Brit Bord scalps high class field to lift WSOPE in London
Posted by Carl Barnett on 01 Oct 2010 at 12:10
Britain’s James Bord beat 345 runners to land the WSOPE (World series of Poker Europe) main event in London on Tuesday. Bord started the final table in fifth place and first of the final six to depart was Daniel Steinberg closely followed by Nicolas Levi. WSOP, WPT and EPT Triple Crown winner Roland de Wolfe busted out in fourth, KO’d by Fabrizio Baldassari after he flopped two pair and de Wolfe hit the road with £278,000 for compensation.
Bord doubled up twice against Ronald Lee and then Baldassari to take the chip lead, and it was Lee who was first of the trio to exit leaving, Bord with just the one scalp left on his way to the 2010 WSOP Europe Main Event title.
Ecstatic afterwards, he said; “I never thought I would win a bracelet. Being so close, you just never know when it’s going to come again. And it’s even more special to win it in my hometown. It’s just very special.”
