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5 bracelets awarded to Canadians at the 2011 WSOP

This year's WSOP has wrapped up, with the WSOP championship getting down to the final nine. IT was another impressive year for Canada, with five champions taking down bracelets. Canada was once gain #2 in bracelet wins in the world, with 5 WSOP bracelets, and now 27 bracelets all time. Daniel Negreanu leads all Canadians with 4 bracelets, and Greg "FBT" Mueller is the only other Canadian with multiple bracelets. Many will remember Greg at last year's WSOP taking down two bracelets.

The 2011 WSOP started slowly for Canadians, as we didn't get our first bracelet until event #14 when Tyler Bonkowski won his first ever WSOP bracelet, taking down the $3,000 Limit holdem tournament. Tyler bested a field of 337 players taking down the first place prize of $220,817. Tyler later went on to make a super deep run in the main event, finally going out in 60th place for another payout of $130,997. Congratulations Tyler!

Guelph Ontario native Mark Radoja was next to get his first WSOP bracelet when he won event #24, the $5,000 buy in No-limit holdem shootout. He bested a field of 387 players to win a $436,568 payday! Mark now has 13 WSOP cashes, and earnings of over $800,000. He also has two final tables, and three top ten finishes under his belt. At just 24 years old, the future is bright for Mark.

It was just a few events later when Daniel Idema from Vancouver British Columbia scored Canada's third WSOP bracelet in the Limit Hold'em Championship event #27. In this tournament packed with limit holdem specialists, Daniel Beat a final table that included the likes of Barry Greenstein, Issac Haxton, and Nick Shulman. Daniel won $378,642 and his first bracelet. What is amazing about this story is that Daniel finished in second place in last year's Limit Hold'em Championship event. Daniel cashed two more times in 2011, giving him now 7 WSOP cashes for over $700,000 WSOP earnings.

In one of the largest field of players, Kirk Caldwell became the fourth Canadian to land a WSOP bracelet, outlasting 2828 players to take down event #32, a $1,500 buy in No limit holdem event. The final table of this event saw three Canadians, and with just four players left, three were Canadian! Marc Mclaughlin and Gabriel Hulde finished third and fourth, respectively. For his efforts, Orangville Ontario's Kirk Caldwell won an impressive $668,276 and a WSOP bracelet. Not too bad for your first ever WSOP cash.

The fifth and final 2011 bracelet was won by the most recognized name of the winners, Matt Jarvis. He took down event #40, a $5,000 buy in six handed no limit event. Matt is recognized for being a member of last year's November 9, where he finished in 8th place. This year he managed to win his first bracelet, giving him the distinction of a few who have won a bracelet and final tabled the WSOP main event. Matt took down $808,538 for his first WSOP bracelet.

Worth mentioning is Simon Charette, who almost made it six bracelets for Canada in event #48, which also had a pretty massive field of 2713 players. Simon finished second to winner Athanasios Polychronopoulos, but he still managed to collect a not too shabby $404,235 for his runner up finish.

Over the 2011 World series of poker, Canadian players won an impressive $110,624,574 along with our five bracelettes. Canadians also cashed 520 times in the events. Unfortunatly, there are no Canadians at this year's November Nine. Koah Nguyen from Calgary, Alberta nearly made it to the big dance, finishing in 11th place, just two spots from the Final Table. Koah did receive a healthy payout of $607,882 for his 11th place finish. Congratulations to all of this year's Canadian World Series of Poker champions!

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