Fabrice "fabsoul" Soulier wins first Bracelet at #WSOP

It was short and painful, even though not totally unexpected considering the fact that Shawn Buchanan was really short stacked in HeadsUp play with 910.000. The tournament was paused last night according to the ten level stop rule and both contenders came back today at 3pm local time and took their seats at the Amazon Room to finish the $10.000 H.O.R.S.E. Events #37.

Fabrice “fabsoul” Soulier was the dominating Chipleader and should also take down every 4 hands that were dealt, in fact the pictures and interviews after the victory took longer than the play itself. Add enthusiastic French players and friends on the rail and you get a really nice atmosphere and raised eyebrows of the Americans that didn’t understand what they have been singing on the rail.



The tournament continued with Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo and should end after only 4 hands being dealt today, when we already had some preflop action and on the Flop  10♣ 4♥ 8♦ all chips went into the middle. Soulier was not ahead, but still had enough outs to take down the hand and win the golden Bracelet and you could not ask for a more deserving player to finally earn the merits of his performance over the last few years.

Soulier: Q♦ J♠ 6♥ 8♥
Buchanan: 10♠ J♦ J♣ 7♥

Turn: A♦
River: 6♠

There was some confusion at first but Soulier did indeed hit two pair on the River and won his first Bracelet and the 3rd Bracelet for France this year at the WSOP 2011. On top of the 1st Gold Bracelet, he also gets $609.130 as well for defeating this 239 player field at the $10.000 H.O.R.S.E. Events #37. Runner up Shawn Buchanan takes home yet another 2nd place finish after coming Second in the 25k 6max tourney last year – the $376.458 will surely help to ease the pain though.



Tomorrow we will be back at the Rio’s around noon when Team770 will be participating in Event #43, a $1500 NLHE Event and hopefully they will be able to repeat the result of Paco Torres, who finished in the top 100 of Event #38 yesterday.