Erik Seidel who is a 21 years old College Student in Germany won the second place in the final table of 1500 USD Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split on Wednesday night.

He has been habituated to winning the game and the bracelet a lot of times. He has already won the bracelet for 8 times and now it was his 9^th attempt to put his effort in the collection of 9^th one.

He was considered the most experienced among the nine players who were playing the game. This was the 26^th final table of his career. But the person who crashed the party was Martin Klaser. He has won the WSOP championship at the age of 21 yrs.
Klaser, appeared in the finale of WSOP as he was old enough to compete in the competition and faced it on Thursday night and was placed in the third position. He lacked behind the two leaders Jon Maren and Seidel with a slight margin. Also it did not take long time for the Applied Science University Rheinbach, Germany student for making his presence felt in the competition.

Klaser at the young age of just 21yrs and 4 months won the cash of 216,249 USD cash price with the first bracelet in his life in just 3^rd WSOP he appeared at. And with this win he has become the third German to win WSOP this year and 7^th to ever win the gold bracelet following Matthias Rohnacher (1997), Eddy Scharf (two wins in 2001 and 2003), Michael Keiner (2007), Katja Thater (2007), Jen Voertmann (2008) and Sebastian Ruthenburg (2008).

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