Sammy Farha clinches third WSOP Omaha Bracelet

After a grueling 20-hour final battle, Sammy Farha emerged the winner of the Third WSOP Omaha Bracelet after defeating James “Flushy” Dempsey in the $10,000 Omaha High-Low Split Eight or Better Championship (Event #25). For his win, Farha earned nearly $500,000 while Dempsey from the UK pocketed over $300,000. Farha is just one of five other players who clinched a pair of Omaha High-Low Split bracelets. Other winners include Full Tilt Poker’s Chris Ferguson, Thang Luu, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, and Main event champ Scotty Nguyen. Full Tilt Poker is the second most important online poker room, Download Full Tilt Poker.

Farha barreled through the competition to earn his third bracelet. “There are a lot of great players. The whole field is amazing. Every year. I think this is the toughest field in the entire WSOP. It is 212 players and they are all good players,” said Farha. Here’s how the final Full Tilt Poker Net table fared:

Sammy Farha – $488,237
James “Flushy” Dempsey – $301,790
Yueqi Zhu – $225,326
Sergey Altbregin – $169,368
Tony Merksick – $128,097
Michael Chow – $97,508
Eugene Katchalov – $74,670
Abe Mosseri – $57,552
Steve Wong – $44,619

The big Omaha High-Low was just one of the tournaments going on at the WSOP. Three other events were being held simultaneously including Event#24 $1,000 No Limit Hold’em.