Congrats to one of our own! JP Kelly took down the UK’s first bracelet of the 2009 World Series of Poker – and the first of the year for a CarbonPoker player.
JP won his way through 633 competitors to take down the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em event. The tournament featured 8-time winner Eric Seidel and a heads up finale against Marc Tschirch.
The 23-year-old ran great through the tournament, and held a dominant lead during the final action. Kelly won $194,434 for the victory to go along with his first bracelet.
Here are the final table results:
1. John-Paul Kelly – $194,434
2. Marc Tschirch – $120,102
3. Jason Dewitt – $78,826
4. Kyle Carlston – $54,711
5. Aaron Virchis – $40,048
6. Tony Steward – $30,837
7. Erik Seidel – $24,919
8. Andrew Radel – $21,082
9. Ravi Raghavan – $18,637
This is a great win for Kelly on the 3-day event. The WSOP is poker’s biggest stage and JP was calm and classy in victory.
Wow! If that doesn’t motivate you what will? What a tremendous accomplishment
for JP who indeed has made the entire CP community very pround.
Congrats to Kelly and Carbon as well for having someone at a final table, much less a win !
This has got to be huge for the room I would think, and hopefully it will get Carbon the recognition that it has long deserved .