Benjamin Gonzva claims victory in the WPT Cambodia Main Event

Right after the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Thailand which was held from Dec. 22-28, 2016 at Holiday Palace Resort in Poipet, Cambodia, the WPT National Cambodia took off.

Held from January 6-11 at the Queenco Hotel & Casino in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, the WPT National Cambodia Main Event had recently ended with Benjamin Gonzva from France outlasting a total field of 100 entries.

Gonzva, who normally plays on the European live circuit, took home $36,487 and the WPT National trophy for his first place finish plus he received gold Monster 24K Headphones.

 Main Event Final Table Results

1st: Benjamin Gonzva – $36,487
2nd: Nguyen Chi Thinh – $25,544
3rd: Le Ngoc Khanh – $16,420
4th: Nitin Jain – $12,170
5th: Yonnas W Jahren – $9,123
6th: Manoj Pentakota – $7,296
7th: Kalyan Chakravarthy – $6,078
8th: Tran Hong Hai – $4,860
9th: Zhang Lei – $3,654

Side events Winners

Denis Gervais claimed two trophies in the side events. Final results of the side events will be updated at the end of the festival (Jan 13th)

Event	Buy IN (USD)	Winner	Prize (USD)
Queenco Cup Warm Up Event (Flight B)	275	Denis Gervais	3,890
Open Face Chinese Poker Pineapple	550	Pham Ngoc Quoc Bao	3,840
NLHE Big Ante Event	165	Denis Gervais	1,728
Ladies Warm Up Event	110	Rebecca Louise Rahsden	480
NLHE Knockout ($100/bounty)	440	Wong Wai Yew	3,803
NLHE Turbo	220	Leson Andres Richard	2,413
NLHE Rebuy/Add-on	220	Rolands Norietis	5,149
Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack	550	Sumit Sapra	5,530
NLHE Win-the-Button Turbo	220	Mitsuru Sano	2,690
NLHE Super Knockout $250/bounty	550	Raina Deepak	3,360
Heads Up Championship	1,100	Jouni Alho	3,840
NLHE 8-max Deepstack	550	Jerome Bradpiece	6,337
Pot Limit Omaha Turbo	330	Rolands Norietis	1,900
NLHE 6-MAX	660	Cheekuri Kalyan Chakravarthy	6,635
Ante Up for Charity Event	100	Vi Khoa Duong	1,216

Article by Gabrielle Barredo