Jeffrey Papola
Time to give congrats to law student Jeffrey Papola, who defeated poker legend Men “the Master” Ngyen to take down the $5,000 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker.It was his first career gold bracelet victory and came three days after he finished second in the $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship.
Papola, a resident of White Plains, N.Y., who is in his third year of law school at Pace University, earned $667,433 for winning the event.
He topped Nguyen in heads-up play. The online poker superstar from Bell Gardens, Calif., was shooting for gold bracelet No. 8, which would have put him in a tie with Johnny Moss and Erik Seidel. Nguyen settled $360,906.
Nguyen won his seventh bracelet earlier this month when he took the Seven Card Stud championship.
Papola topped a field of 568 players to win his first title.
Papola earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, with a double major in economics and political science. He began playing poker at the age of 18, when he was a student at Rutgers.
This was the fourth year Papola has attended the World Series of Poker and his first win or cash.
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