Benjamine Keeline, who was working as an Uber driver last year, won the $565 Colossus II No-Limit Hold'em tournament at the World Series of Poker.
The Colossus knew six starting days, accumalating a total of 21,613 entries, building a total prize pool of $10,806,500. Nine of these players were guaranteed $92,291, with $1 million for the winner.
Keeline had almost given up poker, but saved two bullets for the Colossus. His first bullet wasn't a succes, and his second one seemed not to be as well. At the end of the first day, he got kings all-in against aces, and was down to a single ante worth 500. However, he made the biggest comeback ever and managed to win the tournament!
These were the results of the final table:
|
1 |
Benjamin Keeline |
USA |
$1.000.000 |
|
2 |
Jiri Horak |
Czech Republic |
$618.000 |
|
3 |
Farhad Davoudzadeh |
USA |
$462.749 |
|
4 |
Richard Carr |
USA |
$348.462 |
|
5 |
Marek Ohnisko |
Czech Republic |
$263.962 |
|
6 |
Christopher Renaudette |
USA |
$201.151 |
|
7 |
Alex Benjamen |
USA |
$154.208 |
|
8 |
Jonathan Borenstein |
USA |
$118.937 |
|
9 |
Xiu Deng |
USA |
$92.291 |
