Marc Naalden became the second player from the Netherlands to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. Naalden was the champion of Event #38 – $2,000 Limit Hold’em.

446 competitors stepped up to the challenge, and Naalden was a dominant champion.

Naalden became a pro poker player in 2005, and it was obviously the right move. In his fourth WSOP, he topped his previous best performance (3rd place).

In the event’s final table Naalden had more than half of the chips and cruised to the victory. 45 players finished in the money, with $190,770 for Naalden’s top prize. Steve Cowley finished in second place for $117,902.

Naalden beat out notable pros Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Rafe Furst on the way to his first bracelet.

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Mexico’s own Angel Guillen won his country’s second ever World Series of Poker bracelet in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event #32. It wasn’t an easy process.

The field started out with 1,500+ players, with 171 finishing in the money. The third and final day brought back 19 of them for a shot at the $2,791,880 prize pool.

Guillen went heads up with Finnish phenom Mike Paasonen to close out the event. The final pairing went for over five hours as pots went back and forth.

“I feel very fortunate to have the support of my family, my friends and all the people that supported me,” said Guillen after the win.

Guillen came out on top to win $530,548 and the gold bracelet. Only 10 days ago, Angel finished second in the $2,500 No-Limit Texas Hold’em event for $312,800. 2009 has been his best year of poker with this amazing month.

Paasonen has also been on a tear; this was his third cash of the 2009 World Series of Poker.

Top 10 Finishers of Event #32:

1: Angel Guillen – $530,548
2: Mika Paasonen – $326,203
3: Jason Boyes – $214,974
4: Steve Kohner – $150,761
5: Eric Ladny – $108,883
6: Daniel Makowsky – $86,548
7: Chris MacNeil – $71,192
8: Antoine Amourette – $61,421
9: Clark Hamagami  – $55,279
10: David Vu – $38,807

In a field of 436 players, JC Tran took down his second World Series of Poker bracelet. He did it in pretty awesome fashion, as Event #30 was a tough battle.
Ross Boatman entered the final day with a sizable chip lead, and Tran was back in fourth.

JC was a dominant force in the event. Of the eight players left at the final table, Tran sent five to rails himself. That’s really getting it done. The final pairing, with Jeff Kimber was over within 60minutes. There were major swings within the first few hands – all of them in Tran’s favor.

The $2,500 buy in for PLO formed a prize pool of over $1Million.  Tran’s win was his 28th cash at the WSOP. That impressive number comes with eight final tables, the two gold bracelets and $1,653,992. What a consistent performer.

He may be wearing a Yankees hat, but I’m sure he’s still an OK guy.