Las Vegas resident Brandon Wittmeyer, 31, was crowned the winner of the $1,500 Draftkings 50/50 No-Limit Hold'em event after besting a field of 1,123 entrants in three days of play.
It was Wittmeyer's second WSOP final table appearance but his first gold bracelet. In addition, he received $200,618 - the second biggest cash of his career after his 3rd place finish in Event #47 for $215,964.[...] Read more » 2015 WSOP: Brandon Wittmeyer Wins Event #55: $1,500 Draftkings 50/50 No-Limit Hold'em
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Many congratulations to Brandon Wittmeyer on winning this event and the first place prize money of $200,618. It must be a great feeling to win one of these tourneys, i can but dream!!!
Would be fun finding out who was the eighty years old participant (I guess he was not Doyle Brunson, he is older than that - besides the article would've mention him) and how frequently does he plays poker during his retirement years.
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Brandon Wittmeyer is having a great WSOP this year,cashing in four tournaments so far and two big wins of 200k. A quite interesting hendon profile,cashed twice in 2007,2nd one for 17k and then no poker tournaments for 7 years and then loads of small cashes.Whatever he was doing in those 7 years has paid off for him.
Posted by klash23: A quite interesting hendon profile,cashed twice in 2007,2nd one for 17k and then no poker tournaments for 7 years and then loads of small cashes.Whatever he was doing in those 7 years has paid off for him.
He is from Chicago originally and now live in Las Vegas. I could say that both cities are full of nice and cozy underground cardrooms, so he probably played 'off the records' 4 a while.
