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Steve Jelinek of Birmingham is the fifth English player to win a World Series of Poker bracelet this summer. He has won the bracelet for the 2010 WSOP Event #41, collecting the $245,871 first-place prize. He outlasted a field of 847 players.
“There are a great number of very fine players from the UK. I am part of the old school. But these new young players, so many of them are doing quite well. I am not surprised at all. Of course, I take great pride in being English – but it does not mean I am anti-everyone else,” said Jelinek commenting on the fact that the Great Britain has won more gold bracelets in 2010 than any other nation within a single year at the WSOP.
“It's not quite sunk it yet. I've been down on my luck, maybe through poor play, maybe through a bit of mismanagement, or picking the wrong games. My bankroll was down a bit. I decided to come to the WSOP this year and try and get a gold bracelet to try and continue my poker career and that's what it means to me – not only to win the biggest prize in poker, in the best setting, in the best tournaments, against the best players – but to be able to continue my poker career as a winner,” said the winner.
The 39-year-old professional poker player has more than 50 cashes at major tournaments held throughout Europe and Great Britain. His total live tournament winnings exceed $1.3 million.
The top 81 finishers, including Hellmuth (7th), Barry Greenstein (12th) Richard Austin (22nd), Mike Matusow (49th) and Chris Ferguson (75th) collected prize money.
The final table results were:
1 Steve Jelinek $245,871;
2 John Gottlieb $151,884;
3 Anders Taylor $97,913;
4 Michael Chappus $71,728;
5 Ben Lamb $53,319;
6 Mandy Thomas $40,169;
7 Phil Hellmuth $30,633;
8 Ryan Karp $23,635;
9 Joel Ettedgi $18,432.
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