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(pokernews.com) – Day 16 of the 2015 World Series of Poker was a busy day 3 bracellets were awarded, two events reach their final few tables and two Day 1’s kick off.
Sam Greenwood scored the first WSOP bracelet of his career and the first one for Canada in 2015, winning Event #22: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $318,977. He topped a field of 1,915 runners. It’s Greenwood’s first win in a live tournament.
Event #22 Final Table Results
Place | Name | Hometown | Payout |
1 | Sam Greenwood | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | $318,977 |
2 | Cole Jackson | Seattle, WA | $197,254 |
3 | Kenny Weinstein | Chatham, NJ | $136,380 |
4 | James Dorrance | Hershey, PA | $98,360 |
5 | John Myung | Dunn Loring, VA | $71,904 |
6 | Sean Rice | Cherry Hill, NJ | $53,256 |
7 | Aaron Belardo | Newry, ME | $39,967 |
8 | Robert Hsu | Plano, TX | $30,385 |
9 | Jay Dragland | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | $23,387 |
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28-year-old Floridian Ben Zamani won his first WSOP bracelet. It took an extra day to get it done, but Zamani came out on top of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, collecting the WSOP hardware and a first-place prize of $460,640. In doing so, he also managed to keep the WSOP’s female contingent from their first bracelet of the campaign, defeating Natasha Barbour heads-up.
vent #20 Final Table Results
Place | Name | Hometown | Payout |
1 | Ben Zamani | Boca Raton, FL | $460,640 |
2 | Natasha Barbour | Tampa, FL | $284,911 |
3 | Paul Ephremsen | Berkhamsted, England | $196,986 |
4 | Kevin MacPhee | Couer D’Alene, ID | $142,070 |
5 | Wenlong Jin | Arcadia, CA | $103,857 |
6 | Garrett Beckman | Gardner, KS | $76,922 |
7 | Jared Griener | Santa Ana, CA | $57,729 |
8 | Oluwashola Akindele | Wisbech, England | $43,888 |
9 | Kevin Benoit | Baton Rouge, LA | $33,781 |
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