materon 
Joined: Jun '09
Location: Colombia
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 17
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The US American Eric Baldwin was able to pull through against more than 2,000 players in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Event and finally eliminated Jonas Klausen in the heads-up to win the $591,932.
Unrelentlessly, he fought through the strong field of participants with 2,095 starters and managed to take out all 19 opponents on the final day - including big names like Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. In the final heads-up, he made quick work of his opponent Jonas Klausen. In the end, he took both the gold bracelet and the prize money totalling $521,932. We are talking about Eric Baldwin, a young US American from Wisconsin and winner of the 34th Event of the World Series Of Poker 2009.
Initially, it looked like it would be Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier's (pictured left) big day - the most notable name left in the tournament was able to eliminate several short stacks early on and could build up an enormous chip lead over the rest of the field. As we all know, things can turn around fast in poker and ElkY lost two big pots in short succession, abruptly sending him to the rails after a fabulous start. His final hand was a rather ugly way to go out as he was holding KK for the cowboys, the second best possible starting hand - only to run into Steven Bradbury's pocket rockets when the latter tabled AA. Betrand Grospellier couldn't improve on the board and had to leave the tournament area as 13th. Two more players followed suit before the final ten competitors started fighting it out for the final table.
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