2015 World Series of Poker

Online poker legend Shaun Deeb won his first World Series of Poker bracelet taking down the 2015 WSOP Event #15: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship Saturday.

"I'm so happy to win a bracelet and that it was a World Championship event," said Deeb. "I was never motivated to win a bracelet before, I was always just trying to win the most money. This year I came in a little more motivated."

Deeb won $318,857 and the bracelet, getting the best of a 128-player field and what he described as "one of the toughest final tables ever assembled."

High-roller regular Jason Koon came in with the chip lead, but after doubling up high-stakes pro Jason Les twice, helping triple up Ismael Bojang, and watching Tom Marchese run a weak ace into Sam Stein's big slick to bow out tenth, he was the next player to fall, running into Deeb's kings.

Bojang and Kristijonas Andrulis were out next, the latter sending his stack over to Paul Volpe with versus , before Deeb put a bad beat on Dario Sammartino to end his run in sixth, flopping a set of fours to crack Sammartino's kings.

Volpe busted 2012 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson fifth before Deeb did it again, flopping a set of nines to crack Stein's tens and send him home fourth. Three-handed play was a bit of a marathon with Deeb, Volpe and Les pulling just about even before the blinds got big and the action picked up.

Eventually, Volpe and Les traded double ups and got it in a third time with Volpe holding to Les' . The board ran out and looked like a chop before Volpe spiked on the river.

Heads-up began relatively even, and the two traded chips for a while before Volpe potted on an board, leaving himself just 10,000 chips behind. Deeb pushed in, forcing Volpe to fold what must have been air and showed for flopped top set and the rivered boat.

Volpe doubled the short stack before finally falling with to Deeb's , earning him another second-place finish at the 2015 WSOP and giving Deeb his first bracelet.

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