won the Grand Prix de Paris, a victory that earned him $411,000.

Speaking about the 2008 WSOP, this year, despite a great number of professional players who won the events, there were a lot of players who had never won a WSOP bracelet before this year. 33 of the first 38 winners are “first timers.” The list includes: Nenad Medic, Grant Hinkle, David Singer, Erick Lindgren, Michael Banducci, Thang Luu, Matt Keikoan, Anthony Rivera, Ralph Porter, Farzad Rouhani, Phillip Tom, Jimmy Shultz, Duncan Bell, Eric Brooks, Svetlana Gromenkova, Andrew Brown, Jason Young , Vanessa Selbst, Scott Seiver, Jens Voertmann, Blair Hinkle, Kenny Tran, Vitaly Lunkin, Philip Galfond, John (Razor) Phan, Rob Hollink, Dario Minieri, Luis Velador, Michael Rocco, Jesper Hougaard, Benyamine and Davidi Kitai.