James Dempsey has won the 2011 $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio. He outlasted 413 players to take $821,612.
He also grabbed 2,400 points for Card Player’s 2011 Player of the Year race.
Dempsey beat a stacked final table of Andrew Lichtenberger, Vanessa Selbst, Vitor Coelho, defending champ Antonio Esfandiari and runner-up Soi Nguyen.
Nguyen had Dempsey out chipped more than 3:1 at one point, but couldn’t hold on for the title.
Here are the final results:
1. James Dempsey — $821,612
2. Soi Nguyen — $517,478
3. Vanessa Selbst — $338,351
4. Andrew Lichtenberger — $218,933
5. Vitor Coelho — $159,224
6. Antonio Esfandiari — $119,418
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